The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1921-06-10
MINING BOOM
UNDER WAY
(By OLD ROCKS

NDy VLD RUOhS
A real mining boom Is on In Doug
las county. Now let all parties inter-
ested make and maintain the boom
legitimate, and not a repetition of Di-
vide and other glaring will-o'-the-
whisps. that have fattened a few at the
expense of many.
Nobody with intelligence and min
ing experience has ever doubted the
existence of immense deposits OF
valuable mineral within the confines
of the county. Many have logically
concluded and argued that the dis
covery of one or more Comstocks in
Douglas county was within the range
of strong probabilities. That hope
and prediction now seems to be brew
ling for splendid realization.
Strong people are already heavily
interested in the various. districts
Others are headed this way. Local
people are alive to the situation and
are getting busy.
Now, let us get down to real min
ing development. Cut out the ram
pant and ramicaboo, the bull and the
bauble, the mining on paper and in
the imagination, and above all the
kindergarten methods employed by
cheap concerns to further petty lar
ceny schemes, and those who base
mining operations upon race and
religious clanishness
The old world belongs to the past I;
We have arrived on the shores of a
new realm, under altered conditions,
actuated by other ideals and hopes,
and encouraged by new concepts of
life and commercial relationship, and
in nothing do these truths apply more
conyincingly and forcefully than in
that greatest Of all vocations ad sub
structure of civilization-the mining
industry.
The fact that Douglas county occu-
pies premier position in the great
Comstock belt, and almost rubs ell
bows with the worlds greatest mine
itself, should influence onperators and
promoters to guide right and shoot
square, rather than to abuse the ad-
vantage conferred by the merits of the
Comstock.
Otto Taubert is a valuable acquisi-
tion to mining development anywhere.
He made a reputation and amassed
wealth at Cripple Creek, and during
the long years the writer has known
him, there has not been a stain on his
record.
Ed. ]. Roberts is another top-not-
cher. Young, competent, enterprising
and in command of abundant means
to accomplish success in this new field
that offers so much to men of his
mould and attributes.
Half a dozen other noted mining
concerns are headed this way and
every one Of them has spelled success
in big letters wherever they have op-
Grated.
Already there is evidence of pre-
meditated claim jumping. This should
not, and will not, be tolerated here
That kind Of business belongs to the
junk piles of the old days; and who
ever tries to pull it of in Douglas
county will have rough shedding.
Mere technical defects confer neither
moral or legal right to relocate the
claim Of another
Another evil should be discouraged
that of the professional claim stalker
and chair warmer, who locates an en-
pire of territory and sits down to wait
for ready money without putting forth
an effort to develop his claims.
In order to start the boom right and
to keep it right, l would suggest the
organization of miners and prospec-
tors association, and to that end call
on all persons interested in mining in
Douglas county and contiguous terri
tory to meet in the justice court room
in Gardnerville, Sunday, June ~, at
o'clock pm. to effect such organiza-
tion.