The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-09-14

derfui mining camp and truly pric-
turesque American frontier town.
Goldfield, Nevada. that has been Civ
en- publicity. appeared in Sundays is
sue of the Salt Lake Herald and was
written by Joel L. Preist, of the Her
aid repertorial staff. who spent last
week in the mining camp.
We reproduce some of the most in
teresting an entertaining portions of
the write up of the famous gold
camp some hundreds of miles to the
west of Grand Junction:
BY the way / want to meet the
discoverer of Goldfeld." said friend
as we walked down the principal
street of the big little mining camp
one day last week. l turned expect
ing to see a veteran prospector with
n long gray beard and perhaps hair
down to his shoulders, instead I saw
a smooth faced. dark complexion
ed boyish young fellow, apparently
under thirty years of age. His name
is Stfmler, H. C. Stimler, discover
err of Goldfield
Just three years ago Stimler hiked
across the desert from Tonopah. He
had a little pack outfit and some
prospector's tools. One morning he
stood on one of the hills near what is
now Goldfield and observed, through
a pair of field glasses. sandstone
that was raging by some foothills two
miles away. The swirl of sand went
by but Stimler still kept his eyes to
the glasses. He has seen and out
cropping that looked very good to
him. A little later he had staked out
the Sandstone claim. A claim that
has since brought fame to Goldheld
and fortune to its discoverer.
Like a mushroom it is most diff
cult to believe that only three years
ago the site of Goldfield and its sis
ter town. Columbia, looked exactly
like the great gray expanse of des-
ert around it, Three years ago a
desert place. Today the thriving cit
les linked SO closely by dwellings that
they are now one. Goldheld has
grown up like a big mushroom, but
It will never 60 down that way. In
the beginning the mining was all on
the surface. Gold was taken out
practically at the grass roots. Jack
Campbell, the well known expert for
the l.. NJ. Sullivan trust company,
ptxr
square and not much deeper from
which he took out ore of the veins to
the value of $4,000 in seventy days
There are many similar holes around
Gold field from which large fortunes
have been extracted.
SIN the Early Days.
"In the early days. said a pio-
neer. smiled at the thought of
calling three years ago the early
days" and beardless boys pioneers,
1--WE thought that when the surface
was finished We hould have to move
on Now shafts have been sunk to
great depths and the values are get
ting even better biologists have
said that gold comes up from below
instead of being only on the sur
face and there is every indication
that Goldfield will be permanent
and prosperous mining camp for days
to come"
The American Frontier.
Goldfeld is today the American
frontier, the frontier you have read
about in the true histories of the
early west Although the town has
1000 Inhabitants there is no town |
organization. no mayor and council, |
or even selectmen. The sheriff and |
his deputies. with the aid of justice
of the peace and a constable or two,
preserve order and keep the peace.
1t has been said that practically |
every grown man around Goldfield
carries a six shooter and that many |
of them shoot from the hip in the
most approved western style. That
is, they draw and shoot at the same |
instant Whether this is true or
not l cannot say. ! only know that
I saw mighty few guns around Gold
field.
Eeverything is run wide open
There are three or four saloons in
every block in the business district
and every saloon has its gambling.
Gambling is licensed under the Ne
vada statutes so the openness Of it is
in no sense a violation of the law.
There seemed to be a great deal OF
drinking going on in Goldfield but
saw few intoxicated men. So many
men have a habit of drinking min
eral waters and lemonade. And
there's another good thing about Gold
field. You may be asked to have n
drink every few minutes, but if you
choose some thing soft nobody has
a word to say.
Many Wickeder Places.
In other places even in Salt Lake
City. the man who goes out with a
party that are drinking intoxicants
has hard time to keep from drink
ing them himself. He is called