The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-12

MA TO i've, ana Jnere was pointed out
as a man who was not only a great
lawyer, but a great miner, one who
had the shrewdness to know how to
buy and sell stocks and had made
a fortune thereby. 1t was one of the
purest accidents in the world, but he
got the money, and that makes every
think right.
Tn the later eighties another ore
body was found in the California-CoG
solidated ground, from which a few
MILLIONS have been taken, and still
the work has ben going on ever since,
and now I am glad to hear that way
off in the eastern country the Ophir
Is moking good in a tremendous body
or newly foi nd ore. It is not i'm
possible to believe that the glory viii:
eli come back to the Comstock, bat
+ it does not it already has to its
credit more fame than any other mine
IL North America. sur pose it has
vel II 1arhaps $500 100000 IN IFS
time. Some of the fairest structures
in the east grew from it; the glory
Of old San Francisco in greater part
came from it; it vitalized the whole
coast; it was a towel Of strength 70
the government when the Civil war
was on. The men who received their
first training there have spread out
over the country and have made fame
in other places, for instance, Marcus
DAILY of Butte was a lieutenant of
Mr.. Fair, David Keith Of Utah sank
the old Caledonian shaft there and
two or three air shafts over Sutro' q
tunnel.
Speaking of Sutro's tunnel. that
ought to have a few words. It was a
giant undertaking to drive a tunnel
for four miles from the bank Of the
Carson river. under the mountain to
the Comstock lode. Sntro had the
driving power to. do it. He was a
shrewd man in some respects. He had
quarreled with the managers of the
mines at Virginia City, and for years
assumed that he was a martyr who
was being prosecuted by those men.
1t was his stock in trade. He finally
completed the tunnel and sold out the
stock of it for enough to make him a
fortune. He tried to be a Senator
from Nevada, but he was not very
well acquainted. He then went to San
Francisco and there posed rs q philan-
tiAoPicts SVbe HiIuSCl cItCtcu mdYOI,
and had he lived, and had the people
not found him out, and exactly how
much credit he was entitled to, he
might have attained to still higher
honors. All the same he did not de-
serve them; he was untrue to country.
family annd friends. He never had
but one real friendship in life; che
was a self-made man, and to the end
Of his days he was dead in love with
his Maker
To supply the city with water, a
lake was tapped high up in the Sierra
Nevada mountains. The water was
sent down to the Washoe valley in
a pipe, and her thrown up the east
side Of the mountains, for Virginia
City is not in the Sierra Nevadas, as
IS generally believed, but in an isolat-
ed range to the east This pipe. il
| remember correctly. is a 15-inch pipe
and when the water strikes Wlshoe
valley, the vertical pressure on it is
100 feet.
Some of the most magnificent min
ing machinery was on that lode. The
balance wheel on the pumping and
hosting engine over the Union shaft,
$500 feet deep, weighed 125 tons, and
there were other almost equally wei
emrppcd shafts along the vein.
| saw Sl.03S,00o in gold and silver
bricks which were taken from the Vir-
ginia h.nanza in I, week. The s. -a1g
men whn did the ork were masters,
in '.-i. in the Industrial world. AS
W. have said. W:iism Sharon was the
first great Ell trolling force or the
C,Estrek. n little delicate man. ,r ysi-
cally, about the size Of Jay Gould, a
born organizer, with presence infalli-
BILE. and a will that nothing could turn
from a purpose when once formed. un-
erring ind judgment that no difficulty
could daunt.