The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-09

would have been more pleas
ant. for we cannot show you those
magnificent rivers and harbors existing
in the northwest, and which are sucb
factors in the carrying trdde
of our nation; we cannot show you
those magnificent buildings and strue'
lures now existing in Seattle; and We
have not those places of historical in
terest that exist in the northwest, and
whose names are synonymous with the
history of our country; but instead OF
these scenes and natural advantages,
we can call to your attention and show
YOU what the energy, the enthusiasm
and the industry of the locators and pio-
neers of this district have accomplish
ed within the brief period of six years;
for in 1908 and within the memory Of
the men here present, this country, yes
this very ground we now occupy was a
barren wilderness, a desert waste I'M
inhabited by man or beast; no human
voice broke the stiffness of the air; but
in that year came the prospector and
made his discoveries, and when the
news was spread to the world, the rush
to Goldfeld commenced. On came the
men and women with the babies and the
children; then came the schools and the
churches and the result is the splendid
community which resides here today, DIS
intelligent, lawabiding and patriotic as
lives in any state of this Union.
These pioneers have developed our
mineral resources until the gold produe-
ton of our mines is the admiration of
the mining world.
And we say to you gentlemen of this
congress, what has been done in Cold
field can be lone again in this state,
there is more mineral ground in this dis
trict and county which possesses more
favorable mineral indications than ever
did the Mohawk; and that ground -
Just awaiting the advent of capital to
exploit it to show it's mineral wealth
to the world; and we, the people of this
county extend to you an invitation to
come to our state and become one of
us, help us to develop our mineral re-
sources, and assist us in building this
new and greater Nevada.
For we face the sun and on its purple
ridges,
The virgin future lifts its veil of snow;
Look backward and an arch of splen-
dor bridges,
The gulf of long ago
President Richards Responds.
President j. H. Richards, president of
the American Mining Congress, was
introduced after Senator Pyne had de-
livered his address, and in well chosen
words, replied to the addresses of well
come, in behalf of the American Mining
Congress. His address follows:
My friends, to the stranger within
your gates there is nc word that is
more appreciated than Welcome
The American Mining Congress comes
today for the purpose of doing you good,
and you may discover that you have
peer entertaining an angel unawares. l
am reminded that your chairman,
Joseph H. Hutchinson, and We call him
"Joe,n was one of the first to welcome
me when l came to Colorado about a
quarter of a century ago; a number of
years thereafter when / went to the
state of Idaho, Joe was one of the first
to greet me there, and now when l come
to this state, the first hand extended to
give me welcome as l alight from the
train, is my old friend, Joe. / am in
clined that should l ever be permitted
to pass through the "Pearly Gates,
the first hand extended to me there
will be the hand of your chairman.
In the address of welcome we are re-
minded that Nevada in a mining way
sowed it's wild oats in its infancy
days, like the American Mining Con-
gress. This organization in it's infancy
was fed on nourishment suited to it's
childhood. 1t was educated through
poems by the Mayor of Frozen Dog; by
addresses on primes, was entertained
by bullfghts, but now this organization,
like the state of Nevada is entering up
on its more mature development.
Few mining men who love our coun-
try can forget the debt of gratitude we
W to Nevada in making it possible
that our country should maintain IFS
integrity and to progress in it's great
industry, in spite of the fearful de-
struction of the great civil war. Those
who are becoming more familiar with
Nevada, begin to realize that the time
has come in it's development when its
permanent bodies of mineral wealth
which will add stability and perma-
nency to the industrial progress of this
state, are being explored.
Low Grade Ore the Thing.
1t is the great bodies of low grade
ore that will give this ~permanency and
stability. The rich pockets of the gilt
tering gold attract attention, but be-
cause Of their extreme richness they
be found in large quantities, and
fharafora do not odd that oIar,opk of