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Sara, not knowing where you are located, I don't know what resources are  
available to you. My recent work is mostly with Sam Clemens  during the 13 
months he was in Nevada Territory before joining the  Enterprise staff. I have 
never run across any Twain-Silverman  connection, but that doesn't mean 
they didn't meet, particularly while he was in  San Francisco. 
 
In Nevada State Archives: 
Letter: Silversmith, Julius, To: Nye, James W., 1864 02 25.   Content:  
Protest against H. C. Bennett re: publication  Type:  Personal  Note:   
TERR-0110  001 [No address in the listing,  so I don't know but suspect it was 
written in San Francisco.
I can visit Archives and copy the note--let me know if you want that. 
 
Bennett was editor of the Virginia [City] Evening  Bulletin. Bennett wrote 
three letters to Nye that have survived: Two  recommendations and one 
rescinding a recommendation for a third man. 
 
Silversmith is not in the first Directory of Nevada Territory,  1862, or in 
Thompson & West's History of Nevada, 1881. He is  not in the published 
history of newspapers in Nevada or of those  in California.
 
I do not know the date he published a book: A Practical Hand-book For  
Miners, Metallurgist's, And Assayers, By Julius Silversmith: Comprising The Most 
 Recent Improvements In The Disintegration, ... Ores Containing Gold, 
Silver,  Copper, Tin,... 
 
Nonetheless, Silversmith was editor of the Mining and Scientific  Press in 
San Francisco from sometime in 1860-61 to October 1862, and  was a 
California Commissioner of Deeds for Nevada Territory. On March 2,  1864, he was a 
commissioner of deeds for NV Terr in New York City. In about 1872  it appears 
he went to Chicago and published a Jewish newspaper.
 
But I am not so sure Nye "supported" him. See the article  by a friend of 
Nye refuting the support letter  
on California Digital Newspapers [ http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc ] Daily  Alta 
California, Volume 16, Number 5228, 26 June 1864 — A WORD FOR GOVERNOR  NYE
 
Bob Stewart
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/26/2013 7:25:56 P.M. Pacific  Daylight Time, 
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Does anyone  know if MT ever ran into, or with, a mining expert and 
newspaper man named  Julius Silversmith?

Silversmith was- at one point, at least - supported  by  Nye.

Thanks!
Sara

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