The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-04-07
In Los Angeles Times

fallen in his harness and had been
turned out to die.
1t has been suggested that men
freighting in from the south this sum-
mcr are certain to cause their stock the
most awful sufferings, pointing out that
for over. thirty miles south of Beatty
there is no water.
Two wells are being sunk in this
irigbtiul stretch, but as yet 10 water
has been found.
TAKE WATER.
Anyone attempting to 90 in by wagon
this summer should not neglect to pre-
pare a means OF carrying water to last
two or three days. The worst stretch
is about ten miles of thick heavy sand
through which a mile an hour is good
time.
There is a fine water hole at Ash
Meadows. 1t takes the stage a day to
90 from there to Beatty, water being
carried in barrels for noon. 1t takes
ireighters from two to three days to
make this same trip. Water arrange
ments should be planned accordingly.
There are other waterless strips, but
this is the worst.
Unless YOU think your skeleton would
make an effective and tasteful decora-
ton for that portion of the desert, take
water.
The stage. at that time. left Beatty on
alternate days for Goldfeld; by this
time, the projected automobile line is
probably in operation. The fare is $50,
meals, lodging, etc, extra.
We left on a Wednesday in a big four
horse open stage.
| was piled in between a college
youth and an old man who lost a for
tune in Spokane. in 1898, in the bank
panic: in his youth he had fought the
Sioux and Cheyennes in the Black Hills
and came out OF it with fewer interest
ing "reminiscences than the sophomore
got out OF a cane rush and his great feat
in kissing Il girl from Louisville who, it
seems. was very particular as to whom
she kissed.
The road skirts the hills about Rhy-
olite and turns up through the town.
This will probably he the route of the
railroad.
The new consolidated town of Bo-
nauza and Amargosa has been named
B%ullfrog; this would be the natural
terminus, as both Beatty and Rhyolite
are cuddled into the hills. 1t lies just
below Rhvolite where Bonanza stood
before the town was kidnapped as has
been related in another letter.
The Goldfeld road rises abruptly
after the stage leaves the Bullfrog mine.
Nearly all morning long, you ride up
hill and on a road thanked by the rock
piles denoting the corner monuments of
claims Staked out.
Alter we got to the summit, we began
to encounter the boomers.
\ sALooN FOR FREIGHT.
The first were at an old well where
we stopped for noon. 1t vas a queer
looking bunch there. One rig was a
ricketv freighter with tired overloaded
horses bringing in a saloon to the new
town OF Bullfrog.
While the horses were feeding, a pros
pector's team drove up and disgorged a
Missourian and a patent camp stove.
That man was the advance agent of a
trouble factory. In three minutes he
had that oasis on the verge of a free
fight.
He yanked up a stick OF wood and be-
gan sIicing it into shavings with his
big bowie knife.
Going to Goldfield?" he flung back
over his shoulder.
As this was the Goldfield stage, it
was quite obvious that Goldtield was
the place.
Nothing there but hot air he
snorted.
Huh. Lies, hot air. Wildcat COM
panies.
Now. one who has never been in
Goldtieid cannot properly realize the
enorniity OF this.
WOE INT HIM!
one may with reasonable safety sug-
gest to a Young mother that her baby is
Cross-eved OF to a man that his auto
mobile runs wobbly. But woe to the
man who suggests by any faint sugges-
ton that there is a silver between Gold
field and perfection.
Four men in the stage owned Gold
field claims: they 'came back" to the
Missourian almost with a howl of pro-
test.
He waved them aside with an imper-
ious gesture.
"'Bullirog just the same; all hot air
''Oh," yelled the Bullfrog men on the
stage.
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