The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-12-02
NEvADA'S JUMP
TO THE FRONT
What Has. Been Accomplished Since
Jim Buffers Discovery Six
Years Ago.
(From the Salt Lake Herald.)

(From the Salt Lake Herald.)
John w. Langley, who has spent
the past several years in Nevada, and
who, with the business which brought
him here a few days ago completed,
will leave for Tonopah again, made an
interesting talk yesterday on what the
state of Nevada has accomplished N
a mining way during the SIX years
since the discovery of the Mizpah lode
by James l.. Butler. He wanted to go
into more detailed reasons why now
is the time to invest in the camps of
the sagebrush state, but contented
himself for the time being with the
delivery Of the following reference to
what conditions were when the revival
started, and what has since been &C.
complished, declaring ON the side that
the development of the camps has now
placed them where a small fraction of
the money already spent would yield
returns such as men ~unacquainted with
the diggings could not begin to con
jure in their brains.
Nevada Viewed as a Joke.
"Six years ago, when Jim Butler
made his famous discovery of the Miz-
pah lode, Nevada was looked upon as
a state that, to say the least; was un-
desirable from every point of view.
Comstocks were still played by old ad-
mirers who were content to pay Irish
dividends regularly with the hope that
some day the expected would happen,
and another six hundred million
would be added to the world s wealth.
"Then a narrow gauge railway
(Which was financed by D. O. Mills
some fifteen years previous, and who
said upon his first visit over the road
that it was either built 800 miles too
long or 800 miles too soon) within
forty miles of Jim Buffers discovery
was the nearest shipping point, and az
freight had to Re carted over a desert
road sixty miles long, wit ha trail
wagon attached. filed with hay, grain.
water and provisions for man and
beast. The road was drip and dusty.
and tht stage trip of twelve hours
landed the bonanza chaser into Tono-
pah, sorry he had ever left that good
old home, where the grass was green
and the shade of the trees refreshing
Railroads Work Big Change.
"Since then over 1000 miles of rail
road have been constructed the
twenty-mule teams have almost or
tirely disappeared, the seventy horse
power modern automobile has driven
the old stage coach to a quiet resting
place
"With the discovery of Tonopah Ne
vada awakened from her Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep of twenty years, and tc-
day the state is dotted with cities
towns and mining camps where in or
mer days even the bravest of the Pi-
ute Indians dared not 90.
States Gold Production.
"The mineral production of the
United States for the year 1905. Just
published. shows that Nevada was
fourth in the production of gold
amounting to $~9,27s,600.
Gin the output of silver she ranked
fifth, with $3.524,972, a total of near
ly $13, 900, 900. Thus in FIVE years
after her rediscovery at Tonopah TAX
ing fourth and fifth place among the
precious metal producers. This was
accomplished before scarcely a local
reduction plant had been put in OPP
GRAFTON and represents ores of patty
that would Justify shipping 10 The Say
Lake smelters.