Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-23
SPECIAL ARRIVES
BEHIND SCHEDULE
EXCURSIoNISTS WELCOMED AT
BEATTY
eloriousIy Good Time Promised Visit
ors and Memory Of It viii Llneer
Long on tilstory's Page Of
the District
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
BEATTY, Nevada, oct. 22.-The
consolidated Los Angeles-Salt Lake
special train of eleven coaches in
augurating the new Bulfro5 branch
OF the Salt Lake road, pulled into
Beatty at $3.50 o'clock tonight, several
hours behind the schedule time.
The visitors were warmly welcomed
to the new mining town by delega-
tion Of citizens who met the train at
Las Vegas.
The evening was devoted to a re-
ception to the visitors held at the hotel
Speeches of welcome were made by
members of the reception committee, to
which Will Harris responded for Los
Angeles and Vice President j. Ross
Clark for the Salt Lake road.
Tomorrow the formal program will
continue, including trips to the lead
ing mines in the district
The one gloriously good time which
the miners of Beatty, Rhyolite, Gold
Center and the rest of the Bullfrog
district have been promising them
selves ever since that day, now ancient
history, when some one went into
Beatty on a stage and spread the glad
news that Senator Clark had his eyes
and his train crews turned in that
direction, began tonight.
1t will end-well, the memory OF 1t
will not end for it has been writ on
the history of mining camps of South
ern Nevada in ink that is indelible.
Since the advent into the desert town
of the first special train carrying more
than 300 of the good people of Los
Angeles and Salt Lake, there have
been more people in Beatty than ever
before.
The train was late, of course. after
the fashion of trains, and by the time
the headlight was finally seen shining
across the desert into the evening sky
the miners were beginning to have a
far away look' in their eyes.
Long before the train arrived at
Beatty the visitors ION the car knew
considerable about the wonders of the
land.
At Las Vegas there was an advance
guard composed of some of Beatty's
most distinguished citizens and they
were accompanied by literature enough
to occupy the minds of the most stu
dious for days, nay, weeks to come.
Needless to say they proved them
selves royal hosts. Cigars and fruit
and other refreshments were sand
wiched in with literature, and the well
coming hand was extended to all.
At every station along the desert
there was a characteristic group of
a hearty echo responded to from the
cars.
Three brass bands enlivened the air
and the sound which went forth fell
upon the grateful ears, as many had
not heard a musical note in months
and few in years. .s!.
The bandmaster proved before the
day was over that he had a sense of
humor, and when something went
wrong with the injector on the engine
and it looked as if we would spend the
night in the Sagebrush and cacti, he
struck up I'VE Won't Be Home Until
Morning" and later "How Dry L Am"
played in funeral time.
Half way between Johnnie and Beat
ty the old engine, which has always
been considered the best on the road,
refused completely to work and 1t was
necessary to telephone twenty miles
ahead for another engine.
The exhibition planned for Gold Cen
ter in the big tunnel had to be aban-
doned and when the relief engine final
ly arrived the train went directly
through without further stops
The crowd was good natured through
everything and there was no disorder.
Sage brush bonfires were built and
with the assistance of the band and
the voices of the musically inclined the
waiting party passed the hours mer-
rily.
Dana Burks of Ocean Park auctioned
off lots of desert tract for the amuse-
ment of the belated travellers and there
was vaudeville performance in which
Attorney Will Harris of Los Angeles,
former Senator Smith and half dozen
other shining lights of the party took
part.
Some one related story about the
first train that went into Tonopah. 1t
was scheduled to get into Tonpah early
one evening and it did not get in until
the next morning.
But" he said. "take heart. We will
do better than that
This prediction was abundantly
proved as soon as the locomotive was
repaired.