Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-12-29

The Frontino and Bolivia mine in
Colombia earned 'G3,766 $18,83O) in
November, while expenses were Ca.
COS ($20,O40). which includes E320
($1,60O credited to capital account.
A plant has been recently erected
for the concentration of the monazite
gravel, found in the Parahyba river,
Brazil. It is estimated that this will
produce finished product worth 700
francs per ton from raw material con.
tanning 2 per cent monazite. at the
rate of SO tons per month.
1t is announced that the Clark rail.
road from Las Vegas to Bullfrog will
be in operation to Indian creek, 20
miles. by aJnuary. There has recent
ly been great excitement here on &C.
count of the discovery of indications
Of crude oil and local company is
now preparing to bore to test the for
nation. Rapid progress is also being
made with the railroad from Ludlow
to BullfrOg. known as the TonOpah &
Tidewater railway, the bonds for the
construction of which have ~een sold
in London through the Borax Corpor.
alton.
There was, there is, and there al.
ways will be, deeply rooted interest
in the west as it existed in the days
gOmery, in Sunset Magazine. The lure
man who sought it, the country which
n rod tn n MI
the magnificent romance of the whole
is, perhaps, next to our colonial tales
and traditions, the choicest bit of his
tory we hold as a people. There ex-
lists no longer, save in a few mems
memories, anything personal or tangi-
BILE that reaches back half a century
to these golden days. Palatial trains
swiftly pass, by day and night, the
deserted stage stations and the travel
weary tourist looks idly at the distant
mountains and turns to the guide
book to read mechanical descriptions
all even as he reads.
In all this land of the western coun-
try Nevada alone holds the links be-
tween the present and the past. Ne
vada is the custodian of countless
former life.
Phoebe. Nevada, is one of these
camps; Belmont another. Hamilton.
Jefferson, Ely-all of them once thriv-
ing towns, teeming with life and &C.
ton, resounding with the heavy sound
of machinery, brilliant in the night
with the lights within, proud of the
power of their mineral wealth-are
! he ~ <oA fC11 xxyho
pied them and went over the long trail
into the land beyond the Divide.
Phoebe is situated over 500 miles
southwest from Salt Lake. In the
late '7Os it still chung to it's position
in the world, but the inevitable hap
pened. The Nemesis of the gold hunt
er blighted its activity, and it died.
The same houses line its weed grown
streets; their blinds flap idly in the
wind. Upon the counters of the
musty saloons stand blackened bottles,
covered with cobwebs. The cry of
richer gold fields has called it's life
blood elsewhere, and it is left nerveless
and alone, to wither amid the sage
brush and disintegrate with its men,
cries forever locked within. it's silent
halls.
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camp of the long ago rise shelters,
chimneyS, hoists, furnaces, iron ma
chimes all rusted and torn, huge piles
of red and green and russell rock.
At Hamilton, camp that once held
over $4,000 souls, but where 100 now
dwell, the recent advent of an au
tomObile, driven by daring noun
! tain tourist, caused a great sensation
Yet it's day of success knew every
luxury invented by man. Today it is
dream place far above the cOlored
clouds. Sheep and cattle wander amid
its streets, and a few grizzled men
sit about the old iron stove in the
postoffice and speculate on the val
lie of the Klondike. Below this lit
tie camp lies valley of green anG
gold. Over it floats clouds SO exceed
ingly rare in cOloring that their like
is not to be found in a dozen place.
| in the world, but it is not the cloud.
that lure the gold hunter, and so tn,
sky paints pictures for no mans eye!
in this "No Mans" land.
There is a new camp over Their,
now. They call it Tonopah. House,
are springing up in the night time