Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-28
SITUATION IN
 G0lRFlFLDS COUNTRY
HOW TT LOOKS IN A GENERAL WAY TO A 6Is5EE
 MAN.
Following a Trip Overland From This Clty-Wases Paid and Prices charq- ed for Supplies in Gold Country. Enormous Freight Rates. Etc.
Los Vegas. Ney.. Inne

1 LOS vegas. NeN.. June %.
 Having received numerous inqui- ries, and others having asked me to write as soon as I reached the gold fields of Nevada. I think all will be able to get the information through your journal
 Our route from Bisbee. Benson. Dud- ieyville. Byrne's ranch. Florence twhere We had to swim the horses and take the wagon and load across the Gila on small boats): Buchanan's ranch. Mesa. Tempe (where we loaded wagon and horses on the Santa re l.. R. and shipped to Phoenix, then 10 Hot Springs. favapai Co. the county that has the poorest roads in Arizoaa. many being impossible. and .he resi- dents say the highways laYe not been worked by the county for .eveiai yearsl: then to Hot Springs Junction. where the Hassayampa was about a mile vide. Here we los1ei or the cars again and shipped to Ticlsea burg. the highest priced town on our wh1is :oute; tben to C .-erc,s .func. tion. and from there Q Yarneil. An'e- lope Mountain and Kir';lIlt
 At Kirkland and PhJelx we LougFt suplr.-: foc the led-' no, v anv,. he.c Skull Valley. Williamson Valley. Sim mons P. O.. Walnut Creek, across the Baca, Grant. Anvil Rock. Fort Rock. Frost's Goat Ranch. where everybody is treated royalty. to Kingman. CnIo- ride. Timmins Station. the latter place every one should avoid. It is kept by a fellow who charges exorbi tant prices for foul water, and deliber- atelv lies to all passersbv. trying to induce them to go to White Hills, where he has another water station. But we went from Timmins to Fl Do rad o,where we crossed the Colorado River. then to Nelson. mining camp that will no doubt make a good show where. a months rest we went to Beaty. Rhyolite Bull Frog, Goldfield, Kawich and back to Los Vegas.
 Miners get s4.5O per day in the Bull Frog district. a section about 90 by 10 miles in a north and south direc- ton. Carpenters get $500 for eight hours. Nails are 15 cents per pound. Lumber tcommon) SIS per 100 feet; finishing lumber. $40. Meals are 5G and 75 cents: wood. BPS per cord; wa ter. g per barrel; hay SEQ per t5h: R. barley. SC per sack JS0 pounds); beer, 75 cents per bottle. Following are some itemized bills we have paid here:
 1 roll butter e pounds). S5c; 1 sack salt G pounds). 40 cents; ? cans peas. co cents: cans string beans. 60 cents: 50 pounds flour. s4: pounds potatoes. 50 cents; Scotch oats, 2 pack ages. 90 cents; 1 pound corn starch, 20 cents.
 This list of groceries was bought at Bull Frog.
 There are many idle men. and if any one can find work in Bisbee they had better wait until the mines are little better developed becfore coming to the gold fields to work The Bull Frog district is very promising. but at the great distance from the railroad that it is it takes time to develop. The cheapest freight rates possible from Los Vegas to Rhyolite, if being the center of the Bull Frog district. is seo per ton. There is not particle Of feed for stock growing wild in Nevada over any of the roads have been over, and water is scarce. holes being Tn some places thirty miles apart.
 I may add further that Cochise and NIohave counties in Arizona have the best roads I travelled over. and they are the only two counties with sign boards at cross roads. At Tempe Mesa and Phoenix. where there are fine lands and magnificent ranch houses. not one in ten of the ranches have a barn or even shed for stock or farming implements. and not one in twenty have fruit trees, though the majority have umbrella trees in the yards, and many have nice lawns. and as fine stock as I ever saw was in the Salt River valley. The meter on my wagon reads 1174 miles.
 | Respectfully.
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