Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-10-04
CONDITIONS At tcolDFIELD.
Hard to get Places to Sleep. Grub
High and Transportation Scarce.


High and Transportation Scarce. |
Goldfeld, Nevada, Sept. 29th 80
Ed. Appeal: promised to write l |
reached this new camp and this let
ter is to make good. You must at |
first realize that for several days l |
have had no excuse for undressing.
that is no excuse IN the form Of bed. !
here will serve as an ex-
cuse for table, chair or bed. is re-
earded as luxury. An ordinary pine /
box is something OF a treasure and
the happy possessor Of one is re-
garded with envy.
Anything to appease the gnawing
hunger within is served on anything in
sight and no questions asked by the
average tenderfoot in Goldfield.
It was very bitter day when
reached here and there was snow
and sleet, and today it is quite bunny
and delightful. Wee it not I would
not feel like writing at ALL
Iarrived in Tonopah Saturday morn
ing along with a lot of other people
heading for the new Eldorado There
was not spare bed in the town that
knew Of and l remained in the sleeper
the morning l hunted a saloon
to ind out how the land lay and after
awhile l was infomed that if I had a
streak of ordinary good luck that
would be able to get ride into Gold
field in about ten days. Well, 1 start
ed out and hunted along the stables
and corrals and it seemed to me that
about everybody was getting ready
to start for Goldfeld. l boned every
one who was Quitting and there were
scores and scores of vehicles getting
ready, and before long l had my pick
OF four chances to reach the new town,
My travelling companions also got
a move on and we secured transpo--
tation for the crowd. You can get
it if you happen to have the price.
We rode all day and arrived after
dark in the rain
There are about 1000 people here
and more coming in every day and I
might say every hour. Our driver
counted 237 horses and mules ON
the road coming in from Tonopah
The postoffice here is a little boy
of a place about ten feet square in
the corner of grocery store
There are about 1000 head of stock
here engaged in transportation ant
hay is $50 a ton. Yet, such is the
demand for everything, that if you
don't order in advance you aannot GO
what you want, for the simple reason
that verything is sold before it get
here.
Think of coming into a blizzart
country where you can get neithe
beds nor tents or anything that ca
take the place of such article, an
every hut shack, hovel, dug-out an
tent is covered with shivering peopl
who are mighty glad to get merel
shelter and meanwhile the town
spreading like wave that rolls fro1
the splash of a falling stone tn;
strikes the center of a pond.
Real estate is. jumping Of .'cours
Three months ago a man bought
lot for $500 and is now offered $3.50
and don't know whether to accept
or not. There are elegant chaGc
to make lots of money i'm money c.
be had to work with. All you have
do is to keep an eye open for chanc
and wade boldly in.
1 copy the bill of fare, so that 20
readers may get an idea OF the CT
of things for the stomach.
Ham and eggs, 40 cents; Mutt
chops the same; also liver and onio
and the same with boiled ham a
cabbage. Plain steak, very plain)
cents
Two eggs, 25 cents and sliced
matoes, 25 cents. Claim chowder
luC Sdluc llSC ouu WV uOuSAA
for 25 cents. Peaches and cream
cents but thee is some doubt attacl
to the cream.
One cut of pie is quarter and wi
the crowd is in a rush the cuts
closer together. Bread 10 cents
and of good size. KEROSENE, 60 &c
a gallon. Eggs so cents a odi
Three pounds of lard SIS cents. Crs
ers Is cents a pound
Miners get 81 day for eight no
Carpenters Sc and 81, Assayers
dollars a day, when accompanying
prospecting party, to test prope
Lawyers are expected to do ain
anything asked for nothing, starve
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