Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-08
TREASURES
 UNDER EARTH
How Dollars Multiply in Mines and Mighty Industries -
 COmStOck Letter.


 the gold mines in Nevada seem more like tale from the Arabian Nights, 7 from "Munchausen' like, too good to be real and true. In the old days in the ,Comstock boom ln California, ''The days of '49.' the country was startled by the discovery of the rich est strike of ore, bearing anywnere { from S15,OOO to $25,0OO a ton, and it was then that the Floods. Mackeys, OBriens, Fairs and many others made their millions. Flood it is said, jumped over the counter of a grocery store to a millionaire in ten days. Fair, who was local cobbler, doing soling and heeling, gave up the awl. O'Brien, in overalls, with pick and shovel, while Mackey, modest sal aried telegraph operator, blossomed forth in a few weeks from ticks and dashes, to great wealth and political power, and built palatial mansions. In those days several millionaires were made in few months. But out in Nevada the millionaires that were made by the discovery of gold in that state, are of almost every day occur renee. It is fact that this part of the country was few months ago nothing but an arid waste, cover ed with sage brush and the only thing on 1t, apparently of any value at all, was borax, and there were not five hundred people within radius of fifty miles, and a drink of cool water was much scarcer out there thau it z Is now. To-day, Goldfield is thriv- ing, hustling, bustling city, with a fine court house, public libraries, com fortable dwellings, churches, theatres and saloons, and such papers as the Goldfield Tribune, Goldfield News, Tonopah Miner, Rhylite Herald and many others, some of which publish veritable magazines in color and In many ways worthy of being ranked with the most important papers of the east. It Is a common thing to hear the old mining people speak of the days of '49. but they are now relegated to the background. When I was a youngster, which by the way isn't so very long ago, I remember my father telling me about his uncle having been the original Comstock and telling how stupendously great those stories ap- peared to me then.
 It is a fact that is to be greatly re- gretted that there are so many stock market wreckers and that they seem to have control of the Goldfield sit uation at present But every market on earth suffers from the same cause at times, and legitimate values are now overlooked when the gambling fever takes hold. The professional trader is really bear and the market for Goldfield stocks has un- occasionally been made to order ever since the adjustment of the labor troubles. The weak-kneed bulls" have been routed and prices have been forced to the level where bar gains are likely going begging.
 The Goldfield Review says:
 Throughout all the great Goldfeld district, with its many hundreds of leases, there is not one at the present time which has brighter prospects than the Jumbo Wonder company, whose lease is situated on the Jumbo Ex. property. Bounded on the north by the Laguna and Red Top, all of which are within the s00-foot mark of the Wonder, on the south by the St Ives and Atlanta, on the west by the fam ous Mohawk. and on the east by the Original Velvet. All of these proper ties have been proven beyond the question of a doubt to be producers of the highest quality, and the veins carrying high-grade ore branch out in all directions toward the Jumbo Won der, which is situated in the middle of them.
 Three shifts of men are sinking for the 1S0-foot level where cross-cutting will be again resumed. Values run ming high into the hundreds have been received from samples taken from the drift on the S0-foot level, but the general indications were sucE as to cause a decision on the part of the management to 70 another no feet before any more drifting is done. In one direction the vein on the War ner Hassell lease trends toward the Jumbo Wonder, while from the other direction comes the ledge on the Jumbo.
 With these surroundings and lndi- cations, and the equipment of which the company is possessed. there can be little doubt of the ultimate success of the undertaking which they have 4 .H- drum electric hoist is in operation. | there being but two or three larger ones in the camp A fnrty-foot gall l lows frame and a finely timbered three compartment shaft all testify to the . liability of the company and their confidence in the property.
 Besides this lease, the company is . the owner of three very promising looking claims In the MoRtezuma min- ing district. upon which active de- velopment will be commenced in the immediate future.
 COPPER. i
 Copper, the substance that fs caus- Ing SO much comment Ia the world tc- day Is not only necessary tO ;he use of electricity. It Is absolutely essen- tiaL Copper makes possible our tele- phone, telegraph. photograph. motors. dynamos: there Is no device made which Is concerned with electricity in any form that does nos pay tribute s0 rOpper. Even the magnet in the ap- spparstus comprising your doorlpeIi de- bends upon copper for the better part Of its supposedly intricate mechanism.