The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

structed and enlarged MiZpah hotel,
also of stone, and also five stories high.
One block down Main street work is
being pushed ahead on the new Mer-
chants hotel. which will be four stories
high. Already the 'rag-town" of five
years ago is town of soifdly-buiit
frame houses, with numerous cosy.
snug little 'doDe houses clustering on
the slopes of Mount Brougher, and In
a few years there will be more stone
houses than lighthouses in Tonopah.
Tonopah will have other amusements
this Christmastiie besides watching
1.-THE conQuering COON and the pride
of the Ghetto mix it in smuggling
match. Tonopah is beginning to bulk
large not only N the pugilistic, but also
in the theatrical eye. TonOpah has
the money to pay for whatever 1t wants
and it demands the best Of everything.
Constance Crawley, with her company,
viii give seven performances here be-
ginning Christmas eve. When her
coming was first mooted, 1t was object
ed that there were but two theatres in
town and that neither was available,
one being used as a skating rink and
the other being booked for a long vau-
deyflle run. Tonopah does not let a
little thing like that stand In her way.
II q theatre was not available, the
atre must be built. Men were straight
way put to work and Eagles pavilion,
heretofore a dancing hall and ball
room, was transformed into large
theatre. The time has gone by when
Tonopah's demands for amusement
could be adequately met by the saloon,
the dance hall and the gambling house.
Tonopah is on the map to stay; Tono-
pah is a permanent city and asks for
the amusements, the iuxuries and the
pleasures of q city. 1t can pay the
price.
II you would see where the money to
pay the piper comes from, climb to
the top of Mount Brougher and look
down on the slope OF Mount Oddie.
IF thou wou1dst view Melrose Alright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight"
Wrote Sir Walter Scott, and It is "by
the pale moonlight that Tonopah is
to be seen at her best, for a sage
brush mining camp by daylight Garnet
truthfully be described as a thing of
beauty. The half-darkness and the
glamor of the moonlight changes ali
this, however. What is foul and ugly
is shrouded in obscurity and all that is
seen is the twinkling lights, the black
bulk of the buildings, the glistening
snow and the tall hoists, looming UP
like eaunt specters in the the gloom.
II is only from the top of an eminence
like Mount Brougher that the full Cx-
tent of the mineralized zone around
Tonopah can be realized and even then
some good properties, hidden away be-
hind the shoulder of Mount Oddie are
not visible. From every side the elank-
clank-clank-chug-chu of the hoists
rises I'D to the ear and ever and anon
a duIl rumble tells of the firing or a
charge. The Tonopah lodges run,
roughly speaking, east and west, and
from the Stone Cabin claim on the Jim
Butler Mining company's ground in the
east to the West Tonopah in the west,
and from the Belle of Tonopah in the
north to the Ohio-Tonopah in the
south ore has been found. East of
these limits. Superintendent Tuckett of
the Rescue is steadily pursuing his
search for ore, confident of ultimate
success. While, far to the west, Marius
DuvalI of the Standard is engaged on
the same quest, with the same logged
resolution and the same confidence as
to final results. Between the two lie
the wonderful properties which have
made Tonopah a household word
throughout America the Mizpah, the
Belmont, the Jim Butler, the Montana
Tonopah, the Midway, the MacNamara,
the West End, the Tonopah Extension.
On the hillside stands the Midway mill
and behind it is rising the Montana
Tonopah mill whose forty stamps win