Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-10-10
A LITTLE Personal H

We-the New Editor-are a tenderfoot. We make the charge with
out fear II reservation, unqualifedly, and would not 'back-up' on the
tenderfoot, from the east, in California. Now, we are a tenderfoot from
the west.i in Nevada. We are likewise a stranger, and we want a per-
sonal acquaintance with every man, woman and child who reads the Bo-
nanza, likewise those who do not read tn Bonanza-IorH might o la
II Charming personality" 1--WE take our wifes word for that, having
had n experience with other peoples wfves) will induce these people
to also read the Bonanza. We got over being a tenderfoot in California,
and now an discourse learnedly rs to the proper time to pick the alfalfa,
the pumpkins, "st" the cows and milk the chickens. We have
written yards. upon yards upon diseases of fruit trees and vines, upon
proper methods of cultivation of all the crops indigenous to California
from babies to haySacks, but we don't know a thing about mines, ave a
vague idea that whenever a man want. to start a mine he goes out some
where in the desert and digs a hole in the ground which gives him open
sesame to the pockets of all his friends and his friends friends, and
after that he lives forever on Easy Street Or in jail We could never
Just understand why that hole in the ground had tob be dug in the desert
and don't yet. Then, too, W have heard vaguely of other mines where
the happy discoverer makes a trip once or twice a year, armed with a
sledge hammer and a crow bar, and in a few days breaks n prizes on
enough chunks of gold to last him until the next visit provided he don't
throw too many chunks of the stuff at gophers OF the route home, or at
his neighbors' chickens after he arrives there.
But out here 0 n the desert, we are beginning to see things. We
see black and dirty looking rock, which don't look like gold Q r silver
at all, but which is dug out of tunnels deep under the face of the
desert, sen through the iron jaws of breakers, crushers and stamps,
through watts filled with Shiny grey stuff, and through wonders OF
machinery utilizing the cunning of the chemist and the cogent, mex
plainable, invisible powers of electricity until the shaggy rock is turned
back onto the desert as a grey refuse and the gold and silver alone are
left pure and undefled. And what an army of men it takes to work this
tranformaton! What hardships it is father to-
And to u.s., a tenderfoot from the west, it is all yet a mystery. We
want to learn II. Already the call of the desert is getting into our blood,
and we find ourself standing, gazing out across the ilimitable expanses
of grey, windswept and sand-scoured plain and grizzly crag and for the
first time feeling that sense of absolute freedom which is after ALL mans
one pursuit And we want you to come to us, make friends of us, explain
desert, the mysteries of the soitudes around, And, in return for this, we
will give to you the best there is in is. We will mourn with you in your
hour of sorrow; W e will be glad with and for you when fortune smiles;
we will sorrow for you when you fall in the hour of your temptation, and
our hand will not be the last outsreched to aid You in your rise. We
IRE a tenderfot, from the west so bear with us a while. 1t is a new
country for us. and for a time we may be halt and lame, we may stumble
now and anon. but our aim will be to give you the best paper which is
published in southern Nevada, and we bespeak your support
THE NEW EDITOR.