Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-07-21

as 800 feet IN width on the surface and
they dip to the north about twenty
per cent from the yerticle. running
high in copper and averaging about
$500 In gold to the ton.
People have heard so much about
the hardships endured on the desert.
and more especially in Death Valley.
that they are lead to believe that there
is a great scarcity of water when such
is not the fact or course the water is
not In such abundance here as that 1t
can be found in other parts OF the
United States, but of all this barren
waste on this great American desert,
Death Valley is the best watered OF
all in this region.
Mr.. Harvey informs us that from
500 to 500 inches can easily be devel-
oped In Ash Meadow Valley. a strip
of fertile soil forty miles long by
twenty miles wide and as he remarked
the finest strip of land In the state OF
Nevada. There are natural artesian
wells In which water can be seen bub--
bling as deep as the eye can reach In
its depths. On other parts of the des-
ert water Is not found so abundantly
as that In Ash Meadows, but there has
been many an adventurous person who
have laid down their life in this coun-
try and at times very often when not
far from a babbling brook.
A stampede is on into that country
now. but 1t is nowhere near what 1t
will be in the next thirty days. Quite
number are struggling into camp and
some are prepared to endure the hard
ships that generally go with the open
ing of new camp. while there are
others who have not even as much as
canteen of water. and they depend
on others. A little town has already
sprang into existence in the close vi
cinity of Patsy Clark's mine and II
continually grows each day. The
country is located about for miles, but
there is always an opening for the
persistent and industrious and there
will be many a claim staked and To-
Gated that was never dreamed of, and
good ones, too. This district is a new
one and only found place on the map
within the last year. The wages are
the same as those that prevail in the
mines OF the Bullfrog country and as
1t is well known that Butte men know
how TO please the underground toiler,
the mines are hardly ever under the
disadvantage of a shortage of men.
IEfa In the Rnllfrog- country there are all of
the luxuries of a city life, but here
among the mines of Funeral Mountain
one must put up with camp life, and
even for all that there Is not a more
contented crew OF men than those en-
ployed by the Furnace Creek compa-
ny, and the other mines of the dis
trict.
As to the future of this district there
can be no doubt 1t has passed far be
yond the stage of venture and the
Furnace district will tend to build up
the greatness of Las Vegas and add
to the magnificent possibilities OF her
sister town, Rhyolite. Only about
year ago there was hardly anything
known of the Bullfrog and nothing at
all about the Furnace Creek mines, in
the Funeral Range, but today with the
little that is known about either. the
positive fact is clearly demonstrated
that Nevada within very few years
viii eclipse the earth with the vast
amount of her mineral productions.
With their greatness. great must be
Las Vegas. for 1t is impossible to be
otherwise. We will be city equal to
Spokane; yes, and mightier.
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