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

water daily. Are we not indeed OBJ
jects of pityf
A first class bath can be had by the
public with water fresh from the pipes
and all the accessories at the
hotels and at the bath houses for four.
bits or fifty cents instead of "one DOL
lar and no stale ''bath jokes thrown
i'm either. | am surprised that the
New Idea man did not give the rest of
the joke about the dog and the board.
crs while he was about it. This same
Joke was sprung while the world was
yet young, by a brother of Tubal Cain
and received from him a well merited
rebuke. OF course, regular guests and
tenants can get baths without extra
charge at hotels and office buildings.
In the toilet on the floor with my office
| can take an all over bath in pure
spring water as many times n day as |
wish, free of charge, and office rent
about one-third what is was a year
ago. Regarding South African water
bags they are quite generally used and
why should they not be when water can
be kept very FOOL in them even in the
hottest summer days in the city, or out
IN the hills by keeping the bag in the
shade of a ~sagebrush, and that without
"puncturing them with a needle'
either. Such being the case there is
often no occasion to use ice. As to
"ice being too expensive a luxury for
general use.o There is considerable ice
used in the city. There are three or
four companies that manufacture ice
and at least two other companies that
sell ice. The Goldfeld hotel has its wi
ice plant and makes and uses over n
ton of ice per day. The Hermitage
saloon makes and uses yer one and a
quarter tons of ice per day. 1T also has
a well in its cellar from which it uses
over two thousand gallons per day to
prevent its OVERLOOKING and flooding
the cellar. The Tonopah-G oldfeld
Market company makes over two tons
of ice per day mostly for its own use.
Another company has a large ice plant
and is just beginning the manufacture
of ice. The other ice companies sell in
hot weather at least six or eight tons
per day making a total consumption of
at least twelve tons Of ice daily. lee
is sold in small quantities to private
families at one and a half cents per
pound, a reasonable price under exist
ing conditions.
As regards rain fall we have had sew
eral showers during the past two
months when the rain fell in perfect
torrents for several hours at a time, in
stead of for 'sfive or ten minutes As
/ write these lines the thunder is re.
verberating among the mountains and
the rain dashing against my window
panes. Already one and seven-tenths
inches of rain has fallen today. Many
nights nave / gone to sleep lulled by
| the patter of the rain upon the roof.
If the writer of that article had seen
as / saw about the first of August after
one of the showers a stream of water
coming down a gulch and running
across Fifth avenue about two feet
deep and two hundred feet wide he
would have thought that there was
water enough to clay the dust fairly
IN mi. .au,a enrinL1a caueaI tho
water to run down a cross street and to
a place on Main street where a new
block was being built, and washed into
the cellar a stone foundation wall two
feet thick and seven feet high, forty
feet Of it's length, filing the cellar even
full of water. This water was pumped
out and before the cellar was dry an
other shower came and filed it again.
July 18th the rain fall was one and a
halt inches, with as much more the
latter part Of the month. August lst
two and a half inches, the Sth, four
and a half inches, the Goth, half an
inch, with enough other showers during
the month of August just passed to
make the total rainfall for the season
eight and a half inches.
Don't you think, Mr.. Editor, that
was enough to keep the dust from flying
very badly? Horses, mules and burros
could be seen any day this summer in
all directions from the city eating the
grass growing quite plentifnlly be-
tween the sagebrush. While "water is
still the pro blcm Of the DESERT in
many places, ir Goldfeld we have the
problem very well solved. Within the
! city limits we have many gardens of