Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29


because Of snow They began pros
pecting aud found what they thought
was gravel IN Gold canyon and East
Tor Seyen-Mile) canyon, running down
from the Comstock What they had
was not gravel, but decomposed rock
from me great lode. This was about
1851.
SO you see THAI in one sense Nevada
has always been more or less SUBJ
urb Of Utah The first settlers went
from here, the first supplies were sent
from here.
When the great rush came on from
California IN 1859 the connection was
broken. most OF tho saints sold out,
the Californalans took charge and
the tendency was all toward San Fran
cisco.
That was Al years ago. but the old
order Is, in part, being restored.
san Francisco is In sackcloth and
ashes, and tho roads already built, and
the prospect of others to be built In the
coming year. all tend TO make Nevada
once more q suburb of Utah. II 1t does
not become more and more the habit
OF the new race TO lean upon Utah as
supply station and clearinghouse. IL
will be the fault of the men OF this re-
gion. And they are a plucky race over
acles. The work they have done In
Tonopah. IN Goldheld. In Bullfrog, IN
Manhattan, In Silver Peak, In Fairyiew
and I'm Searchlight In Ely and other
districts, In the past five pears. has
never been excelled. They have worked
until Nevada has become a household
word throughout the nation and the
concernment Of every financial center
of the world. Surely a closer walk
- 81 no affArf nf
every business man who Is concerned
| I'm trade. who deals In money. They
| are supplementng on a grand scale
| what the old race did there, and they
| have advantages which the old race did
not have.
The country Is filled with money to
| buy their stocks; It was very poor
when the old crowd went there.
They have railroads and antomo-
| biles and the automobile beats the
mule nightly on those southern des-
erts. Tina have the cyanide process;
| smelling and mining have been about
| reduced 10 exact sciences In these last
| 4j years
An old custom was typical Of Neva-
| ds's entrance into the Union. She came
| hearing gifts. From under her coarse
| robes she brought forth gold and sill
| yer and 10 the nation said:
Il pray thee, let me find grace In tiny
sight
| And she did her part; the nation, at
| the time. was rocking under the earth
| nuake and the storm OF q mighty war.
| Neyada's few people stayed her credit
and sang:
| While California. grand. =
| Strikes with triumpha hand
Her harp Of gold,
| We will on silver strings
| Join In the hymn she sings,
| And swell the gift she brings,
| With love untold
CRY FOR HELP.
! And when a cry for help arose--for
| medicine for the sick soldiers, for COM
| forts and luxuries for the sick and tho
| wounded, Nevada set the pace with
| the Greedy sack of -four. II was bought
| over and over; when II was bid on TO
one man he gave II back that 1t might
| be sold again. ThatSone sack OK nour
| not only brought thousands OF dollars,
| but after making the tour OF the state
| IL was carried east and sold over and
| over again, and believe that there Is a
picture of that sack of -four hanging
in the Temple OF Mercy and OF Love IN
| the beyond. Many a fierce rehel bid
on that sack OF -four for they said
1T may buy quinine or good old Ken
| tuckey whisky, or a needed blanket for
some good rebel In prison, or our boys
| may capture the stores which II VIII
buy from the id Yankees"
And Just about half the men IN Nc
vada In those days were rebels. we
lived under what might be called an
ARMED truce there for four years. But
the race in Nevada In those days was
a royal one. The world was picked 10
make a population for California; Cali
fornia was picked 10 make race for
Nevada. High and generous souls made
up that FIRST people.
some OF them were fighters, but even
they would draw their purses as quick.
ly as their guns, and stood ready al
any minute TO fight you or 20 divide
their last beans and -four and whisky
with you. There were big-headed men
among them, but not many who had
the big head. When the Comstock wal
found there was not man in ths
United States who knew silver ore
when he saw q. not one who knew how
10 work Il. When the great ASSAYS
we're published there was but one
i thought;
"A way to work that ore will b.
| found: we will 90 there; we win cease
thinking about thousands; henceforth
we Will dream OF nothing less than mill
lions"
After that hardship was but a JOKE
and their souls rose superior to distress
They learned 10 mine, they learned &c
reduce ore they made code and estab'
llshed order, they exalted mining By
paving fair wages, and establishing
regular pay days. They put safety
cages IN mines; they ventilated tn5 hol
drafts with compressed air. iu ono
mine they sent down Ave tons OF ice pei
doy for years to supply the men with
ice water. They lifted mining from
an experiment to a science.
KEPT HEARTS OPEN.
All the time they kept their heart
open. No cry OF distress ever went un.
needed.
There were great miners there. greai
lawyers. great doctors. great men o.
affairs, and with the means al theli
command they wrought miracles.
Nearly all are gone now; their gravei
are widely scattered. but their worl
shines out In fair structures in manl