Williams news., 1905-04-01
NO PLACEFOR
 A POOR MAN

The following interesting letter from Goldfield, written by Mrs. Sid ney Coburn, to the editor of the Naco Budget, is here published:
 GoLDFIELD, NEv., March 21, 1905. Dear Sir:--I believe 1 promised you a descriptive letter of Gold6eld. It would take the gifts of Mark Twain to describe this place and its conditions, so as to convey a cor rect idea to the average mind Ones opinion of a place is almost invariably based upon his own ex- perience, and is good or bad accord ing to his success or failure, and since experiences here of people of different occupations are more widely varied than at any place l have ever been, I have decided to give you Goldfield from my own point of view. So this viewpoint IS puTely perSoNal.
 The climate and weather, which is a source of so much concern to people living in warm places, is good-if hot sun and absence of snow make it so. I arrived here on the 25th of February and there was not vestige of snow on the ground, nor on the hills as far as the eye could reach, and the hot rays of the sun are unchallenged by the cooling influence of blade of grass, tree, mesquite bush, or, in fact, anything green, excepting the deluded people who are rushing in here madly in pursuit of gold. Old Sol has, however, one formid- able rival in the sharp, piercing, cold winds, that make fires a neces- sity as soon as he sinks behind the barren hills and strikes terror to the heart of the prospector.
 The reports that reached Naco in regard to the epidemic of sickness and the deaths here were not only exaggerated but were bsolutely false. The place is healthful and the water good-much to the regret and disgust of the too many physicians here Goldfeld has all it needs in the line of professional men and mechanics, and there are hundreds of common laborers out of employment. The wages of miners, mechanics, bartenders, gamblers, and, in fact. all engaged in saloon work is good, but, as is the case with all other kinds of work, the number of applicants exceed the positions ten to one, and the cost of living is so great that it absorbs the best wages. Office and all clerical work commands only about $100 per month, while "hashers" get S4 and board per day.
 No Chinamen are allowed in this camp, but the. Indian buck and his squaw, the Flutes and Shoshones, are in evidence and do the rough labor, such as cutting wood and washing clothes, and, as is the case with the Mexican, they work for half what a white man needs to live upon.
 The camp is supported princi- pally by transient people. Great numbers come and go every day, which makes the transfer and freight business good, when you forget the fact that hay is $8O per ton and other feed proportionately expensive. The automobile, how ever, eats no hay and is one of the prlnclpal means of travel from Tonopah here, which is a distance of twenty eight miles and the term mus of the railway. Other means of reaching Goldfield from there are by stage, wagon or the miners old friend, the burro. The means of exit are not always the same. A great number who come in on auto mobiles go out "apie," and feel the truth of the old adage, "No este orc todo To que reluce."
 Goldfeld is good place for in vestment-for capitalists. But peo- pie without money should be warned