The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-17
EUKEKAN's OPINION OF TosoPAH

Attorney Peter Breen. who returned from
. trip to Tonopsh several days ego. gave MS
the following items Of interest concerning
the trip:
With the exception Of some probate mat
ters the term Of Court was chiefly taken up
with the Grand Jury investigation Of three
or four charges Of felony, resulting in the
indictment Of A. ]. Longstreet for an as
sault with intent 10 kill one Joseph Nay.
and . similar indictment against one Ed
Wheece committed upon one Bertrand.
The trial Of both cases was set for the 10th
and 10th Of June next, respectively.
Belmont is we'll nigh deserted, two-thirds
Of its former inhabitants being now in Tono-
psh. the new Mecca Of the miner and pros
pector.
What do l think Of Tonopah? Why.
what everybody must think Of it who has
been there-that it 10 the most wonderful
mining camp in the world to-day. taking
into consideration its period of existence.
II Jim Butler eighteen months ago had
gotten hold Of Alsddin's lamp and swung it
mystically over the famous canyon between
Oddie, Anderson. Brougher, and Butler
mountains q greater change, . more won.
derful Transformation could not have been
evolved than that produced by pick and
shovel, hammer and drill and the many
other commonplace instruments Of our prsc-
tioal every day life.
When one for the first time reaches the
top of the last hill and looks down upon the
great town he feels like rubbing bis eyes to
assure himself he 10 not in . dream. Houses,
brand new, in oil directions, and tents scat
tered about for want of houses; hosting
works and massive mining machinery
humping away day and night without .
moments cessation; hundreds and hundreds
Of busy men rushing here and there where
business calls them; hundreds more on the
sidewalks seemingly engaged in watching
and enjoying the panorama Of life passing
swiftly before them. All this in what was
q few months ago . common. ordinary, every
day Nevada canyon. possessing apparently
nothing worth having, unless its stunted
sage could be counted Of some value.
Butler is what is known as 9 "wide open
town, and strange as it may seem, life and
property are as safe therein IS in . staid old
New England village Of one hundred years.
Never have the rough element. which usu-
ally can be found in new mining camps,
been kept so Thoroughly under control.
From 10 o'clock at night until 7 in the
morning you can rest in your bed without
an unusual noise to disturb your ~slumbers,
unless perhaps it be the dull boom, boom,
Of q blast in some mine far underground.
What do l think of the camp as . per.
manent proposition l am NOT Q mining
expert, but from what l could see, as we'll
as hear from miners we'll qualified to Judge.
| have no hesitation in saying that Tonopsh
promises to be as permanent and ss great
an ore producer as any camp in the United
States.
There are five or six well defined lodges
in the camp proper, and so far those lodges
have given up in . few months from Eve to
seven millions Of d~ollars-enough Of ore to
make it famous for all time. Best of ell,
SO far as has been gone in depth. the ore is
still found in IS good . formation and Of ss
high . grade o. that found near the surface.
To be sure there are knockers" in Ton
opsh, pessimistio fellows who would speak
disparagingly Of . camp if il were producing
twenty dollar gold pieces coined in the
bowels Of the earth by the hand Of nature,
but unfortunstes Of that kind can always be
found. for some reason or other, and 90
must simply be pitisd and ignored.
There must now be in the n~eighborhood
Of 1000 people in the camp and 10 would
not surprise me IL in . year from now that
number were doubled.
Our Eureka people over there seem TO be
prospecting.
New strikes are being reported from time
to time from places within . radius Of 20
miles Of Tonopah, but 30 far there 10 but one
Tonopah.