Nevada's Dead Towns. A New Country Thickly Strewn with Ruins of Mining Towns-How Capital has been Squandered. Roving Tendencies of Miners-Wonderful Energy of Mining Men. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.)

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

086

Original Date

1-15-1879

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

After describing many ""dead towns"" Muir observes that some are ""monuments of fraud and ignorance -sins against science."" He concludes that ""the tunnels in the rocks may, perhaps be regarded as prayers of the prospector, offered for the wealth he so earnestly craves. But like prayers of any kind not in harmony with nature, they are unanswered.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Jan. 15, 1879

Page/Column

p. 1, col. 1

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 341, v. 8, pp.l95-[203]; no. 350, p. 195-[203].

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Nevada's Dead Towns. A New Country Thickly Strewn with Ruins of Mining Towns-How Capital has been Squandered. Roving Tendencies of Miners-Wonderful Energy of Mining Men. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.)" (1879). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 52.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/52