The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-09-14
Three Years Ago Wild and Desolate Spot in
the Desert, Today the Most Remarkable
Mining Camp in the World. Wide Open
But Not All Wickedness How Men
Are Measured There. Many
Quaint Characters.

him. l saw a party of ten men lined
up at a Goldfeld bar. Eight of them
drank White Rock, plain, one drank
a glass of lemonade and the tenth a
glass of beer. This. it must be ad-
mitted was an exception to the rule.
and an exceptional case, Nobody
thinks there is any harm in dropping
a few dollars. on the roulette wheel
or at the faro game talked to
United States Senator Nixon on this
point. He said: There is not. in
my judgment any more wickedness
in Goldfeld than in other places out
side of Nevada. The difference sim
ply is that here we make no effort
to conceal anything" There is no
doubt a good deal of truth in the
senator's statment. Goldfield men
mind their own business very strict
ly and new comes rrae8eaDinoin
ly and new corners are expected to do
the same thing. When you come
name or his historyetaoinupnpnn
here don't ask anybody his real name
or his history before he left the east
Or if you must ask you had better
practice shooting from the hip few
months beforehand.
How Men are Measured.
In Goldfield they estimate a man
not by what he was, but by what he
is. Any man who wants to be square
can find a place for himself in Gold
field, and no questions asked But
the camp has no place in which a
crook can hide himself, once he is
known to be crook Outsiders will
find it hard to appreciate Goldfield
conditions. They must see something
decidedly homogeneous in the fact
that Larry" Sullivan the Goldheld
manager of a negro prize fight and
l.. NJ. Sullivan president and manager
of a big trust company, are one and
the same man. They cannot see how
TEX" Richard can be one of Gold
fields chief citizens and at the same
time the proprietor of one of the
biggest gambling houses and saloons
in the city. But that is Goldheld and
it is curious to see how quickly the
stranger learns to view the situa-
ton from the Goldheld standpoint.
Everything is New.
Everything is so new in Goldfeld.
In three years thanks to the steady
stream of gold that has been pour
ing out of the desert around, Gold
field has grown from a single tent to
a city where one may find practically
all the comforts of home. One of the
restaurants of Goldfeld is equal to
any in Salt Lake. The service is ex-
cellent. the bill of fare widely diver
sified. There is a club, the Monte
yuma. where the wayfarer is made to
feel welcome and where every hospi-
tality is extended to him. there are
business blocks that would look well
in any city.
IL Required Nerve.
And all this out of the desert
where the Yucca palm, known local |
y as the Joshua tree, is practically |
the only sign of vegetation for miles
around, if we expect occasional
of sage brush. 1t seems hey
ond belief that the first man. Stlmler.
should have had the nerve to go
forth into such a country; 1t passes
that. even with the
wealth of gold about. a city should
have been reared in such a forbid
ling place.
Boosters Are Plentiful.
Everybody in Goldfeld is a booster
was a booster myself before ! had
been there an hour. 1t is in the
lir. When you meet man who n
year ago carried his worldly pos
sessions on his back and who today
S a millionaire you can't help believ-
ng in the possibilities of the country.
And there are plenty such in and
lround Goldfield.
Many Made Fortunes.
George Wingield drifted in here
from Tonapah something like two
years ago. The story runs that he
mad won some money in a card game,
starting from a very small sum-. This
money he invested in leases that paid
him fabulous sums. Today Wing
field is the partner of United States
Senator Nixon. he is a heavy owner
In the famous Mohawk. a mine that
is taking out $4,000 worth of ore
every twenty-four hours, in the La
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