The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-17

1 was very much amused reading the
article in the Chronotype of August 2s,
1908. regarding Goldfeld, taken from
the New Idea Magazine of Boston,
Mass. The New Idea needs to get som
new ideas about Goldfeld if it has any
regard for the truth. What the writer
cf the article in question does not know
about Goldfeld would fill a large vol
ume.
First as regards dust. The streets in
the business section of the city were
macadamized last year at an expense
of thirty-ive thousand dollars and with
the daily s~prinkling from the watering
carts are kept in a fine condition. And
the frequent showers keep the other
parts of the city in very fair condition.
OF course we have occasional sand
storms and clouds of dust but to say
that ga blow of some sort is a daily
occurrence is as far from the truth as
it is possible to get. We have a great
many days of as perfect weather as can
be found anywhere on earth. If | re-
member rightly dust is not entirely un-
known in the good old Bay state and
even in the sacred precincts of Boston.
Next as regards our water supply.
We have more than fifty wells and
springs in the city from which the own
ers and others get an abundant supply
of water of most excellent quality.
More than twenty water wagons de-
liver water from these wells to private
families at five cents per can of five
gallons or thirty-five cents for a barrel
of fifty gallons. In fact for the past
few days they have been selling water
at twenty.f five cents per barrel. This
makes well water cost from one cent to
half a cent per gallon according to the
amount taken.
These wagons deliver over twelve
thousand gallons per day.
Ida, the point from which the main
pipe line of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Water company starts, is twenty-five
miles away instead of fifty, as stated
in the article. The main spring, how
ever, being on the south side of Mount
Magruder, the pipe line has to go a
circuitous route around the west slope
of the mountain and is still further di-
verified from a straight line to take in
other springs on it's route so that the
total length of the main pipe lin is
about thirty-fve miles. This water
starts at an elevation of over seven
thousand feet and has over a thousand
feet fall in reaching Goldfeld. These
mountain springs furnish water whose
quality and purity is not surpassed by
anv water in the United States. This
water company has at the present tim
over five hundred service connections
and will have as many more added
within a wear. The maximum cost to
families is sixty-fve o~ne-hundredths OF
a cent per gallon and the minimum
charge for large consumers is one-tenth
of a cent per gallon. The total amount
of water used by the customers of this
company at the present time is two
hundred and fifty thousand gallons per
dav. The Columbia Water company
furnishes water for the people on the
North Goldfeld townsite.
This ompany gets its best water
from Rabbit springs at the south edge
of Goldfeld on the slopes of the
malapai, which is of the finest quality.
iris company has two hundred and
fftv service connections and furnishes
daily two hundred thousand gallons at
the same prices as the other company.
Another concern furnishes from Alkall
springs and other places over seventy
thousand gallons daily.
There are other large amounts OF
water used from the mines and other
places which with the water used di-
rectly from the wells would bring the
daily consumption of water for all pur-
poses up to a grand total OF SIX nun
bred thousand gallons per day. With a
maximum of cost of water of one cent
per gallon from the carts and a mini
n.um cost of one-tenth of a cent per
gallon from the water companies, 1t
must take some expert figuring on the
part of the New Idea Magazine to make
"every gallon cost on an average OF at
least a cent and a half.
Just imagine the terrible situation we
are in when "every precious drop has
to be put to as many uses as possible,
of six hundred thousand gallons or