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- Rod Blake: Hello. I'm Rod Blake, chief investigator for the Nevada state troopers. Doesn't look like much, does it? It's a chunk of rock - but it wrote a lot of Nevada history. It came from this mine, the Comstock Lode, outside Virginia City. This doesn't like much, either, now, but through that portal came 340 million dollars, 38 million of it in a single year - 1877. The Comstock silver vein was four miles long and 3000 feet wide, but after it had been worked out, Virginia City just sort of died. But few of it's legends have died as you'll see in a story we call, "Meeting at Julias".
- Rod Blake: The Silver Inch Mine is typical of the new mining industry in Nevada. New methods are making it profitable to mine medium grade ore and miners are drawing down 17 dollars a day. It makes a big payroll in a mine like the Silver Inch. Miners like their pay in cash - always have and always will, I suppose.
- Rod Blake: Miller said that Julia's place was in Virginia City. Maybe they're waiting for him there.
- Sheriff Andy Anderson: What did the operator have?
- Rod Blake: Oh, didn't I tell you?
- Sheriff Andy Anderson: No.
- Rod Blake: Woman named Julia - the only one in Virginia City.
- Sheriff Andy Anderson: Well, take some men with ya!
- Rod Blake: Naw. If they see the law moving in, there won't be any meeting at Julia's.
- Rod Blake: What did you mean, "Miss Julia"?
- Bennett Collins: This is Julia Bulette's grave. Didn't you know that?
- Rod Blake: Well, I don't have a speaking acquaintance.