The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-10
DESERTS YIELD THEIR WEALTH
Marvels of Accomplishment Wrought
in the Nevada Golconda


in the Nevada Golconda
Slowly the secret places of the West
are being laid bare; the dry hills
threaded by railroads and rails;
cabined villages perched on the canon
sides show that no terror of nature IS
too ominous to drive away the wealth
seeker, the shaft Of the miner and the
smoke of his camp penetrate, year by
year. into the farthest confines of
places that before had been impene-
trable. Bullfrog, Tonopah, Goldield
and all the gaunt stretch of desert fer
reted out and prospeeted oy the miners
of this decade prove that the western
man is no less resourceful and persist
emit than the hardy adventurer who
prospected on the Stanislaus aGd the
Comstoek.
The latest of the great diggings are
probably "A shade worse in the diff
~ieulties to be overcome than any that
a race of Argonauts have ever con-
qre-ed, but steadily the horrors of the
burning, blistering, waterless deserts
of Nevada and California are being
overcome. Both of these states will
erect signboards and dig wells along
the most f%requented trails of he
desert. This is a humane innovation
and will aid the mining industry and
partially overcome the haunting
shadow of death that turks ever in
the waste places of the desert country.
Men, frenzied by the awful desolation,
have wandered from thin trails and un
der the evil genius that haunts the re-
gion, suffered the untold agonies of
death from thirst.
In the midst of piled up bones #
luckless prospectors is the dazzle of
gold that lures others into this re-
gion of desolation, thirst and insanity.
The horror of the region is being over
come. The work of mercy and develop
ment is going on.
In this age of ferocity in commercial
ism, men and money overcome all diff
ficulties. Where a short time ago there
were millions of acres of goddess,
waterless, insanity producing desert,
there are now a number of towns of
several thousand population. Wells
have been sunk in the desert; trails
have been made into good roads; tele-
phone lines have been built, and rail
ways constructed and new lines sur
veyed. There are now two water lines,
one six miles in length and another
fourteen miles, that bring good water
to the district; also two ice plants, and
life is now tolerable in this part of
the desert, where a year ago the whole
district did not appear to be worth a
sand lizard S hide.
This great change has taken place
within a few months. Think of the
courage it required, the brain and
Drawn, energy and cash expended IN
building towns in the desert, 100 to
200 miles from railroad. transportation.
Before stations were established in the
desert along lines of travel, freighters
hauled with them tons of water and
food for stock ON a round trip journey
of 200 to 800 miles. A freight bill of
a single load might cost as much AS
$1,000, for no freight was shipped for
less than 5 cents a pound. Think of
the vast tonnage of building material,
mine machinery and supplies, food and
clothing, hauled into Bullfrog in the
first few months, which has been con-
~servatively estimated at a total cost
of $3,000,0 900 up to July l, 1905. Think
of the great mines that have been
opened up in a few months the great
est mines the world has ever known!
Think of the courage and cash it re-
quired.
Who were the men that wrought this
change! They were men who had the
courage of their convictions and
bravely maintained them against all
odds. They were men who were-who
are-optimists. All the pessimists IF
all the world, through all time and
eternity, could not build up such a
camp as Bullfrog. The pessimist is 4
prophet of panic and disaster; he pre-
varicates and procrastinates; he is the
friend of failure and inaction; he mag
nifies mistakes and exaggerates diff
ficulties; he ignores the results gained
by strenuous effort and exults in the
loss of honest endeavor; the victim IF
doubts and fears, he is never a leader,
but sometimes is an unworthy follower.
The latest type of the mar who seeks
out the wealth of the rocks may be u
bit more commercialized, but he is
every whit as daring, patient, and even
more intelligently energetic than the
man of fortv-nine in his application Of
business principles to his getting of
riches. -Stanislaus News.