Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-29
NEvApAs ACCOMPLISHMENTS
How Towns Are Founded in a Night
And Grow In "a Day

CfOldfIe1d, New April Ss--"SeNer'
years ago Nevada had a population of
about 10000 and was unheard Of save
when It's vote OF about 10000 total
was announced In conn ecrton with
other states.
Jim Butler, a hardy prospect or
found a mineral ledge In tlte mining
aistrlct known as Tonopah, and now
a little city of G,s00 busy people thrive
in that spot on The desert, hemmed IN
BY hitls from which thousands Of
tons Of gold ore are being extracted
every month,
The rush WHICH followed Buffers
discovery OF the 1'onoDah district vas
seconded al Goldheld, following the
discoveries made here by Harry St'En+
Ter a half breed indian boy and Az
Myers, then both poor pros pecEors
row men OF great wealth, That was
three years a1ter tho discovery of TO-
nopah, a fact almost beyond beIef
since the two districts are bur 20
miles apart. However, the prospeHtcr
Is rot always man of judgment.
either In mining or in 'he affairs OF
the world
Thirty or fcrty years ago the great
Ccmstock was discovered and worked,
making multt-millionaiTes OF Fair,
Flood and a score of other men well
Known at that time The Comstock
lode was worked out. and Nevada
slept until six years ago.
Fifteen miles from the COlnstocE
lode Is the new town OF Ramsey
where great gold deposits have hee4t
found on a mineral zone, In the shape
Of a hlgh dyke rising above tne
ground some "a feet. and directly
traCeab1e to the old Comstock dlstrlrt
but the prospeSt9rs OF the early iaSS
would not sec this dyke The place
Of Virginia city, which vaa the veal
| t1iest community of Its size In Amrrl~
ca a that tHne. has now been taken
by Ramsey Is miles away and hut a
year old.
Goldfald. were ii not of sand
would show the foot prints OF pr0s-
pectors for 40 years, for they have
trampcd over this desert. passing the
great mines of today on their way
south. searching for gold bearing
quartz in surface indications. and
such mines as the Florence, Com bina'
ton. Mohawk and others bear evil
dence Of surface prospecting done by
miners quarter OF a century ago.
GOldticld, three years old, is the lars-
est city in Nevada, with population
Of 10000, with an electric lighting
system, city water system, regular
and Well laid streets, good homes. a
dozen fine stone buildings, and many
mere in the course OF construction. but
wv lAluIDAlAF nave OUCH
( hNllded of wood and OF adobe plaster.
And Goldlield is but 10 miles from
teauma, where mining operations
have been conducted for AZ years.
Practically all OF the new camps In
Nevada are near to camps of the early
days. Goldheld is but rs miles north
east Of Loda. where Samuel j. TIL
den owned mining property which
ADDED millions TO his wealth. and
where William Q. Whitney mined and
secured his first great wealth. making
possible - him the larger affairs in
which he afterward engaged Their
ore was mule-packed TO the western
coast ana then by SAILING vessels
around the horn and eventually land
ell at the reduction works at Swansea
Wales,
Rhyolise, located a few miles north
OF Death valley, is the tOwnslte and
metropolis OF the Bullfrog district
1Vhere Charles NJ Schwab paid &c.
100000 for the Montgom cry -ShOshOne
milne, which was located by MontgOm-
cry a poor prOspecior
The new Wonder district is expert
oncing the Same troubles that marked
III early days Of Goldneld. and has
every promise of being as great o
camp.
IrnuEhs, both rich In gold and silver
ores, silver pralOminating thus tar In
the Bos3 bud district
FaiFYlAW rs another point where IL
Is expected that Goldhed history VIII
b. repeated FeiryioW has one great
developed milne In the Nevada Hills
which has already paid In dividends
much more than the original value OF
ihr shares,
Goldheld is the mining metropolis
~ Nevada. aud Ii il here that the
srcaS properties have been bought mad