Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-28

mo, I don't like it, but there is money
to be made here and that's what we
came to the desert for.
"It is ia very quiet town, though.
Why, until a couple of days ago we
had no officers. once in while a
man knocks another one out, and then
he brings him over here to get fixed
up, and he pays the bills. The man
who does the knocking out usually
looks as If he felt ashamed of it, but
that is all There is to it.
Camp Has a Graveyard
"There are only seven graves i'm
Beatty, and only one of these is the
result Of a shooting scrape. One is a
babys grave. They raised it, or tried
to, on condensed milk, and of course it
did not live. Cows are not plentiful
in the desert and the only. milk which
can be secured comes from little
ranch twelve miles up the Amargosa
valley 1t costs 25 cents quart after
going through the watering process.
Sometimes we say we won't go to
people when they get sick, but when
that time comes we always go, just the
same"
Out of place in this desert town was
the doctor, and yet she seemed the
kind of woman for which there is a
great need in mining camp
1t was hard to tear away from this
side street. There Is a fascination
about a mining camp at night that
seems to grip one.
went to bed, but long into the
night when most of us were making a
pretense of sleeping in the Pullmans,
cheers came to our ears from the camp,
where the miners were making merry.
Party Goes to RhyoIite
Early in the morning of the next day,
after watching two giants drill through
two solid pieces of rock for a cash
prize, we went to Rhyolite. With j.
Ross Clark's party were some of the
most prominent officials of the Salt
Lake railway from Los Angeles and
there was an equal number Of proni-
nent men from Salt Lake City. We got
into one of the huge automobileS-the
desert greyhounds," some one called
them-that are the chief vehicles of
transportation on the desert. Strangely
out of place seem these most modern of
inventions in the midst of all the crude
ness of the desert, and yet they have
played more important part in the
development of the mining properties
than any other one factor. They are
made for desert use and the one in
which we rode was made by the chauf-
feur who drove it, A magnificent We
hicle 1t was. There were none of the
fine trappings of the city machines,
such as would be out of place on the
desert, but they climb over those hills
and plow through the sand with an
ease that is almost incredible. Most
of them are gray, the color OF the
desert sand, and otter trip 1t is hard
to find the paint, there is so mLeh sand.
There were sixteen of us in the car
and before we got to the great Mont
gomery- -Shoshone mine the cap blew
off the water tank and we on the front
seat had shower bath. Nobody mind
ed-every one of the desert takes
what comes as part of the game-and
soon we moved on again
Shows Treasures in Ore
That wonderful treasure vault which
has made Bob Montgomery million
aire and bids fair to become the creator
of many other millionaires, was our
first intentional stop. With lighted can
dies we went through the tunnels of this
wonderful mountain and the superin-
tendent explained the workings of the
various parts and broke off pieces of
the ore for our inspection. Who would
not get the gold fever at the thought
that hundreds of other hills just as
barren looking as this one may contain
Just as much Of the yellow dust for
which the world seeks?
From the Shoshone we went down
into Rhyolite, a thriving little mining
town. surrounded on every side by rich
properties. Business is rapid in Rhyo-
lite and the board of trade was out
that day with rigs and invitations to
view the mining properties. 1t is the
first time that visitors have been given
free access to every rich property In
Nevada.
fine collection of ore was exhibited
and the rock was crushed and the gold
panned at the board of trade headquar-
ters. There is considerable jealousy be-
tween the towns in the district, though
every resident will fatty deny the
charge. In the case of Beatty and
Rhyolite there should be none, for they
are far enough apart to both exist In
q flourishing state. Though Beatty will
be the railroad center. 1t is not the
centersof the mining district, for more
of theg properties upon which devel-
opment work has been done are
grouped around Rhyolite.
There Is room for both and the
growth OF one town cannot fail to help
the ,othefsH &C.
Bottle Baby in Bottle House
one of the most unique things in
Rhyolite Is couple of bottle houses,
which are constructed of beer and wine
bottles, of which naturally there are
a great manyin the camps Fifty thou
sand bottles were used in the construc-
tion of the larger house and they are
planted in adobe and a kind of cement
which is found in abundance in that
country.
There are three rooms and the house
rents for $50 a month. The roof and
Aoor are of wood and the lumber was
hauled into camp over one hundred
miles.
Living I'm this house was a young
man and his wife and 6-months-old
baby. Babies are luxury In Southern
Nevada. This one is being raised ON
matted milk. II costs $1.25 for a bottle,
which lasts three days. The mother
brought the little one out and exhibited
her with great pride.
"They come high, but we would not