Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-10-28
AMONG GOLDEN SANDS.
The Delights and the Promises of
 GOldfield.
Cur Mining Camps Where Pay Day Does Not Bring Drunken
 BraWls.
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GoIDFIELD, 4. T ,O3b. 20. l GoId6sld! Here Is no need of the l Golden Touch for all things now are tinged with gold from the cPown of the Superstition to the ouFls on baby s | head.
 There sre DO fields here bus fields of gold. The flowers are all golden, the yellow cactus blossom and the butter cup being most common, the mountains have golden hue, and the brooks flow golden sand. when is rains, and goldsn sunbsams afford the b8lmisst climate. The people hare did not come for the sake of all this gold that meets the eye
 at every glance bus for that which lies
 as deep iu the earth as desire for gold is deep in the 5osoms of those who seek it; but the world is much mistaken if Is thinks that this desire for gold rem ders the miners psnuFious, ungen erous OF inhospitsble, for he seeks not to ob- tain wealth by robbing his fellow-msn, but from that souros from whence If his hopes are fulfilled, he not only enFiches himself bus adds to the wealth of the world.
 Each may rejoice over his neigh boF's success for no one loses, but each gsine, if not materially, much in hope and anticipation.
 The climate here is lovely. It is not high enough to be cold, but just high aDo1-b ko Aa r,alI d-a,1a6 and 6rv The atmosphere is of the purest being free from smoke, dust and mIasms of all kinds. The only disease to which the people here are liable IS ehe gold fever, recovery from which requires 8 longer or shorter time, according to the seve- fatal but often becomes chronic, and few cases have been known to develop into money-menia.
 Truly 1 wonder why more people who seek health in the Salt River valley don's go to the foot hills.
 For the benefit of those who will want to come, for come they will to this land of gold, will say there is no better road than from Mesa City here, and the stage comes out three times 8 week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It | you mean to stay all winter you will | need tent, provisions and some silver. | All who come are sure to go away rich | h experience and vital energy.
 School is in session now ss in other | parts of the country, and the children NL ok; where slse; it is only after they have reached the sge when oupidity is de- 7elopsd that their true relation to the family can be developed. And ihe tescher Is not at all as the mining ,enp schoo! m.-'am is won't to Ee des- ,ribsd. She is nothing of an adven- uFess, does nos wear a bowie-knife, ix-shooaer or other visible arms and udging from appearance I believe she rusts more to the good will of the miners for safety than to any stilletto ioncssled in her bosom. She occupies, rec of charge, cottage built by the Of the miners for the benefit f the teachers who may come here.
 No where else on earth does the tresm of time flow so smoothly. There 5 not ripple on it's bosom. At six ech ID orn and eve the whistle blows nd men pass, some to work and some 0 rest, Sundays not excepted. Even ay dsy was not celebrated with any runksn brawle, and the peaceful quiet f the evening is only broken by the uff of the engine, the cries of children | play and the voices of the mothers naiDR their lulisbys. MF Vaughan Guthrie went to Mesa sb week and returned Monday bring lg his family with him, who were esrtily welcomed at Gold6eld. The people are putting up sheiF hest~ g stoves and buying their winters lpply of wood. Charlie Hall, she Superintendent of le mine, is contemplating a visit to oosnix in the near future. {
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