The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-19
REMARKABLE
MAKE-GOOD OF
NEVADA CAMPS

1t Is seldom in the history of the
world that such extraordinary. all
round and rapid development has taken
place in any single state or autonomous
land as that which is o and which
has been for the past year occurring in
Nevada. Furthermore there is every In
dication that such phenomenal progress
will continue for several years. how
many we cannot say. but certainly a
few. The reasons why this development
will continue are most ordinary. but
most sound. First. Nevada is a very
large state in area. larger than several
OF the eastern states combined: second.
to cover this vast area We have a y
lation scarcely exceeding that of some
eastern counties-that Is to say a pres
ent population of only about $4,000 peo-
pie; third, 1t Is being demonstrated
every day that within Nevada's borders
are to be found the richest mineral de-
posits in the world; fourth. Nevada's
soil is as fertile as will be found almost
anywhere and when irrigated will grow
anything that can be grown any where
except in the extreme tropics, and the
great irrigation works now being con-
Quoted by the government will soon
have thousands of acres of this rich
soil under irrigation. 1t Is Easy to de-
duce the fact that a state as large geo.
graphically as some four or five of the
eastern states combined, with q popula-
ton scarcely equal to some of the east
ern counties, with mineral deposits,
found and unbound. running into untold
millions of wealth, with thousands of
acres Of untaken fertile land. 1t is, we
say, a reasonable deduction that such
a state will not exhaust its opportun-
tiles for the individual for many years.
Even though the state had twenty times
its present population there would still
be many a rich and u~ncaught opening
for the new conner and we will not ave
twenty times our present population for
several years. and in turn there is no
reason why rapid fortune making
should cease in Nevada until the popla-
ton averages the resources. The rea-
son why SO many men get rich so quick
ly in Nevad is that the resources of
the state exceed the population in a
ratio of 80 or 40 to J., hence a man has
thirty or forty times a greater oppor-
tunity to acquire wealth in Nevada than
he has in other states. And so long as
this condition exists there ought to be
so-called boom times in Nevada. AS to
mining opportunities h state Is SO
large and mineral is so generally dis
tributed over it that we " scarcely
started the industry. Thousands of
acres of Nevada's miner lands remain
as yet unprospected. AS an evidence of
the mineral every where claim as to
Nevada, we may take the history of the
various and many new mining camps
which have been opened in different
parts of the tsate. To the observer the
most amazing thing about the amazing
greatness of Nevada's liberalization is
the fact that up to the present time not
one Of these new camps has failed to
make good. When one hears of a great
strike and a new town sprung into ex-
istence almost every week in the year
one cannot help being skeptical and
doubling the g~enuineness of the re-
ports. but when we take a backward
look over Of reported new camps and on
examination find that they are not only
a fact but that they are growing-rap-
idly growing bigger and richer-our
doubts take fight but our amazement
increases. Thus Manhattan, Fairview.
Wonder, B~uckskin, Ramsey, Seven
Troughs, Dutchman, all less than one
year old, and other famous camps, were
all tabooed in the start. but the test of
their value is the fact that they are
bigger and stronger today than at their
beginning-they rave made good, n
we predict for the state a great galaxy
of great new camps yet to be uncovered.
and through it all there has been a re-
markable effort at perfect good faith on
the part of those forwarding the mining
industry and a remarkable absence of
wild-catting.-Nevada Forum.