The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-05-26
MAGIC GROWTH
The New Eldorados Of Southwestern
Nevada.

NGvou0.
Almost as il bv magic four or five
big mining camps have sprung up in
Nye and Esmeralda counties, Nevada,
during the past four or i've wears, and
these camps have attained such prom
inence of late, and their output OF the
precious metals has been so great, 80
surprising, as almost to bewilder those
who are unaccustomed to the almost
miraculous manner with which rich
mines bring progress and prosperity to
the sections in which they are located,
or with the rapid strides made by men
of limited means in the acquisition OF
fortunes because of the success that
have attended them in their mining
ventures and enterprises.
The history of southwestern Nevada,
within the past few years, reads al
most like a fairy tale; like a pleasant
dream that turns out to be a reality. In
this section the %prospector, i~mpersonat-
ing Aladdin, rubs his lamp, or rather,
gets action on his burro and pick, and
10, Tonopah bursts forth in all its daz-
cling radiance and almost untold wealth.
He rubs 1t again, and Goldfield finds a
place on the map Of Nevada, and its
lustre bids fair to outshine its sister
camp, and so bright is the glow of this
new-iound Golconda, 80 m~arvelously
rich are it's mines, that within twelve
months of its discovery it is larger, in
point of population, than Tonopah, now
the metropolis of the desert.
The lamp is rubbed again and Bull
frog staggers the mining world with the
wealth and immensely of its mines and
.ospe,. Is, and from Tonopah and Gold
field an army of men stampede for the
latest bonanza camp. Another rub and
Kawich is the center of attraction, and
almost contemporary with the~d discovery
OF this new gold district the Once-aban-
dcned camp of Ida feels the quicken
ing effect of the infusion OF new blood,
new enterprise and latter-day mining
methods. and springs into life again
with double it's former vigor and possi-
bilities, and with it's great ore reserves
and measures practically untouched by
former operators o fnearly half a century
ago.
Almost everything can be bought
with gold, and because Of their mineral
wealth, tasily converted into the money
of the realm, the new mining camps,
above alluded to . were not long in &C.
curing all the comforts and ~luxuries of
civilization, and shortly after the merits
and stability of their mines were proved
and established beyond a shadow of
doubt, they began taking IN metrOpOli-
tan airs.
Tonopah is connected with the out
side world BY railroad and telegraph.
sft has-its electric lights, it's w~aterworks
4 system, its banks, mercantile houses,
newspapers, hotels, clubs, churches,
schools and societies. 1t will 500 be con
nected with Goldfeld by railroad, and
auto lines and stages now ply regularly
between these two camps, which are
also connected by telegraph and tele-
phone; and all these have come to a
desert spot in the Battle Born state
since Jim Butler, the "Father of the
b Camp" found the Mizpah lode, less
than FIVE years ago, while looking for
his burros which had strayed from his
camp.
Goldfeld, hardly more than a year
old, is the intermingling OF a mining
camp and a thrifty city that is blossom
ing into an inland business center. AL
ready it has its fine business houses,
it's newspapers, and direct communica-
ton with the business marts of the
world, and, from this rapidly growing
commercial center as spokes from the
, hub of a wheel, radiate automobile and
stage lines to Ida, Beatty, Rhyolite,
Bullfrog and other camps springing up
on every hand, tar and near; while
great freighting teams are ever going
and coming between Goldield and the
railroad at Tonopah, bringing in goods,
merchandise, machinery, and supplies,
and taking out tons upon tons OF the
richest ore that ever gave prominence
and notoriety to a camp, or swelled the
bank accounts of mine owners.
Such has been the wonderful growth
OF the mining camp of southwestern
Nevada; a growth that is almost un-
paralleled in the history of the mining
industry of the present century: a
growth that has attracted to this section
the brainiest and most talented OF men,
and the best thought and experience
that ever graced any mining section.
With the marvellous discoveries in
these camps anne the inevitable-the
ma of means, the investor, and any
thing that looked good to them did not
long wait for a purchaser, who, with an
o~kL,,o;oo~n o,xcb DC ou1v tho