The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-01-05


which will so cheaper reduction when
the time comes.
For the future of Goldfeld let us
hope a dozen roads may come and
radIate throughout this immense dis
trict.
just now new camps and the usual
winter prospecting have drawn a good
many people and that is all for our
good. The better and richer the sur
%roundings the better the immediate
future of Goldfeld, just as the appear
ance of a diamond is enhanced by it's
setting.
Goldfield is the biggest mineral dis
trict | ever saw. 1t is unusual to find
an area 10 miles by 10 miles float
strewn so as to warrant the location Of
almost every acre within 100 square
miles. Cripple Creek is about Ski
miles square, or 81 square miles in all,
and that district is wider than most
districts. There may be here east and
west channels as some contend. The
supposed "horse shoe is losing its
proportions. To me it looks like par
allel, generally north and south trends.
From north of Sandstone to south Of
] OOluuclu-I OItlduu, a uioLdHCt VI tHTct
miles, in all not more than half a mile
wide, are many rich shippers and much
very valuable ground. That is one
trend. From Diamondfeld way to
south of Dixie looks like another,
parallel to the first.
No development involving extensive
prosecuting and such disclosures Of
formations, both profitable and barren,
has yet been made as to establish any
hard and fast rule, and touay none 30
wise as to say where or when the next
mine will or will not be found.
o, you have some knockers, some
strong knockers, and silly timid men
have written in here for opinions, and
have been advised to keep out of locat-
ed and partly developed premises not
controlled by the knockers, at the same
time adroitly steered toward premises
that the knockers had interest in.
OF course it is next to rank idiocy for
a stranger, thinking he may invest, to
write and wire to some one he has ac-
~cidentally heard of, regarding a man
neither of them know, concerning prem
Uses neither of them have seen and in
advertently emitting the sending of
a fee.
But yet men who do bushes in the
east, cleverly as they think, make such
inquiries, and they get prompt advice
to the effect that the man has no stand
ing, and that as to whether there are
such locations is matter of doubt, that
they probably exist only on paper, or if
actually staked are Oft the belt, "bnt
l know of a property which is a world
haatar onnn RI mako q cfrIEa and will
be glad to put you on
Read the mining ads in the New
York Herald every Sunday and you
can't wonder that many are wary of
Goldfeld, for those ads make it appear
that the knaves and scoundrels If
earth are principally here engaged IN
mining promotions.
OF course the only thing is not to
mind them and to keep on with pros
pecting and development, for every
new camp affords the opportunities for
such things.
After the awful panic of 1898 when
/ was bankrupt and likely to go almost
anywhere, to provide for emergencies
and perhaps more to hearten myself, /
applied to some who HAD known me Is
years for a written line or two of in
dorsement. l had replies that did put
heart and courage into me. But the
one / remember most keenly, from n
successful financier who had stood the
storm, after landing ability and the
part l took in establishing mining deci-
sions beginning in chaos and ending in
system, concluded, "But of his fnan-
cial status / know nothing
Wouldn't that lar you?
1 might write in regard to any one
of the noble fellows who is trying with
all his might to make success, proud of
this camp, venturing his all of fortune
and of e%ndeavor, sanguine of success,
needing help, some miserable half
dozen lines, to men who do not know
me, and spoil his effort and without
actually impugning him or the work in
hand, damn him worse mar by "faint
praise" If I did | should be as con
temptible as other ours who do the
same thing daily, and try to draw at
t~ention to interests of their own
We are all struggling and striving,
n east, another west, and yet an
other out in the wilderness discovers
that which kindles his hope. Our ex-
perience and knowledge dlner, and we
are trying to fit them to conditions no
one of us has known anything about
for much more han twelve short
months.
1t was so in Cripple Creek. There
was no such camp. The wise men came
in and advised capital to stay away
altogether, that the pretended finds
were by men desperately poor and for
that reason should be discounted, and
further that permanent bodies of ore
could not exist in such formations,
b%recciated andesite and silicifed rhyo-
lite, because they had never been found
before.
In Leadville tremendous chaps, some
Just let loose from Columbia, after
Leadville had struc-- a splendid gait,
announced that permanent ore bodies
never would be founu in porphyry and
lime, and they talked about veins and
matrices, and wrote volumes of scien-
tifc rot, but Leadvllie kept right on.
Our fact is the gold is here, in all
sorts of stuff, that the chutes run deep,