Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-16

VI az ~ RAAAAhDiu9AA& AhGIN-
= ings yet held of the Tonopah- .
. Manhattan Promotion commit .
= tee was in progress at the Miz- .
y pah club. =
.
Nathan Croker occupied the chair.
and James Force acted as secretary,
and the first order Of the evening was
the receipt of the report of Chair
mar began of the committee appoint
ed to wait on the county commission
ers. Mr.. began reported that sue
cess had attended the efforts of the
committee; that private aid had been
extended to the county temporarily
by Summerfield and Johnson. and
that the former of the firm and Com
missioner Cuddy were going over the
road this morning to determine upon
the work that was to be done.
l.. L. Mushett moved. and the mo-
ton was carried, that the Manhat-
tan committee be asked to present
the local committee with a report of
their progress upon the condition of
the properties of the camp.
]. S. Dayeler was called upon to
tell OF the trip OF himself and w. w.
Booth to Los Angeles:
Mr.. Booth and l." said Mr.. Dave.
Ter, went to Los Angeles, as you
all know. with a special edition of
the Bonanza. and we were accorded
the most cordial reception. We took
with us thousands of copies of the
edition, and still we did not have
nearly enough to satisfy the demand.
AS you may remember, the edition
treated of Tonopah and the tributary
camps, with a generous portion of it
devoted to Manhattan, and not a
little to Round Mountain. Mr.. Al
berger OF the Tonopah and Tidewater
company took an immense amount of
the papers of our hands, and sent
them out at the expense of the COM
pany to people whom he assured us
We're eager for news of the mines.
The railroad people could not do
enough for us. apparently. Mr..
Byrne, OF the Santa Fe, tolds us that
President Ripley of the company,
had only n map hanging up in his
Office in Chicago, and that was the
map of southern Nevada. This, he
said was the only map that Mr.. Rip
ley wanted to study, following along
the lines Of the Tonopah and Tile
water railroad, which is the con-
Meeting link between the Santa re
and the Tonopah and Goldheld line.
Shortly after the first of the year.
when the Tonopah and Tidewater
road shall have brought us ninety
miles nearer TO Los Angeles. the Of
icials OF the Santa re are going to
come here in a special train. They
viii be followed later by an excur-
sion of wholesalers, and then there
will come a special train filled with
a picked class of investors. There
will be mining men on this train 70
explain to the Others all that they
may want to know in the way of min
ing.
The greatest interest is manifest
ed in the stock exchange in Los An
geles, and the brokers are enthusiasts
tic over the promises for trading in
the southern Nevada securities the
coming year. The people who came
into Los Angeles from September ult.
I'll the time that we arrived In the
southern metropolis, numbered 1885,
600. These people are of the class
who usually pour into Los Angeles
to speculate in real estate, but the
men of the south say that the time
for that has passed for the present,
and that the new corners will have to
look for other fields for their invest
ment. and that. the fields will be
those of southern Nevada.
The newspapers of Los Angeles
treated Mr.. Booth and myself most
royalty, and they had a story of some
sort in nearly every day Of our stay.
They gave us big headlines. and ex-
pressed themselves as glad to get the
sort OF news that we had to deliver.
This brought the people to our ho-
tells by the crowds, and we did the
best that we could in the way of sat
isfying their desire for information,
and referred them all to the secre-
taries Of this committee and of Man
haitian.
"The Los Angeles Chamber OF
Mines is working for the interest OF
Nevada, and would be glad to CO.
operate with the committees OF Ton.
opah and Manhattan. Rol King, sec