The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-15
MAY REDEEM STATE
Nevada Has Been Born Again" by Reason of Recent doI
Discoveries
Wing b. Allen in Minneapolis Journal.


state on a new roadbed and see moth
ing but barren mountains and inter-
minable sands is to realize that the trip
is an important event in ones life and
that one is going into experiences, the
very newness of which savors of peril
and hardship. A feeling of having 20
contend with elements in this new
world; there is a subtle appeal to all
that is brave and manly in ones make
up, and the sense of it thrills.
The trip also reminds one of the
hardships endured by the first arrivals,
who went in by stage. The railroad
fare of 10 cents a mile is nothing
one ear cover ground in a day which t
took the stage a week to travel over.
And it doesn't matter to you if the
road is earning enough money on this
desert to pay for itself every seven
months.
The Clearly" prospectors-this has
all happened since l90O-remained 1T
Tonopah for a year or so. Then they
commenced to branch out over the rest
of the southern part of the state. There
was an old spring about twenty-eight
miles southeast of Tonopah where for
years wild horses consorted. Some
prospectors camped there in 1903 and
it became Goldfeld. Tonopah had sill
yer. Within a mile of this spring gold
was discovered practically at the grass
roots-or what would have been grass
roots if there had been any grass.
Strike after strike was made and the
ore was remarkably rich. There are
many stories told of the wealth OBJ
tanned by those who were first on the
ground.
At Goldfeld, the principal camp, TO-
900 people are gathered. They live in
tents, dugouts, cabins and cottages.
There is on" brick cottage erected
at a cost of $4,000. There are
a few other residences which cost sew
eral thousands each but for the most
part people are content to live in tents
or rude cabins. They came from all
parts of the world to seek wealth, not
a home.
This city knows no law except that
of the early day mining camp. A com
mittee of five citizens enforces what
ever police regulations are necessary
under a semblance of authority OBJ
tanned from the county commissioner
of Esmeralda county, a county as large
as many states. It's duty consists
largely in looking after sanitary condi-
tions and fire protection. To modest =
woman is apparently one of the great
est offenses against the common law If
the camp, and woe be to him that at
tempts it!
But the coarser element does not
predominant in the camp. 1t is claimed
that a university club of 300 members
could be organized in G%oldfeld, and |
have no doubt it is true. They have
such a club in Tonopah. And there are
ladies of culture and refinement in
camp in large numbers. They are
everywhere in evidence. Many of the
two-room cabins and even some of the
tents contain pianos from which come
the sounds of Beethoven Sonatas and
Chopin Nocturnes as often as 81 Wish
L Was in Dixie or some popular air
taken there from some eastern home.
In less than two years modern three
story business blocks nave been erect
ed, streets graded, electric light sys-
ten installed, railroads built, power
brought by wire from Bishop, Cal,
ninety miles, five ore mills built, "A
brewery and slaughter house in opera
tion and telephone and telegraph con-
~nection made with the outside world.
The postoffce starting in the lowest
class, has jumped to the presidential
class in less than no time, and does
more business than many a large east
ern city office. There is a waterworks
but the supply, now taken
from the spring mentioned at the open
ing of this article, is inadequate, and a
plan is on foot for the piping of water
from California. All this is in a desert
90 miles from the nearest vegetation.
Nevada, the despised, has been born
again and commands attention.