Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-08

three times as high as in Los An
geles, and there are many supplies that
you cannot get at any price. Meals
cost from 75 cents up, square meal
being one dollar without much chance
to beat the price Beds-cots, rather
in a tent, without partitions between
you and Tom, Dick and Harry cost
81 per night and more ambitious
quarters are proportionately higher.
Wages Are High
"On the other hand wages are, of
course proportionately higher than
elsewhere. Carpenters are getting one
dollar an hour and all sorts of labor
has been up to this time. very much
III demand. Now, however, this de-
mand is being rapidly supplied and
would not advise laborers to go in
there at present. People are rushing
III by the hundreds in every conceiv-
tie to get in on the ground floor in
most things, as that floor is already
more than filed.
"On my way back from Bullfrog to
Goldfeld 1 saw as many as 40 freight
and passenger outfits on their way
south. There is almost as continuous
stream coming in from the south,
SO you may imagine that Rhyolite is
growing
There is a stage line running from
Las Vegas to Beatty now, making the
trip once a week and charging s25 fare.
I understand that there is an auto line
to be started between the two points
at once by j. Irving Crowell, a mining
engineer of Los Angeles. Crowell plans
to make the trip of 12O miles in one day.
The stage takes three. When this
auto line gets in it will pay people on
the Salt Lake road to enter the field
in that way.
Il have heard of many people leav-
ing Los Angeles to come into the dis
trict overland with teams. They will
find that it costs a good deal of money
to keep animals in Bullfrog. Hay is
81 a bale and rolled barley comes to
about cents a pound. While l was
there 1 fed my mule on Quaker oats
because 1 found it cheaper. If she had
roared / would have wet it down with
lilly cream or given her a box of
baby food. When we were dry we
drank out of the same canteen, the
mule and /. 1t cost more to feed the
mule than it did to feed Charlie Treat
Telephone service has now been
established between Rhyolite and Bull
frog and Goldfeld. However it is a
makeshift at present. l sent tele-
gram from there to my Los Angeles
office ten days ago and followed it with
a letter. The telegram was never sent,
although l paid cash and gave the
operator a tip to get it through. The
letter hasn't reached the Office yet,
as far as 1 can learn, but l still have
hopes. 1t may come to me when l get
back.
1.-THE mail service is a farce. At
present all mail comes by way of Gold
field. From there it is taken by the
stage drivers, carried down to Rhyolite
and dumped on the counter of a store
there. Everybody comes in there and
helps himself. You needn't be sur
prised, then, if you should fail to re-
ceive an answer to mail sent into the
southern districts.
An important Strike
"As to the mines themselves, too
much cannot be said about them.
There has just been very important
strike made at Crystal Springs, four
miles northeast of Rhyolite, where sew
eral big mines are located. Five miles
west of Rhyolite is the original Bull
frog and strikes have already been
made all around this property In the
triangle formed by the Original, Rhyo-
lite and Crystal Springs there is an
immense area, and values have been
found in almost every acre Of it, 1t
only remains for men with capital to
&C in and develop these properties, to
make Bullfrog a greater district than
Goldheld is today.