Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-10-03
TRIBUTE TO
THE PROSPECTOR
IS REPRINTED
JUDGE SAUNDERS ADDRESS IS
AGAIN PRINTED By SPEC
IAL REQUEST

Demand after demand has been
received at this office for copies of
the Bonanza containing the speech
delivered by Judge j. A. Saunders
at the night session of the mining
congress held in Tonopah. Not only
have demands been received from
Presidents of Tonopah for copies con-
tanning THE Prospector, but from
all over the state and even from San
Francisco, letters have been received
asking for papers.
The tribute paid by Mr.. Saunders
to the prospector is deserving of
mention in any paper or magazine in
the United States and it is highly
probable that the address will event.
ually be found in their columns.
The following is the address,
which we republish by request of
both Tonopah and Goldfield citizens;
Mr. Chairman: 1t is not posi-
4 BILE to do justice to a subject cover
| ing so vast a territory as The Pros
pector, in the space allotted to me
on this program. | know not how
much of the western hemisphere he
! has prospected, but we all know
that he has staSed the whole state
of Nevada. | shall, therefore, with
your permission, Mr.. Chairman, con
tent myself with few words of
simple praise for a friend, one
whose grubstakes | have furnished,
whose disappointments | have
shared, whose legal battles | have
fought, whose booze | have drank
and whose mulligans | have eaten.
"Of the numerous and varied
characters who infest this desert
land, the word painter has as yet
failed to picture the prospector
They are of two kinds, male and fe-
male, though they never hook up to-
gether or go in pairs. The male
contends that the female cannot
keep the secret of a discovery long
enough to stake the ground; the
female contends that the male al
ways freezes her cut of the gooG
and leaves to her the wildcats. I'm
tutored in the sciences of mineralogy
and geology, in his wanderings ovel
these brown tinted peaks he prefers
the help of his burro to that of {
graduate of a school of mines or {
high boot expert
; Endowed with slow but tireles'
6HelSy anu pSIoeFSl ShCC, lAlpuC'
with an abiding faith in his posi-
bilities, filed with dauntless hope
and undaunted courage, he stands
: alone on this desert as the pedesta
of our greatest industry and as ;
discoverer of natures wealth. DR.
Cook and his Eskimos are not in i
with the prospector and his burros.
''The call of the west is for de
4 velopment. The mother lode of a.
: has been traced by prospectors from
: Alaska to Mexico and its apex GOV
Y ers the Pacific slope. The cry o
' the pioneer is no longer for he'll
2 but is demand on predator
t wealth for gold and silver to de
, velop more gold and silver to sat
e isfy the wants of a restless people
i but with this great question tn
r prospector has nothing to do H
t has blown in his, and is on his way
e God only knows where, to discove
e another mine. His path is the van
e guard of progress and his lionel
: trail is the great broad way to on
nations wealth; his discoveries kee
t in motion the wheels of industry
d he has blazed the way for railroad
d and his weary tread is the forerur
y ner of trusts, trusts breed million
e aires, millionaires beget duchesse'
e duchesses produce divorce suits an
l. divorce suits make Reno the niece
l. for the broken hearts of Americ;
while his life is lonely one,
has it's social side and in it ther