The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
PRICES HIGH IN RHYoLITE.
A Correspondent of the "Deseret
News Tells of Them.

NC"o ANto VI
A correspondent writing to the "Des-
cret News" from Rhyolite, one of Ne
vada's prosperous mining camps in the
Bulfrog district, gives some interesting
data relative to prices prevailing there.
Lumber, he says, costs anywhere from
$3.50 to $40 per thousand; those who
have horses to feed are required to pay
500 per ton for hay; wood is hard to
| get at $35 per cord, but it is much pre-
feratle to coal, which finds a market
at $S5 per ton; gasoline retails at SIS
per ease of ten gallons.
Those who complain about the awful
cost of living in Salt Lake just ought to
go to Rhyolite and learn how to appre-
ciqte some of the comforts they have at
home. BY doing so and making a few
comparisons, it would not take long to
find out that life in some of these new
Nevada mining camps is not what it is
sometimes pictured. The correspond
lent ~injects a hit of sarcasm into his
effort by suggesting that the expense of
living at the restaurants is reasonable
if a person does not get hungry. One
can get along on I5 cents a meal; but
the bill of fare would not contain very
many d~elicacies at the price; the food
would he of the p~lainest kind. Straw
berries have made their appearance in
the camp and they are dished out at the
rate of 40 cents a dish and with only
enough berries in them to give one the
inclination for more; young onions are
something of a luxury in that country,
and they cost Is cents each, or two for
25 cents; cucumbers come at so cents
each; lou costs SIS per hundred pounds
and other things in proportion.
Those who feel the necessity of in
dulging in stimulants pay Is cents for
drinks, with ice. % cents. Ice retails
at 10 cents a pound.
The camp il well supplied with sa-
looms. there are 30 of them against
eight restaurants and three banks. Real
estate seems to be active; at least there
are brokers galore, and they must have
a living. They have been doing a big
business in the sale of town lots. Some
lots have sold well up in the thousands
of dollars.
AS to miners wages, the scale of
prices prevailing seems to me about as
follows: Above 10 feet in depth, 81
per day Of eight hours; under 10 feet,
SIS per day; engineers are paid So and
ore sorters $3.50 per day, while carpen-
ters are scarce and those that are there
charge 81 per hour for their services.
There is little difficulty in getting a
place to sleep, but one must not expect
to get any such c~onveniences as the
Salt Lake hotels afford. Rooms can
be had at ST. a night; the partitions are
made either of canvas or cheese cloth,
while the doors consist of a strip of
burlap, tackled to the top of the casing
thus avoiding the Inconvenience of ear
rying keys. Everybody is honest, and
of course, a tenant can leave his lug
gage in his apartment without the
slightest fear of it's being molested dur
ing absence.
There are a number of Salt Lakers in
Rhyolite and one can go scarcely
nowhere, the correspondent states,
without meeting a familiar face.
"Bill' Griffith is here looking after
the Rhyolite office of the D. H. Peery
company, which, the writer declares, is
opening up one of the most promising
properties in the camp. j. u. Siegel
and Thornley, Haywood are running an
np-to-date assay office and are doing a
thriving business under the firm name
of Seigel 4 Haywood.
Frank Il. Cook is looking over the
camp with a view OF catching onto
something good. w. +. Patrick, for
merly engaged in mining in the Tintic
district, is one of the largest owners
in the Bulfrog National Bank mine,
which is one Of the biggest mines, con
sidering the amount OF development
work done, the correspondent says, that
he has ever seen. In making the exca-
%vations for the foundations for the new
hosting plant, ordered recently, all the
rock thrown out was high grade mill
ore, with some of it assaying as high
as 5000 to the ton.
l.. r. Bedford. another Utahan, is su-
p~erintending the Gold Bar mine and
Francis Hall, a former mayor OF Mer-
eur, has been in camp several weeks
with a view of sizing up conditions and
getting a foothold there. Water is sold
to customers in camp by vendors at So
per barrel.-Deseret News.
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