The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-04
HOW TRIP is MADE
FROM SALT LAKE CITY

The traveller bound for GoIdfeId
should take from Ogden the Southern
Pacific train which leaves there for
the west about noontime. He arrives
at Reno, New. in the early morning.
Here he changes cars and, after break
fast, resumes the journey over the line
of the Virginia & Truckee road
as far as Mound House. Here another
change is made 10 the Carson & Colo
RADIO road. owned and controlled by
the Southern Pacific system. At Soda
Vile another change is made TO the
cars of the new Tonopah Railway COM
pany. which was completed but four
months ago. A ride Of four hours,
schedule time on this road brings the
tired seeker for fortune into TOnopah
a any time between midnight and
a. m. depending on the good or bad
luck of the train IN making time The
fare from Salt Lake 10 SOdaVille is S42.
From the latter point to TonOpah the
fare is $50 making a total of $3.50
for the trip 10 Tonopdh from Zion. This.
of course. does not include a Pullman
berth or meals. which must be added
to this amount word of advice in
passing-be sure and have d lunch put
up at Reno, or take a good supply Of
fruit, for these trains often wander
far from their schedules, and meals are
very irregular.
Fully half the people arriving at
TonOpah Will be obliged to sit up the
balance Of the night in the main Of
fee of the Merchants or Palace hotels
at Tonopah- If. however. the tired
gold seeker has a berth on a sleeper,
which he can obtain. if lucky. at Soda
vile, he may sleep there peacefully up
on the Sidetrack until : a. m.
Then he IS confronted with the prob
lem of reaching Goldheld. which is
twenty seven miles south Of TOnOpdh
for at the latter point the railroad has
its terminus. He can use four methods
of transpOrtation-by automobile. fare
s.. trip three hours: by stage fare 81.
trip six hours: by private rig or team,
s. each for two passengers or So for
four passengers. trip five hours: or he
can use the method OF transportation
which our fOrebears of the stone age
used-shanks mare. If he does walk,
ne may make the journey over the des-
ert road. If husky and in good train
ing, in one day but even then he vii!
arrive pretty well done up, for the
roads are sandy. If he does not walk
he may be obliged 90 spend day or
sos Tenopah. for the demand for
transportation usually exceeds the IA
ciltier
Gambling Lively at Tonopah.
At Tonopah will be found "a mining
camp which puts on all the airs. and
many of the accomplishments and com
forts of a city ten times it's age. It
has an electric light plant. water serv-
ice. a local telephone and telegraph
service and an artificial ice plaut. It's
main street is teeming with activity
81 iya LAT 7t
It's saloons-and their number is le-
gion-are open day, night and Sunday
without cessation.
Busy in the Morning.
With the morning light there comes
a difference over the town Of Tonopah,
after surging crowds have spent the
night in dance halls. saloons and gam
bling houses. There goes a mining eX-
pert with his khaki suit. his long
; topped boots. bound for the inspection
of some new ground or development
work. An old prOspectOr at TOnOpah
I defines a mining expert as "a man
with a khaki suit. long boots plenty
! of money back of him. and not 2 -
cent in his pocket" The same charac-
ter's definition of a prospect was "a
/ ten-foOt hole with a liar on the dump.
Up the main street from the railroad
/ litiSiAl dluo tOlAltS a AISlEuNcl = uuA-
/ flt--tWo creaking. wide-tired. heavily
{ laden wagons. drawn in train, loaded
with everything from bottled beer 10
an ice cream freezer, fifteen to twenty
! tons in all. and drawn by a long train
/ of from twelve 10 twenty mules, with
I two horses for wheeleTs. It's progress
/ is SLOW but sure, and the skill with
which the grizZled and bearded mule
| skinner" guides the leaders by the
! long rope which runs from the wagon
! 10 the nigh leaders bit commands the
admiratior of all who have not seen il
too often before This team is followed
: by numberless others similarly
( equipped, picturesque 10 a degree. and
( fcTetelling the long. hard trip to the
country south, where lies that greatest
/ OF all magnets to humanity-gOld
! Going or coming. the feature most
attendant upon the passage OF these
freight teams ia the sitting irritating
pers stsnt and cuss- provoking greai
cloud 81 dust that drives many Of the
men upon the street Ia drown theiI
vexation and wash the dust from then