The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-30
IMPRESSIONS OF GOLDFIELD
BY J. w. DEANE, of Colorado.

as in products. Such intense mlnerai-
~ization as at Tonopah has no parellel.
It's wealth is astounding. Its tonnage
will tax the new railway. The Gold
field product will go forth in concen-
trated form, having been through the
mills. All the processes Will be en-
pioycd. Experiments have Eeen satis-
factory. No mistake of installing
huge mills, adapted to conditions else
where, has been undertaken. Our
mill men took hold carefully and are
steadily solving this peculiar PROPOSE
ton. They have made fine progress,
rs their growing plants attest. Not
one huge and costly monument to folly
stands here, but there are ~ dozen
plants in various progressive stages,
all the way from small installation of
simplest features to the complex per
lection of the splendid Combination
plant, experimenting and growing.
Work is here the crying need, and
work has been and is now in progress
as never before, with the resulting
daily strikes. In the last fOrty-five
days, had GoIdfieId no past, its future
has been made, but Goldfield's past
is matchless. No lamp ever produced
S4, 800, 900 in the first eighteen months,
except Goldfeld. 1T was the unwise
product by lessees who tore the ground
unmethodically, without thought as to
the presentations of workings, but
gouged anyhow and anywhere to rush
out the gold before their terms ex-
PRED, changing direction when values
became "a little under one hundred dol
lars. Only rich mines could have stood
such ruthlessness, such disregard of
conservation. 1t was great profit for
the ~leaser, such advertisement as 10
other place ever had, but the owners
have had to sink Independent shafts
and carefully engineer to get back
into shoots and continue depth, for all
that was shipped was but a 1.-THE of
profitable contents left behind.
"There doubtless is system in min
eralization here. There are resemblan-
ces to other volcanic areas. In the
deep workings already is there proof
of the vein assuring arrangement. Up
on the surface can be found evidences
of dykes and transverse intrusion and
disruption, and some day huge capital
will undertake exploitation upon the
theory Of a learned ~savant, but just
now when in this great field there is
not one ambitious undertaking that
has not brought results or that does
moi speedily promise results, we a
get along as did the miners of Cripple
Creek, whom no scientific gent en-
c%ouraged.
"lhey kept right on digging, and
disclosing ore to the confusion of those
who denied permanency and who pre-
djcted disaster, and finally the wise
men got together and told just how
the Lord had wrought the marvel and
by what signs had they been mislead.
Then they advised courses of proceed
ure, what localities to let alone, what
spots to favor, and strapping fellows
from Iowa and Illinois, corn huskers,
took leases and dug, in spite of warm
ing, on Beacon, Raven, Ironclad,
Squaw, against the protest of old min
ers, too, and they found many veins
and mines and are still finding.
Fright on top of the silence of the
U. s. biologists to venture the opinion
that the shoots descended and carried
riches, a silence which implied mega
ton under the circumstances, develop
ment proved for Cripple Creek what
the biologists had secuted, that rich
shoots went down. In Colorado I do
not know of "a great mine that has
not been turned down. We shall
have our whirl at that, too, probably,
for the attraction of princely fortunes
will warm conservative investors to
pay astounding fees to be advised
away from investments that 'home'
men will recommend. There are bar
gains here today as never before and
assurance of results.
When in this immense district
not one location can be with reason
pointed out as worthless, how sure is
the purchaser Of fifty acres or more
though he buys merely to patent and
hold!
lit seems to me very desirable that
some system of leasing, sufficiently
long time, reasonable royalties, judi
cious restrictions, provision as to sys-
tematic work, requirements as to tim
herring, shall be put in force, and SO
developments can be secured that own
ers may not be able to make, for l
am satisfied that the sole requirement
to make Goldfield the best gold camp
in the world is WORK.