The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-19
ROMANCE Of THE
SEARCH FOR GOLD
Wind-Swept Deserts Blossom
Out Into Great StOreh0useS
of Wealth.
HOW G0LDFlELD HAS
JUST BEEN CONVERTED
Pr0spectorS Have Many Things
to Learn Before Success
Is Obtained.

But little more than three years ago
the desert wind swept over where the
city of Goldficd now stands with per.
haps only scattering tent or two of
the prospector to interrupt it's course.
Here was tract of the vast Nevada
desert, only distinguishable from the
hundreds Of miles about it by a III,
tie difference IN the contour of the
hIlIs and a little change in coloriDg
from the dull gray landscape, saws the
Nevada Mining Investor. IL was not
q change 10 attract in any conspicuous
manner the eyes of man. nor would the
desert wayfarer dream that il differed
IN any momeuious degree from the IL
llmltable eXpanse of waste about It,
But this spot was different it did
not belong 10 the dead monotomv of
the waste about ii, it was magic
spot, an acreage possessing such oppor~
tUnity rs few others like IL have ever
possessed upon the surface OF the earth.
Here wandered, when this spot was
an unnamed part of the desert, pros
pector Then another and another
came. They found in splall quantity
that which they sought and put up
their stakes upon 1t. Then followed
a prlcT furry OF excitement Hun
dreds rushed in and hundreds rushed
out again. A few stayed and dug pa
rentlT. They. after time Were re,
warded By finding gold. The mine buy
er was sought for and the mines bonded
Tor moderate sums. The mine buyer
spent some money In sinking holes and
dld net buy. Then came weeks OF de
preston. the prospector discoura ged,
other mine buyers indifferent.
Then-how it started, no one knows
the excitement! The rush. The
stampede! The hundreds rushed back
agaln and the thousands followed The
camp was wonderful because everybody
told everybody else it was. aud every-
body proved il by everybody else. Such
stampedes baye been known before,
have been known since, and will al.
Ways be known in the mining regions
Wnen everybody knows = camp is rich
because everybody quotes everybody
else as saying so-it does not alwavs
happen 10 be so, But it did in Gold.
held. Only everybody did not know
how rich II WAS, nor dream how won.
derful treasure spot OF fortune it
was. Had only one person known and
he told everybody only the truth. he
would have been promptly given pre-.
eedence as the most glorious liar of all
time,
Like magic ihe city of enthusiasts
grew, Where the prospector he'd walked
despondlngly his footsteps were in gold.
en- ore He MAS treading upon the ton
OF such marvellous richness rs the world
had never before produced But he did
not see II and those vino came after
hlm did not see it--at first. Finally
the eyes of hundreds caught the golden
giint and the blood of thousands caught
the golden fever.
Tneu was witnessed such chances
taken in the search for gold as would
appall the timId. The man without 3
mime holding besougbt the man who
mad for leasing concession. He got
II and took his chances wherever il
might be. The gsllows frames of Ieas
ers shafts after time studded the
Mills like derricks of an oil field. II
the mighty gamble, Fortune rewarded
her fsVorites with such lavishness as
TO amaze the world.
Today Goldfeid is fcverjsh, nerve
rscSing hive Of struggling energy.
From its dark shafts 100000 per dav
is coming forth TO add TO the sum to.
tai OF the money of the world NOTHING
comparab bic with it was ever seen be,
tore and nothing like it may ever again
be seen The days OF 40 are n ro.
nance. and the days Of Goldfeld will
furnish another page IN the forever
remembered annals of human events.