The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-08
FORTUNES IN GOLDFIELD
Those Already Made Not a Tithe of
the Ones to Be Won



Within eighteen months %permanency
has been completely and favorably de-
termined and Goldfeld need have no
.jealousies, no heart aches, no burnings.
In the splendor of neighbors it has
all to gain and naught to lose. To
them can come no %perceptible increase
of population or of product that will
not benefit Goldfeld. No town of the
desert is in any sense a rival. The
Bu1lfrog country will some day have
transportation south to the Clark line
and the Santa Fe, and so will Gold
field. The 70-mile gap between Gold
field and Bullfrog will be closed also
by railway. The bulk of ores south
will be milled before marketing, be-
cause of their character and the dis
distance from smelters.
There will never be extensive reduc-
ton plants with generous markets up
on the coast.
Adequate water can be piped into
Bullfrog. Rhyo'ite and all the lower
camps, just as sufficient supply is
planned for here. We have the posi-
bility of abundant milling water at
depth in our mines, and properties
now working are expecting to furnish
milling water by pumping. Experience
demonstrates that ores and concen-
- IN L. l..loI - +ho f,alo and
not the reverse. No one class of ore
can be smelted by itself. There are
natural points for assembling ores,
fuels and fuxes.
Because it sustains the furnace
charge while melting, coke is the relia-
BILE fuel. Oils and gas have not super
seeded it, nor are they liable to. West
Of Utah are no known and developed
fields of coal.
There are indications of lignites not
far away but when developed they will
at best furnish steam for nearby
plants. Hence beyond the consump-
ton of Nevada City, California, all
this desert region must look for its
markets east for its ores.
There is possible some fine concen-
~tration of lead and copper ores, if
found abundantly where charcoal fuel
can be had. The rest of US must de-
pend upon water concentration, chic
rination, eyaniding. amalgamation,
iigs, tables, etc.
Until a line shall run west to the
coast from Salt Lake, Goldfeld's pro-
ducts will just as naturally go north,
as does Bullfrog's products 60 south.
Over the north lines with superb equip
ment and connections, with business
already established will go the main
travel as now, via Goldfield to the
whole desert. AS further fixing travel
and business from the north, camps
are building from Tonopah to Cling
rouse-attractive camps with %resourc-
es proven. These camps and all the
desert will be developed by men from
the east, coming soath to us. There
is no hope in California beyond a very
limited stock speculation. All the
wealth of Nevada could be very profit
ably employed upon the Pacific coast,
but the money necessary TO extract
Nevada s wealth canno and will not
be forthcoming from California for
that purpose There is too much to do
at home; money commands too high a
rate.
With the japanese war settled, more
than ever will California S funds be
required at home. San Francisco is
rapidly advancing in world business,
to be a foremost city. The greatest
commerce will ride earth s greatest
ocean. Exchange between America
and the Orient is more natural than
between America and Europe. Our
own vast continent of Alaska has but
begun its vast unfolding. and for San
Francisco and ports north there is a
mighty future. The country between
the Sierras and the Mississippi valley
will, for acres titled, produce more than
the same number of acres anywhere in
the world. Add to this the mighty
contributions of coal, iron. silver, cop
per. gold and lead as the backing of
San Francisco in becoming the equal
of New York, and so it will be in less
than so years, in less than % years
as I believe. And of course the whole
California shore will participate in
such upbuilding. Then conceive how
vast the NAV of the Pacific coast
and how little likely that California
money crosses the Sierras. no matter
what the inducement. Colorado and
Utah revenues are still paving tribute