Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-04
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
BEATTY is HAVING
TROUBLES OF ITS I'M
ny TIE EAvEsDRePPnn
"Whats doing i'm Beattv?0

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A simple question propounded with
out malice aforethought, but myl
how the answer upset onel
IL was In the Angelus lobby and w
F. Mitchell, a prominent mining man
of Beatty, New, was being questioned.
The news-Oh. there was new
baby in camp and the same day the
shoemaker died, leaving our soles un-
protected. This combined with a fuel
famine and freezing weather is quite
enough for a mining camp" said Mr..
Mitchell.
"a baby in a mining camp is quite
an advent. When we received the
news that Mrs. c. e. Smith had pre-
sented to G. e. Smith a bouncing
youngster there was a celebration.
Every one in camp turned out with
horse fiddles, tin cans and every other
impromptu r1usica instrument we
could find. We certainly managed to
make racket for few minutes, but
Just when we were in the thick of it
Judge Sexton, who is the camp mar
shall, came out and announced that
the camp shoemaker had Just died
We stopped the racket and our re-
iolcing was changed to mourning
Within two hours we were all called
upon to attend a funeral. A funeral
as uncomon as a birth, for Beatty
has been a very healthy place
1T is cold up there now, though,
and the fuel question is serious one.
We pay $50 for load of sage brush
to burn and a load consists of what
a burro can pack. Coal is much more
scarce than ore and much more in
demand. In Rhyolite they treasure it
just as much as in Beatty and If we
were not able to joke about it 1 think
we would freeze to death.
I'VE can stand to put up with a
few discofnforts, though, for we have
the gold UP in that country, and gold
is what we are after"
Mr.. Mitchell is in Los Angeles for
consultation with officers of the ST
Lawrence Mining company. of which
he is manager.
Woman Has Gold Belt
A belt containing $500 worth of
gold and weighing three pounds is the
treasure which Mrs. Ben Levy of
Dawson, Alaska, has brought from the
far north with her. The gold for the
girdle came out of a mine owned by
Mr.. Levy. The belt is composed of
gold discs about the size of a 500
gold piece, looped together. Each
disc is engraved in some design rep
resenting a mining scene, and nine
diamonds, as we'll as several pieces of
rare gold quartz, are set in the discs.
The Workmanship on the belt cost
$500 and with the value of the gold
and with the jewels the trophy is VAL
ued at something near $4,000 Mr.. and
Mrs. Levy arrived at the Alexandria
Saturday.
Mr.. Levy is wealthy mining man
nf fhof f.i0 IN, o1d f0 III
mining properties he is the owner of
several business blocks and other
business property of much value. They
have come down to be thawed out
during the winter months in Los An
geles and have taken apartments at
the Alexandria.
Faces VS.. Figures
American women have prettier
faces and Australian women have bet
ter figures"
So says A. P. Tom of Australia, who
is at the Westminster after making
was talking to an interested group in
the hotel corridor last night and his
observations of the two countries
compared, were interesting.
IT have been sizing you Americans
up," said he Needless to say I am
in love with the country. So much in
love that 1 am not going TO return to
my native heath, unless, perhaps. for
brief visit now and then.
"I have gone all over the states
from New York to Los Angeles trying
to decide where I wanted to settle
and 1 have decided that this is the
place for me. The climate is perfect
and the people are all right, so what
more could one want.
"At present I am a useless member
of society. When L came here I
thought of going into the cattle busi-
ness, but there is not room enough.
'In Australia there are great tracts
of land that can be had for next to
nothing, but here the good land is
settled and unless one goes to the
desert it is difficult to buy enough
land for cattle raising on large scale.
Pressed for comparisons of America
and Australia Mr.. Tom said:
'The two countries are very much
alike, only different. / feel that
everywhere 1 turn. 1t seems to me
that the great essentials are just the
same, but little differences are always
cropping up. A German goes to Aus
II Lila and he remains German for
the rest of his life and his children
after him are Germans. A German
comes to America and after he has
been here a year he ceases to be a
German but becomes an American.
That is true of the people of every
other nationality. America seems to
swallow them all up. 1t wins the
hearts of everyone. 1t Is the same
when an easterner comes west In a
few months, or at best, few years
he becomes a westerner. This is a
wonderfully adaptable atmosphere.
Americans are much more strenuous
than Australians.
"There is a disease which you would
call 1aZineSs h1It in Australia we call