Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1905-03-24
HumoRous.vlew OF ooLDFlELD.

he represents. Mr.. Thomas has an
original way of looking at things.
'I left San Francisco on the Reno
local at 8 p. m on February ~.
bound for the "Greatest Gold Camp
on Earth f" as the modest promoters
of this new Nevada, Goldfeld have
christened it. | have learned since
coming here the wisdom of not
questioning anything in Tonopah or
Goldfeld. The people here are the
most truthful / have ever met. They
all trace their ancestry back to
WashiDgton-the father of his
country.
"Some wag has defined a mine as
hole in the ground owned by a
liar. This definition does not apply
here in Goldfeld. 1t may tc GER
tain extent apply to Tonopah, but
not to Goldfeld. There is no hole
here. / am told that there were a
few here couple of weeks ago, but
some rustling townsite boomers stole
Il mean they borrowed them and
took them down to Bullfrog to start
a camp with. You can't blame them
much when you are told that there
were holes, just wee little holes,
where the owners took out 5000, 900.
bave seen lots of holes, some of
them big ones, too. La fact have
often been in them myself. but ]
never saw one with so much money
as that in it.
GAS | said, l left San Francisco
on February 27. | arrived in Tono
pah on March /. / was told by the
ticket agent that would be deliver
ed in Tonopah in twenty-eight hours
on the payment of the paltry sum of
$27 05, the company assuming all
risks, etc.
After the train gets started it does
not stop until it comes to wreck
that the engineer decides had better
be removed before he attempts to
pass it. Then the train crew held
lengthy consultation and finally de-
cided to write to the section boss at
Reno to send set of jack screws by
the first teams that comes this way,
and to send word over to the con-
ductor's wife that he won't be home
until next week.
There is always crowd of Japs
around these wrecks, but what they
are there for l have not yet found
out. They didn't seem to be doing
anything. Possibly they are there
to see that the pesky little cars are
not stolen by some disguised Rus
sian and carried away to Manchuria.
Part of the way the road is broad
gauge and part of the way it isn't.
This happened this way: Whenever
the Southern Pacific Company hears
of railroad that Hill or Gould or
Vanderbilt doesn't want, it buys it,
provided it can get it for nothing,
and ship it to Nevada. OF course,
in buying lot of old second-handed
railroads it gets lot of odd sizes.
From Reno to Mound House is one
brand. Thence at Mound House an
other brand is encountered. They
say the,mail has been terribly irregu-
lar lately. From Mound House to
Wabuska only one wreck was en-
countered and that delayed us only
about an hour. At Wabuska how
ever, the record was made good by
one that delayed us forty five
minutes beyond the two hours that
it took to transfer the express and
baggage again to narrow gauge
brand of track. That is, believe it
was narrow gauge, if | remember
right. Anyway, it looked like the
Sutter street car line in San Fran
cisco, only the cars wore older and
they had a locomotive instead of
horses, though wished hundred
times before we reached Sodaville
that we had those horses The con
ductor told the passengers that they
hadn't ought to kick on the. speed
as we had actually overtaken
bunch of cattle three times within a
distance of six miles. After that no
more kicks were heard, although it
was evident that some of the female
passengers were not satisfied.
At Sodaville another tranfer was
made, but as it was dark could
not tell much about the brand of
road but was told by drummer that
it was planned by the same architect
that planned the Sutro steam line