The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-03-18
HUMOROUS VIEW
OF GOLDF|ELD
; Correspondent of a Coast Paper
Tells of His Travelling
Experiences

correspondent
for the Pacific oil Reporter, who visited
Goldfeld during the first week OF the
month, wrote a most interesting letter
to the journal he represents. Mr.. Thomas
has an original way Of looking at things.
Il left San Francisco on the Reno local
al y. IN. on February q. bound for the
Greatest Gold Camp on Earth. 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
Goldhed. The people here are the mos
truthful ! have ever met They all trace
their ancestry back TO Washington-the
father OF his country
Some wag das defined a mine as a
hole in the ground owned by liar. This
definition does not apply here in Cold
field. IL may to a certain extent apply
to Tonopah, but not 60 GoidHelu There
is no hole here. / am told that there
were a few here couple sof weeks ago,
but some rustling townsfte boomers stole
II mean they borrowed .them and took
them down 70 Bulifrog to startssl 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 s2Oo,0oo. have seen lots of holes.
some OF them big ones. too. In fact /
have often been IN them myself. but J
never saw one with 50 much money as
that in IT,
AS | said. 4 left san Francisco OF
February q ! arrived in ronopan on
March 4. was told by tie ticket agent
that would be delivered in Tonopah in
twenty-eight hours on the .yment o.
. the paltry sum OF $4605. The company
assuming all risks etc.
After the tram gets startea i. does
not stop until it comes to a wrecA .ha,
the engineer decides nad better be re-
moved before he attempts to pass =
Then the train crew he.a lengthy con
sultaton and finally decided 70 write to
the section boss at Reno 10 send sci
Of jack screws by the hrst team that
comes this way, and TO send word oveI
to the conductors wife that he won be
home until next week.
There is always a crowd of Japs
around these wrecks. but what they are
there for / have not set found out. 1ney
didn't seem to be doing anything. Possi-
bly, they are there to see that the pesky
little cars are not stolen BY some dis
a 4aa,
churia. zlLlAl
Part of the way the road is broad
gauge and part of the way 1t isn't This
happened this way: Whenever the South
ern Pacific Company hears of a rairoat
that Hill or Gould or vanderbilt doesn
want, it buys it, provided Il can get ~
for nothing and ships It 10 Nevada OF
course. in buying . lot of old, second
hand railroads Il gets a lot OF odd sizes.
From Reno to Nound House is one brand,
Thence at Mound House another brand Is
encountered They say the mails have
been terribly irregular lately. From
Mound House to Wabuska only one
wreck was encountered ana that delayed
us only about an hour. Al Wabuska.
however, the record was made gooo by
one that delayed us forty-tlve minutes
beyond the two hours that 1t took 70
transfer the express and baggage again
to a narrow gauge brand of track. That
Is | believe It was a narrow gauge, II
remember right Anyway, it looked IKE
\ the Sutter street car line in San Fran
cisco. only the cars were Older and they
had locomotive instead Of horses
though / wished hundred times before
we reached Sodaville that we had 1hose
horses The conductor told the passen-
gers that they hadn't ought to kick Or
the speed as we had actually overtaken
bunch of cattle three times within q
distance OF six miles. After that no more
kicks were heard. although 4 was evil
dent that some of the female passengers
We're not satisfied,
"At Sodavitle another transfer was
made. but as It was dark could not
toll much about the brand of road but
was told by drummer that It was
planned by the same architect mat
planned tho Sutro steam line that runs
10 the cliff House The next day we
I pulled into Tonopah on the instailment
plan. as the engine got tired and refused
INto pull the whole load at once. have
not decided yet whether I viii return py
me same method or walk out. thlnk
walking Is easier and quicker"