The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-04-01
Rawhide,the
New Camp

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article on 1.-The Rush to Rawhide."
A capital paragraph or two reads as
follows:
beds, any where, from dormitory
tent, to a hastily constructed modern
Rawhide hotel, with chinky walls, are
from $3.50 to 81 a day Meals are
reasonably cheap. Water is 81 a barrel,
and baths 50, Coal Is SO a hundred
pounds. Wood, or scrub timber stumps
is SASHA cord. Lumber which sells In
southern California for $l3 a thousand
is $40 IN Rawhide, The hotel towels
are Indian contract towels. They are
about as thick as two folds Of tissue
paper, and slip over your face like
ceIluloid. Some wag remarked that
the beer was made out Of sage-brush.
But don't knock. Rawhide has done
wonderfully well. They build frame
building in two days, excavation and
all. There were only two hundred
people in the town last October. To-
day there are close to seven thousand,
and they are coming at the rate Of two
hundred day.
There Is one Roosevelt Hotel" In
front of IL stood load Of furniture,
and leaning against the pile stood four
rifles. 3
The days are passably warm, but
half an hour after the sun goes down,
the air becomes chill as steel. Raw
ride may suffer an epidemic such as
Goldtield and onopah had In their
early days. Heavy drinkers, unable
to find accommodations, or too poor
TO pay for them, will sleep outdoors
without cover. When the night chill
comes on, the stupor renders them un-
conscious of 1t. The salt air Of the
desert, especially at night, has pecu-
liarly penetrating sting. Upto March
l there had been ten deaths In Raw
hide, all from pneumonia. A dual
funeral took place one afternoon dur
ing my visit. A long procession OF
men headed 1t. The collins lay on
nat. box wagons. The first funeral was
that of Dave Walsh, November 10 last.
He died in the Hermitage saloon. He
had been drunk, his friends said, for
twenty years. The saloon. owners, bar.
tenders, and gamblers took up COL
lection among themselves and buried
him. There we're three improvised
carriages. Five hundred people, every.
body in town at the time, accompa.
MED the body to the newly selected
cemetery A drum corps Of three
headed the procession. Bert Gibbons,
the lawyer, conducted the funeral SER
vices, both at the undertaking parlors
and at the grave. He preached a ser.
mon and did very we'll, though to
quote "Rag.time" Kelly, the Rawhide
sage, once more, he was Handicapped
because there was no one TO dispute
his argument" Lige Harris's little
black team drew the remains. They
were the same team that drew the
remains at the first burial at Rhyolite
and the first one at Tonopah
When the rush to Rawhide started
last fall, Montana physician heard
of 1t. lie sent for seven high. power
autos and opened up an automobile
transportation company at Schurz.
There are days he sells one hundred
tickets, in and out, That means, at
ten dollars fare, $4,000 a month
His expenses do not exceed $4,000 a
month, leaving him a monthly net
profit Of $2l, 900
The main street of Rawhide Is the
old California emigrant trail between
Austin and Candelaria, The wheels
of the emigrant wagons OF fifty years
ago crunched ledge that crosses the
trail at Rawhide and that runs in
places 81, 500 to the ton.