Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-06-23
THE OUTLOOK
OF RHYOLITE
John Beckman has Something to Say
Of the Riches Of the New Field

John Beckman, president of the
Rhyolite Mining and Brokerage COM
pany of Rhyolite, is bound for Chicago
on well earned vacation trip. Speak
ing Of the great camp in general w y
he said:
''The Mayfower, Starlight and Skoo-
KUN properties, all of them great sill
yer and copper producers, are coming
to the front as the biggest mines in all
America. Our town is having a mar
velous growth. We pay more than
$10O, 900 month in wages now, each
man earning from $3.50 to IS per day.
Every once in while we hear of GER
tain deadly diseases in and about our
mining camps, and would like to say
it is all absolutely false. We have only
one disease there, and that is consump-
tion-of grub. never knew raen to
eat more, work harder and do less kick
ing than the men who work in the
several mines around Rhyolite.
"As to production and shippers, !
can say the Shoshone, Denver and Gold
Bar mines are now shipping out ore,
but most of the ore produced by other
mines is being piled up to await the
coming railroad. This road is within
about 35 miles of the town now, and is
to be completed by the 18th Of July
next. 1t is known as the Las Vegas
and Tonopah branch Of the Clark route.
Two other lines are coming in, as fast
as men and means can bring them, viz. !:
the Goldfeld and Bullfrog branch of
the Tonopah and Goldfield, and the
Borax-Smith road, the one from the
north, the other from the south. When
these roads get in, and all of them must
be in in two months more, there will
begin such a building of mills as was
never seen in Nevada before. The
Shoshone and Tramp Consolidated are
ready to put up 40-stamp mills at once,
and others, as soon as material can be
had.
"The three biggest mines we have
up there are the Tramp Consolidated,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Gold Bar.
1t is safe to say they are the biggest
mines ever discovered. They carry a
ledge of from 100 to 300 feet in width,
so that you see railroads mean more
for us than any other need just now.
Nearly all the ore is of the milling
: grade.
'It is strong union camp, and yet
: we never have trouble, even though we
8 have many non-union men. The near
est railroad station to us now is John
nie's station, on the Las Vegas and
Tonopah road, which makes 5S-mile
stage ride. In another month, though,
: we can make the trip to Salt Lake ir
"a hours.
"We have three newspapers, severa
good schools, and churches will soor
D be among us. In politics the people
. up there are for the man and not fol
u party. We put up democrat in one
L section and republican in another an(
9 elected both, because both were gooC
9 men. We think much of Senator New
y lands, who is the friend of working
9 men everywhere. We shall not, how
: ever, allow labor troubles to grow
e among us. Most of the present oper
9 ators have been union working mel
9 themselves and know the ropes to-
y well to allow inconsiderate hotheads II
70 mix things up.
Eastern capital is wholly used il
the development of the camp. and Sal
Francisco is the clearing house for al
n our financial work. In small way w
d feel the loss of San Francisco's finan
: cial countenance, but we have over
g come it and all is smooth now."