The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-09-19
LOCAL AND PERSONAL MENTION

f. ID. Bowles is up from the coast.
DIR. b. F. Elliott has one east on a
brief trip.
DIR. C. +. Whitesides is spending a
few days in Los Angeles.
7. d. Murphy has returned from a
weeks visit to San Francisco.
Senator Nixon has retired from the
directorate of the Montana Tonopah.
Contractor George Holesworth of
T~onopah and Reno visited Goldfeld this
week.
Theodore Tobish of the Major Har-
rison Mines company is up from Death
valley.
Martin l.. Efinger of the Pittsburg-
Silver Peak company is in town for a
few days.
d. s. Truman has returned from San
Francisco. where he was called on legal
business.
J. w. Perez, manager of the Hotel
Casey, is spending a few weeks in
southern California.
George Raphael has returned from
San Francisco, where he attended the
funeral of his brother.
The Misses Goodberlet have returned
from an inspection of mining properties
in northern Nye county.
Charles X. Lord, former president of
the Tonopah & Goldfeld railroad, died
recently at his home in Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Austin are here
from Denver. Mr.. Austin is interested
in placer operations at Tule canyon.
Second quarterly dividend No. 2 was
paid this week by the Round Mountain
Mining company. 1t amounted to $780,
900.
Mr.. and Mrs. LeBretton are arrivals
from Oklahoma. Mr.. LeBretton is in
terested in mining properties in this
camp.
w. d. Forster, general freight agent
for the Tonopah & Goldfeld railroad,
has returned from a visit to Los An
geles.
s. F. Shannon has returned from Raw
hide, where he suffered loss of two
dwelling houses and a store building in
the recent fire.
w. f. Mitchell, president of the Gold
field Daisy. is here from New York City.
DR.. j. Prescott Dyos has returned
from a visit TO Los Angeles.
United States Senator Nixon, presi-
dent of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Mines company and the John s. Cook
bank, spent the week in Goldfeld.
George HoiIeran was confined to his
bed for several days this week, suffer
ling from blood poisoning. He has al
most entirely recovered from his i'll
ness.
Sidney Norman, mining editor of the
Los Angeles Times, is a visitor in Gold
field. He is preparing an exhaustive
article on the condition of the mines of
the camp.
Goldfeld is supposedly in the Great
American Desert, but during August,
the rainfall, as measured by govern
ment appliances, amounted to SAL
inches.
A fire, evidently of %incendiary origin,
occurred Tuesday evening in the base
ment of the Monte Carlo saloon on Main
street. The department made a record
breaking run. The damage was slight.
AS an evidence of the growth of Gold
field, be it said that every lock box in
the Goldield postofiee, and there are
1850, has been rented for the next quar-
ter, and there is a waiting list of about
200.
j. H. Blanchard, the mining engineer,
was taken suddenly and critically i'll
this week, suffering from hemorrhages
of the lungs. Yesterday he was able
to sit up, and as soon as he can travel,
will probably leave camp for a lower
attitude for a time.
J.. +. Lane, the well known mine OPP
orator, has returned from "a visit to
Ocean Park. His family will remain
for some time at the seaside and in the
meantime Mr.. Lane will visit mining
Properties in other states before return
ing to Goldfcld.