The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-17
CORRECTION OF ERRONEOUS
IMPRESSIONS OF GOLDFIELD

vegetables and flowers, a few lawns Of
grass, and good locust, poplar, catalpa
and other kinds of trees and will have
q vast increase in that line the c-ming
Yea-s. BY the favor Of Providence and
a snIerb f:s 5coaTtment the supriy Of
" ater has been suricient to prc-ehs any
fires here, ord the supply is now
t"ll lie for ali purposes. We Lave
twenty seven electric FIRE aip-n boxes
and thifty-six ERE plugs or hy ,.qnts to
which as many + ore hydraa's wll at
once be sdde,i. The central H. c station
is 4 6'e two story stone bull III ~ thirty
by eightv feet n size eontag't,s ~
machines AMI i,.i horses with IN ,'.'o-
matte quick .sleh and modern ,lss,ric-i
mi athc. 1ppliu ces, and e,st ,v~r
twelve thousand dollars. Fsti,y, 81
tcmber 4th, %aen Tor want o. wat,r n
.se town ,f EaNhidc, located IN thu
north part Of our Esmeralda oGuutv IN
The short space of two hours me millivi
dollars worth e. property WIS dc.
str sycd 10y lire ,ri three tho sal pco
pie rendered homeless. Wi:hia two
hours Goldfeld citizens had raised over
ten thousand dollars in cash AMI sup.
plies and were soon on a special train
furnished free by the Tonopah and
Goldfeld railroad and by many auto
mobiles hurrying to the relief of the
stricken town, and the same day while
the embers were still burning the citi-
Gems of Rawhide had started to rebuild
their ruined town. That is the kind of
people that are building up the great
state of Nevada. While our weather
here is not quite as salubrious the year
round as that of southern California
still ii is an Improvement in many
ways over that of New England and
vastly more healthy. The nights even
in the hottest weather are always cool.
Here with a population of about fifteen
thousand we have only W undertake
ets and the one having the most bust
ness is a candidate for sheriff of the
county with the evident idea OF get
ting something to do, and the other
one would have starved to death long
ago did he not have a fine income from
other sources outside his business as
undertaken.
With six church and more coming,
the very best Of schools and school
buildings, Masonic, Odd Fellows and
all other leading fraternal societies,
literary and social societies and clubs,
various labor organizations with the
conservative element in control, polit-
ical clubs, chamber of commerce, stock
exchange, two daily and four weekly
newspapers, postofiee of the first class,
eighty thousand dollar stone court
house, FIVE hundred thousand dollar
hotel, many other irst-class hotels and
restaurants, two first-eiass banks, fine
stone office buildings, good residences,
clothing, millinery, drug, hardware and
other stores with the best Of goods,
markets whose supply of meats, fruits
and vegetables for quality and variety
is surpassed nowhere in the world, an
unlimited supply of pure water, good
sewer system, macadamized streets, SUI
perb fire department, fine electric light,
power and heat service with eleven
hundred local customers (part of the
the twenty-four thousand horse power
plant of the Nevada California Power
company, good courts, faithful public
officials, many of the best people in the
world of all trades and professions,
transportation furnished by three rail
roads and a multitude of automobiles,
horses. mules and burros, in short an
up to date city in every respect with
all the modern improvements, and last
but not least half a dozen mills and ore
reduction plants and the richest gold
mines on earth, our lot in life is indeed
hard to bear and we are profoundly
grateful to the writer of the article in
the New Idea Magazine for his unso-
licited sympathy. One would naturally
suppose from his many misstatements
that he was a past master in the
Ananias club, but / will be charitable
and assume that they were due to the
sin of ignorance rather than to any
vicious intent.
However, if he would wake from his
pipe dream and come out here with his
eyes open, he might in time know some
thing about this, the greatest gold
camp ON earth.
ADAMS +. BROWN.
Goldfeld, New, Sept. s, 1908.