The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-24
NEWSPAPER MAN WRITES
ABOUT CAMP RAWHIDE

J. w. Connella. until a couple of
weeks ago editor of the Ely Expositor,
and who gave up newspaper work to
join the rush to Rawhide, the latest
camp for mining honors, arrived at
that place a few days ago. and under
recent date wrote a letter to the Ex-
POSTER, from which the following is
taken:
So many people in Ely asked me to
write and tell them about this new
camp that I find it impossible to COM
ply with the requests of all. ] there
fore address this to the Expositer
which. if you see fit to publish, will
reach the whole outfit.
First and foremost. this is the wild
est boo~ the west has experienced
IN many a long year. if it's intensity
has, in fact. ever been eaualed. Some
say it is the craziest. The crowd is
rushing in from everywhere: from
one to two hundred people arriving
daily Ten to fifteen automobiles roll
IN loaded to the guards daily from
Reno, Fallon. Shurz and Nina, while
an occasional one comes direct from
Tonopah or Goldfield. There are regu-
lar stage routes, too, from Fallon.
forty-three miles distant, and Shurz.
twenty-five miles away. The roads
to Fallon and Shurz are lined with
f%reighting outfits, everything from a
blackboard with a camping outfit to
14-mule teams, hauling three wagons
loaded with lumber and merchandise.
Up to a few weeks ago this was
called the cheapest boom mining camp
that ever flourished in Nevada, but
prices of everything is soaring sky
ward. along with real estate and
leases. Last week the auto rate from
Fallon was raised from $40 to SIS;
stage fare and freight rate proportion
ately. Freight by the & load is
$50 a hundred, for less than a full
load three cents a pound. In coming
in from Reno. the better and cheaper
route is by Shurz. Fallon. figuring
that it has a cinct, is playing the
game accordingly, levying exhorbitant
tribute in a dozen irritating WAYS.
Lots that sold here last September
for $40 and $15 now sell for from
$4,000 to $4,000, and rent for from
$3.50 to $3.50 a month, for ground
alone.
The formation, the character of the
ore deposits, every consideration is
different from any other known dis
trict. High-grade has been discovered
in a half dozen places. ! have seen
a half dozen other dumps that have
the appearance of a light colored clay
and that in realitv is what it largely
is-pan free gold; pick up the stuff in
discriminatory anywhere. One familiar
with ore would not stop to pick M
a piece that carries 81 900 in gold to
the ton, were he to stumble over ii in
a trail. That is WIN the district was
travelled rel for forty years without
being discovered. / have not yet heard
how the fortunate %discoverer chanced
to find the values.
One erroneous idea has been per
sistently pushed. that this is a grass
root proposition. Such il not the
ease. Only in two or three instances
have commercial values been found
near the surface. In most of the
shafts pay ore is not found at less
depth than fifty feet; in Others below
that. The deepest hole in the camp is
less than 100 feet, and nowhere has
a considerable shoot been developed
by drifting In other words, the dis
trict has not been prozen to an out
slider, though those on the ground for
a few weeks were convinced that it is
a winner. The skeptics and pessi.
mists are here, of course. but thew give
no valid reason for their unbelief or
adverse judgment.