Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-13
ALL ENJOY TRIP
TO NEVADA MINES
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GLAD
HAND TOUR A SUCCESS
MANY FEATURES OF THAT TRIP
RECALLED WITH PLEASURE
Los Angeles Visitors Tell of Happy
Times on Jaunt to Godfield,
Tonopah and Rhyollte
Recently

nCCCHtly
One of the most useful and Interest,"
ing glad hand" excursions of the cham
ber OF commerce was to the mining
district of Nevada. The trip was one
of several planned by the excursion
committee of the chamber. intended to
extend the personal acquaintance of
the Los Angeles business and CONNER
cial men with the various sections with
which Los Angeles does business. This
Is good time for such trips, and those
which have been made thus far have
all been most successful and satsfac-
tory. and none more so than that to the
celebrated mining districts of Central
Nevada.
The trip was made over the new rail-
way line of the Tonopah & Tidewater
railroad, built by that enterprising citi-
zen of Oakland, f. M. Smith, more
often referred to as "Borax Smith"
The road extends to Ludlow on the
Santa Fe line In San Bernardino county
to Beatty and Rhyolite in Nevada.
There is a connection with Tonopah,
Gol6field and Bullfrog for these towns,
and further on q connection with the
Southern Pacific. This gives Los An
gees two complete lines into the great
mining country, the other route being
Clark's Salt Lake line, via Las Vegas.
Nevada.
Train Is Travellers Home
The chamber of commerce party left
the Santa Fe station Saturday evening.
about sixty in number. composed of
representatives of large business
houses in the city. The train was es-
pecialy made up for the occasion, with
two sleepers. a dining car, library car,
exactly like one of the Overland Lin
tied trains, so that the excursionists
could make the train their home from
the time they left the city until they
returned.
The chamber was represented offici-
ally by it's president. George H. Stew
art, it's indefatigable secretary, Frank
Virgins. and the chairman of its min
ing committee, II. q. Osborne. BY in
vitation the Los Angeles chamber of
mines was represented by Fielding j.
Stilson, who had taken part in the
glad hand" work. Secretary Virgins,
as usual, had something new in the
way of badges and buttons for his par
ty, so there could be no mistake as to
who they were and from where they
came.
Sunday morning the party found
themselves rolling through the Amar-
gosa valley at no great distance from
the celebrated and dreaded Death val
ley. This valley, which sinks 300 or 400
feet below the level of the sea and
which in pioneer days, and indeed up
to recent period, has been the scene
of many CHASTITY tragedies, has lost
some of the terTors since the advent of
railways so near it's borders.
Rhyolte Is Brisk Town
A stay of a couple of hours was made
at the brisk town of Rhyolite, which is
situated on a plateau between the
mountains in the bowels of which are
several of the leading mines of the
Bullfrog district-notably, the Mont
gomery Shoshone, the property of
Charles M. Schwab. This mine is said
to be working at its new mill about
$50 tons of ore per day. and shipping
to the smelters at Salt Lake fifty tons
per day, and the production is from
$100 900 to $125,0OO per month Mills are
being erected on the Gold Bar, Home
stake and Mayfiower mines and the
district is likely to have a long life
as large producer of gold ore of low
grade. Provided the quantity is suf-
ficient, this makes the best sort of dis
trict for business purposes.
An hours stop was made at Beatty,
Wnere an interesting eXilDll Oh oit NdS
given in the Miners hall from mines In
the neighborhood, and samples were
crushed in the mortar and panned out
for the visitors. showing long strips
of the yellow metal in the bottom of
the pan.
Half way between Beatty and Gold
field the Bonnie Clare mill and mine.
largely owned by e. A. Forester &
Sons of Los Angeles, was passed.
GoIdfieId Has Handsome Hotel
At Goldfielu a large number of au-
tos and carriages were in waiting to
take the party up town, about mile
distant, where they were landed at the
new Goldfield hotel, large stone and
brick structure, which would do credit
to any city, not excepting Los Angeles.
Gambling is only an incident in Gold
field-a side issue no more important
there than are the dairy lunches in
Los Angeles. The visitors were aston
ished at the number and solidity of the
business buildings in Goldfeld.
Tonopah also shows the same fine
character of buildings, modern in ar
chitecture ana conveniences and un-
doubtedly of expensive construction.
The Goldfie,d chamber of commerce
welcomed the visitors through it's pres
ident, Charles S. Sprague, and Mark
Plaisted, its secretary, who was former
ly an editor at Riverside. After short
time at the Goldfield hotel, they were
whisked away in autos to various
mines which have made Goldfield IA
nous. These include four mines of the
Goldfield Consolidated company The
Mohawk, Combination, Red Top and
Jumbo. Adjoining these is another
great property, the Florence.
A reception was given in the evening
at the Montezuma club, at which well
coming speeches were made by repre-
sentatives of the local chamber of COM
merce and the Montezuma club, and re-
sponded to in feicitous manner by
President George H. Stewart, Fielding
j. Stilson and Fl. q. Osborne.
At 1 o'clock Monday afternoon the
train was taken from Tonopah to Mil
lers to see the works there. After an
hour so occupied the train headed for
home, and at 7:45 Tuesday morning 1t
rolled into LaGrande station, after a
trip of about 1000 miles, which involved
an absence from Los Angeles of but a
single working daV.