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

. of honor being Clarence w. ~i
= Mackay, son of the well known .
. argonaut. At the same time .
= there was unveiled John w. y
= Mackay statue. A feature was =
= the presentation of university =
=. degrees to Mrs. Clarence Mack .
. ay and Colonel George Harvey, .
. of Harper's Weekly. ~
Col. Harvey's Address.
Colonel Harvey was the orator of
the day and delivered the following
address on THE American Indivil-
ual'':
How wondrous to the human mind
seem the achievements OF Nature as
we stand upon this vast plain. framed
by the towering peaks that mark the
effects of her impelling force! Where
else upon the face of the earth could
a place be found better suited to lend
impressiveness to the contemplation?
The throbbing of the heart of the
planet that produced this wonderful
conformation we cannot even imag-
ine. Uncounted thousands of years
ego, science tells us, the plain was
the bed of an ocean, whose waves
Tapped the shores of land now for
gotten Then, in the aeonian course
of time. the face of this primeval
landscape was nightly changed. The
earth was shaken by Titanic energies
to the level OF the plain and shot up
towards the sky the stupendous
mountains in whose shadow we stand
today. And in this process of con-
vulsion, Nature raised from their
hiding places in the heart of the
planet her vast stores of mineral
treasures and deposited them where
they might be accessible to man when
he should develop the prescience to
discover and the ability to possess
them But ages were to elapse before
the advantages of her foresight and
preparation could be realized. From
generation to generation, from cen
tury to century, from millennium to
millennium, the rich gifts of Nature
lay here unsuspected or unheeded by
the primitive tribes. who were the
only representatives of the human
race in this remote region, far from
the Influences OF advancing civiliza-
tion and eager enterprise which STIR
red men to activity in other portions
of the globe .,.f
From the day when History began
to record events the story unrolls like
IA panorama How short a time need
we look back to behold in imagina-
tion the banks of this. river dotted
with the lodges of the lean and hun
CRY Nyumas, while to the south the
blear-eyed Wash-oes basked thei:
lazy bodies in the summers sunshine
and trusted to the Great Spirit foC
: winter, thus remaining in possession
of this vast territory unknowing and
unknown, except to an occasional
wandering friar. until the hardy
Anglo-Saxon explorer forced his way
to the head waters of this stream and
thence over the great llanos to the
western sea.
Pitiful to the hearts of even those
savage men must have seemed the
sufferings OF those who toiled beside
the long lines of caravans plodding
across the arid plains. None stopped
except to die. ION to the promised
land rushed the thousands. heed
less of the untold treasures beneath
their feet. and leaving the stupid red
men to fish and sleep and perish in
squalor. But the time came when
Natures work was completed by the
magic of mind and the courage OF
heart with which she had endowed
her sons. Like a thunderbolt came
the news of the discovery of the great
mine. and there followed a trans
formation of scene such as the world
had never beheld before. Again, as
in dream, we see an endless pro-
cession of eager men now retracing
their steps to seek the fortunes which
they had passed unheeding.
1t would be idle to recount here
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