Tanana leader., 1910-05-19
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 In reminiscent story of Virginia City when the Com stock at the height of its glory contributor to an Eastern tells of kind of annoyance suffered by Charles Goodwin editor of the Virginia City Enterprise Goodwin was man of splendid attachments and often tertaned people of education and refinement who out to the great mining camp from their New England homes To the editor the view which led away through the steep
 sides ot canyon out miles of flat sagebrush the to the sandy expanse of the sink Carson where the river myseriously disappeared into the earth and far beyond to the snowcapped mountains the Hum bodt range-to Goodwin the one of inspiring beauty and delight. However, the grandeur of stua
 on rarely impressed his visitors good nature and hosptabe instincts often tried by the gloomy view they took of the surroundings On occasion class mate ot Goodwns went to Virginia City to visit him and took lunch In deparng he tarred on the veranda and looked off toward the Humboldt range and turned pityngly and said: Good Lord Charley should think the drearness and desoaon of this outlook would drive you mad Goodwin had been tried once too often With big sweep of his arm, experiencing all that lay below in the the deser the sink further on to the purple mountains tipped with white he repled Sr the good Lord has made it possible for blind to all the beauties of this earth to dig his way through college You sir, standing there, an evidence of what have sald You are in sight of yet you blind to the grand est the most ennobng of nature God has spread his beloved foostoo There nature in her most glorious mood has painted for the sou-but damn you Jack you could see anything pretty outside of Central Pa1k tell you sir that you incapable of distinguishing between sonberness and sub hmlty Tn nature; tell you, sr that whose soul is refined above longing for the roufrou of silks on Fifth avenue cannot without trembling at his own tteness and lnslgnlcance view mighty, glorous-Must you go, Jack?' "=.-
 The feeling of the enthusiast who had come to love his nome in its setting of mountain and canyon and desert scenery will be understood by Aaskans who read the statement made before the house committee on territories by R. k. Powell, of Nome at Washington, March 23 Mr. Powell among other things, said II not think that ever met man, unless he has wreck somewhere in his 1e Tn Alaska at any point that have visited who wished to stay there and live Of the man might in some instances have up there to hate himself and live there several But aside from kind of men, dol not Know that have met in Alaska who was good citizen who in there because wanted to live in the country or to make it his home" Again: II think that man who has known the conditions such as we nave m the United States know those conditions oown here can hardly reconcile himself to live in country where there h they term it there nine months winter ana three months of darn bad weather as we have it in Alaska Then oftentmes there bad weather practically the year round and it is not pleasant thing to contem plate Mr. Powell said good deal more along the same line Of mental cleavage speak, but enough has been quoted to show that he not harmony with the works of nature as manifested in the land where temporarily re- guest there is innate frty the understanding some nndrance to rational conception of things that will leave him still poor he succeeds in accommodating as much gold as is contained in all of Seward peninsula. The world holds some riches that he incapable of want I1io 11,rS~--