The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-21

civ months often wondered whittier
zoutbward the endless stream of sun
tanned prospectors, with their impedi-
menta of the patient burros or travel
stained horses and wagons were going.
The pilgrimage continued increasingly
and to an untraveled one the idea
often occurred that they were swallowed
up in some black abyss around Bullfrog
or other southern mining district. An
extended trip through southern Nevada
cnlightens one and accounts for the end
less procession above mentioned.
The unquenehable thirst for gold,
stimulated to a mania by the phenome-
nal discoveries at Goldfeld and Bull
frog, has populated the whole of the
virgin regions of the state with the
hardest, most hopeful and hospitable
of humans, and to whom the scorchiug
sun and blighting simeon of the Amer
lean Sahara is regarded as a pleasant
change from his last roaming ground
per chance Alaska. l. of-ceurse, refer
to the prospector. The whole state is
getting a fearful rummaging by the IT.
repressihle gold seeker and the hoary
old mountains and sultry valleys, that
have reposed in a weird silence since
Jurassic days, are aghast at the auds'
city of man in breaking the eternal
silence, and tearing their very vitals
with the sacrilegious dynamite blasts.
Tie very lizards stop in the shade of
a joshua and look at the p~rospector
in a posture of amazement. 1t is af-
firmed by observers that the reason the
lizards keep running at this season
is because the rocks are too hot to sit
on. Be this as it may, man the all con-
queror, has come to stay, and the Re
Nuisance is at hand. The great obsta-
cit to all exploration now and hereto
fore is and has been the lack of water,
but now wells are being dug at hundreds
of points throughout the state and in
two years from now it will be possible
to traverse the whole of the southern
] portion of Nevada without carrying
water for horses.
Death Valley and other deathly ro-
mantle areas will have to forego their
yearly tribute of human victims.
The discoveries of the last year have
proved the whole of the southern tri-
angle of the state to he a vast mineral
repository and beginning with the Bull
frog district and ending at Nippeno,
the latest new strike, it would appear
to a traveller that every mountain has
its mines.
There is considerable ACT. ~ IN the
district surrounding Las Vegas, al
though none of them are within forty
miles of this mushroom city, which is
a monument of sagacity and philan.
throphy of the railroad company. A
word en- PEASANT may be interesting.
When building the Salt Lake road the
railroad company found it necessary to
purchase the Stewart ranch for the
sum of 100000 for the water thereon,
and did sou Thenithey. laid out a town
large enough for a hig state capital,
and philanthropically allowed poor work
ing men and struggling fathers of fam
lies in. distant cities to buy lots at
auction at prices rangingsfrom 800 to
t$l500 each and make their homes there.
About 100000 was thereby realized
Thy the. road land it's benevolent associ-
ates, and thus we see how charity was
rewardedi'ty. a profit of $4,000. 'eAl-
ways. he ekaritabiet ~
The Stewart ranch, now dubbed
&. Raneho,'' was not thrown in, and is
now known as tsSenator Clark's Fa-
nous Los Vegas Rancho,' the little
80" appended takes one tack to dear
Old Mexico and is reminiscent of black
eyed Sonoritas, old missions and twang-
ing guitars. The "Rancho' was not
put in the townsite, but here again the
nlunifieence of tho owners is apparent.
One can take a bath in the creek wa
ter for so cents, or pitch his little pros
pecting tent under the shade of a tree
for 81 per month lin advance). There
is no charge for air or sunlight.
Forty miles southeast of Las Vegas
(the Meadows) is the old camp of FL
dorado canyon. This has recently been
the seat of a stampede and several
promising properties are now being ac-
lively developed, among them those old
producers the Techaticup and Wall
Street. The aggregate production of
these two properties in the past was
about S 100000 principally gold. The
Hunsacker property is being developed
with a force of fifteen men and a ten
stamp mill has been ordered. Many
promising gold properties have been
located recently in the surrounding