The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-21
RHYOLI1E GREAT
CAMP HE SAYS
John BeCkman Talks OF the
Riches in the New
Fields.
MARVELLOUS GROWTH
is ENJOYED BY TOWN
Monthly Payroll Now Reaches
More Than 100000 a
Month.

John Beckman, president OF the
Rhyolite Mining and Brokerage COM
pany of Rhyolite. New, is at the Knuts-
ford, bound for Chicago on a well
earned vacation trip. Speaking of the
great camp in a general way. he said
THE Mayflower. Starlight and
Skookum properties. all of them great
silver and copper producers, are COM
ing to the front as the biggest mines
in all America Our town is having a
marvellous growth. We pay moro than
100000 a month In wages now, each
man earning from s4-50 TO IS per day.
Every once In a while we hear of
certain deadly diseases in and about
our mining camps, and l would like 10
say 1t is all absolutely false. We have
only one disease there, and that is
consumption-of grub, l never knew
men to eat more, work harder and do
less kicking than the men who work
in the several mines around Rhyolite.
Producers and Shippers.
LAS to production and shippers. l
can say the ShoShone, Denver and Gold
Bar mines are now shipping out ore,
but most of the ore produced by other
coming railroad. This road is within
about thirty-f1ve miles OF the town
now, AMI Is TO be completed by the
18th of July next. 1t is known as the
Las Vegas and Tonopah branch of the
Clark route. Two other lines arc COM
ing In, as fast as men and means can
bring them, viz. the Goldned and
Bullfrog branch of the Tonopah and
Goldfield and the Borax-Smith road.
the one from the north, the other from
the south. When these roads get IN,
and all of them must be In In two
months more, there VIII begin such a
building OF mills as was never seen In
Nevada before. The Shoshone and
Tramp Consolidated are ready to put
up forty-stamp mills at once. and
others, as soon as material can be had
The three biggest mines we have up
there are the Tramp Consolidated.
Montgomery -Shoshone and Gold Bar
II is safe TO say they are the biggest
mines ever discovered. They carry a
ledge of from 100 TO 300 feet IN width.
so that you see railroads mean more
for US than any other need just now.
Nearly all the ore is of the milling
grade.
Strong Union Camp.
1T is a strong union camp. and yet
we never have trouble. even though we
have many non-union men. The near |
est railroad station to us now is |
Johnnes station, on the Las Vegas
and Tonopah road, which makes a
fty-three-mile stage ride. In another |
month. though, we can make the trip |
10 Salt Lake In twenty-four hours
I'VE have three newspapers, several |
good schools, and churches will soon
be among us. In politics the people |
up there are for the man, and not for |
the party. We put up a Democrat in |
one section, and a Republican in an
other, and elected both, because both |
were good men. We think much Of |
Senator Ncwlands, who is the friend |
of working men everywhere. We shall |
not, however, allow labor troubles to
grow among us. Most of the present |
operators have been union working men
themselves, and know the ropes too
we'll to allow lnconsiderate hotheads
to mix things UP.
Eastern capital is wholly used In
the development of the camp, and San |
Francisco Is the clearing-hous for all
our financial work. In a small way
we feel the loss OF San Francisco's |
financial countenance, but we have
overcome ii, and all is smooth now.
Utah Is strong in the camps. and
We have soft spot in our hearts for
all Utah men and measures. Let me
say a kind word for The Tribune and
It's remarkably able work on all lines"