Arizona republican., 1907-06-10
PHOENIX VISITOR
 ON A NEVADA TOWN
Sandy Huntington Saw All of Reno, Nevada, That He Wanted to in Thir- ty-six Hours.

Sandy Huntington returned Satur- day night from Neno. Nevada. where he went in charge of the stock and household goods of w. M. Mayors who recently moved his family there. San dy has a great story to tell about Ne vada, and to be appreciated. one has to hear him tell it himself. But an effort to repeat some of it is worth while. for he is the first man to come back who has really opened up and said anything of interest.
 Tersely put. Sandy says that for most people Nevada is no good, espec- tally if they have lived in Arizona be- fore. In point of mines he says he wouldn't give one good Arizona mine for the whole state of Nevada. There are some good mines there of course, but most of them are fakes and in his opinion Arizona has a hundred, where Nevada has one. He says the so-called prosperity of Nevada is due very largely to the influx of eastern capital that has been started that way, often by very questionable methods, and that, while there is lots of money in the country now- that sort of pros perity cannot last long. He says the approved method of getting the east ern man interested is about as fol- lows: Somebody goes out and finds a prospect or a little vein somewhere. with a few pounds of rich gold rock in it. Then about seven men get sawed off shotguns and stand guard over it while another carries the news of the big strike to town and the representa- tive" of eastern capital gets busy. He comes out and after sparring round a while. they let him take a peep at it. He flies back east gets his principal started with a special train, and an- other trainload of lumber to timber up with, as he sinks on the bonanza Arriving. with a company all incorpo- rated and half tile stock sold, the bon anZa" is turned over to him and he generally takes it away in the grip sack he brought out full of the price to buy it with. after selling his lumber and other supplies on the sidetrack, for whatever he cah get, or not selling them at all. Sandy says he saw whole trainloads of lumber that had been standing there for months waiting for someone to pay the freight on the lum- Der and take it away.
 The town of Reno he says is a pret- ty place on the Truckee river. It is still lively but it is not so lively as it was and he predicts that it will gradually flatten out again. The state is wide open and has enjoyed a big financial prosperity thereby but he says it cannot last for it has been so terribly overdone. Nevada is full of money but it has been brought in to speculate with and only a small part of it came out of. the mines.
 His most interesting remarks are about the people well known here and he only spoke of a few for he could not recall names. He says though that nearly every sporting man who ever lived in Arizona and is not dead is now fin Nevada Walking up the streets of Reno was for him almost like walking through the streets of Phoenix ten years ago. Familiar voices were heard and familiar faces seen on every hand. Gambling is wide open and the games are practically without limit, thousands and thousands of dollars changing hands daily. But even at that very few of the sports are making any money for that line of activity is so greatly overdone. They can't all be behind the games. There must be somebody in front of them to make the games profitable and those who are lucky, stimulated by the fever of success play their winnings back again. If the sporting population were merely confined to the refugees from Arizona and New Mexico. the men who love the open town and mining camp and the eastern speculator who has money to spend. it would be a good place for those listed above. but the big boom that has been advertised. has drawn the sporting element from all over the United States. from Den yer. Chicago and New York and almost everywhere else. all anxious to reap the advertised harvest of easy money.
 He met dozens of Arizona sporting men there. from Phoenix. Globe. Tue son. Prescott, Bisbee. and elsewhere, but only very few of them, he said. are making a living and some are having pretty hard sledding. As a class they are quite popular with the population for they are recognized as
 
 is a legitimate industry. But living is quite high and work behind the table Is overdone as indicated above so they are depending on the real sporting life for a living. money today and broke tomorrow. playing the games them selves from the outside. when unable to obtain employment in the games.
 w. A. Mayors. whose chattels he had charge of, is conducting a large place and seems to be doing well. but most of the Phoenix contingent is still spar ring for an opening. The worst of it is that there is some sort of a fever or pneumonia that either kills them off or destroys their health. He said he lost fifteen pounds on the trip, though he don't look it. and was in Reno only thirty-six hours. As heretofore known here Dan Boone died there. Andy Si- role. known here as Frenchy, left Reno sometime ago after a long ill., ness he could not shake off. and died in Los Angeles. Johnny Bowers is sick. as are Harvey Sellers and Dutch Fred. and most of them who are not actually sick are complaining and look like they were. Quite number eX- press the determination to drift back this way as soon as possible. Among others from Phoenix that he met there