Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-04-10
RAWHIOE MINING
CAMP LETTERS
Life In the Great Gold Bonanza District
Described BY Members of the
Capital Journal Staff

Big Four lease. Today its superin.
tendent, r. s. Bolar, has been over.
looking the sacl1lng of ore that
shows plenty of free gold and Is
worth five big American dollars q
pound. A mill wes installed during
the week, by "Swiftwater Bill" he
with the matrimonial record NJ
Alaska way. II has a capacity of 25
tons a day, and was opened stimuli.
taneously with several baskets OF
champagne. This mil' is buili
about six miles south OF town, al
the source OF the city's water sup.
/ ply, and another mill Is TO be built
in the near future.
During the week Tex Rickard i'm.
ported q well-drllllng plant which
he has placed on the Northern mine
about a mile north OF town. While
boring for water, he will incident
ally prospect his ground TO the
depth OF 1000 feet, and II he strikes
water, may have a better thing than
mine, as the plant is at work a
couple of hundred feet above town.
In the meanwhile Tex is also run
ming the Northern saloon and thus
allevlatlng the thirst conditions,
while the we'll is being bored.
The railroad seems 20 DC held in
allegiance temporarily, but the sur
veys have been completed, and Il is
reported that n contract has been
let for ties enough TO build the
first fifteen miles. The road will
connect with the Go'dfield branch
OF the Southern Pacific at or pear
Walker Lake. Arrangements have
also been made for furnishing pow
err and lights for the city. While the
proposed source OF power IS not
given, n is probable tho head waters
OF Walker river, where, perhaps,
10 900 horse power can be obtained.
This is about as miles distant, and
Is the only available source OF cheap
power nearer than the Truckee riv-
er. about so miles. Iu the mean
while the autos are doing a great
business. fifteen or twenty of them
being engaged In handling the Raw
hide passenger traffic. Tie fare
stlll being $40 20 Schurx and $3.50
TO Fallon. Probably 1000 animals
are employed in hauling freight.
aud this condition Is really better
than having railroad. were II not
for the fact that the working OF
Rawhide ores requires cheaper
transportation. The money paid for
freight. now goes into the hands OF
teamsters and Is spent again; while
with the completion OF the railroad.
the mules will be left without a Job.
and the ranehers up az Fallon
wonld lose a good market. Besides
this the saloons would miss the
teamsters sadly, and Ragtime Kel-
ley'ss famous torpsichorcan resort
would be dreped In mourning,
while the girls would drift into
some other new camp and be real
nice and new. However we will
meet that catastrophe when II
eomes with becoming fortitude and
resignation. As Il IL, the inevit-
able has not yet happened. The
humble burro still lifts up his voice
in plaintive song and eheerfully
ruba himself against his souliess
rival, the automobile, and the voice
OF the teamster Is still heard In per-
suasive obJurGation to his tired
mules In language the like whereof
Is not found In Walls hymns or
Baxters' Saints Rest.
The streets present q busy scene.
a mingling OF GutoC. burros, stages.
freight wagons, drays. dogs and
men--and a fairly good sprinkling
OF women AS matter of fact