The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-03

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airs of age-old wisdom and try to re-
member that a cage and a winze are
different. 4 ..f 1905 fesD
This hero of ours admitted honestly
that the only thing that impressed him
was a huge drop of candle grease that
found a resting place in his eye. In
regard to the rest he was in Darkest
Africa But he could speak intelligent
ly about the drop of hot candle grease.
lProfting by his George Washington ex-
ample / shall not try to tell you about
the greatness of those lodges; and any
way many wise ones have already told,
and many another wise n will tell.
But this much l do know. The men
who know most about the camps OF
Goldfeld and Tonopah are the men
who have taken good bullion out OF
the hills. Most Of them never had
Ia dollar before. Many of them now
count their fortunes in six or seven
figures, when they count it at all. And
right here let it be said, quite incl
denally for we never would expect
other from that type Of man, that they
wear the same size headgear that they
wore when they were using forceful
words to teach the burro tho way ne
should go in the dead-broke yester-
days. One of them / knew years ago.
l was going to say that we went to
school together, but l think it would
be safe ts say that we batted up flies
together on the main street of the
town, and Tom Kendall is the same lad
today that he was in the old Bodie
DAYS, when he would have headed q
subscription list to send to protecting
hospital the man who would have told
him that some day he might write his
check for half a million and the bank
officials would not have him arrested.
He is one Of many. / simply refer to
him because Of him / can speak with
more certain knowledge. These men
have made money in Tonopah and the
surrounding places. And-here is the
important part-they are putting much
of it right back into the camp where
they made what they have. They are
the best judges of the camps. All the
weird stuff that l might write in a
years time would not mean half so
much in the way of demonstrating the
fact that the life of those camp has
only begun as does that simple state
r,ent that the meu who are in the
hest position to know are investing
their money right there. Fine stone
bnIli,ngs. fit to adorn any city a sew
or system, water works-these are the
tokens of their faith.
| have used the word Tonopah most
frequently in the previous paragraphs.
But all that I have said applies equally
well to Goldfeld. Tonopah has a little
the advantage of age or Goldfield is
ahead because of it's youth-put it
either way, and you will not far miss
the truth. Both combined make the
miracle of the desert. Their glory has
only begun. Their future is all before
them. That great mineral belt down
there, beginning no one yet knows just
where and ending where no one dares
to prophesy, will without doubt make
Nevada the greatest producer of pre-
cious metals that the world has ever
seen.
There are a hundred other things
that / should like to touch upon. There
is something about a mining camp, the
people who make it, the glorious gam
BILE of it all, that makes the most
tempting theme of all. Possibly it IS
because of earlier days, for although
II might gaze blankly and wonder
whether it is precious ore or country
rock that l am looking at, / do lay
claim to some knowledge of the life CT
a mining camp, and l do it with some
pride. That is probably why I have
referred to it at least once in this
article. But the hundre~ other things
that might tempt ne shall remain I'M
touched.
There is just one thing that l want
to refer to in closing. / do it with
some reluctance yet with a sincere de-
sire for good. / went from Reno as a
citizen Of Reno to the great camps Of
the south. That mistakes have pos
sibly beer made in the past through
which a spirit of sectional hostility has
resulted is not to be denied. There
are some down there who speak with
bitterness of this place. There is no
good in arguing about it. For the
most part I found that the men Of
lTonopah and Goldield are inclined to
get out a fresh deck. All of us are
prone to think that the mountain be-
gan in a molehill, and that a new deal
will bring about the harmony that the
state 80 much needs. The newspapers
down there, barring one, realize this,
and are doing what they can. The
press of Reno is ready to join hands
with the craft in the southland and
work for the common interests of the
state. 1t is the only thing to do. We
all might be prosperous, but none of
us is big enough to stand aloof and
alone. WI a do much by working
together.
There will end the journey for the
present. To me every minute Of it
was a pleasure. There was only one
regret, and that was that a visit Of
hours could not have beer extended
into a stay of days. There are several
thousand men in Reno who have never
been down there. Our adivce-and
we are aware of the dangers Of giving
~unsought advice-to them is to squeeze
out a few days, and incidentally a few
dollars, and 60 down to those desert
camps, the miracles of the waste
places. They will find the trip worth
while.