The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1907-06-21
Who CAN TELL?

StTttcnlDg lIOin Tie eastern 1OOt-
hills Of the Rockey Mountain range
to the western slope of the Sierra
Nevada's and from the land of the
Moltezumas to the re. ions of al
most perpetual snow in the frozen
north?
Many instances can be cited
where it was claimed that we'll
known producers were the only
mines that would be fonnd in
certain camps, and yet time has
proven that this is mistaken
idea, as other bonanzas have since
been found that were not only
strong rivals of the "bread winners"
but which have actually eclipsed
them in point Of production and
actual worth; aud these new prop
psitons in many instances have
been found in localities that have
been gone over and visited many
times by the prospcctor and mining
operator, who were 80 stronger i'm
pressed with the prevailing opinion
that rich desposlts of the precious
metals We're physical impossi-
bility in the ground that they
thought they were SO familiar with
that they never took the pains or
trouble to thoroughly investigate
into its true merit or possibilities.
The same condition holds good
in regard TO unexplored territory
throughout the West, and many
new districts of marked promise
are neglected and ignored which
in time, will give to the world
another Virginia City, another
Butte, another Tonopah and an
other Goldfeld.
This being the case, who can tell
where the next new and important
str'k will be made? Will it be in
some distant PORTION of Nevada and
adjoining States or in some of our
older and better known camps.
Will second Silver King come
into existance to vie with another
Onario, or will great bonanza be
found in locality isolat-d from
the out side world.
Nevada, in the early days, in the
days when the great Comstock
was in its prime when the Battle
Born" State could boast of bun
dred camps that we're wonders for
that day add age, was believed by
the old-timer to have been thoughlv
prospected; and yet, to-day mar
velous finds are being found in To-
calities which, thirty years ago
were repeatedly gone over by an
army OF rrospectors. The State is
now, again being secured from one
end to the other, by scores of treas
ure seekers, and who can tell
what they will discover in the
mountain passes, the canyons and
the low foothills where more than
quarter of a century ago, a SINH
lar horde of enthusiastic miners
had passed along passing by and
passing up" mineral propositions
that the mining men of today
would classify as bonanzas, were
he so fortunate as TO find them.
The Comstock lode, it is estimated
has produced the enormous sum of
six hundred million. 1t is claimed
that Goldfeld will, in time double
this amount. A long interval has
elapsed since the discovery of the
Comstock. Goldfield is but three
years old, and yet no doubt exists
but that within the next six months
anothe camp equally as rich, will
be found somewhere in this inter-
mountain region. Who can tell
If it be in Utah, Nevada, Idaho,
Montana, Arizona or in Colorado ?
1t may be found within five miles
OF Ely, and it may be, even now,
that men are daily tramping over
ground which, within brief period,
will create immense excitement be-
cause of it wonderful mineral
wealth.
We cannot tell what Dame Nat