The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-12
G0LDF|ELD DRAWS
EVERY TYPE OF MAN
Claims People from Every Cor
ner of the Earth
MANY NEWSPAPER MEN
Fabulous Wealth Is Reported as Hav-
ing Been Amassed by Adven-
turous Spirits in Me-
vada Gold Mines.

Goldfeld, New, November Like
every other speck on the map which GOLD
has made the mecca of the hearts that
yean for riches. Goldfeld has drawn into
her boundaries every type of the advep-
tnrous blped known and listed by the
chroniclers of strenuous romance. Along
the shifting crowd that throngs the wood
en- sidewalks of this modern Goleonda, a
crowd ten thousand strong. are men
from every far corner OF the earth. men
of every breed-save the vigorously barred
Cninese-nen of every profession, men of
morals, tastes and habits as diversified as
the hues of the sunset painted peaks of
the Funeral Range. In the group around
! Tex Richards roulette table one may
see, for instance, a white-haired relic of
the audacious crew that followed William
Walker in his half-forgotten forays
against the might of Mexico; or a man
VINO aimed a gun for Dewey at Manila;
or a veteran of the Irish Legion that fol-
| lowed the harrfed flag of Dom Paul; or
| a hafback who once spurred 10000 Yale
rooters to thunderous cheers; or a cash
| Tered German lieutenant: or an exiled
| English younger SOM or a drink-ridden
professor of ancient languages pallid
iail-bird.
Lettering in the Montezuma club, one
rubs elbows with surgeons who took their
degrees at Harvard. or Edinburgh or
| Vienna with barons and baronets hiding
their nobility in corduroys and puttees:
with the tramp of year ago, translated
yesterday into millionaire; with the
man who came to town to barber and
who has remained to direct the destnies
of a bonanza; with a grim, mahoganed
prospector, who followed his burros to and
fro over the gray desert, grub-stal<ed,
embittered, ragged, through a quarter of
a century. and who now scoots over that
same gray desert in fifty horsepower
motor ear. And in the homes, temporary,
crude, implanted. as for the most part
| they were first scattered over the land
scape are some of the sweetest, most
patient women that ever followed the for
tunes of a flying domesticty. Some Of
| these women, In the old days, kept the
children in school by toiling a the wash
tub: some of them were graduated from
Nassar or Wellesley and learned to be
proud of their skill in cooking hapjacks
over camp fires in the sagebrush; some
were stenographers-a good ones; some
were chorus girls; some were always
among those present at the SWEETEST So
cial functions back home" But some
times the former laundress still splitting
her infinities, can write her check for
five figures, and the Vassar girl still
reading Emerson and Maverllnck, fries the
family steak for the sake of economy.
None Really Peculiar.
Yet, in spite of the variety of types thus
sketched. none of them is really peculiar
to Goldfield, compared with all the other
great mining camps. In California, in
Colorado, in Virginia City, in Alaska in
Australia, In South Africa, the argonauts
were no less miscellaneous And the one
profession which Goldneld can claim TO
have magnetized no other camp ever
did is the newspaper profession. IL you
ever were a reporter on any of a hundred
big American dailies, you cant stand ON
Goldheld's principal thoroughfare for
more than ten minutes without seeing
some chap that used TO hammer his COPY
from the typewriter next to yours, in a
local room of Boston, New York or
Pittsburg, or Chicago, or Denver or San
Francisco. There are at least 300 crack
reporters in Godfeld today and a few
more arrive every night
Now If the statistieian will figure that
there are not more than three thousand
top-notch reporters in the whole United
States-and that is a pretty generous esti-
mate-it may easily be demonstrated that
iot tSS tildl 10 per cent OF them
tucked away in this remote and dusty cor
ncr of Nevada. That percentage has i'm
migrated hither in lessAhan a year Per-
haps ffty of those who came first have
already departed to China or Caracas or
Yokohama. Egypt, or Paris with a
bank account Fat enough to let them sit
down. at last, and write that BOOK An
other score. equally successful as ac-
cumulators, are on the eve of fitting But
the percentage present steadily increases
nevertheless. How long will it take the
last of the elect three thousand to get
here? And how long, these three thous-
and having made their pile and retired
to life Of cushioned case how long will
1t be before the newspaper profession,
with Goldiield as the ultimate goal of the
capable, will absorb all the intelligent
young men in the country? And ii all
the intelligent young men become re-
porters. who will saw off the legs, and
gonge the teeth, and preach the sermons,
and defend the criminals of the next gen
grafton? Think 1t over.
Explanation Easy.
! The explanation of this stateAof affairs
is easy. it begins with firm called the
| sullivan Trust company. The Sullivan
| 'frGss company buys claims. and makes
mines of Them and takes oules of gold
out of The mines. And when the Sullivan
Trust company was organized its pro-
| motors decided that its confidential men
must be young men, with brains. And it
Was also decided the place TO look. with
least risk. for these young men with
brains was among the star newspaper re-
porters, anywhere between Maine and
California So they hired dozen, by way
! of making a start. And they got the pre-
else dozen they wanted because they Of
fered each and every one of them a
salary big that received by the
SECRETARY of state or United States sem
ator.
Naturally. it would have seemed that a
staff thus secured and rewarded would
| have been permanent staff. But the
sullivan Trust company prospered from
the beginning, assisted by its galaxy of
| gray matter, and being generous. gave
a hunk of stock in every new mine II
promoted TO each of the gray matter per-
| sons aforesaid Az these stocks, by good
luck or good management always Went
. up, the first dozen of the sullivan news
paper stars went to bed, say. on FRI
day night, moderately well fixed. and
walked up on Saturday morning too rich
10 work The first dozen. ther1 fore. left
| vacancies for Il second dozen, and, IN
, dian Camp. Jumping Jack and selay Deg
having put this lot on a silk-pajama fifty
, | cent cigar basis in less than three months