The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-21
WE'RE GIVEN WARM TIME.
Correspondents View of Reception to
San Francisco Brokers.

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recent visit of the San Francisco
brokers to Tonopah and Goldfeld. A
considerable number of them came and
were given the time of their lives. Elk
elusive of the expense of the special
train from San Francisco to Tonopah,
il is estimated that the local Tonopah
and Goldfeld brokers, mine owners and
business men spent $4,000 entertain
ing the visitors. The standard Pull
mani were run through on the new
broad-gauge track from Reno all the
way to Hawthorne, the county seat of
Esmeralda county, and the dinky little
private car of Alonzo Trip took the
whole crowd from Hawthorne to Tono-
pah. The trouble began upon the ar
rival at Tonopah, the point of original
discovery, and for one solid week bus
mess was practically suspended in the
whole district and all entered with en-
thusiasm into a prolonged revel ending
in the tagging of the San Franciscans
and their shipment home more dead
than alive. They were met at the
depot in Tonopah-and this at about
midnight-by a superb 24-mule outfit
and driven to the Mizpah club, escorted
by a troop of boys mounted on the
hardy burros of the desert. The streets
and surrounding hills we're lighted by
devil red flares, and everything that
gould make a noise, from mill whistles
10 cooling doves, made a noise. Sunday
and Fourth of July were spent in Tono
pah and the town did itself proud as
an entertainer. Then the visitors and
many of the Tonopah citizens were
whisked by autos to Goldfeld and 81
season of excitement and revelry en-
tered upon, unique in the history of the
ccrntry.
GoIdfield is the business capital of
the southern Nevada mining district.
Here most of the mine owners, I,-,-
moters and brokers have their i.at
quarters, and here is where they laid
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western coast. Committees had been
preparing for the event for weeks in
advance, and the whole desert was
watered and trimmed up for the occa-
sion. The city water company squeezed
out a double supply of water and the
dust and heat were vanquished. All
thu hnn1ro1C Of arfnnoohi1oo on1 liver
les in the town were placed at the dis
posal of the committees and their
guests; brokers' Offices were scrubbed
up and decorated and made into recep-
ton booths; the saloons hired extra mu
~sicians and opened extra crap games
Miners and prospectors came in from
the hills, and many p man was forced
to sleep on the sidewalk the first night.
The prices, except for visitors, doomed
skyward.
Then came the night of the banquet.
1t was such a banquet as would have
done credit to the st. Francis, the
Brown Palace or the Waldorf-Astoria
only this was held at the Palm restaur-
ant, Goldfeld, Nevada. Three hun
dred men sat down to three long tables
decorated with flowers from California.
Most of the edibles were also espec-
tally secured from the coastal ex-
cept the turkey, which was a corn-fed
Nebraska product. Nothing better
could have been obtained in the whole
country. The wine-well 800 bottles
were carted to the sage-hrush dump
the mex morning; these had once con
tanned Mumm's Extra Dry.
Such % banquet If it astonished and
amused the San Franciscans, the pros
porous Goldfeldites and T~onopahans
went simply hilariously mad with hap
piness. Their great, good spirits are
accounted for in this way: All of them
are prosperous, money is coming sea
sy,' and it goes, in many cases., as
easily as it comes. Then these men
are growing rich together and many
strong friendships have resulted, and
all like the desert state of Nevada be-
cause it has been and is being good to
them. The Goldfieldites were amused
at themselves and entertained their
visitors by pointing out the reason. 1t
was Goldfield's first attempt at some
thing formal and polite. 1t marked a
graduation from pioneer days. Min
ing Engineer Moore had the temerity
to appear in a full-dress suit; January
Jones, the d%iscoverer of Sassy Sal, left
of his high-topped boots; W. F. Bond.
the get-rich-quick broker, wore a
"boiledo shirt; Jim O'Brien, editor OF
the Goldfeld News, which paper start
ed a year and a half ago on $500 Dor
rowed money, and which could not be