The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-02-17
STAMPEDE TO THE DESERT
Southern Nevada Has Become Mecca
for Thousands.

Every day a hundred or more goldseek-
ers pass through Carson on the way to
Gold6eld and the mineral discoveries
that have been made during the past
few months, says the Appeal. The humid
reds that have gone put have sent the
word forth that the new Nevada camp
is a wonder and the news has gone from
one end of the world to the other, and
the rush is on.
A trip to San Francisco is the convinc-
ing proof of the statement. In every
hotel lobby, in every bar-room, in every
restaurant, and in fact where ever men
c~ongregate, there is a hum of news that
Nevada offers the fortune hunters a new
field. Wonderful specimens are shown,
but in fact it does not take the mineral
evidence to set the people talking.
1t is only a portion of the rush that is
witnessed in this city. Hundreds of
people are going to and from the south
ern section. Los Angeles is as much
agog az is San Francisco, and on the
other side down to San Pedro there is as
strong a rushing in. Even across the
borax marshes there is a string follow
ing the trail to the land of promise.
One of the peculiar conditions is that
the boomers who rushed to the Klon-
dixie are now making for Southern Ne
vada and the new discoveries. Recently
several men who have made fortunes in
the frozen north passed through on their
way to barren Nevada, where they will
take a hand in the development. Colo
RADIO, Montana, and all of the western
states are taking a hand in the game,
with the result that the most expert
enced line of prospectors that have ever
trod the state are now inside of the bor-
ders and will rip up the mother earth
from its extremes to the Colorado river.
All kinds of predictions are being made
regarding the future of the southern
section; all agree that before the year
has passed Nevada will lead in the pro-
duction of precious metals. Every Sec
ton that has produced metal is being
ransacked for new discoveries, and the
result is that camps that were supposed
to be dead ones are being revived and
placed on the map again.
In regard to the future population OF
Southern Nevada, there is a possibility
of it's exceeding anything that has ever
taken place in the history of the State.
Some who seem to be in a position to
Judge the conditions state that q 5000
people will be located in the desert re-
gions before the summer has passed.
This estimate is conservative, when the
facts of the conditions are looked over,
as every State is now taking an interest,
and the venturesome and energetic are
heading for the new finds. The condi-
tions that rendered the inhabitatiOn OF
the desert impossible have, in a meas
ure, been overcome, from the fact that
railroads have rendered it possible to Sc
cure provisions and the necessaries of
life. Water is being developed as the
mines extend into the barren regions.
As much attention is paid to this as to
the mines, with the result that where it
was believed to be an impossibility, wa
ter is found and nan then penetrates to
the other unknown section.
1t is safely stated that thousands OF
miles in Nevada have never been trod
over by white men, but this will not be
a safe statement inside of a year. Men
of experience are now headed for the
barren land, and many of them are
backed by cash, which will develop any
section in the world, no matter what the
conditions.
When the situation is looked over, it
is no wonder that the world has turned
her financial eye toward Nevada, and
the greatest wonder is that any of the
sound and safe people are keeping out
side of the rush that is with them.