The Comstock Lode of Nevada was the richest silver strike, the "Granddaddy" of them all. In the Washoe Mountains, east of the Sierra Nevada, three Irish prospectors named Peter O'Riley, James Finney, and Patrick McLaughlin hit pay dirt one day at a spring in Six-Mile Canyon. About that time, Henry P. T. Comstock, the laziest bum in the area happened by and insisted he'd been there first. Rather than argue, the three Irishmen decided it could be divided up four ways as well as three so they cut h
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