The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-04-10
Esprit OF NEVADA" Theme OF
1915 FAIR OBLIGATORY ADDRESS

He towers above his fellow men like
the Colossus of Rhodes and has
about as much brass in his compost
tom" Hillyer and Whitman, Mesick
and Seeley, Williams and Bixler.
CARRIER and Thornton, Charley De
Long, A. C. Ellis, w. III. Dickson,
General K%ittrell, W. s. BILLY"
Wood, Tom Fitch, "Silvertongue,"
w. E. F. Deal. Robt. NJ. Clark, Judge
w. A. Massey. Henry Mayenbaum.
From 1860 to 1865 the Comstock
mines produced 5O,OO0,O 900 and one
fifth of this amount was expended in
litigation. General Tom Williams
sold a piece of mining ground in
1876 for $4,000, 900, which he
had taken a few years before in
default of the payment of a $500
fee.
Is it any wonder that there the
eagles gathered together?"
Recall Nevada's old time govern
ors: Governor Nye, Governor Brad
ley, (Old Broadhorns), Governor
Biasdell, Governor Kinkead. Govern
or Jewett w. Adams, the well be-
loved.
Review with me the names of
some of the notable editors and
newspaper men: Rollin M. Daggett,
Joe Goodman, Judge c. c. Goodwin,
Dan de guile, Harry Mighels, Mark
Twain, Arthur McEwan, Sam Davis.
There were giants in the United
States senate in those days. and Me-
vada matched them with VIM. M.
Stewart and John P. Jones.
1 do not pretend to call more than
part of Nevada's roll of honor. To
name all of the men who played
great parts in that mighty drama
would transcend my allotted time
and exhaust your patience
After the bonanza days many of
these men removed to California and
elsewhere, and almost Immediately
became distinguished in the new
fields. They were born leaders and
would have been recognized as such
in any age and in any nation.
In the COS the mineral production
of Nevada averaged about $4,000
900 per year. In the 70's about $25-
600 1000, running in the year 1877 to
over $36,0OO,0 600. OF the total pro-
dnction of those twenty years, the
Comstock mines contributed by far
the larger share; but Eureka with
$50 900. 900, Austin with 100000
600, the White Pine country with
$4,000, 900, Phoebe with $35 ,00O,-
900. Tuscarora with 100000, 900
more and other scattering camps
helped to swell the flood of silver and
gold. The Consolidated Virginia bo-
nanza produced from 1874 to 1879
one million tons of ore averaging
800 per ton and the Consolidated
Virginia and California mines paid
IN dividends in those years $73,-
10000. From 1875 to 1878 those
two mines paid $2,160,00O each
month in dividends; or SO per share
per month.
Out of those times and those men
came that precious thing called 1.-The
Spirit of Nevada" None but a
. Burns could portray it in all its
breadth and strength and freedom
ard striking individualism; it's char
ity, it's nobility of soul, it's democra-
cy. Men met on an even plane, the
Epoor and the rich, the weak and the
strong. Each respected the other
and all were joined in a bond OF
achievement, humanity and good
fellowship.
They strove nightly and they had
great faults, but there was no mean
ness. no narrowness, no smallness OF
soul.
A noble past is a tremendous in
centive to a great future.
We Nevadans have a great inner
,tance and it behooves us to be
worthy of it.
Let us dedicate this building to
THE Spirit of Nevada which we
truct will never die