The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-22
BEATTY NOW Of
FIRST IMPORTANCE
Railroad Has Changed History
for This Little Oasis in
the Desert.
AUTO STILL PLAYS
A PROMINENT PART
It Is a Great Experience to Be
Whisked Across Sands in
Gasoline Wagon.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
BEATTY, Nevada, Oct. 2l.-Mlnlng
men and capitalists following the gold
en- trail experience a decidedly new
and novel sensation when vlsltlp g
either the Bullfrog or Gold6eld dis.
trict of Southern Nevada, or the Green"
water copper district, just over the line
in California To be whisked by auto"
mobile across the desert and into
Death valley is thriller that has here
tofore been denied the cosmopohtes IN
the mad race for hidden treasure. The
bepzine wagon as an adjunct TO the
prospecting and development of high
ly miperalized zone IS something so
unique as TO at cnce become a decl6e6
attraction. Beatty, elevation $500
feet, the heart OF the Bullfrog mining
district, is for the first time feeling
the pulsations that attend the opening
of a frontier town s first line of rail.
way. The first trains over United
States Senator Clark S Salt Lake
routes branch from Los Angeles, l2O
miles distant, are Just arriving: The
stage coach has been pushed farther
to Bullfrog now travel by rail TO the
mines IN which phenomenal strikes
have so recently caused stampede after
stampede Rich quartz veins scanned
with gold and studded with nuggets
have promptly turned prospects into
dividend paying mines and made mil
lioraires out of grub-staked prospec-
tors.
At Beatty the steam car is abandon
ed for the automobile and those who
90 on 10 Goldfield, q distance of II
miles, pay s25 for the privilege, and
as O. reward enjoy six hours of un.
changing desert scenery. Water, IN
the desert lands, is the one item of
consideration. No less important is
it than the ledges. But wherever the
water mound is seen there the drillers
are rewarded, Moisture from below
attracts some minor vegetable growth.
AS it develops and the roots penetrate
the soil the flow increases. Shifting
sands are held by the growth, and
after long years, it may be, the growth
of sand and shrub attains the pro-
portions OF a considerable mound,
Greenwater, the copper field wonder
inst over the line in California, is
nifty miles distant and to it a full
by automobile Is 500, and the road
is lined with the wealth hunters The
camp is right on the edge Of the desert,
with not q drop of water or a stick
of timber IN sight or within many
miles. Everything has TO be hauled
N over gravelly road upon which
the rays of desert sun beat nlerci-
lessly.
That it is an expensive camp may
be Judged by the fact that the
freight on lumber is $50 per thousand
from the nearest supply point, fifty
miles distant. The freight on mining
machinery exceeds the original cost
Water is $50 per barrel. It has to
ne hauled twenty-seven miles, and all
ten~horse team can do is to drag
1000 gallons over the road Il costs
$40 per day TO board team there, and
ham and aegs are 81, Amargosa is the
railway station from which stages de-
part from GTeenwater. The siding is
seventy-three miles from Las Vegas,
and the stage trip to the copper fields
Is over forty-eight miles of gravel
wash canyon road for the greater part
Of the distance: From Beatty the dis
tsnce to Goldfeld is seventy.seven
miles. The daily stage covers it in
fourteen hours; fare. SIC. Automobiles
make it in six hours; fare. s25.