The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14
eoLDF1ELD SURE TO GROW.
A New Awakening Of Nevada is TAX
ing Place.


A New Awakening Of Nevada is TAX
ing Place.
From the Deseret News.)
Il. X. Casper, n newspaperman who
for several years, of and on, has been
on the staff of the News, has returned
from an eight months trip to the min
ing camps of Nevada. During five
months of this time he has been in
Goldfeld and Tonopah and for the past
three months he has been down on the
desert in the Bullfrog country. He re-
turns thoroughly imbued with the rich
ness of those districts and says a new
awakening of Nevada is taking place,
the end of which no man can foretell.
beginning with Tonopah, which is
the oldest and best developed of any
of the new Nevada camps he says that
there is no longer any doubt about its
permanency and that in his opinion
within a very short time it will be-
come another Virginia City without
the wild speculation which made the
latter camp so conspicuous In its day.
The town has nearly doubled in popu-
lation since last fall and contains 5000
or 5000 people all of whom seem to
be prosperous. He was informed by
Sam Durham, the able editor of the
Miner, that the ore in sight had prac-
tically been doubled within the past
90 days. In the Tonopah company's
property, which owns the famous Miz-
pah which was discovered by Jim But
Ter and out of which leasers tool sew
eral millions, a "horse' was encoun-
tered on the 600 foot level and which
has recently been passed through and
entered an ore chamber larger and
richer than any found on the upper
levels.
WAITING ON RAILROAD.
While the leading mines are making
regular shipments of high grade ore,
second class ore is being piled up
awaiting the completion of the stand
ard gauge from Reno to Tonopah, The
grade on the Tonopah railroad under
Col. Trip has been widened and the
rails will he laid in short order just
as soon as the Carson & Colorado has
it's grade completed to Sodaville. 1t
has reached Hawthorne and it is con-
fdently expected that by the first of
September the whole line will be in
readiness for the standard gauge. In
the meantime the roadbed from the
point on the Tonopah line where it
leaves for Goldfeld is ready, awaiting
ties and rails, so that in September a
person leaving Salt Lake need only
change at Ogden and Reno and then
be booked straight through to Gold
field. Ore shipments from Tonopah
and Goldfeld will then be largely in
creased and those towns will then ex
perience a period of activity such as
they have never witnessed before.
GOLDFIELD WILL GROW.
Mr.. Casper says be is met on every
hand by questions regarding the pres
ent and future of Geldfeld and that
the general impression in Salt Lake
seems to be that Goldfeld has seen its
best days. He says that it is far from
being the case. Six months ago when
the leases on the Continuation, Janua-
ny, Jumbo and other leading mines had
expired, there occurred a period of in
activity which to the inexperienced
gave the impression that the camp had
a "black eye.' This was quite natur-
al. The leasers had worked h~urriedly
and had in some instances left the
workings in the mines in bad shape. 1t
became necessary for the owners to
make new arrangements to continue
the work. The result has been that
the Combination has a beautiful plant,
consisting Of steam hoist, ore Inns, a
first class stamp mill and everything
to enable them to sink 1000 feet or
more. Below the water level ~sulphide
ores have come in which hold up well
in values and promise a great future
for this property. On the January,
which adjoins the Combination, and
out of which "~January" Jones, Zeb
Kendall and their associates who were
leasing on the property, took over a
million dollars last year, a body of sui
phide ore has been found on the $50
foot level, varying from s to 10 feet
wide, which averages $3.50 to the ton.
The Florence on the east of the ComLi-
nation, and which has been worked by
its owners all the time and is a close
corporation, is constantly in "bonan-
za,'' and fast making it's owners rich.
Th4 LUKE -. wro-,.r e.. o-4c.vo