The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-02
. PROPHECY BY
GREELEY
SAID 1T WOULD TAKE 100000
MINERS ONE HUNDRED YEARS
TO THOROUGHLY EXPLORE
NEVADA.

When Horace Greeley crossed the
plains in 1859 he made a speech at
Placerville, Cal, in which he said
that in passing over what was then
called 1.-The Great American desert"
he had been struck with the appal-
ing ~barrenness and desolation of that
immense tract, and that, having
pondered over the matter and re-
flecting that the Almighty had made
nothing in vain, he had come to the
conclusion that, that section was to
be the scene, of great mineral dis
covery. in which case" he said,
years to thoroughly explore it."
When we reflect on the size of
Nevada alone-a state with an area
of more than $4,000 square miles
and remember that but a compare
lively small area of this immense
territory has been prospected, we can
not but conclude that there was
something of a genius for phophesy
in the makeup of Horace Greeley,
a y the Mining Financial News.
1t has been the custom of most.
writer's to speak of the first great
discovery of ore in this great des-
ert-the Comstock lode-as being
made in an isolated locality. In one
m this is true; in another not
true. Most, if not all, of the his
torians of the Comstock seem not
to have given any particular atten-
ton to the fact that the discovery Of
placer gold which later. led to the
discovery of the Comstock was made
at a station on the old overland stage
route, by which the adventurous
pioneers of those days made their
way from the east to. California.
From this place now known as Day
ton to the gComstock Is q distance OF
seven miles, and it, took just SEVEN
years from the time, gold was dis
covered at Dayton until the discovery
of the Comstock was made. aa 81
The region of the sComstock is an
arid one, but the SHOWS melting In.
the spring has adislddged and carried
away from the disintrgrated CROP
pings particles of gold down the
gulch that led to where Dayton now
oSaAaos hAAfC6ps hNSARASA bASASa
ands of years, and had doubtless
been accelerated by, many a cloud
burst such as that which lately de7
soended with such crushing +. force
uopn the camp of Rawhide. Far
nature, ordinarily n~iggardly with
moisture for the arid regions, when
she does send them rain at all, usual
ly it pours down in torrents. I
The Comstock rpodueedt about
$600,000,G coo and ranking next toiit
is Austin, which is credited with an
output of about 100000 600. AUS
tin was discovered by a man seeking
wood for Jacobs station, another
stopping place on the overland stage
route, six or seven miles away.
Another camp with the production
well up in the millions was Egan can
yon, also close to the overland route,
Egan canyon, Notwithstanding it's re-
spectacle production, derives it's
chief reputation from the fact that
!. led to the discovery of Ely and of
the great gold and silver camps that
made the county of White Pine ia
nous in the latter sixties.
Rawhide is the only camp in the
lot actually located on ground
through which the overland route,
directly ran, and it was the last to
be discovered. 1t is possible that
gold had been found in Rawhide
many years before the rush came, but
the ground being at that time within
the boundaries of the Walker Indian
reservation, no title could issue to
the discoverer or discoveries. 1t is
a remarkable thing that the dis
covery of Rawhide was made in the
summer of 1907-les than a year af-
ter the Walker reservation was open
ed to the public. 1t is almost note
worthy that although for forty years
before the opening of the reservation
is was freely predicted and generally
believed that the Walker reservation
contained a world of rich mineral
bearing ground, the only discovery OF
note made since the date of the
opening, which was Oct. 20, 1906,
has been that of Rawhide.
1t is only of recent years that big
discoveries in Nevada, like those of
Tonopah and Goldfield, have occurred
far away from any beaten path. Ev-
cry new discovery of this sort brings
in its wake a horde of prospectors
who scatter about in all directions,
with the new camp as the center
from which they radiate. And thus
one great discovery is often the pre-
cursor of many others.
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The nlacinq Of a buSt of Colonel