The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-04-07
THE RUSH
HARRY CARR In Los Angeles Times
HARRY CARR

gold greed, has set in from the north
into Goldfield and Bullfrog.
These boomers are the first hot sparks
OF the wild-fire that will sweep Owe Ne
vada this spring, if one may judge from
the astounding sale of tickets in the
East.
A man from Cincinnati told me that
in his city men are selling their little
homes to get money enough to rush 70
the gold fields.
Leaving the Bullirog district. We
were caught in the beginning OF this
rush.
We went into the Bullfrog by the
almost unbroken route from the south
which Los Angeles hopes to make the
main artery OF trade into the gold
| fields.
We went out over the northern route.
which is San Francisco's outlet, and at
present, until the Clark road is running,
the Denver and Salt Lake outlet.
The two ways are as different as two
lOItiSH CpuIltlleS.
The movement in from the south
could not be called Il rush. The thin
clouds OF dust down the desert valley as
far as the eve can reach, signify slow
~plodding freighters with bacon, beans,
lumber and groceries.
Coming in from the north are the ore
seekers, hot with the lust for gold, often
straight from the railroad and raw from
the East.
The gold craze started far to the north
OF Tonopah, tipped over the hills into
Goldfeld, slipped down to Thorpe's and
into Bullfrog. Even now it is started
hot for the Panimint and the Funeral
range. The people about Manse and
Sandy, 100 miles to the south, feel sure
it is headed there. Heaven knows
where it will bring up.
These boomers make one think OF
children on a sea backbone finds a
pretty shell and they all run for it,
shrieking with excitement. While they
are pulling and fighting over it, some
one spies a new one and they all drop
the first one and rush away, screaming,
in the new direction.
THEY'RE OFF.
First. a strike will be reported at
Thorpe's Well. for instance, and off they
20. painting. Before they have time to
do more than kick together a pile OF
stones. there's Il new alarm and away
they dash; then it's the Panamint
mountains or the Funeral range.
I was not lucky enough to see the start
OF a rush from Goldfeld for the scene of
a new strike. People told me. however
that crazed men rush for horses and 20
out in the middle of the night. Often Il
man suspected of Il rich secret will be
brazenly followed out OF town by men i'll
wagons who never let him out OF their
sight until they find out where his claim
his adventures in thus trying to shadow
a man into his gold lair.
The fact is, gray old Nevada is wills
pering scenes of a hoard so rich that it
drives mel mad. The treasures on top
glitter so dazzlingly that bewildered
fortune hunters lack the steady nerve TO
settle down and dig.
The money that is to be made out OF
the gold fields. however, will be by men
who 90 in calmly to develop mines, pre-
pared to work and spend money. not by
these poor fools who are looking for
piles of gold dollars already coined and
marked with their names and addresses.
WOULDN'T KNOW GOLD.
We met raw tenderfeet prospectors in
derby hats who wouldn't know gold
from anthracite coal, racing with old
mining men.
We met saloon keepers with their
.groegeries piled onto wagons, throwing
the alkali dust of their teams onto
hotel keepers with their complete hos
piled onto other wagons, they.
themselves, sitting on top OF the heaps
their necks for the first sight OF
the promised land.
This class of people always beEeve
that just over the next divide they can
just everlastingly get rich; but on this
side, they seem to fail.
Resides these classes of boomers, we
saw representatives of the ~riff-raff of all
creation. The gold lands are getting q
liberal supply OF the scum OF the earth.
Many OF them cheat their way West on
transportation, os-
tensibly as railroad laborers.
Even the stock is different on the
northern trail ont OF Bullfrog.
Coming from the south, we saw fine,
big horses and mules, we'll fed and we'll
treated by the rough '~'skinners and
"swampers."
The skinner is the boss OF the freight