Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-11


the amazing story of that famous
lode. We may only note in passing
that the penalties exacted by Nature
for triumphs in peace are hardly less
severe than those required in war.
The fate of Columbus, who discovere
a continent, only to lose the honor o.
giving it his name and to die in hui
initiation, does not surpass in tragic
interest that of the Pennsylvania mln-
ister's sons, who persisted in anguish
while able to touch with their hands
the richest veins of ore in the earth.
AS ever, it was the survival of the
fittest. OF all those who stumbled
over, and from time to time during
eight years owned, the great deposit,
monuments of but two remain in
the names of city and of mine.
Luck did not then and never does
suffice. Inherited courage and hard
earned skill, supplemented by grim
determination and untiring energy,
constituted the basis of the great
tunes finally wrought out of the
His. Men of the highest stamp were
essential to success, and men came
men of intelligence and resolution
men who, while working with thei:
hands, could see with the eye of the
mind and apply to their striving the
fOrtitude OF character.
1t is not difficult to believe that tn
development of that blending of in
telligence and conscience which We
call character began among the
cloud-encircled mountains. A deac
level of landscape makes for like
evenness of mentality MonotonJ
settles like pail upon the germ o.
inspiration and leaves no hope o.
termination. From time immemoria
sordid ambition has sprung from th'
lowlands and chivalry from the high
lands. Just as the imagery of III
Jews depicts the first law-gtver al
going up to the mountain-top to re
ceive divine tuition, Just as tht
Greeks portrayed Zeus as teignin;
from Olympus, so the German baron
drew their strength and daring from
the high forests and the Scottish
chiefs theirs from the hills. The
physical body may thrive as Cattle
fatten upon the level plain, but tn
soul of man feeds upon the grandeu
of rugged emineuce To this superl
environment may safely be attribute
the evolution of characteristics whicl
became and still continue to be pecu
liar to men grown among the Sierras
To the philosophic mind, therefore
there is nothing strange in the rae
that the elixir of new life quick
fired the impressionable natures Q
youthful pioneers who came here I
win or to perish.
Thus began an epoch in the his
tory, not merely of a vast desert lane
not even solely of a Nation who's
very life was conserved by the hoo
Of gold and silver, but of the entir
world, whose peoples have bee
brought into quick and helpful cor
munication. through the continued e.
eAfNn of that dauntless spirit
". dose memory this holiday was pr
claimed and we are come together.
Then seemingly Nature rested, bl
not for long. She had injected int
this somnolent region that Angl'
Saxon resolution which no obstacle
can dismay, and this year. an exa
half-century after the beginning :
the golden period, dawns new era
and better and firmer because le
narrow, less speculative, the produ
not of chance, but of scientific &c
tainty. Congratulations by all meal
upon the recent discoveries of ne
storehouses of mineral wealth i'll Il
bowels OF the earth. but praise al
honor for the sagacity and determi