Arizona republican., 1908-03-17
NEVADA PROSPEROUS
 BUT GOING SLOWER
The Big Boom is at Rawhide But Goldfield and Other Sections are Becoming Normal Again

1 c. H. Hirschfeld returned yesterday ! from Nevada after a sojourn Of several months in the habitat of the festive
 mining boom, although most of his | time has been spent in Reno. which is somewhat out of the zone of the boom, but is the home of many of the boom CTS. Reno he says. is dull compared to 1 the days preceding the financial strin- gency, though he believes it will be better later on. in fact is better now than il was a short time back. Reno.
 he says, is more conservative being a distributing and outfitting point rather than a mining section, and will always have a future as one of the chief cities of the state. He is still in
 business there and expects to return
 in about a month after attending to his business affairs here.
 Asked concerning the members of the Arizona colony in that section he
 had nothing startling to report con- cerning any of them. w M. Mayors he
 says is prospering. George Lewis is also there, having returned from Car son, where he was in business for a time. The gambling business through
 out the state is much smaller than a
 year ago, owing chiefly to the finan-
 cial stringency. The states chief mo-
 toriety is it's mining stock speculation, which is to a large extent. another sort Of gambling. The wealthy operators who also loved to flirt with fortune
 over the table, when the panic came.
 preferred to put their money into their own games as it were, partly to save ',h
 ating prices made better opportunities for mining speculation by the more ire quent offering of what the speculators would consider snaps Rawhide camp is the big thing in Nevada now. and at tracts all the new corners who enter the state in search of fortune. Those who are located and have interests in the older camps remain Of course, but the panic and labor troubles tied things up 50 the floating population began its drifting as usual and went to the new strike at Rawhide.
 Mir. Hirschfeld has not visited Raw hide. but he has kept in close touch with events there as the floating army is going and coming all the time through Reno The shortest and best route is via the Tonopah & Goldfield railroad from either south or north to the station of SchurZ and thence thir- ty miles in an hour and a half by au- tomobile to Rawhide The fare from Reno to Rawhide is S16. The country is full of hot air and high grade. he says, the latter expression meaning strikes of high grade gold ore and lots of hot air. some of t about really meritorious properties and much of it based upon wild enthusiasm. Rawhide really has made fortunes for some people as the lots that sold for a song a few months ago are now commanding marvellous prices. Lots with 25 or 90 feet of frontage often sell for $1O00O.
 The town was only laid out last Sep tember and now has a population of at least 5000, many of the people liv- ing in tents, even though the weather has been severe. An illustration of the demand for houses though rather an unusual incident, is interesting Tex Rickard. the notable prize fight pro- moter. let a contract for a frame structure 30x125 feet in size. to be fin ished and papered and painted, ready for occupancy in fifteen days. That the carpenters might not sleep on the job. he offered them s2OO per day for every day clipped off the contract time. The house was completed in ten days. and the workmen divided up Sl,o0o prize money between them.