Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-09
Over Three Hundred Newspaper
3 men in GoIdfield
Today.
MANY HAVE BECOME WEALTHY
Brokers, Banks and Mining Companies
Recruit Their Forces Largely From
Ranks OF Successful Newspapermen.
Especial to the "News.o)

tSpeclal TO tne NeNS
Goldneld, New, Nov 6.--Like every
other speck on the map which gold
has made the mecca OF the hearts that
yearn for riches, Goldheld has drawn
into her boundaries every type OF tho
adventurous biped known and listed
by the chroniclers OF strenuous ro-
nance. Among the shifting crowd that
throngs the wooden sidewalks OF this
modern Golconda, crowd 10000
strong, are men from every far corner
OF the earth. men OF every breed
save the vigorously barred Chinese
men of every profession, men OF NOR
ais, tastes and habits as diversified
ms the hues Of the sunset painted
peaks of the Funeral range. In the
group around Tex Richards roulette
table one may see. for instance. a
white haired relic Of tho audacious
crew that followed William Walker In
his half-forgotten forays against the
might of Mexico: or a man who ann
ed a gun for Dewey at Manila; or a
veteran OF the Irish Legion that fol-
lowed the harried flag Of Dom Paul;
or a halfback who once spurred 90
900 Yale rooters to thunderous cheers;
or O. cashiered German lieutenant; or
an exiled English younger son, or a
drink-ridden professor OF ancient Ian
guages; or pallid jail-bird.
GOOD FORTUNE AND BAD,
Lettering in the Montezuma club.
all \, IA n
took their degrees at Harvard. or
Edinburgh. or Vienna; with barons
and baronets hiding their nobility in
corduroys and puttees; with the tramp
OF q year ago, translated yesterday
into a millionaire. with the man who
came to town to barber and who has
remained TO direct the destinles of a
bonanza; with the grim. mahoganled
prospector, who followed his burros
TO and fro over the gray desert grub
staked, embittered, ragged, through
quarter OF a century, and who now
scoots over that same gray desert in
80 horsepower motor car. And in
the homes, temporary. crude, unpaint-
ed, as for the most part they were
first scattered over the landscape, are
some of the sweetest, most patient
women, that ever followed the for
tunes Of flying domesticity. Some
of these women, in the old days, kept
the children In school by toiling at
the washtub; some of them were
graduated from Vassar or Wellesley
and learned to be proud OF their
skill in cooking flapjacks over camp
fires in the sagebrush; some We're ste
nographers--and good ones--some
were chorus girls; some were always
among those present" at the SWELL
est social functions, hack home" But
sometimes the former laundress, still
splitting her infinitives, can write her
check for five figures, and the yassar
girl, still reading Emerson and Mae
terlnck, fries the family steak for the
sake of economy.
MANY REPORTERS.
Yet, In spite Of the variety of types
thus sketohed. none Of them Is really
peculiar TO Goldfeld, compared with
all the other great mining camps. In
California. in Colorado. in Virginia
City, In Alaska. in Australia, In South
Africa. the argonauts were no less
miscellaneous, And the one profession
which Goldhed can claim to have
magnetized as no other camp ever
did is. the newspaper profession. IL
you ever were q reporter on any of u
hundred big American dailies. you
can't stand on Goldfeld's principal
thoroughfares for more than 10 min
utes without seeing some chap that
used to hammer his copy from tho
typewriter next TO yours, In a local
room of Boston or New York, or
Pittsburg, or Chicago. or Denver, or
San Francisco, There are at least
800 crack reporters in Goldfleld today.
and a few more arrive every night.
Now, If the statistiolap viii figure
that there are not more than 5000 top
notch reporters in the whole United
Ctates--and that Is pretty generous
estimate-lt may easily be demonstrate
ed that not less than ten per cent Of
the mare tucked away in this remote
and dusty corner of Nevada. That
percentage has immlgrated hther in
less than year. Perhaps fifty of those
who came first. have already departed,
to China, or Caracas, or Yokohama, or
Egypt, or Paris, with bank account
fat enough TO let them sit down, at last
and write that book" Another score.
equally successful az accunuators, are
on the eve OF fitting. But the per-
centage present steadily increases, new
ertheless, How long will It take the
last of the elect 5000 TO go there? And
how long, these 1000 having made their
pile and retired to a life of cushioned
ease, how long will 1t be before the
newspaper profession, with Goldfeld IA
the ultimate goal OF the capable, will
absorb all the intelligent young men In
the country2 And II all the intelligent
young men become reporters, who will
saw OF the legs, and gouge the teeth,