Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-04-08

around the depot and advise people to
keep away from Goldfield. They tell
all the tales of sorrow, woe, depriva-
tons and suffering the people have to
endure there. They tell as harrow
ing stories about Goldfield as the Rev.
George Bailey and Rev. Wesley Hill
do of Utah. They point to the few
people returning, but say nothing of
the crowds that are going. When
arrived at Tonopah and Goldfield
found that their stories were absolute
ly false All the people who went
with me readily found work at the
rates mentioned above. There are
hundreds of people out of work there,
but they are class of people who do
not want work; people who loaf
around saloons and gambling houses
looking for soft snap, looking for a
job where there is no work and big
pay. 1t is this class of people who
are the kickers at Reno. The newspa-
pers have taken up the cry and are
telling of the awful death rate from
pneumonia, but | found that while
there were many deaths from pneu.
monia, 95 per cent of them were men
who sat around hot saloons and gam
bling houses till midnight and filled
up with booze then either slept out OF
doors or in a tent, and that kind of
treatment would send a man to glory
in a climate like Los Angeles, St.
George or Key West. The drinking
water in Tonopah and Goldfield is
good and healthful. A good well can
be obtained at depth of so or 60 feet.
| found at Tonopah Mr.. W. e. Law
son, an old Rio Grande passenger
agent, who has fine Office and is get
ting rich dealing in mines and mining
stocks. He wanted to sell me stock in
the Silver Pick mine at II cents and
now it is quoted at 81 cents, a nice
little advance in eight days. | also
met Mrs. Emma Paine of Ogden who
arrived in Goldfeld on March 18th
On the 18th she bought the Overland
hotel She threw the bar and fixtures
out, renovated the whole building and
by the time | came away, March Goth.
her rooms were all filled with good
people and her prospects are bright
for big returns on her investment.
The Rev. Samuel Blair of Ogden has
been doing good work for Goldfield
and has struck it rich. The Rev. Blair
has a good word for Utah as well as
Goldfield. He visited Pennsylvania
last summer and in January this year
| had the pleasure of visiting Kings
ton, Dorrenston, Wilkesbarre and sew
eral other places where he had been,
and by his good words for Utah sew
eral Methodist and other families
will visit Ogden, Salt Lake and Bear
River valley this summer. What
pleasure to follow a man whose mis-
sion is love, peace and good will to all
men. How different was the Rev.
Blair's talk to another Utah mission
airy who said in Wilkesbarre that most
of the Mormon children had sore eyes
and blood disease and many of them
were club footed and otherwise de-
formed. 1t was another Utah mission
airy at Redlands, California, who said
in a lecture there that she wanted to
raise ten dollars to help the cause of
Christ and the poor down-trodden hui
of Utah. She said it panied
her to think of the awful restitution,
poverty and want in Utah and to en-
phasize her talk she actually put her
hand on her corset to show the audi
ence where her pain was.
l met Mr.. James H. Brown of
Brown, Terry & Woodruff, at Gold
field. He had on khaki suit and
two weeks growth of whiskers, but
he seemed to enjoy it. We thought
by the dissertation Truth oave Of tho