The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-09
BY JOEL |. PRIEST.

Goldfield, New. Sept 6.-"By the way.
want YOU to meet the discoverer of Cold
field said friend as we walked down
the principal street OF the big little min
ing camp one day last week I turned
expecting TO see veteran prospector with
long gray beard and perhaps hair down
10 his shoulders. Instead 1 saw smooth
faced. dark complexioned. boyish young
fellow apparently under 30 years of age.
His name is Stimler. H. G. Stimer
Just three years ago Stimler liked
across the desert from Tonopah He had
q little pack outfit and some prospectors'
tools. one morning he stood on one of
the hills near what is now Godfied and
observed. through a pair OF field glasses.
q sandstorm that was raging by some
foothills two miles away. The swirl of
sand wen, by but Stimler still kept his
eyss to the glasses. He had seen an out
cropping that looked very good to him
little later he had staked out the Sand
storm claim. a claim that has since
brought fame to Goldfield and fortune TO
its discoverer
II is most difficult to believe that only
three years ago the site of Goldfield and
its sister town, Columbia. looked exactly
IKE the great gray eXpanse Of desert
around II. Three years ago a desert
place. Today two thriving cities linked so
closely by dwellings that they are one.
Goldfieid has grown up like a blade OF
grass, but il will never go down that way
In the beginning the mining was all on
the surface. Gold was taken out prac-
tically at the grass roots. Jack" Camp
bell. the well-known expert for the l. M
sullivan Trust company, showed me d
hole about twenty feet square and not
much deeper from which he took out ore
OF the value OF $4,000 in seventy DAYS
There are many similar holes around
Goldfield from which large fortunes have
been extracted.
Early Day" Ideas Disproved.
''In the early days" said pioneer. and
j smiled al the thought Of calling three
years ago the early days" and beardless
surface mining was finished we would
have 10 move on. Now shafts have been
sunk TO the deep and the values are get
ting even better Biologists have said
that gold comes uB from below instead Of
being only on the surface and there Is
every indication that Goldfield will be a
FOR DAYS 60 come"
Goldfield is today the American frontier.
the frontier you have read about in the
true histories OF the early west AL
though the city has 1000 inhabitants there
Is no town organization. no mayor and
IrQunciL or even selectmen. The sheriff
nd his deputies, with the aid of Justice
Of the peace and a constable or two. pre-
serve order and keep the peace. Ii has
been said that practically every grown
man in and around Goldfield carries n six
shooter. and that many of them shoot
from the hip in the most approved west
ern style. That is. they draw and shoot
AZ the same instant Whether this is true
or not / cannot say / only know that ]
saw mighty few guns around Goldfeld
Soft Drinks Are Popular.
Everything is run wide open There
are three OF four saloons in every block
In the business district and evers' saloon
has its gambling house attachment on the
first floor. Gambling is licensed Tider the
Nevada statutes so the opennesu of IL is
81 no sense q violation of the laCn Thnrn