The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
Clothes Indicate Nothing.

The chap you brush by with hardly q
glance at him, because his boots are
rusty and bis blue flannel shirt shows
signs of wear, may have money enough
/ TO make your stack look like cents
worth of radium, while his bears a
striking resemblance TO So worth OF let
| tuce- But you turn and look admiring-
/ ly at the fellow in the immaculate
Khaki, the beautiful boots with three
buckles on them-count 'em, three-and
the spotless hat You think he must
own the camp, but he doesn't. He is
/ only a tenderfoot who arrived yester-
DAY from Rhode Island, made up to re-
semble a mining expert, and missing IL
as far as the woman missed the chicken
she threw a stone at.
Clothes emphatically do not make
the man in Goldheld, though nobody
need make the mistake Of thinking that
/ the people here know nothing Of good
| clothes and how to wear them. The
/ Thanksgiving day reception In the Mon
/ tezuma club, If you had been there,
would have taught you better. You
could hardly have found a better or
more appropriately dressed crowd at
any club in the country; and though
there are many larger clubs, there is
none better appointed than the Monte
/ yuma.
| But you are walking down the street.
/ You see big stone Office building that
/ would be credit to any city, you pass
a stone bank building, and there ars
other handsome stone structures. Also
| you see excellent restaurants, where
! every delicacy to be found In the met
ropolitan markets may be had. The
prices are high, you think, but you
must remember that it costs money to
get them in here, and your Goldffeld
/ nnaG much tr-t,o 10
for the thing he wants, If he can get It
when he wants it.
All this city built up in three years?
! The statement is absurd you say, utter
| ly and absolutely absurd The record
/ is against you. There are more boys
| here who came IN with the first rush
and stayed and saw the town built UP
and the mines developed. Absurd
They will tell you all about It, and IL
there is a strong flavor of pride in their
talk, kindly remember that they are en-
titled to it.
The town has not grown continuously.
If ii had grown continuously from its
inception to the present day at the rate
of growth that has marked IL during the
last six or seven months it would con-
tain over $4,000 people. There came
time, q. year or so after the original 10
cations were made, when the outlook
was on the surface. that the values
would not hold with depth. One or two
so-called mining experts made state
ments expressing this belief, and the
timorous quickly began packing their
belongings and preparing for flight.
Fortunes for the Brave.
Many of them old go. but the brave
ones remained. They had faith in the
! = - ,r
Experts or no experts, they believed
there was more gold in this section OF
the desert than had ever beeen found in
a corresponding area OF ground. And
they stayed through the blue months.
they refused to become panicky, and to-
day they are reaping the fruits Of their
courage. The men who patiently sunk
shafts down to the deep found the
values better on the 100 level than on
the so, better at 200 than at 100, better
at 300 than at ZOO
The L. Nj. Sullivan Trust company IS
now sinking on its Lou Dillon property,
with the aid of a 100-hOrse power cleo
trio hoist-the biggest in the camp
shaft that will attain a depth of ! geo
feet, and that will be put deeper if de-
velopments justify it. AS the Lou Dill
Ion. with the Silver Pick Extension. an
other Sullivan property, is in the heart
y
| is reasonably certain that the expense
involved in sinking the deep shafts viii
be abundantly justified by the dividend
returns.
The permanency of Goldfeld as
mining camp is therefore, assured. and
il is assured because of the pluck or
the men who stayed and fought with
nature for the keys to the storehouse
of treasures. Stories OF the. fortunes
that have been won because Of this
waiting. and working while waiting. are
so numerous that pages of this news
paper could be filed with them.y One
or two may be taken as types.
Two years ago a newspaper man from
the west, one who is too modest TO per
nit the use of his name, drifted into
Tonopah en- route to the Goldfield dig
gings. His entire cash capital consisted
of $3.50. There was no railroad then be-
tween Tonopah and Goldfield, and the
young man had an hour or two on his
hands while he waited for m automo-