The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-01-19

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100 square miles of territory. Most OF
the pay discoveries have been made in
the center of this district, but gold ore
has been shipped from points five miles
apart. 1t is a gold camp. Nothing but
gold has been uncovered here and
chunks of it have been uncovered
which were almost the pure stuff. That
is why some people think the place has
been lied about considerably, but the
truth is plenty good enough. Rich
strikes are constantly being telegraph
ed over the country. People should
learn to understand that these strikes
are for the most part just what they
are represented to be-no more, no less.
If it is reported that Smith, for in
stance, has broken into a body of $3.50,
900 ore on the Lucky Boy claim; that
the vein is well defined; that the indi-
cations are that it will last forever,
but that it would require further de-
velopment work to determine the facts,
there is no mis-statement made The
only thing that Smith and the local
papers can be criticised for is thai
there is no "follow up" story the nexs
day, when it might have been noted
that Smith had further explored his
find and discovered that the "vein'
was a bunch and the values had pinch
ed out. But these latter discoveries
are seldom interesting. Besides, Smith
doesn't feel so bad. He made a nice
little bunch of money out of what he
did find.
Discoveries Constantly Made
Since Goldfeld was populated, two
years ago, discoveries have been con
stantly made. Some of them have
Welded fortunes to the owners Others
have continued to contribute very regu-
larly to the wealth of the camp. 1t is
hardly worth while, in an article like
this, to mention each mine in detail. Ii
any one has, perchance, allowed Gold
field to suffer in his estimation it
would be well to recall that no other
camp in the worlds history has done
SO much as this one during the first
two years of existence.
An impressive feature of the situa-
ton in camp is this: There are about
10000 people here. Nine thousand of
them believe the hills ~hereabouts are
full of wealth. No one is discouraged.
On the contrary, every one seems to
feel that the finding of more wealth is
only a matter of continued development
work. and this work is being done.
often through great sacrifice OF money
and strength of honest miners. These
men are buoyed up by shining ex
amples of rewards gained by the sue
cessful ones.
1t is impossible to more than predict
what the future holds. Those who re-
call the earliest startling stories of the
discoveries made will remember how
men found gold on Jumbo hill n
carted it away under the guard OF guns.
A million dollars worth was extracted
at that time and it came from great
veins which cropped ON the surface
and dipped down almost p~erpendlcu-
larlv into the bowels of the earth.
These veins were worked to a depth of
about 100 feet. The leases on them
were all for short periods of time and
with their expiration the property was
plunged into litigation from which IT IS
only now seeing its way clear. Had 1t
not been for this litigation the history
Of the camp would have been far more
interesting for the period OF the past
wear. Some work has been done there,
it is true, but apparently 1t has not
been carried on in earnest, and no at
tempt has been made TO hoist ore. Nol-
w~ithstanding this fact the company IS
in splendid condition financially and
declared a $4,000 dividend, which was
payable January ..
Much space is devoted to the jumbo
because this property is typical OF
Goldfeld. There is much other valu-
able property in the district and there
are mines which have produced more
gold. but there is little Jumbo STOCK
for sale.
There are many things that ought
to be mentioned in IN article Of this
character, but it is hard to decide
what to include and what to cave out,
for no paper could afford space for
them all. Tents and cabins are disap-
bearing slowly but surely. There never
was but one Goldfeld and it is almost
4 pity TO see it as it was written about
disappear. \ strip of land five miles
long and one mile wide was covered
with white tents, dugouts, cabins, made
Of every thing from beer bottles and
corsets to pine lumber, and sheep