The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-29

Speaking to the toast, Nevada, Old
and New Judge c. c. Goodwin said.
I'm the long ago. from 1s47 to 1861,
Nevada was a part of Utah. The first
settlements made in what is TOW Ne
vada were by a few Mormons from
this region, IN a chain of valleys that
lie at the eastern base of the Sierras-
Truckee. Steamboat, Pleasant Eagles
and Carson valleys. The bunch grass
on the hills was good for stock and
the soil was fertile.
THE first mining done in Nevada was
some placer mining that was done i'll
the ravines that run down from the
Comstock lode. by some Mormons who
had been on Mormon island on the
American river, California, who had
come across the southern trail to win
ter in Salt Lake, and who, returning IN
the spring, reached the Sierras too ear
ly to cross because of snow. They be-
gan prospecting and found what they
thought was gravel in Gold canyon and
East canyon, running down from COM
stock What they had was not gravel
but decomposed rock from the great
lode. This was about 1851. So, you see,
that in one sense. Nevada has always
been more or less a suburb of Utah;
took charge, and the tendency was all
toward San Francisco.
Utah's Opportunity.
That was forty-seven years ago. but
the old order is in part being restored.
San Francisco is in sackcloth and ashes
and the roads already built and the
prospect of others to be built in the
coming year all tend to make Nevada
once more a suburb of Utah. If it does
not become more and more a habit of
the new race to lean upon Utah as a
supply station and clearing house, il
will be the fault of the people of this
region. They are a plucky race over
there now. They are performing mir
acles. The work they have done in To-
nopah, in Goldfield, in Bullfrog, Man
haitian, Fairview, Ely and other dis
| tricts in the past. five years has never
been excelled. They have worked I'M
| til Nevada has become a household
word throughout the nation and the
concernment of every financial center
1 in the world. Surely closer walk with
| those men should be the efforts of ey-
cry business man who is concerned in
| trad eand the use of money They are
supplementing on a grand scale what
the old race did there and they have adj
vantages which the old race did not
| have.
'The country is filed with money 1t
was very poor when the old crowd
| went there
They have railroads and automo-
biles. and the automobiles beat the
mules nightly on those southern des-
! erts. They have the cyanide process,
smelling and mining have been about
! reduced to exact sciences in these last
forty-f1ve years.
"Nevadas entrance into the union
| was typical of an old custom. She
came bearing gifts. From her coarse
1 roads she brought gold and silver for
| the finances OF a nation.
/ A Royal Race.
And when a cry for help arose for
| medicines for the sick soldiers, fol-
/ comforts and luxuries for the sick and
1 wounded, Nevada set the pace with the
/ Greeley sack of flour. 1t was bought
/ over and over When it was bid off to
| one man, he gave it back that ii might
be sold to another. That one sack OF
-four brought not only thousands OF
dollars. but after making the tour OF
! the state, it was carried east and sold
over and over again.
And just about half of the men ir
| Nevada in those days were rebels. We
Il lived under what might be called ar
armed truce for four years. But ths
race in Nevada was in those days q
royal one. The world was picked Il
make a population for California; Cal
ifornia was picked to make a race fol
Nevada; high in generous souls made
up that first people.
Some of them were fighters, but the,
: would draw their purses quickly a:
their guns and stood ready at any min
ute to fight you or to divide with yoJ
their last beans, flour or whisky. Whel
the Comstock was found. there was no
a man in the United States who knew
silver ore when he saw IL: not one whs
knew how 10 work it. When the grea
assays were published there was bu
one thought-a way to work that or