The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-10-02

with money coming this way, and they
ask you about hotels, tell them that
there is no place like Baldy's a thous-
and miles from here. | could have
truthfully obliged him in this, as
thousand miles to the north is the
arctic region and to the south some
leagues in the ocean. But, continued
Badly, if you meet any men with no
money, shake your head gloomily and
say that a man is killed in Baldy's
place every night.
in the old days when | was here
we had no trains or automobiles and
had to depend upon the donkey for
transportation facilities. They also
sometimes furnished us with music,
and with their melody won the name
Of 'canaries' from the brave. light
hearted boys of those days. thought
that they had disappeared with other
things Of the past, but in passing
through the street | heard one man
say to Il companion: you are a jack
ass, and the reply: you are another,
convnceh me that after all there were
two Of them left.
when reached Ely IA man asked
me how long it had been since | WAS
before here, and when replied:
'Thirty-four year, he stared like the
shn
that he hrl been away from Atlanta
ten days, was told that he wouldn' t
know the place when he got back. Bat
the passing of the years have not yet
changed Ely SO much as that The
hills are the same, the water is the
same as on that far Off day when | sat
on hillside with Prof. Clayton and
heard him say: 1T is my belief that
this will become the greatest copper
district in the world. Sitting there
! he entered into dissertation on the
future of Nevada and the new pro
cesses that would come into existence
| and make it profitable to handle these
low grade ores. He spoke thus before
process was known by which three
per cent ore could be reduced AT a
prolit-before elecrtic railways, tee-
phone lines and other enterprises Of
today created the world wide demand
for copper.
Mr.. Goodwin then told, in language
Of moving tenderness. of his visit 10
the grave of Prof. Clayton.
Chemists tell us he continued,
"that the principal ingredient of coal
is carbon and that it is the same of the
diamond. In that first band that went
to the Comstock some might have been
mistaken for Jumps of coal at cursory
glance, but in them nature had per
formed its process with the carbon and
they were all real diamonds. They did
more than men ever did before since
the creation of the world, and spread
out over the State, rounding out its
glories. Taey established the mining
laws and accomplished much else for
F., WHICH lfloSc VIII nave lbIcWtt oiiotf.
remember them with gratitude.
"They were not all good, perfect or
refined men, but riley were men who
never did mean or sneaking things.
Even in their street duels they We're so
accurate that they never killed the
wrong man.
"And now a new race has come to
Nevada, and they promise to Guido
the old. Some of their work indicates
that they might do it.
I'm savage tribes, when man wants
wife he takes q club and hits his af-
finity on the right ear, causing her to
surrender. The same methods are
necessary in Wrestling anything from
the desert, which throws her dusty
mantle over the sage, rears mountains
to obstruct those who go forth to WOO
it, and with the tcrrors of its silenc
and pitiess wastes keeping the timid
afar off, but to the dauntless, who
keep up the fight, the desert yields,
''Since ] have lived in Salt Lake |
have been getting to be prophet, and
| see wonderful things in the future
for Nevada. The old race, after
amassing wealth, built many splendid
structures in other States. | hope
this new race, with the riches il will
gain, will remember Nevada strength
en- tho state university, build up
great School Of Mines, establish Home
for Worn Out and Disabled Miners.
There are thousand ways of giving
return for the treasure the State yields
up to you.
Judge George S. Brown was intro