Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-06-13

interest that Of the Pennsylvania miu-
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. or 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 a city and of a 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
fortunes finally wrought out Of the
hills. Men of the highest stamp were
essential to success, and men came
men of intelligence and resolution
men who, while working with their
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 the
development of that blending of in
telligence and conscience which we
call character began among the
cloud-encircled mountains. A dead
level of landscape makes for like
evenness of mentality. Monotony
4.
settles like a pail upon the germ OF
inspiration and leaves no hope OF
termination. From time immemorial
sordid ambition has sprung from the
lowlands and chiyalry from the high
lands. Just as the imagery of the
Jews depicts the first law-giver as
going up to the mountain-top to re-
ceive divine tuition, just as the
Greeks portrayed zeus as reignins
from Olympus, so the German barons
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 the
soul of man feeds upon the grandeur
of rugged eminence. To this superb
environment may safely be attributed
the evolution of characteristics which
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 fact
that the elixir of a new life quickly
fired the impressionable natures OF
youthful pioneers who came here q
win or to perish.
Thus began an epoch in the his
tory, not merely of a vast desert land,
not ven solely of a Nation whose
very life was conserved by the foo
of gold and silver, but of the entire
world, whose peoples have beer
brought into quick and helpful corr
munication through the continued e6.
ertion of that dauntless spirit il
whose memory this holiday was pro
claimed and we are come together.
Then seemingly Nature rested, but
not for long. She had injected int.
J this somnolent region that Anglo,
Saxon resolution which no obstacle,
can dismay, and this year, an exaci
half-century after the beginning q
the golden period, dawns a new era,
and a better and frmer because lesl
narrow, less speculative, the produc
not OF chance, but OF scientific GER
tainty. Congratulations by all mean
upon the recent discoveries of new
s~torehouses of mineral wealth in tn,
bowels of the earth, but praise an
honor for the sagacity and determin
alton now being manifested In max
ing its surface bloom. Nature com
mitted no error when she sent TIL
winds from the Pacilc to sift the dus
from the hills over the plains. Al
when she stored and kept hidden TO
ages the wealth of the mountains
so here she created a condition who's,
development awaited only the utiliz
alton of mems brains and energy. w,
stand upon the threshold of anothe
epoch. Already has begun the might,
work of irrigation destined to trans
form millions of acres of desert int,
fertile meadows and blooming gar
dens. A Titanic task this, requirin,
the persistence and patience OF score
Of years, but what could be more
worthy of the intrepid builders of thi
new land and of the hardy stock fror
which they sprang? Now that a be
| ginning has been made, encourage
ment will not be lacking. Progress
D only, not completion, Is essentia'
Wherever wheat and corn are grow
and cattle and sheep are raised, mill
3 and factories and railways are re
t quired and will appear as IL by magi
time we may see this State of Nevad
! no longer buying her ~necessaries c
9 life from others, but independent {