The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-04-10


the following address at the dedica-
ton OF the Nevada building at the
Panama-Pacific International EXPOSE
.ion in San Francisco on February
% last:
Fellow Nevadans: On behalf of the
Nevada society of California. l bid
you welcome and take pride in par
ticipating in the dedication of this
noble building, which is a credit to
Nevada and a worthy ornament to
this most wonderful exposition.
This will be the gathering place
for all loyal Sage B%rushers." Here
old friendships will be renewed
hands will clasp that have not met
for years. and the story of many a
life and many a camp will be retold.
Of l seem to dwell upon the past,
| beg that you will bear with me-,
since l speak of the Nevada that l
knew as a boy.)
Here men will tell of the great
"Washoe Run" from California to
Nevada in 1859 and 1850. and of the
eventful history of the Comstock
ode: Of the white Pine excitement"
in the latter COS; of Aurora. Reese
river. Ely, Eureka, Phoebe. Tusca-
rora. Candelaria, and of a hundred
lesser camps. Every n of them
with a record of wild excitement. ire
mendous achievement, sudden for
tunes, blasted hopes, bloodshed, i'm
providence and the best of good fell
lowship.
Nor will the r~eiuvenation of min
ing in Nevada be forgotten, brought
about by Jim Buffers discovery Of
Tonopah in 1890, and followed in
quick succession by the finding Of
Goldfield, Fairview, Bullfrog.
other treasure houses; and, greater
than all except the "big bonanzas,"
the %uncovering of the almost limit
less copper porphyries Of Ely.
There is a glamour about the min
ing camps that tend to dim other ac-
tivities, but the glories of the cattle
kings and of the other mighty men
in all walks of life will not be for
gotten.
In this beautiful building and in
these inspiring surroundings men
will plan for Nevada's future great
ness. The empire of the future lies
in the west, and Nevada, with her
immense agricultural and mining re-
sources. will be the home of mil
lions.
1t is fitting and proper that Neva-
da should be h~Onorably represented
at this exposition, since California
is the mother of Nevada. 1t was
the Ca%lifornians who gave to Nevada
her special glory and distinction in
the early days. and it was money
from the California gold mines that
opened the Nevada silver mines.
When the Comstock lode was dis
covered in 1859. what is now Nevada
was a part of Utah territory, and It's
total population consisted OF a few
hundred. The great rush that then
took place was from the mining
camps of California. They poured
back over the Sierras by the thou
sands, Just as they had flowed west
ward only ten years before.
The civil war contributed some
choice spirits, and the whole world
was represented in that gathering OF
extraordinary men, but Ca~lifornlans
greatly predominated, and the in
~sniration of California gave birth TO
THE Spirit of Nevada
Perhaps never before in the his
tory of the world were fifty thou
sand men gathered together who
we're the equals of those Nevadans
of the COS and 70's-taking them all
in all. The leaders were giants
giants in energy, in accomplishment
and in intellectual strength.
There were great things to be done
and they did them greatly. There
we're deserts to be overcome; noun
tains to move; water to be bought
to impossible places; problems IN
mining; milling and in n ndl
of water that almost defied solutlon'
TRANSFORMATION difficulties to be mas
tered only by supermen. Every
thing was done on a grand scale.
The rewards were ample and the
lest equipped men from the utter
most parts of the earth came 10
claim them.
What a flood of memories pours
forth at the mention of some or the
mining men of those days.
John Mackay, a king among men;
John p. Jones, whose persistence
and skill brought forth the Crown
Point bonanza in 1871 and retrieved
the then-falling ComstocX; James q.
Fair. who had the keenest nose for
ore of n man on the lode; Sam
Jones, Isaas L. Requa, Hank Smith,
Sam Curtis, Col. Ed Boyle, father OF
Nevada's present governor; Charley
Foreman, Frank Osbiston, ROSS
Browne, Isaac E. James, w. II. a