The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-29
NEVADAS IKEAoUKE ERyRKfsi PIG S
Where Fortunes Are Made In a Day and Are Still Await
ing the Energetic
(Ores and Metals.


sands in value, while new lodges con.
tanning mineral riches are being dis
covered almost daily.
A popularity of these camps, and
one that is frequently remarked, is the
large number of men with moderate
means, and ever poor men, with little
or no capital, who have made compe-
%tencies or even fortunes in the space Of
a few months or years at most. Here,
as elsewhere, it is the old story m
which after-facts have gone far toward
discrediting the so-called mining ex-
pert, and enriching the tenderfoot
filed with the simple faith that will
back his belief with money, because
each great mining camp adds a new
chapter to the science of mining and
the book-proud expert will not under
stand the new formations until fully
explained in a freshly written tex.
And so it comes about that information
is sought, not in the technical write
ups, but in plain statements of how the
camps are to be reached, where the
visitor shall sleep and what he shall
eat once he is there, and above all,
what they offer for him in the way #
gain.
In the beginning of all mining camps
transportation is the first problem to be
solved, as it is the greatest problem
everywhere in modern life, whether
freight or passenger traffic, whether
expense or time saved enters into the
consideration. On September 18th Of
the present year this was solved when
the first train came from Tonopah into
Goldield, twenty-eight miles further
south, thus at one stroke connecting the
latter by rail and regular schedule
with the outside world and making it
the shipping center as well as fiscal
head for practically all Of Southern
Nevada, and the Death valley region Of
California. For the traveller this means
that he may take a standard gauge
sleeper at the Oakland pier and with
out leaving it, reach Goldfeld, and by
the one change at Hazen, make con-
n~ection for all points east, instead of
undergoing the former numerous and
exasperating changes from standard to
narrow gauge and vice versa some
three times between Reno and Tonopah.
For the shipper of outside supplies IL
means economy of time and money, anu
of what is of greater Importance, the
certainty Of satisfying his customers,
while the thousands of tons of low
grade ore that was formerly thrown on
the dump can now be shipped and
smelted at greatly enhanced profits. 4
regular line of refrigerator cars will
henceforth supply the best food on the
market at a reasonable figure, as COM
pared with the old freighting DAYS
when transportation was well nigh
prohibitive. Thus at one bound the
number of employed was greatly in
creased and the living expenses core
spondingly lessened, to an extent that
food, shelter, wearing apparel and the
numerous mining supplies may be had
at a price almost as low as obtained
elsewhere. By thus eliminating the
thirty miles haul between Tonopah and
Goldfeld, the surrounding camps, ever
as far south as the Rhyolite-B ullfrog
! country, share largely in its benefits.
In order to further accommodate the
local travel between Tonopah and Gold
field, it has become necessary for the
company to provide for running a hne
of excellent motor cars between these
two points, so that one may go from the
one place to the other in an hour at any
time of the day. The ever growing
traffic has already ov~ercrowded the
$4,000 feet of floor space in their COM
modious depot.