Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-10-28
~ INTERESTING ARTICLE.
oR. Morgan, Talented Editor of
Keno Speaks Well of us.

~ Mo VI kAAS hN@t
TOnopah, Goldfeld and other south
,,ostern Nevada points last week and
: giving the readers Of his valuable
amer some interesting, reliable facts
rnent this section. In last Mondays
Gazette appeared a two-column article
from his able pen from which we
ouote as follows:
oTo write about Tonopah and Gold
eeld at this stage of the game is to
tel a tale that has been told a thousand
times. Since that day when the in
dOmitable Jim Butler caught up with
the golden will-o'-the-wisp, caught up
with the tantalizing phantom and laid
hare the treasure of dreams, the story
has been told SO many times that it
seems an audacious thing to attempt
10 lend it new interest. But isn't it
always new?
Last week | spent a day in each of
the great camps, Goldfield and Tono-
nah, and ! have the desire to write
something Of what interested me most.
No word that might write could add
one letter to the glory of that section,
nor on the other hand could any SEN
tenee of mine detract one whit from
their deserved fame. Therefore, what
follows will be easy reading, record
ing impressions that would come to you
as they come to me, with many para
graphs to take the place of GASES for
him who wearies on the trail.
a think that the first and greatest
thought, claiming for it nothing, how
ever, in the way of original discovery,
was that the men who found fortune
down there deserved all that came to
them.
THE day of the picturesque has gone
by in Tonopah. Any one whogoes down
there thinking to find romance, raw
and palpitating, might just as well stay
home. He can find what he is seeking
on a side street in his own village just
as readily as he will find it down there.
Tonopah is a well-ordered, well-gov-
emed substantial city. Electric lights,
good hotels, stores such as you find n
any live, hustling city, a sewer system,
these are just a few Of the things that
will soon serve notice on the traveller
that although he may be in the midst
Of the desert he has about him all the
comforts of his own freside.
Il went through one Of the mines,
Just as | used to see countless other
tender-feet 90 through the mines at
Bodie, when Bodie was bad and boom
ing.
And ! had good guides, for was not
Tom Kendall on n side and Jim Ne
QuAlan on the other? | looked where
they told me to look. We got off at
one level and walked through drifts and
e~rosseuts. We went down a Wine.
and between keeping my light burning
and looking when | was told TO look.
was busy. Here and there did not
have to be told. 1t was when ia the
shifting light Of the candles a stain as
Of blood would be splashed on the duller
eoloring Of the walls. Confusing
thoughts Of myths and legends and folk
lore would come as the candle light
played on those veins Of ruby silver,
and regretted for my W sake and
know that the owners of the mine
would not have objected that all those
long drifts and cuts were not lined with
the same crimson color.
THE men who know most about che
camps Of Goldfeld and Tonopah are
the men who have taken good bullion
out Of those hills. Most Of them never
had a dollar before. Many Of them
now count their fortunes in six or seven
hgures, when they count it at all. And
right here let it be said, quite Incl
dentally for we never would expect
other from that type of man, that they
wear the same size headgear that they
wore when they were using forceful
words to teach the burro the way he
should go in their dead-broke yester-
days. One of them | knew years
ago, was going to say that we went
10 school together, but | think it would
De safer to say that we batted up flies
together on the main street of the
town, and Tom Kendall is the same lad
Today that he was in the old Bodie
days, when he would have headed a
subscription list to send to a protecting
hospital the mar who would have told
that some day he might write his
check for half a million and the bank
oihcials would not have him arrested.
he is one of many. / simply refer to
MN because of him | can speak with
more certain knowledge. These men
made money in Tonopah and the
surrounding places. And-here is the
important part-they are putting much
ot 1t right back into the camp where
they made what they have. They are
the best judges of the camps. All the
weird stuff that | might write in a
years time would not mean half SO