STOREY NV Archives Obituaries.....[HUNTING, George Coolidge 2/6/1924]
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LAS VEGAS AGE - 3/8/1924

ASHES OF BISHOP HUNTING BROUGHT HOME

On a hilltop cemetery, facing the most historic mining camp in the West, 
was buried on Friday, February 29th, the ashes of Bishop Hunting, the man 
who supremely loved Nevada and typified its virile ruggedness.   It is just 
a little hilltop, this spot of buried treasureres, set admidst towering brethren.  
Eastward is visible for seventy-five miles in varied hues, a might country, 
broken as by the hammer strokes of God.  Immediately westward rises Mt. 
Davidson, huge, and bearing proudly on its mangled sides a city of mining 
hopes - Virginia City.  Between the little hill-top of buried heart treasurers 
and the mountain once rich with a heart of gold lies the last dump heaps and 
shafts of the mines from whence came nearly a billion dollars in gold and 
silver; shafts which reach down for over a mile through the heart of the 
Comstock Lode-magic name of wealth.  Then the eyes are raised from the 
romance of earthly treasure and there, clinging to the cliff like side of the 
mountain, stands clearly revealed a Church - the home of heavenly treasure.

The mortal body of the Bishop is home again where thirty years ago he went 
to bring eternal treasures to a land filled with the lust for gold, Virginia City, 
a place of despair and faith of open sinfulness and open heartedness, of 
weakness and of strength, how he loved the camp and {rest cut off}