The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-05-11
STUDENT WRITES
ABOUT NEVADA

ABDUL NEVADA
Last month sixty students from the
University Of California visited the min
ing districts Of Tonopah and Goldheld
and the following is part OF an article
by one of the students. Rue Dana Fish.
which appeared In the San Francisco
Chronicle:
For the sixty or more candidates for
graduation in mining the big trip" in
geology is the climax of that branch of
their research OF college work. A work.
aday picnic wherein the eyes can see
and the hands can do what books and
lectures rave told.
Were Made welcome
welcome" was literally written on
the door mats of the points of interest
Of the mining towns. from the elite
Mizpah club to Riley's hall. The chiv-
airy OF the desert hung the latchstring
outside, and altogether they "hoisted a
few" with a jovial crew.
Things not on the program were ex-
pected when they attended the theater
en- masse rs guests of the evening.
The elite of the town was present to
overlooking. 1t was the first event of
the kind to this. the largest class of
students that had ever come inland.
To Nevada, the battle-born state, fell
the lot of a M~inerva-like s~pringing into
full statehood. taking no time for in
fancy. and in its early history, which
was epitomized in the Comstock. she
poured ~free-handed from her subter-
ranean treasure to finance the civil war.
a Nsw Nevada
With the discovery of the Mixpah
ledge in May. 1900. big Jim" Butler
gave to the nation a new Nevada. and
pouring forth its stream Tonopah
sprang, phoenix-like. into a new Mecca
on the desert to . town of 1000. Other
discoveries followed rapidly; 1905 saw
121.375 tons Of ore shipped from Tono-
pah. and at exorbitant rates that ate
up oftentimes so per cent of the low
grade ore. despite this paying 81. ESQ., 900
cash dividends.
The 1oo-stamp mill at Miller's sta
ton. fifteen miles north, with the So
stamp mill at Tonopah. bid fair to pro-
duce $40, 900. 900 in 1907. Ore dumps
Of five years accumulation, improbable
to ave been shipped out, will, with the
augmentation of the immense blocked
out ore In the mines of which a world
famous engineer recently declared there
was 500. 600. 900 in four of Tonopah's
bonanxas. not to mention new strikes,
add years to this camps life.
Tonopah rave to the nation q new
Nevada. to the world a new Goldfeld.
and to a son OF the desert. Harry Slim
Ter, then but % years Of age. fell the
discovery of Sandstone, Goldfeld's
birthplace. Today he owns more money
than he can spend in a lifetime.
New Years day. four years ago. II
ever human foot trod the site of the
Goldfeld of today, 1t was shod In the
hobnailed boot of the far-astray shep-
herd who drove his fiocks over the hills
from one winter range to another. or
an ~undaunted p~rospector following the
old Montexuma trail by devious and
perilous routes dimly pointing the way
from Nevada's northern settlement to
the uncanny borders of death. Stimler
and Marsh wandered In from Tonopah
in February. 1903, during a first wind
storm of alka1i dust, n discovered the
mine from which gold of finest purity
In mining history has been produced.
The same gold of the other camps that
have been blazoned to the world as by
words has established the name and
fame Of Goldheld.
Goldnsld the Queen City
Today Goldfeld is the Queen city of
the desert, with 5000 inhabitants, the
metropolis of the battle-born state, the
isolated tent of four springs g has
given way to the skyscraper of stone,
the bowling winds to growing stamps.
a city ranking close to the first of The
Pacific slope in the volume of it's COM
merce, the business of it's banks and
railroads. it's express and postofice.
Many architectural structures such
as a $4,000 hotel are being added to
substantial skyscrapers already pres
emit. Nevada will head the list in 1907
in cash a n deposits. per capita. sur
passing New York with it's $43.36; due
to the wealth in Goldfeld's four banks.
The Tonopah and Goldfeld railroad paid
it's installing and rolling stock ex-
penses off within a few months after 1t
entered Goldfeld. The postofice jumped
at once into first class rating, doing a
busines of $500 per annum. There
win be two splendid stone school
houses, one to cost 800, 900.
"a yxylaro - x-atav Sol1 ae hfoh ao
SIS a barrel, both towns today possess
a fine-piped line of water from ada
cent wells.
Stocks have boiled and seethed on
Goldield's change, with fortunes made
or lost during the smoking of a cigar,
and stocks that formerly went a-beg-
ging at a few paltry cents have been
begged for at $40, an increase of $500
per cent.
This banner mining camp of the
world is fixing it's names in history.
such as Senator T. L. Oddie, Wingfield
and Nixon. Taylor. Hayes and Mon
nette, and Reilly. fosterers of the leas-
ing system that made possible the mar
velous development of the m~ines-and
on ad ininitum.
Geology of the Region
The mining class had several lays of
intensive geological mapping of a block
of two miles square with Tonopah as
the pivot center. Mine day. was de-
voted to a systematic Investigation of
the workings of the mines. their ma
chinery, mills and plants. and the un-
geology of their ore bodies.
A cross-country section of the Goldfeld
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