, 1906-12-10
OUR COLONY
IN NEVADA
INTERESTING LETTER FROM JOHN
FRIck CONCERNING MINING
SITUATION THERE.
Met Some Old Timers and Tells of tn.
Work He and His Partner Are Do.
ing 70 Make Themselves Million.
aIres-Governor Sparks Formerly
Resident of Laramie,

The following extracts from a long
letter written for The Republican fran
Aura, New, by John Prick, jr., lately
a letter carrier in the postoffice here
VIII be of interest to the people of
this city and county, this paper re-
GREETING that it has not room for the
letter in full:
No Boon in Northern Nevada
Northern Nevada has not had the
boom that the southern part has and
until last summer, few prospectors
came north; but the southern field was
SO oVerrun, and hardships SO great thai
quite a number worked up this wav
with the result that northern Nevada
Is commencing to attract a little atten.
tlon too. And It is safe to saw the
mineral is here in abundance, awaiting
The prospector's pick. Advantages are
better up here, too, as there is plenty
OF good running water, good grazing
Tor horses and burros, plenty of wood
for fuel. These are important items
n no n knows it better thar the
p~rospector. We paid at Manhattan
$3.50 for a bale of hay, SOC to water a
team, and had to buy wood in n num-.
Der of places. Next spring will no
doubt see a rush to this part of Ne.
vada.
Was Former Resident,
Perhaps it would interest the people
OF Laramie to state that the present
governor of this state, John Sparks.
who was recently reelected bv such a
large majority, used to be Il resident
of Laramie n remembers most of
the old timers of Laramie of twenty
v years ago. He is very popular
with the people, believing in an eight
hour day, at good pay, and is opposed
to a state militia.
The First White Settler.
Near Austin We met the first white
settler in Carson valley, where he
came in the early fifties. He remem-
bered Tom Dayton, who drove stage
into Austin in the early sixties. He
pointed with pride to the fact that the
road that Tom and the early drivers
laid out was still being used today.
This settlers name is Mic Meyer.
Good Wages In State,
Wages in this state are, certainly the
best in the country. Common labor
around mines, $3.50 per day, and min
ers, S. to 81 a day in a number of
camps, and l must say that Nevada
has the cream of miners of the whole
country. Colorado nor Montana can't
compare nor equal the men that drive
the single jack nor double jack ham
mer. Our Laramie boy, Atha A. Richie,
ranks one Of the first of the single jack
hammer men. These miners are all
union men and are certainly the best
l Yer saw anywhere.
Some Good Claims Himself.
My partner and myself have been
very fortunate in getting some good
claims here in Aura, and expect to
make some money out of them, by eth
er working them or selling. And we
believe there are better opportunities
here in the north Of Nevada than in
the south, Is L can't see for the life
of me, what is the use of following
around a boom. AS you can rest as
sured that when a place booms the
prospector's chances are gone for get
ting claims. You have to get ahead of
a boom to make any money on claims.
This fact is self-evident to any sensible
minded person. Yet thousands Of peo-
pie chase around and are always on
the tail end of the boom. The place to
be is at the head of the procession,
which is at present northern Nevada.
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