Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-29
JUST LIKE TOPSY."

Their is hardly a man, woman or child in the ecountry who has not
roar Uncle TOMS cabin. Dr. seen the production upon the stag To
all Of these the character of "Topsy' is a familiar one and just as IA
mirar is her quaint saying, when asked who made her, No one; |
just grew"
No mor appropriate comparison than the time-worn saying of this
little character could be used in describing the growth of Tonopah.
Tonopah Just grew" In the annals Of the western country there is no
city which can boast Of a building similar to that Of this city. Almost
every city and town Of any Importance west of Chicago has had its real
estate boom. AS sure as a settlement reached the point where a stable
population was assured came the real estate agent, with the ways pecu-
liar to himself. and then the town SITES additions, etc.
For the past fifty years Chicago has had her real estate agents by
the hundreds, all of whom have done their share in plating off new
town sites and inducing the congested population to scatter to the sub
urban praires, where hundreds upon hundreds of homes have been
buided up the insalment or monthly payment plan. There is no
reason to decry this method of procedure in a city the size of Chicago,
for the suburban home has been a Godsend to thousands of the juvenile
population Of that busy mart. In Denver the same course was pursued
in the early days and even at the present time the busy real estate man
with his fertile brain, plays al important part To go further west,
Los Angeles offers a glowing example of the power of the real estate
man. 1t is well known and undsputed fact that Los Angeles present
standing is almost entirely due to the unshnted advertising of the real
estate promoter. Hundreds of other cities, large and small, might be
mentioned where the same tactics have been pursued.
But in Tonopah no such condition of affairs has ever existed, nor
has it, up to the present time, been necessary. In the early days. when
first the wonderful resources of this locality began to be developed a
desire al evinced on the part of the mine owners, not only to bring
to their works men of good habits who would remain and make their
home in the community, but also to assist their men in every way
possible in securing homes. So instead of holding their unused land
for higher prices, IS has almost invariably been the case elsewhere, it
was cut up into building lots and sold to the men 1t a price s. reason
able that none could fail to take advantage of the opportunity. In this
way hundreds of the new-coming workmen secured homes for them
selves and families early in the career of the community, and as a re-
suit today many of them have valuable holdings, the values having in
creased slowly but surely a S Tonopah merged from the mining camp
to the settled business community.
Never during the entire life of the city has there been laid out a
town site, nor has there been a real estate boom. Tonopah Just grew
from natural causes, and 81 steady has been that growth that the rise in
values has been hardly perecptable, but today in comparison with a
few years ago it is found that prices have risen several hundred per
cent Today comfortable homes IRE the rule rather than the exception
and a large proportion of the older workingmen located here own their
own homes.
All of this speaks for Tonopah and her resources. 1t is the most
conclusive evidence possible that We have here resources which lead
those of any other community in the state. 1t proves that we are not
of a fuctuating nature, but that the mines here arc producers of the
highest class. 1t shows that Tonopah is not a mere mining camp
which has its day and is heard of no more, but is rather a settled town,
which will later be one of the leading cities of the State. Real estate
investors can find n o better field to place their money than in Tonopah
lots and houses. The confidence of those who have already done so,
and the steady but sure rise in values bears testimony to the fact
Tonopah, better than any other city in the State of Nevada, is entitled
to bear the name of city of homes"