Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-03-14
BALTIMORE AMERICAN SAYS
THAT RAWHIDE MAY BE
THE MEANS.


The fame of Rawhide has travelled
near and far, and its reputation has
spread as rapidly as its growth. 1t
is being talked OF in the East and the
West by all classes of people, and all
classes of people from everywhere
are making for it.. The Baltimore
American, which usually smacks OF
mining, has the following about the
camp:
1t is not a mere hyperbolic figure
of speech to say that American cities
spring up in a day-between the ris-
ing and the setting of the sun. Ii il
Is the population and not the houses
that constitutes a city, several cities
of this country that are now thriving
and well established, grew in just
that way-got beyond the village
class in less than twenty-four hours.
Guthrie may be mentioned as a TWEEN
ty-four hour town; also Goldfield.
and, according to reports, another
Nevada spot. rejoicing in the sugges-
tive name of Rawhide. became a city
with a population of $500 on last
Monday. Rawhide, it seems. is a re-
petition of Goldfield; it is another
Goldfeld, in fact, so the enthusiasts
who have made a grand rush for il
believe.
II is rumored that a gold ledge has
been found in the Nevada desert, 10
Gated about half way between Reno
and Tonopah. Wonderful tales have
floated through the mining regions
concerning the richness of the ore,
limestone rock, that has been discov
cred at the point already known t.
fame as Rawhide. One report de
clares that samples of the ore hav'
assayed $4,000 10 the ton. Their
is such a firm belief that Rawhide /
to have staying qualities that fou
newspapers and three banks openei
business with the first rush. At pres
ent 1t is a tent city entirely, and tn
tent hotels are renting beds in eight
hour shifts. 1t is scarcely safe to as
sumo that a gold reef richer than tn
African Rand has been located in tn
arid regions Of Nevada, but the de
velopments at Rawhide will be fol
lowed with interest.
; Such chance discoveries of the We.
, low metal as those of Goldfield an
q Rawhide. in a region that had prey
iously been explored by prospectoI
during a long period, bears III
theory entertained by many mimi
experts that the worlds gold depo
its have as yet been barely touche,
: With regard to the gold output fro
\ the Klondike and Nome districts
Alaska, for instance, many eXper
a enced p~rospectorS entertain the b
4 lief that the placer finds which ha'
a. been thus far worked are but ind
cations of richer stored deposits tn
have not as yet been located. The.
is a prevailing belief among Alasl
/ miners that great hedges of rich gol
A yielding ores will yet be discover
. In Alaska. In fact, there is not
gold-yielding region in any section
the world concerning which it is n
believed that the output is likely
be increased by new inds-sueh q
cidental uncoverings as those
Goldfeld and Rawhide.
OF the seven principal gold-yiel
n ing States. Colorado has held fiji
place In magnitude of output I
: more than a decade. Alaska h
NJ been a close second to Colorat
Is California ranking third and Neva
fourth. The new Nevada field
Rawhide. IL it makes good the repr
" OF the first enthusiastic reports, m
~ put Nevada at the top in the size
competing gold crops. As to II
10 however, a more accurate guess m
be made a twelvemonth hence.
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