Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-04-28

who don't know are hereby informed
that so far from being worked out, it's
placer fields have only been raked over
as If for gardening purposes but the
shortage of water, without which moth
ing, has been having it's effect for
many years. 1t is a proposition well
within the probabilities that there is
enough mineral wealth lying undis-
covered in that region to rebuild San
Francisco, and then some.
All of this is reminiscent of and
partly suggested by, an article which
handed in some weeks ago, and which
you had the temerity to publish.
first visited that country several years
ago and have been writing about it
spasmodically and talking about it in
Itermittently ever since, fortifying these
observations with occasional visits now
and then. When the article spoken OF
was published the find" from which
the Brokers' Row exhibit came had
not been made but was foreshadowed,
not only it but other things; and when
the particular thing to which refer
ence was made is brought before the
wondering eyes of mankind there will
be sensation for all hands and big
| pile of money for those who do the
finding. If the curious who are curious
enough to take the trouble will call
around they will be shown samples of
float" from that neighborhood-of
which there have been many found
that will suggest possibilities if they
do not satisfy demands.
In the article referred to, a fair open
work description of the country and
the roads by which access to it is OBJ
tanned was given. This was met with
comment varying in character. Some
said, "Why do you give such good
thing away-why not keep it to your
self" The answer to that is brief:
Nothing has been given away because
nothing was possessed. All or most
of what there is over there is still the
public domain and belongs to whoever
gets his stakes in the ground first and
complies with the other little formali-
| ties of law. Others said-"Your de-
scription was inadequate; make it
more definite and I will go down and
| find that treasure trove for you"
Would that I could! All that has been
done by the writer in that region is
what anyone who ever tried it could
do as well and a great many might do
lot better 1t is a hard country to
get into, a hard one to live in and
hard one to get out of; and when to
these harships is added the failure to
find what one is after, the case takes
on aspects and proportions amounting
to exasperating and expensive sad
ness.
The recitals previously made regard
ing the great undiscovered wealth
down there were strictly true. Long
before anything of an auriferous ma
ture of any consequence had been
found in southern Nevada outside of
Osceola the formations, possibilities
and probabilities of the region were be-
ing set forth, these as the result partly
of observation but largely of reliance
upon the truthfulness of the incident
relating to the Van Dyke party, which
was set forth at some length in your
columns at the time previously spoken
of. Little by little the circle of explor-
alton has been narrowed around that
devoted spot until now, as nearly as
can be determined, the prospectors are
within shouting distance of it.
The Brokers' Row exhibit is a lead
err, manifestation in some measure,
but in no sense the thing ITSELF one
ton of which would eoua1 all tho min |