Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28

furnished two-room house for rent.
The cheapest one was $50 a month.
He decided to 60 back to California
and work for $3.50 n day. He said II
rent were the only thing he would
have stayed, but with everything else
in proportion 1t was a losing propo-
sition. The weather has been mostly
warm and pleasant for the last month,
with about enough rain to keep the
dust down.
Sleeping quarters are still outrageous
in price and hard to find-in most of
the cheaper places 81 per cot per night.
The cots are in constant use, being
held down" by two and often by
three occupers, who work on different
shifts in the twenty-four hours, so
that even If a man Is not working
he must get up at certain time to
let the other fellow occupy it, and
man can't go to bed till his turn ar
rives. But II a man can put up a
dollar he can generally find some place
to sleep and the time when a chair
in a saloon was the only place is
probably over, as several new rooming
houses have recently been opened, and
two large hotels will be ready for
business in a few weeks.
boosting" the Town
Goldfeld has not yet reached the
stage at which people begin to leave
it in appreciable numbers, which point
is reached by all gold camps sooner
or later. 1t is as big now as most
camps ever get to be, but 1t is grow
ing as fast as it was u year ago. 1t
is going to be the county seat of Es-
meralda, instead of Hawthorne. III
order to get the Legislature to pass the
bill making 1t so the newly organized
chamber of commerce chartered a
train for Goldnelders to go to Carson
and boost" After the bill was passed
they chartered another train and in
vited all the legislators and their fam
lilies to visit Goldfield, which they
graciously did. Every auto and car
riage in the town was turned over
to them and a dance was given in
their honor.
Another bill which Goldf1eld has been
the means of putting through is the
railway rate bill, which puts a limit
to the rates which can be charged
in this state. A few days ago the
Tribune printed a letter from a man
in Los Angeles, in which he said:
"Wells-F Fargo today charged me SO on
box of oranges to Cutland, VT. (near-
ly 1000 miles), and $3.50 for box of
same size and weight to Goldfield"
Qess than 1000 miles). Another curl
osity of this kind is that the freight
rate on machinery is SLIGO from Chi
cago to Hazen, 1000 miles, and from
Hazen to Goldfield, 22.S miles, it is
$1.5S, a difference in miles of nearly
1900 and in money of 2 cents. House
hold goods can be shipped from Iowa
to Idaho for 80 cents per 100 pounds;
from the same point to Nevada costs
$3.50 per 100 pounds. 1t looks to Ne
vada as If she were being discrim-
mated against.
Lot Jumping
The sport of lot-jumping has ac-
quired great popularity lately. Even
women have Joined in the game, trust
ing that their sex will prevent force
from being used to put them off. Most
of the lots are held by squatter's title,
and if man leaves his property, even
for an hour he is liable to find that
some one else has put up a tent and
is holding ii with q shotgun. His own
house may even have been moved off
the lot, and may be standing in the
middle Of the road. The original
squatter can always get his neighbors
to assist him in removing the jumper
and his property, provided the jumper
has no gun. Several shots have been
fired in disputes of this sort, but no
one has been hurt so far One man.
a lawyer, too-thinking he had clear
title to piece OF land, put up a good
house on it and rented it to a tenant.
Then he went to Denver for a few
weeks. When he returned he found |
his tenant had sold the whole works
for $1,000 and skipped. So far, he has
not been able to regain possession of
his property.
Plans for an auto race from here to |
Ely are being discussed The distance |
is 1876 miles, and the roads are rough. |
The ordinary time is fifteen hours. |
1t is proposed to offer a purse big |
enough to attract entries from the big |
machines on the coast. 1t is desert |
all the way, with very few stopping |
places, and the possibility of breaking |
down fifty miles from water puts quite |
an element of excitement into it.