The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
RICH CLUSTER OF CAMPS
In THE VICINITY OF GOLDFIELD

Southern Nevada is a mineral empire
and Goldfeld is its capital city. This
latter is by reason of geographical posi-
tion largely, as well as facilities for
transportation; not considering the fact
that the mineral deposits of Goldfeld
district are the most remarkable in the
history of mining.
A glance at the map of Nye and
Esmeralda county will show a score
of new and rich camps within a radius
of so miles, with Goldfield at the focal
point. Among them are Tonopah, Col
den Arrow, Hannapah, Silver Bow,
Kawich, Jamestown, Diamondfeld, Gu
prite, Jackson Mountain, Rockefeller,
Cactus Peak, Antelope Springs, AIDE
laide, Gold Crater, Gold Mountain,
Hornsilver, Stateline, Ida. Roosevelt,
Palmetto, Railroad Springs, Blair, Sill
yer Peak and Rochester.
1t is probable that less than half of
these camps appear upon even the lat
est map, for several Of them are only a
few days or a few weeks old. and two
of the youngest. jamestown and Horn
silver, are having the l~ustiest growth.
Passing beyond the 50-mile limit,
there are other camps which are d.
rectly or partially tributary to Gold.
field.
Manhattan was fostered by San Fran.
cisco in the days prior to the earth
quake. but in recent months Goldfeld
capital has lone much to revive that
camp.
Round Mountain, wen farther away,
is a feeder to Goldfeld. The principal
mines and many of the prospects in
Round Mountain are controlled by Gold
felders.
Rawhide, Bovard. Thorne and Orc
City are in part tributary to Goldfeld,
and in part to Reno.
Tonopah, strange to say, has reached
out very little for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in
these camps, being content with its own
great mines and superb milling plants.
Goldfeld is the only city in Nevada
possessing three direct trunk line con-
nections. BY traffic arrangement it has
become the terminus of the Las Vegas
& Tonopah road, a part of the Clark
system, as the Salt Lake to San Pedro
line is Familiarity known. 1t is like
wise the terminus of the Tonopah &
Tidewater railroad. a feeder to the
Santa Fe system. The Tonopah & Gold
field railroad, which terminates in Gold
field. is a branch from the main South
ern Pacific system. 1t is an intricate
and not generally understood system
that has thus been worked out in South
ern Nevada railroad circles and it puz-
zles the layman at time sto know just
what railroad he is travelling over.
At all events, Goldfeld has the ter
mini of three big systems and the camp
views with complacency the struggles
for traffic that the companies are max
ing. 1t is notable that freight is now
handled quickly and at reduced rates,
while passengers are extended every
comfort and courtesy by the rival com-
mon carriers. The three roads give all
but the camps to the eastward an easy
inlet to Goldfeld and now m the
most important road of all-the Gold
field Ely line. soon to be constructed
which will give the camps to the east
ward an opportunity to market their
ores.
The foregoing somewhat lengthy dis
sertation upon railroads is worthy of
its space in discussing Goldfeld's flu
ture, for it means ore reduction and
commerce as well as mine production.
1t means that the people who con
the two or three million dob
lars worth of stone and brick struc-
lures in Goldfeld during the past year
or two builded better than they knew,
for Goldfeld is now a camp with as
sured permanency and prosperity.
The hotels of Goldfeld are attractive
features of the city. When the Hotel
Casey was completed a few months ago
it was pronounced the finest aravan-
sary in Southern Nevada, and now
comes the Hotel Goldfield, erected at a
cost in excess of a third of a million
dollars, Individually the most palatial
hosiery in the state.
The banking facilities are unsur-
in any city Goldield's size. OF
course. there is the closed door of the
State Bank & Trust company, but sew
eral other towns in the state have had
a similar experience. The Nye & Orms-
by County bank is still engaged in bust
ness. but will shortly be absorbed by
the First National Bank, which recently
occupied its new four-story building.