The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-03
One Billion Dollars
Omit of The Ground

fforty miles and uncovered the MiZpan
mine, which is the nucleus of the fam
Gus TonOpah camp.
| An Indian German lad and white
boy prospected further south for twen-
weight miles and made discoveries
that have developed into the Goldneid
mining district. Other prospectors
went eighty miles further south and
discovered the Bullfrog district.
In rapid succession have arisen such
camps as Beatty, Transvaal, Cuprlte,
Montezuma. Silver Peak, Buckskln.
Fairview. Manhattan. Round Mountain
Seven TrOughs, Wonder, Duluth, Grip
pie Creek, Phonolite and scores OF
| others.
| Goldfield is less than four years OLD;
and already has attracted universal at
tention The minimizers, or the per-
sons afflicted with micromania, have at
last awakened to the fact that this dis
trict contains the greatest mineral
deposit ever discovered.
| The Union Pacific Southern PACING
line extends from point called Hazen'
forty miles east of Reno, a distance OF
200 miles to Tonopah.
The Philadelphia and Pittsburg CAPT.
talists who invested so extensively in
ITonopah mines organized syndicate
| to extend the line from TOnopah to
Goldfield At the present time Pull
In. oil hotWaan GOI0fiQl0
| and San Francisco, a distance of 515
miles.
GoIdfieId's Population.
The city-for it is no longer min
| ing camp-nestles in a mountainous
horseshoe and in less than three years
time has sprang from a hamlet with
few miners tents to a city of $4,000
The predominating population is
from Colorado. Next in order the rep
resentation is from Calofirnia, then
come Utah. Montana, Oregon and the
east. The camp has always been an
exceptionally quiet, orderly and respec-
table one, and a visitor would find
marked resemblances to New Eng
land town. OF course, this does not
mean that gambling houses and other
submerged portions do not exist; but
unless one seeks such society it is not
noticed.
The city has Presbyterian, Catholic,
Methodist and Christian Science
churches 1t has two weekly papers
with large subscription lists, and two
enterprising and well-conducted morn
ing dailies. More houses have been
erected in Goldfield since 1 came, June
l. than there were houses in the city
at that time.
At the present time the hotel ac-
commodations are insufficient, but by
March l six new hotels will be opened,
with from IS to 200 rooms each, and
some twenty-five large rooming houses
are under construction.
The summers are hot but meningitis
are exceptionally cool. The winters
are not severe, with only light snow
fall. The falsehOOds circulated in
eastern newspapers relative to mortal
ity are disproved by the official state
ment that for the past month, the worst
weather ever known here, only 81 per-
sons died out of a population of about
Il 900.
GoldfieId Railroads.
AS stated above, the TOnOpah-GOld-
field line. the first one, entered the city
in September. 1905. Prior to that time
the freignters furnished transportation
facilities with their twentyhorse teams
The same Philadelphia syndicate Of
railroad builders is now building line
south to Bullfrog, completed for forty
miles.
geles line is being rapidly extended
from Las Vegas. 200 miles SOUTH, di-
rectly to Goldfield.
In addition a third line, known as
the Tidewater & Tonopan railroad, is
being built by "Borax" Smith from
near BarstOw, Cal. on the Santa Fee,
through to Goldfield.
A fourth line. backed by the West
ern Pacific George Goulds road, is the
Nevada Central. which breaks away
from the Southern Pacific in Northern
Nevada and runs 200 miles to Austin
an old mining camp. A further extern
sion for 125 miles will give the Goulds
an entrance into Goldfield within the
next two years.
The silicious ores of this camp are
greatly needed for fluxing purposes at
Ely. and the Guggenheims are extend
ing line in southerly direction to
Goldfield, a distance of about 200 miles.
Minneapolis Journal.
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