Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-08
EDITORIAL COMMENT
CHEER UP! DON'T WORRY.
MANY days you have fingered,
Round my cabin door
Hard times, hard times,
Come again no more

Come again III uUIt-
We have all heard that old song. and W e will hear it many a time
again. We love to sing Of the hard times that were once, and we de-
light in believing that they will come no more. Two years ago hard
times were knocking at the cabin door, and at the doors of the banks
And like the clown in the pantomine, hard times have turned up
again with the merry refrain: Here we r again" What are we
going to do about. it? We all expected it. and now some of us re kick
ing about it. Two years ago at this time we were waiting 10 the m
M r to fade, and the fall to open up with our new stock of surprises.
The summer grew worse, and the fall for hard times had the summer
faded. All through the summer and the fall there ws talk of Man
haitian. Some went to Manhattan. others laughed.
And the cold winter days and the colder winter nights fell upon us,
and the cry of Manhattan grew fainter; and then n morning We all
woke up to the fact that there was a boom in Manhattan, and how the
autos, and the rigs and the burros went skimming for thu new camp.
In a month there was a big city and the stock market was going sky
high.
The lei at whom we used to laugh, who caraed rocks around in
ures at the Palace hotel in San Francisco. They were the swels, and
everybody wanted to e and know the man from Manhattan. All of
that was not much more than the work of a night; they got the right
kind of stuff in the camp, and then they got the right kind OF m to
handle it.
Nothing could have been more promising for the future of southern
Nevada when the disaster befel San Francisco. But when the stricken
city struggled to her feet, what another change there was. Every
body thought that the time had come for the summer slump and that
there as not much use of attempting to do anything. All stocks were
down at the time, but how quickly they scared, and never had SUCH prices
been seen as those which followed,
There is more trouble in San Francisco at the present time; there
are financial troubles in the east; there is quiet in southern Nevada.
When shall we have the next boom? That is the question that is af-
tating the most of us. Some think that the summer slump has settled
upon the land, and that we will have to go through to the fall without
any improvement in the stock market.
But in the meantime, the mines arc working, and there is machin-
ery being hauled into this camp. and being shipped out to other
camps. There is life enough outside the stock market The market is
down, but it will be up again. Don't worry.
Worry does not get anything; it never did, it never will. All we
have to do is to look the situation in the eye, and make the best of it,
and be sure that we arc not caught unawares, when the turn does
come. If we can't make money in stocks, let us make it in somthing
else, while we wait. The majority of people who are now holding stocks
had the opportunity of unloading them at a profit. Those who did not,
will have to wait, and benefit by their experience.
Cheer III, cherries ae ripe. What we lost this year, we will make
up in the next year. Be hopeful. be brave, and don't worry,