The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-09

Unbelievable sum OF $l,oOO,uO0,0O
And then the blight of the demon
s~tration of silver fell upon our silver
state, and Nevada slept. Slept for a
decade, aye, for a score or more of
years, only to be awakened by the re-
port that startled the country, that a
Tonopah had been discovered-Tonopah
that was to become the corner stone in
the greatest mineral empire yet known
to the world-the mineral Empire of
Southern Nevada. 1t wal in April, 1900,
that Jim Butler made his first dis
coveries of gold and silver ore on the
hillside above what is now known as
~Tonopah. Within that nine years
Tonopah has added to the worlds store
of gold and silver, the splendid tribute
of $s,000,0OO. After the first rush to
Tonopah the cry of the restless pros
pector was "on to the SOUTH and at
the foot Of Columbia mountain, in the
old camp of Grandma, was struck a
pick whose echo was heard around the
world, that gave birth to such an era
of mining and stock speculation as the
world had never known. A Goldfeld
was born; a Goldfeld in nam as well
as in truth, for within this short period
of six years the little patch of ground
upon yonder hills has produced moi
less than $35, OO0, 1000 in gold and given
to the world the greatest gold mine
known to the mining industry. And
still was the cry, son to the SOUTH
and a Bullfrog was discovered-one of
the greatest milling camps yet known.
And Tonopah, Goldfeld and. Bullfrog
were not all.
Within the past few years there has
been a succession of new camps; every
month, almost, claiming a camp of its
own. Call the roll: Manhattan, Round
Mountain, Fairview, Wonder, Ramsey,
Chaffee, Seven Troughs, Lander, Raw
hide, Lucky Boy, Buckskin, Glendale,
Pioneer and a score of others that come
III CuuitoS PioCCootoh, III SoiN II
camps, with one or more big mines and
the making of many others with the
exercise of intelligent effort and the TX
penditure of sufficient money. But gold
and silver are not alone counted among
Nevada riches, for have we not a
Yerington, a Mason Valley, and have
we not an Ely the youngest and still
the second largest copper mining dis
trict known to mining and the largest
copper mat smelter in the world? But
/ cannot take time to recall all the
camps-to catalogue Nevada wonder
full diversity of minerals. Go to yonder
Mineral Palace, / beg of you, and study
the rocks and camps that are there
represented, and see for yourself if Ne
vada is not the Wonderland of the
Mineral World. This great plateau be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Nevadas, stretching from the
mighty Oregon on the north to the
Colorado on the south, presents a field
for the prospector that will be virgin
for years to come. No one knows so
well as the miner of Nevada her ex-
haustless possibilities, and we invite the
world to come and join lis IN he de
velopment of this mighty domain. for
there is plenty of room fbr ali.
Mr.. President, may l not again revert
to Goldfeld, the city and district that
has the honor of calling you her guest.
Goldfeld, the gilded dome of Nevada
great mining structure, the "Field Of
the Cloth of Gold.' We are naturally
proud of Goldfeld and what has been
accomplished here in SO short a time.
Only six years ago this present month,
were the first discoveries made near
Columbia Mountain; only four years
ago, and the first railroad was bull to
connect us with the outside Wild.
What a transformation! What ! his
DRY is ours! Where only a trackless
desert, the play ground of the furics,
where human life was supposed co be
impossible, there is a city of 1900
souls. with modern schools with Il full
500 scholars; with blocks oe graue.l and
paved streets, lined with pilati4l hotels
and substantial Office l. iilings. With
a water system equal to twice her
needs, with a sewer system AM other
sanitary conveniences that make Gold.
field among the heal.h.est cities IF the
world, with electricity for power and
light, and every anee and luxury
of modern times; with lively daily and
weekly newspaper-too lively they say
in the east, for they are rot prepared
they cannot comprehend the stories of
the fabulous wealth OF Nevada these
papers spread broadcast throughout the
world. To be sure, we cannot show
sou a Pittsburg, whsse Won last hcli
your national convention. We have n,
lefty towers and spires; Our towers are
the mighty shafts tn; penetrate the
earth to a THOUSAND feet. Our grea.
highways are the fifty miles of gold
lined galleries beneath the surface. Our
great auditoriums are the slopes and
chambers of our mines; our places are
FOUNDER mammoth mills. Our greatest
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