Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-31

Of tons Of milling ore, cast upon the
dumps, pierced by the tunnels, uncov-
cred by the Jrifts IND blocked out in
the Slopes.
-Four reduction works are in active
operation I'm Goldn> Id district The
fifth is building by the Florence. The
Goldfeld Consolidated Mines company
will soon begin the construction Of a
plant able to care or 500 tons per
day. The Nevada Copper Mining and
Smelling company, a Mains corpora
tion with a capital of $10,000,000 to
carry out its plan, will, before the
end Of the year 1907, hav placed in
commission a smelter with a capacity
Of 1000 tons daily.
Electricity is the motive power of
Goldheld. 1t is conveyed to the towns
and factories and mills and smelters
and lighting plants of Goldfeld, Tono-
pah, Silver Peak, Manhattan and Bull
frog from Bishop creek in California
which is eight-three miles westward
from Goldfeld.
As the year 1906 neared it's dying
hours some conception of the value Of
time was possible from an observation
of the movements of the easers, the
majority of whose terms expired with
the old year. In two instances there
were made bulky and welghty ship
ments of machinery from Denver,
which flew to the Goldfield mines on
special trains and mile-a-m minute sched-
ules, travelling in sections of the Over
land Limited. Hurrying to make the
best Of the hours left them, leasers paid
miners a dollar an hour for six-hour
shifts. Normally there are nearly 5000
miners at work in Goldfeld district and
the camp pays wages and salaries ag-
gregating a half million dollars per
month.
Profits $5o,ooo,ooo
In every walk of life the closing
months and weeks and days of the out
going year were strenuous in the ex-
treme. If stock sales may be taken as
q measure of public interest, the sage
brush state held the center of the stage
and Goldfeld was the star performer.
November was the banner month. The
profits for her thirty days ran to fully
$50,000,000. The official statements of
the exchange for the four weeks of
November show the months sales of
Nevada shares to have been valued at
$4,370, ,211.50 In a study of those figures
there should not be lost sight of the
fact that every week there was an
enormous curb trade and a vast vend-
ing of unlisted securities, which figures
are impossible to obtain or even to es-
innate and which do not go to swell
the total of those quoted.
The Goldfield mining stock exchange
was organized on the first day of Oc-
tober 1905, holds daily afternoon and
evening session, has a membership of
sixty-five and is building for itself a
new home to cost 100000. Seats on the
old exchange are valued at $3000 Gold
field stock and exchange board has a
membership of 200, has paid $4,000 for
building to serve as temporary quar-
ters, opened business with the first Of
the new year, and in March will build
a $4,000 stone ediflce for it's use.
A telephone and telegraph system,
postal service, auto lines and rail-
road afford the desert city communi-
cation with that part of the world not
so fortunate as to have been located
in the Goldfield district. The long dis
tance phone extends to Bullfrog, Tono-
pah, Manhattan and all neighboring
camps The Western Union Is pulling
down telegraph tolls at the rate of a
million dollars per annum and rates
second to San Francisco of all cities
of the Pacific slope. The Postal Tele-
graph company has announced it's in
tention to enter the field. Not satisfied
with all it's present advantages. Gold
field is waging a stiff fight for the re-
moval to herself of the county seat
from Hawthorn.
Advent Of the Tonopah & Goldf1eld
railroad was celebrated in Goldfield a
year ago last September. Though a
through Pullman train connects the
sage brush metropolis with the Golden
Gate city the service is inadequate to
the enormous demands made upon it
and influential San Franciscans are
joining in a movement with represen-
tative people of Goldfleld looking to a
hattpr PXy oY~lx Iof
field and Tonopah will be conected
with Bullfrog and Los Angeles and
Salt Lake City by the completion of the
Tonopah- Bullfrog line, a branch of the
Tonopah & Goldfield. At Rhyolite this
road connects with the Las Vegas and
Tonopah and opens to Goldfeld both
the harbor of San PEDRO and the coal
fields of Utah. The Las Vegas &. Tono-
pah is also building north to Tonopah
to connect with the Tonopah & Bull
frog, both roads tapping Cuprite, Gold
Mountain, Ida, Tule canyon and the
rich ranges in Death valley. The To-
nUpah & Tidewater, known as the
BoraX Smith road, will also enter Gold
field from the south, giving connec-
ton with Santa Fe.
Patriotism at GoldfieId
Last Thanksgiving day the citizens
VI luG CITY dSSelllDleQ DIT In6 central
school to witness a fiag-raising. AS
Old Glory was unfurled and rose upon
the mast there were moist eyes among
the veterans of the camp whose mem
ories carried them back to the DAYS
of the few struggling tents where now
stand the magnificent stone and brick
structures that house the eastern meth-
DDS of the desert metropolis. 1t was
the same dauntless spirit which found
Goldheld and made of her desert un-
sightliness a beautiful home for those
children, which raised that flag and
followed it to the foremost place among
the nations of the world
And besides the children there are
women in Goldfeld, young and ambi-
tious women who, by the virtue of their
merits are winning their independent
ways. There are older women who
through the darkest hours and into the
light have stood by the sides of their
husbands and are now sharing the re-
wards which they helped to earn. 1t
was a woman who filed the first loca-
tion notice in the regularly organized
mining district of Goldfeld. Women
OrganiZad the Tadias' A III eOciatv and