Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-03-24
PAPER OF NYE COUNTY.
|ToNoPAH's FUTURE.

AZ COMMUNITIES 40 well do W tiidil-
their factor, come opportunities through
which, if promptly and rightly grasped
and cultivated, health, wealth and hap
piness can be achieved.
To fortune-favored Tonopah, such an
opportunity is now presented. Those
who attended the monster meeting Of
the Board of Trade aweek ago certainly
realize and appreciate that fact. The
unanimity of optimistic views and the
general, generous spirit of earnest civic
pride and endeavor was so prevalent,
that there could be but one opinion, one
desire and one determination to accom-
plish, under the able.leadership of Pres
ident Thomas r. Bannerman.
History records a myriad of repeti-
tons, but it is the western part of the
western world hat varies the record by
innovations pleasing and effective, not
only in methods, born of necessity, but
in results obtained.
A slight retrospect of Tonopah EVIL
dences numerous marvels. The straying
OF a burro on a desert waste, followed
by mans persistency, has led to the
development of a new commonwealth.
the opening up of a vast mineralized
area producing fortunes to the individual
man and the building of cities numer-
Gus and a great state. All this has oc-
Cured within a brief space Of years.
80 rapid has been this marvellous growth
and 50 great the multiplicity of civic
necessities, that we have the UNIQUE
and truly western feature of a great
n growing community, municipality
governed without other law than that
OF common consent and genuine neigh
borly public spirit represented by the
Board of Trade. This body has done
exceedingly well. and has yet a great
deal more to do before legal measures
can give the community an ample and
regularly organized city government.
The Board Of Trade certainly deserves
the aid, hearty cooperation and encour-
agement eff all good citizens of Tonopah.
II is not only rs a mining camp that
Ionopah should be developed, but as a
metropolis the great supply depot for
the numerous camps and future cities
that are springing into existence every
few days in this section of our great
state.
Note what has been accomplished
since the burro strayed-what a vast
area of thoroughly mineralized land,
hitherto u|ninhabited except by horn
toads, snakes, lizards, ETC., has come
under the dominion Of mar and how
well mar has protited from it. And vet
this is but the beginning in the exploit
tation of a rich and generous section.
The settling and building up of the
United States especially the section
west of the Mississippi river-has
shown the necessity of a metropolitan
city as the focal point of every few
hundred miles of territory. First there
came Kansas City and Omaha, then
Denver and Salt Lake. But between
Salt Lake and the Pacific ocean, nearly
n thousand miles, there is no metrop-
oils, no large city. One is demanded
and must be builded.
Reno had a golden opportunity, but
through pettiness ruined its chances
and Tonopah is taking advantage of
that fact, thanks to its hosts of sturdy
pioneers and executive labors of its
Board of Trade, whose efficient officers
are as follows: Thomas r. Zimmerman,
President; L. l.. Blumenthal, First Vice
President; John McKane, Second Vice
President; Augustus Tilden, Third Vice
President; E. B. Cushman, Secretary;
A. M. Perry, Assistant Secretary;
Directors, Jas. j. McQuillan, S. H.
Stephen O'Brien. Key Pitt +,
man, Thos. Arden, r. B. Davis, R. P. ,
Harry F. Sheldon, Mark R.
Alonzo Trip, Nathan Croker,
E. Lawson, Henry Kind.
Our great city of T~onopah-the
Queen City of the Deserts growing :
and nothing can prevent its !
becoming a metropolis. 1t is not only Z
central supply point, but it has the
mines with ore to the value of several
undred millions of dollars in sight. ID
hat these are sufficient to make it one 4
the big cities of the west, is recog-
led by the far-seeing railroad mag
ltes. In addition to the Tonopah and al
oldfield railroad, which is already NJ
re, the "Borax Smith and Clark