Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-15
ANGELIC PILGRIMS
HOMEWARD FLIGHT

The Los Angeles Times has the fol-
lowing to say of the recent trip of her
business men to southern Nevada.
After a memorable trip of over
1900 miles above ground and several
more in the bowels of the earth, the
Los Angeles business mems expedi-
ton to the Nevada mining districts
arrived home at $40 last evening
and at once took a bath.
The party came back in its elegant
special train of seven cars covered
with the sumptuous dust of the des-
ent, as well as with the glory that
attached to a we'll planned campaign
brilliantly carried out.
AS unanimity of sentiment marked
the party from first to last, 1t may be
said that these Los Angeles business
men, these managers of and large
holders in great concerns, brought
home the following general conclus-
ions shared by all:
That it paid to make the trip-paid
immensely.
That the expedition was an eye
opener as to the of south
ern Nevada and as to the possible
commercial expansion of Los Angeles.
That the people of Goldfield, Tono-
pah, Rhyolite and the other southern
Nevada camps are anxious to do more
business with Los Angeles and well
come the advantages promised by the
shorter southern rail outlet.
That southern Nevada is an enor-
nous treasure vault of mineral riches
whose development calls for the aid
of southern California and in whose
coming (by capital and by encourage
ment) southern California can reckon
handsome dividends.
That Goldfeld is a twentieth cen
fury miracle; that Tonopah is magni
fieent in the proportions of her indus
tries.
That the anarchistic reign of the
w. w. tyrants is over, and the bust
ness men, the real industrial leader
of the big camps, after a horrible ex
p~erience, have subscribed heartily L
the Los Angeles platform.
That in spite Of the widest of de
signs and craftiest of plans, Free
Baker did not come home broke"
OF all the sights seen by these bus
Los Angeles explorers, what mad
the creates. impression?
/ may well name two things-th
spectacular crowding of the city-lik
streets of Goldfield, where n had t
squeeze his way along; and that co
ossal stamp mill near Tonopah, crust
ing u $1,000 in gold and silve
every day.
One of the surprises was sociC
logical and the other was industrial
The big mill was seen last and will
talked about most. At a place Gale
"Milers," a few miles from Tonopal
an abundant supply Of water wa
struck, and here the Tonopah Be
mont Development company, owner
of the biggest mines in Tonopah, {
well as of the Tonopah railroad, h;
built. a 100-stamp-mill, the large
and best in the west, to be reinforce
this very week with another 60-stan
plant, almost ready to start at Il
time of our visit.
The vastness of this one enterprii
was enough 20 vouch for the substa.
tial character of %Tonopah's mining i
dustries.
Amid the cactus and sagebrush
the desert. here has been set a mo
ster plant stretching over a spa
equivalent to three city blocks al
costing $1,O00,OO0. With its hui
power house and superb engines, &c
Grating 1,200-horsepower, it's stupe
dous array Of crushers and endle
watts, its auxiliary establishment
houses, cottages and quarters for Il
lei the liant forms a city by
self.
.
Three hundred tons of ore from 4
Mizpah and other mines are daily f
to these 100 noisy stamps, after ha
ing been treated to a cyanide bat
and come out in the form of gold a.
silver bricks from the kissing me
ing pots.
This is not the place for a desert
ton of the processes that so intere
ed the Angelenos; but the ore fro
the moment of its first dissolution
the cyanide. Is treated as a visco