The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-16

"fad'' now to look up mines in the
great deserts of the west. Since the
1st of January ] have given a good
deal of attention to the desert country
and must acknowledge that 1 am sur
prised that the opportunities presented
had not received attention heretofore.
1t appears, however, that the old
California mining spirit died out with
the passing away of the great Com
stock operators, and at present San
Francisco is something like Denver, a
city built up by miners, and now occu-
pied by "croakers, who, because they
fail to find a counterpart of the Com
stock in the former city, and u Lead
vile in the latter, decry all new camps
as of no value.
The result has been that Denver lost
the benefits derived from Cripple
Creek and San Francisco has stood by
and allowed the active Colorado men
to get the best of them in Goldfeld,
Bullfrog and TOnopah.
This condition has produced two
classes of self-styled mining men that
to me are ridiculous. The one is the
man who rushes into the new camps
and because he does not see ~well-devel-
oped mines, shipping a given tonnage
per day, says there are no mines there,
and to clinch his argument, says they
"don't go down. because he found
no shaft over $50 feet in depth.
Why, bless his heart! Anyone can
tell a mine after it has fully developed
and a regular shipper and "a thousand
feet deep, but because he has not the
nerve to declare himself he condemns
the camp on general principles.
The other is the man who PUSHES
off to such a camp, and because he can
not find ground open to location next
70 "a producer, claims that it is all stalk
ed out. and owners asking fabulous
prices for worthless property, and goes
away, advising everybody not to in
vest.
The fact is, he finds other men in
advance of himself, loing exactly what
he wanted to ,o and he is sore and
makes a fool of himself by hackbiting
a camp because he failed to think
quick enough to get in at the start.
Now. the camps Of Goldicld, Ton
opal and Bullfrog are great gold and
silver mining camps, the croakers to
the contrary Notwithstanding, and /
am positive that two or three other
great producing camps will be devel-
opod the coming year. The camps at
Lida' and Silver Peak are great silver
camps with proper facilities, n !
know of four other lead or copper-sil-
yer camps that will be mining ore for
fifty years if once opened up and nave
have a chance to ship to shelters at
reasonable rates.
While Tonopah, through limited vein
system, will not produce such a mum
her of mines as Lcadville, Cripple
Creek, Goldfield or Bullfrog the five
or six mines that are or should be de
vcloped there, will be world bcaters as
to value.
At Golifield there is Il system OF
assures that at present show twenty
well defined veins, and from the man
ner in which they are formed they
undoubtedly are as permanent as those
at Cripple Creek. In fact, geological
~. they should extend depper, as the
formation of the assures are occa-
stoned by the cooling process which
followed II succession OF intrusions
that accompanied or succeeded that
great volcanic disturbance far east of
Goldtield which destroyed the strait
fed rocks and left the greatest masses
of intrusive rocks found on the CONT
nent. while at Cripple Creek the occa-
sion of the assures was II local iistur-
hance.
GOldheld will haNe the ordinary ups
aud downs of mining camps; its pOpu-
lation will come and go. 1t will be
overrun with adventures and aband-
aned by successful men, Just as they
have lone in Leadville, Cripple Creek
and many other camps, but the fact
will remain that there will be from
twenty to fifty great mines opened up
in the Goldfield district that will mate
rally help our nations progress.
The men who talk Of no veins at
Goldfeld would not know a vein II
they saw one. While a local disturb
amce has changed the surface appear
NEE of the rock in many places, a MN
er. if he would go underground and see
| the conditions. and then say there
were no veins should stop calling HIM
self "A miner and take his natural name,
:" Ii chump.'
Goldfeld, and in fact most OF the
| Nevada camps. will have trouble over