Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-01
EDITORIAL COMMENT
ToNoPAH GREETs Los ANGELES

The business mems special from Los Angeles is due here this even
ing. and the visitors will be with us all day tomorrow. They have been
through the southern camps, Rhyoite, Beatty and Goldheld' and have
left the best for the last. Not that W IRE disparaging any of the other
cities, but that Tonopah is the parent camp of them all. and the children
have not yet attained the growth and dignity of the parent.
The coming Of the Los Angeles people at this time is most oppor-
tune. The visitors want to see for themselves what we have in the mines
what there is about Tonopah that makes it one of the biggest, if not the
very biggest, mining camp in the world, When the strangers go through
the mines they will learn for themselves what there is OF what we have
boosted with pardonable pride.
1t would be an object lesson to these gentlemen to take with them
on their visit through the mines the stock list containing the latest quo
tations OF the Tonopah securities. 1t would occur to them at first glance
how ridiculousy low are the prices of the stocks; it would show to
them what is to be expected of those securities in the future
Tonopah does not expect that these gentlemen from Los Angeles,
coming here for the first time, are going right back home and start the
greatest boom in stocks that was ever known. We do not expect them to
plunge n the market, and plaster the dead walls of Los Angeles with
what they have discovered in Tonopah and the rest of Southern Ne
or properties
The trip Of the Los Angeles business men is no promotion scheme on
the part Of Southern Nevada. 1t is not of the doing of the men Of
Southern Nevada. The trip was made up by the men of Los Angeles,
and without cooperation of the people of Nevada. But once we knew
that the excursion vas planned. and learned the high character of the men
of the party we Immediately got busy Our people are going to extend
to them every courtesy in their power to make their visit as pleasant
and IS instructive a s possible
Some of the papers of Los Angeles have taken potshots at this
country, and have never inquired as to the truth or authenticity of their
statements Their readers took the statements for granted until they met
the people from this section, and they themselves paid it a flying visit
They learned that the stories of their papers were mis-aatements; and
the Los Angeenos VINO returned rom mere a 10 much to say or what
they had seen that the other leading enterprising men of their city
became fred with enthusiasm, and resolved to visit the camps in a body
and at their own individual expense.
These gentlemen ire the heads of various lines Of business and indus
tries in Southern California. They are bankers, merchants. manufactur-
ers and business men. We would not assume to dictate where their bust
ness interests lie. They know that, better than we can tell them, and
they will draw their own conclusions from their trip without any
coaching from us.
All we ask of them is to look for themselves at our industries, and
to ask for any information that may occur to them. Let them be the
judges IS to whether W e have what we have claimed, and whether it is to
the interest of Los Angeles to better the commercial relations between
us. The balance of trade has always been with Los Angeles, and we
have received very little return for the business that We have given to
that city. We know that mutual relations an be established, and we be-
leve that this trip will be instrumental in a better understanding exist
ing in future between IS and the metropolis of Southern California.
We are a young community, and we need all the assistance that we
an get from older communities; but we are not going to anyone empty
handed. We have the proper exchange to offer, and we believe in rec
ipocity; and in that the business men of Los Angeles will respect us for
our business sense
Meanwhile the gentlemen from Los Angeles are coming here a our
guests, and theirs is in the nature of a social visit We extend to them
the hospitality of Tonopah; we offer to them the right hand of good fell
lowship, the good fellowship of the desert The keys of the city are in
their keeping They have left behind them the orange groves and
the beautiful flowers Of the South. for which we can offer only the sage
brush and the Joshua trees; but they bring with them no deeper senti-
ment of esteem, o higher respect for manly qualities than they will find
in the welcome extended to them from the sons of the desert.
The men who made the mines of Mount Oddie, who bazed the path
way across the trackless wastes of Nevada, and brought the railroads into
Rhyolte, are proud Ito be your hosts Good fellows and other gentlemen
of the garden spot of California, we bid you welcome.
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