enclosure:

INTRODUCTORY.

One easily gets a surface-knowledge of any remote country, through the writings of travellers. The inner life of such a country is not very often presented to the reader. The outside of a strange house is interesting, but the people, the life, &Ⓐemendation the furniture inside, are far more so.

Nevada is peculiarly a surface-known country, for no one has written of that land who had lived long there &Ⓐemendation made himself competent to furnish an inside view to the public. I think the present volume supplies this defect in an eminently satisfactory way. The writer of it has spent sixteen years in the heart of the silver-mining region, as one of the editors of the principal daily newspaper of Nevada; he is thoroughly acquainted with his subject, &Ⓐemendation wields a practiced pen.2explanatory note He is a gentleman of character &Ⓐemendation reliability. Certain of us who have known him personally during half a generation are well able to testify in this regard.