Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-09-03

vet found it's master. No writ
ILL., er, no poet, no symphonist has
Sa1 risen TO the epic level OF the mar.
ratiye How futile then must be the
efrort 10 say In twelve short minutes
what may be the spirit Of 1t all.
is easy to trace upon the map
mo overland Trail, the Oregon Trail,
the santa Fe Trail But how fiji out
no picture and delineate what these
roads have signihed in the story of
this side the Mississippi? No less
Mace do these roads deserve in the
annals OF men than Is accorded TO
other historic roads that have played
mart in the affairs Of mankind
the Appian Way out OF Rome, the
Moslem Road to Mecca, and the old
highway from east TO west through
Delphi.
We are met tonight at the western
terminus of the Overland Trail, the
artery that fused life-blood into half
continent and brought to bloom the
seed Of almost score of states.
Along that road the Spirit Of the West
made her first habitat Slumbering
there In the lap of long centuries, the
Intermittent echoes of the Spanish
Mission bells did not awake her The
pathfinder passed unheeded The
trapper and trader aroused no re
spouse But that magic day when
Marshall saw the yellow nuggets in
the tail race at Suffers mill. she
leaped TO her feet. stretched inviting
hands to the east, and thrilled the
world with her farhung cry, The
rustic Of tramping human host an
sWered her summons the advance
guard OF nation moving westward
Across that long, gray trail They
came. a picturesque pageant, shot tt
the core with romance, tragedy ant
high portent
All the infinite variety Of human
kind marched across that broad stage
the good, the bad, the white, The
black the yellow, hearts OF HEAVIER
and hearts of hell, all mixed up ant
stirred together in saturnalia OF so
cial unrest, without restraint, withou
law. all cut loose from home and ira
dition, reyeling in a carnival OF un
paraleled adventure, with license AM
elbow room to let loose whatever goo
or devils possessed them. some Dle'
and festered and broke at the altar
OF passion. greed and profligacy Bu
most OF them lifted up their eye
unto the hills whence forever strengu
has come to men, and the Antaea
fable OF the ages was fulfilled i
them. They played LIES game a
ways with fortitude and oitentime
with diaberie. men who greeted Wit
an equal smile the joys OF life an
the jaws OF death, men of whom
has been said that the coward
never started and the weaklings die
on the way
Among them were men whose cha
acter was high as the snow-plume
peaks. Here came Joseph LeConl
TO read the manuscript OF the rocks
John Muir to interpret Natures s.
crets, stephen j Field To rise froi
the camp to the supreme court OF III
United States; Mark Twain, Br'
Harte, Starr King, Henry George, l.
land Stanford and countless Others
men whom Nature fashioned aft'
her own forms in an amplitude XII
dred to their environment. Have yt
stood in the shadow of the lone
giant Shasta and yielded to its spell
Have you felt the Gothic majesty
the Sierra summits2 Have you wal
ed In silence through the long cath
draled aisles of the Sequoia fore
and sensed the monastic peace
those giant trees that were old WIZ
the eedars of Lebanon sheltered q
herds of Judea? SO may you lea
how these men worshipped the God
the open air and how He nodded al
colored their spirits with His wish
handicraft Such men were the re
trail-blazers.
Into that trail the roads and hig
ways of the world conyerged. P'
pies, races, tribes, customs, mamie
tongues, focused and fused into
common bond of nation, state a
neighborhood distllate of the Ell
less variety and talents of hums
kind. all symbolized by a squal
iawed, bronzed man with an axe a
a rifle, impelled by the tireless EN-
gy of Ulysses, moving westward a
ever westward, until he had push
the frontier back against the Arc
circle.
His coming was dynamic thrl
of destiny, He linked the coun
sea to sea, settled the fate of hal
continent, and laid molding ha
upon the ultimate status OF the gre
est of all the oceans.
Twice did the country hear the
OF the west First the cry of "gol
Later, the cry Of silver when
Comstock began to pour forth
treasure OF six hundred millions.
Then. after lapse. was heard
duplication Of the desert. when
said: