Changes In A Mining Country

Talk about deserted mining towns, r rather oí deserted oil towns baek in Pennsylvania. Why, some of the old time cities of Nevada are today almost forgotten. In Austin portions of the maiii street, which in years past were the scènes of large business transactions and mining excitements, have in the past three years absolutely grown up with sage brush. When the moon riges an observer would be led to believe that here and there large stores with stone fronts, once occupied by prosperous merchante, were brilliantly lighted, only to find on passing that the roofs of the buildings have fallen, and the raye of the moon gleam through the still int%ct doors across the shadowed sidewalks with sepulehral effect. 3a,n Francisco Letter.