The Dolores star., 1905-10-13
From the Nevada Gold .se,ds.

W. .Mlfer. agent.
From the Nevada Gold Fields.
The following paragraphs are
form a letter received by ]. M.
Rush from brother who is in the
new gold diggins of Nevada:
Goldyke, Nye Co., New,
Sept. 23, 1905.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Rush, Jr.,
Dolores, Colo.
Dear Brother;-I will try to write
you few pages Of news in regards
to how we are getting along and
this camp also. Goldyke is situ-
ated so miles northwest of Tono-
pah and As miles northeast of So
daville. This is new camp just
started up, 1t is in Fairplay min
ing district, in the Paradice range.
The elevation is $500 feet. After
we got to Tonopah on June 9th we
went out to Lone Mountain and it
did not look good to us there. SO
we went back to Tonopah and on
the nth we lit out for Moore's
Greek, which is in the same range
that Tonopah is in only Is miles
north, to what was told US to be a
new strike, but when we got there
we found that it was all staked for
miles around the rich strike. and
you bet it was rich too; only about
three inches thick but worth from
$4,000 to 5000 900 ton in gold
and from $4,000 to $23, 900 in silver
and platinum, mostly platinum,
not over $1,000 in silver. The
lead is over four feet thick but the
pay streak is not oyer four INCHES
wide in the widest place and down
to three-foutths of an INCH. The
four claims on the lead sold June
oath for $3.50, 900, So we gould not
do anything there,
We arrived in this district July
IS. We came to what is called
Old Atwood now. On August 10
the Goldyke Town Site company
surveyed out town site about one
and half miles southwest of the
Atwood site. They came to US
and said if we WOULD move down
there they would give us lot each
and all other lots we might want
would only cost us SIS each. So
we went down and selected our lots
and two extra ones for feed corral.
We have four lots in one block and
Wills lot is just across the street
from Pas and mine.
We moved down here the 6th of
this month and have sold two and
a half tons of barley Chat is so
sacks) which cost us $2.2s a sack,
and the first ton we sold at $3.25
and the last one and half tons at
81 sack, it cost US sass, and we
have sold five tons Of hay at from
2Ac to Nc per pound which cost
us IAc delivered. We. charge So
a team for hay and s. for hay and
grain over night. We get cur hay
from Reece river which is east of
here about AS miles. Will got
back this evening with ton of
hay that cost us, over there, SI7
baled SO you see we get pretty good
prices for freighting from there to
this place.
have been working at the car
penter business ever since moved
down here and have made from S.
to IS day. / get 75c an hour and
have only lost one-half day Since
the 10th of the month, atid to tell
the truthsI cannot see my head
above water for the next sixty days
as / have the contract to put up a
building 3ox6o with the first cell
ing IA feet and the upper ceiling
70 feet which makes the building
3o-foot wallit will take 5000 feet
of lumber to build it, and lumber
that you can buy in Dolores for SIS
thousand costs SOS here. Finish
ed lumber costs from 500 to $ff5
per thousand delivered. Redwood
shingles cost IS per thousand. So
you sce it costs something to build
in this country. Carpenters wages
are 600 per day of 8 hours. and all
miners get 400 per day, in fact
every one that works gets not less
than IS 90 and board or 4.co per
day Of 8 hours. Eyerything is on
the s-hour system. Provisions are
not 50 awful high here either: Flour
is 100 per hundred pounds, Rex
hams acc per pound, Rex bacon