The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

OuI tell Ht a dfC VI
of the times as they used to be,
sPuer of Fire and 'Shakespeare's
Plays
Is a most too deep fer me-
"Tell me a tale of the timber lands,
And the old-time pioneers
somepin' a poor nan understands
With his feelin' IS, as well as ears; :
"Tell of things just as they wuz-
They don't need no excused
Don L fetch 'em up like the poets does,
Till they re all too fine fer use!'
When the Goldfeld pioneers drove
their stakes and pitched their tents
amid the Joshuas and the sage brush
on what is now the site of the most
prosperous municipality within the
borders of the State of Nevada, theirs
were the only habitations that broke
the ~monotony of the primitive wastes
which stretch away in every direction
to where the sun-browned and weather
beaten hills rear their crests against the
sky line. Veritable treasure chests, filed
to their tops with gold, these same
rock-ribbed hills, and to despoil them
of their wealth was the incentive
which drove these hardy argonauts
forth into the barkened desert and re-
suited in the erecting here of another
monument to the prospector, that griz-
zled veteran to whose tenacity of pur-
pose and t~ireless energy are due the
reclamation of the all but inaccessible
places of the earth. Around this nu-
cleus there sprang into existence al
most in a single rotation of this CHEEKY
old earth ball, a tented city filed to
OVERLOOKING with those whose ears are
never deaf to fortunes insistent call
and whose feet are never too weary
to follow where she leads. Although
less than two years nave passed since
first the trails were blazed, Goldfield
is emerging from its chrysalis of duck
and pine board shacks and with in
crease of population and commercial
prosperity is assuming an architecture
al garb commensurate with its rapidly
enhancing Importance as a common
wealth. The stage coach and six, once
deemed sufficient for the needs of the
travelling public, has been superseded
by the railway, and the burro, that
hitherto i~nseparable companion of the
prospector on his solitary journeys in
search for gold, is giving place to the
automobile as a factor in penetrating
into the Businesses of the surrounding
hills. The desert has peel aroused
from its lethargy by the ceaseless
tramp of the fortune hunter and the
silence of the centuries has been brok-
en- in upon by the whir of the wheels
of industry.
Last week the inhabitants of the
camp rested for the moment from their
ldDOIS dhu uultCo III CCAOOl0 - tht
arrival of the railroad and the epoch
of increased business prosperity which
it inaugurates. They were joined in
the festivities by throngs of excur-
s~ionists from outside points and to
these latter the number and value of
its mines and the unmistakable signs
of general commercial advancement
were an object lesson. They came to
Goldfield, many of them, expecting to
see the customary features of a min
ing camp in the raw, and instead
viewed commodious business blocks of
stone or wood and cosy homes artistic
ally furnished, and cheered by the
laughter of children. Anticipating,
probably, mingling with a conglomer-
ate population made up largely of
ne 'er do wells, adventures and gun
men, they found instead a self-respect-
ing, law abiding people who received
them with courteous greeting and
with spontaneous, open-handed western
hospitality. A score of restaurants
supplied with all the d~elicacies of the
season catered to their appetites, and
comfortable lodgings afforded them re-
taxation at the close of the days fes-
Invites. They were motored in autos
to the various mines and other places
of interest with the same celebrity as
would have accompanied a journey in
a like vehicle through Golden Gate