The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-09-21
lOPENING OF
LOS ANGELES
EXCHANGE

The Los Angeles Herald of Wednesday
gives the following description of the
banquet preceding the opening of the
new stock exchange. at which many
Goldneid brokers were presents:
1T was a great banquet
King Croesus was the host.
And over 1t all was the spiendor Of
the A~iexandria's appointments.
The famous hosiery never shone to
better advantage. The spacious din
ing room. Hooded with the briiliance
OF a myriad power light. seemed to
appreciate the Importance OF the occa-
sion and respond with a richness of
glow which was Incompatible.
THE gathering was a notable one to
inauguarate the opening OF the Los An
geles-Nevada mining stock exchange.
Round the board were seen men who
represent the wealth and brains of the
city and the ~neighboring state. Some
were learned In law while others were
arbiters of financial destines.
"stin others. as was fitting to the &C.
casion, were the men of strong faces
and. clear eyes who in their mastery
way have caused the desert and the
mountain to yield up their precious
metals for the enrichment of the world.
These were the recipients of much at
~tention. for 1t will be upon their efforts
- 1000. xh.t, .rtzn NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~
the great properties. involving mil
lions, entrusted to their care that the
new exchange will found its success.
The cities of Nevada sent eighty OF
their leading citizens in a special train
from Goldheld to express their interest
in the new enterprise which will be
formally opened this morning in the
H. w. Hellman building. Their pres
ence was eloquent testimony on the
strong tie which binds the worlds
greatest gold camps to the metropolis
of the southwest and II II was any
prophecy of the future, Los Angeles
will win golden rewards for the boun-
teous hospitality she dispensed last
night.
Everything In the decorations sug-
gested the business life Of the men who
are interested in the new enterprise and
the country which their operations well
cover. On one side of the banquet hall
was the ticker and the tape overtopped
by the ever present quotation board. At
the other side of the room ran the long
table, where the chief guests sat. Down
the middle of this ran a strip OF desert.
dotted here and there with the signn-
cant buildings and tents of the newly
trodden country. places where the inner
man is cared for in more ways than
one, and at either end stood Goldfeld
and the city of Angels. conneced by
telegraph wire from which hung many
brilliant lights and on top of whose min
iature poles perched the owl with the
wise eye and knowing tilt of the head.
After the numerous courses of the
banquet the 800 guests listened to the
keen interest to the responses to the
following topics:
speech Menu
"Toastmaster-Orra. E.. Monnette.
"welcome-Hon. A. C. Harper, mayor
of the city of Los Angeles.
Nevada, the Land of Promise'-R. L.
Colburn. broker. Goldield.
"tCity of the Angels'-Oscar Lawler.
United States district attorney. Los An
geles.
"'Goldfeld, the Center of the world
r. p. Dunlap. vice-president Montana
Tonopah, Tonopah.
Business is Business-William ID.
Stephens, president Los Angeles chamber
Of commerce.
"Our Rivals'-Leonard Merrill.
1.-The Almighty Dollar'-William T.
Craig.
Banking and Mining'-Wilson c.
Patterson, vice-president First National
bank. Los Angeles.
1.-The Tenderfoot'-J. C.. Fremont
Hull, vice-president American National
bank. Los Angeles.
I'VE Are Now Ready for Business
Col. M. ]. Monnette, president Los An
geles-Nevada mining stock exchange"