. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . ey found some rich sulphurets of silve
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . ey found some rich sulphurets of silver interspersed with free gold. Imme-diately Henry Phinney (or Fennimore) and Henry Comstock filed a claim toa mine. The former sold out his claim to the latter for a pinch of gold-dust,not realizing the immense value of the discovery; and Comstock himself soonparted with the property, although his name still clung to the whole lode. 688 JND US TRIA L HIS TOR V Prospectors keep as close watch of one anothers luck as so many coastfishermen. Before practical operations began, the great possibilities of thisregion began to be suspected, and a vast number of claims were filed all alongthese eastern foot-hills of the Sierra; and, as soon as mining was actuallyundertaken, it was realized that the richest accumulation of this preciousmetal ever known was beneath the feet of the Washoe operators. Tidings ofthe marvellous wealth hid away there spread like lightning, not over Californiaalone (Nevada was not then a State, and had scarcely any population), and. not over the United States alone, but over the whole civilized world. One ofthose periods of frantic excitement and wild sensation ensued such as MarkTwain has made us all familiar with in his Roughing It. A most extraordi-nary emigration ensued. Several large new towns sprang up, notably VirginiaCity, Carson City, and Silver City; Nevada took a place among the States ofthe Union ; and the Central Pacific Railroad was extended throug
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