The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
lby William P. Dewolf, Special Repre-
stnative of The News.)

Wy "hiiam L. DeWolf, Special Repre-
stnative of The News.)
hawhide, New, May If ever a
mining camp bore the mineral stamp
OF permaneney that camp is Rawhide.
III Is 10 be seen writ in tracery of silver
and gold on serrated up,ift. and in the
vermiculate winnings of auriferous
lodges. 1t is to be seen in the massive
dykes which gridiron the district in
every direction. 1t is to be seen in the
ieverish energy with which shafts are
beng pushed downward into the depths
OF a balf-seore hills. 1t is to be seen in
the s~keleton-like outlines of a score of
gallows-f frames which rear their tessel-
ated lengths skyward. 1t is to be seen
In the rapidity with which the town
has grown from a hamlet containing a
few hundred prospectors into a city of
10000 people. 1t is to be seen in the
CELEBRITY with which that city is being
metamorphosed from one of tents into
one of substantial structures of wood
and brick.
The ambition of Rawhide business
men is fully the equal of that of the
camp mine makers, and in eollabora-
ton the two are working out to success
full f~ruition the districts manifest
destiny. Surface improvements at the
mines are paralleled by improvements
In the business section; and the estab-
lishment of each but tends to enhance
the prosperity of the camp in general.
Eight, ten and twenty-mule teams toll
and sweat through the acrid alkali dust
that marks the roadways giving ingress
and egress to this latest, and not un-
likely, richest of gold camps. Wagons
and t~railers heaped high with hetero-
geneous freight, the patient animals
ply their s~low-going way from railway
terminal to wide-gaping storehouse or
yawning shaft. Here a t-begrimed,
rasp voiced mariner of the desert
pilots a cargo of provender toward the
home port. There a sunburned, alkali-
parched wayfarer of the sea of sands
guides to harbor a galleon loaded deep
with mining machinery. Approaching
across the expanse of waste, pitching
and tossing, rising and falling with the
vagrant undulations of it's arid bosom
hastens an automobile, that latest and
by far most successful ship of the
desert. In the ofing, blunders aim
lessly that all but derelict on fortunes
sea, the burro pack train.
Business Section Improves
Within the past few weeks a decided
change for the better is noticeable in
the personal appearance of the town
In the business sections store and hotel
buildings of considerable pretensions
are being or have been erected. No
less than twenty structures of the
character mentioned have been built
within six weeks. Residences are being
erected in all portions of the camp;
some times clustering around the sum
nit of an easy-graded knoll as do flies
about the cover of a jam pot, Mt other
points crowding upward along low-roll-
ing slopes in skirmish lines of white.
gray and drab. At night from their SUI
perior location against the skyline the
lighted windows glow and twinkle like
a thousand camp fires in the bivouac OF
an army.
! Star Producers
So much for the town. For the mines
even more in way of prosperous adj
vancement can be written. On January
LIST of this year this district possessed
naught save p hustling bunch of ambi-
tious. optimistic miners and a string OF
promising prospects. May LIST finds the
ambition Of more than one of these
optimists realized and records the be-
| Ginning of the fullflment of early-ln'