The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-10-13

and mining law experience, let me urge
upon prospectors, l~ocators. holders by
purchase, Incorporated companies,
stockholders, and all IN interest, a more
strict compliance with the laws in all
respects than ever before in Nevada
In every court in the state decisions
ave to the utmost stretching point
favored the man who has stuck up a
barrel-stave stake, appended a piece OF
Joshua TRUNK or has stuck a cactus
stalk to mark location. who piled one
small rock upon another for monument,
who measured his claim for almost any
distance at almost any angle except the
direction of its length as asserted in his
notice, who discovered nothing but
within whose boundaries a miracle
might disclose meager values, whose
holes scant of all requirements have
been scratched where digging was easy,
whose certificates were too defective for
amendment even under most liberal
construction if put to the test of appeal.
This was all well, creditable perhaps,
when Nevada sparsely settled. CONNER
cially dead, of small agricultural prom
Use, had few prospectors, small mining
concerns, was hopefully fostering an
infant industry while statesmen CD of
the east were devising means to de-
prive the people of sovereignty, to null
lily its representation. to take away
statehood from this wonderful section
of the Union, and the Southern Pacific
railway used the breadth of it as a
bridge merely between Utah and Cali
fornia, and in no sense for the good of
Nevada but to her harm.
1t was matter of life and death to get
to such spots as Goldfeld. Bull
frog, Greenwater, then un~designated
desert points, which all earth now
knows. Tonopah was bowling waste,
Goldfeld but shifting sand, Greenwater
the very furnace edge of Death valley
where those who struggled became de-
lirious and died, Bullfrog a hot pit sur
rounded by rocks of hooking green.
Now railroads, stage and automobile
roads run everywhere, and telegraph
and telephone lines run too. We go in
an hour what was journey of days less
han three years ago. Now Nevada is
proved to be the richest piece of land OF
1t size on all known earth, of limitless
wealth in p silver, lead, gold. and
all metals.
Goldheld with its sure $40, 900. 900 for
1907, producing these days $4,000, 0OO
per month, may yield $1,000 900 in
1908.
Its small and but little developed
area of less than 1000 acres, pricked
not through the cuticle with 100 shafts
no one of which is 500 feet deep (few
are 800 but not half the number of more
than 100, $50 and 200 feet) is in the
heart of an area Z miles wide and Is
miles long, any 20 acres of which may
produce another Mohawk. and no 20
acres of which have yet been proved
barren, if ever they will be so proved.
The possibilities are more han as
founding, they rob of breath and of
speech. and leave one without COMPARE
IONS utter.
The tide of travel has not yet set in.
To the many to come the many corners
are as the scouts to the army behind.
Such proved wealth in the midst of
limitless, and of probably equal. oppor-
tunity will soon draw from all over the
earth.
The day has gone when one may de-
fend questionable rights with a gun
Greed will be the actuating cause, and
there will come those who will prey
upon all defects, mistakes. h will
thrive upon contest, quarrel, bubble,
who will spend fortunes to dispossess,
to destroy imperfect and hating titles
and build prosperity upon ruins.
The courts will be piled with resulting
litigation. / urge now to forestall and
to prevent by seasonble action. to profit
by the history of other places.
Heretofore in brotherly fashion we
have winked at noncompliance, have
overlooked known deficiencies, but
from now dealings will be with new sets
of men, under new conditions here, but
under conditions already established
elsewhere throughout mining states and
territories, as the recognized mining
law.
Buyers have taken us at our word
thus far in best of fellowship. Good
intent has been the charitable mantle
for all nakedness. for omissions that
the mining states of Utah, Colorado
and Idaho would not excuse, to whose
decisions the progressive decisions of
Nevada will refer, must refer, whose
excellent system of worldwide reputa-
ton and recognition our own system
III NC part VI, hiuo bO Poit u
Nevada is but a member of the Union.
Her lands that we employ belong TO the
government. The foundation stone of
our right is congressionable privilege.
No state may do away by substitute or
may ignore the provisions of the
statutes of the United States as to the
disposition. enjoyment, and use of the
public lands, and their acquisition.
The mining states may in certain
particulars abridge and contract but
they may not in any particular expand
government generosity.
The especial requirements of the law
plainly and Enthusiastically stated are as
plainly enacted into Nevada statutes.
We began in Leadville 28 years ago
to shape decisions when we had but