Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-10-20

mics, %parading On top of it and fiaunt.
ing their flags, high above the pin
nacle of Trinity steeple. One can inn
asine that, but he cannot we'll imag-
inc what that forest of timbers cost,
from the time they were felled in the
pineries beyond Washoe Lake, haul
ed up and around Mount Davidson at
a~trocious rates of freightage, then
squared, let down into the deep NAV
of the mine and built up there. Twen-
ty ample fortunes would not timber
one of the greatest of those silver
mines. The Spanish proverb says it
requires a gold mine to run a silver
one, and it is true. A beggar with a
silver mine is a pitable pauper indeed
if he cannot sell.
l spoke of the underground Virgin
la as a city. The Gould and Curry
is only m single mine under there,
among a great many others; yet the
Gould and Curry's streets of dismal
drifts and tunnels were five miles in
extent, altogether, and it's population
five hundred miners. Taken as a
whole, the underground city had some
thirty miles of streets and a popula-
ton of five OF six thousand. In this
present day some of these populations
are at work from twelve to sixteen
hundred feet under Virginia and Gold
Hill, and the signal-bells that tell
them what the superintendent above
ground desires them to do are struck
by telegraph, as we strike a fire alarm
Sometimes men fall down a shaft,
there, a thousand feet deep. In such
cases, the usual plan is to hold an in
| quest.
y you wish to visit one of these
miRvs, you may walk through a tun.
mel about half a mile long if you pre-
fer it, or you may take the quicker
plan Of shooting like a dart down a
shaft, on a small platform. 1t is like
tumbling down through an empty
steeple, feet first. When you reach
the bottom, you take a candle and
tramp through drifts and tunnels
where throngs of men are digging
and blasting; you watch them SEM
up tubs full of great Jumps of stone
silver ore; you select choice speci
mems from the mass, as souvenirs
you admire the world of skeleton tim,
bering; you reflect frequently that
you are buried under a mountain, a
thousand feet below daylight; being
in the bottom Of the mine you clint
from gallery" to gallery" up end
less ladders that stand straight VI
and down; when your legs fail you
at last, you lie down in a small box
car in a cramped incline" like a hall
appended W. and are dragged uI
to daylight feeling as though you are
crawling through a coffin that has ne
end of it. Arrived at the top you fine
a busy crowd of men receiving the
ascending cars and tubs and dumpint
the ore from an elevation into Ions
bins capable of holding half a dozer
tons each; under the bins are rows
of wagons loading from chutes ant
trap-doors in the bins, and down the
long street is a procession of thes,
wagons vending toward the silver
mills with their rich freight. 1t il
all done" now, and there you are
You need never go down again, FOL
you have seen 1t all.
During the great flush year of 1863
Nevada Claims to have) produced
s25,000,000 in bullion-almost, IL no
quite a round million to each Thousand
Inhabitants, which is very well, con
sidering that she was without agri
culture and manufactures. silve
mining vas her sole productive in
dustry.