The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-20
HAS GREAT CONFIDENCE In
YEARS DEVELOPMENTS

ing up again. With the coming in q,
the western Pacific IT will be ono :.
the best towns in the eastern par, =,
the state.
Eureka and Austin, at one tim.
noted for their large mineral proau.
ions. but which have been idle e.,
some time. are on the verge of anoths,
mining revival. With the finding ~
rich bodies of ore in some of the ola
mines, the railroads have promised
plent of cars for hauling ore, and III.
district is working to it's full capaci.v
"winnemucca, with its camp Of
Chafey, and Loveloek, with Seven
Troughs, are looking better than any
time during the last year or two.
..Fallon is going to be one of tn.
premier cities of Nevada, with the
completion of the big Carson Truckee
irrigation project. The farmers are DE-.
lighted with the irrigation canals. and
already have raised fruits and Other
edibles which or .inarily are not grown
in anything but an almost tropical
climate.
Reno, owing to it's being at the
junction of railroads going east and
south. is in an enviable position as a
wholesale center. Especially will this
be so if the city gets a terminal rate.
No one in the city expects it to get a
terminal rate, but the indications are
that the city is entitled to and will pet
an intermediate terminal rate, in which
case the largest firms on the coast al.
ready have expressed their determine.
ton to establish branch houses in Reno.
Local people are waiting for the out
come with considerable interest, and
stand ready to put millions into new en-.
terprises with it's settlement.
"Many of the counties of California,
by their close association with Nevada,
are looking better every day. Carson,
which usually is mentioned only as the
state capital, is having a squirt in bust
ness by reason of the eastern capital
lists who are putting their money into
enterprises in the locality. The West
ern Shelters company and the Yering.
tons are spending money freely, and re,
Gently a rich strike was made between
the 100 and 200 level of the old Bruins
wick mine, which runs go per cent cop
per.
Virginia City has a steady pay roll
of between $4,000 and 100000 and
is doing better than for years previous
"Yerington has been promised a rail
road some time during the summer, by
the Southern Pacific, and it is probable
camp than any one of it's size in the
state.
"The Lucky Boy mine at Hawthorne
has brought that famous old camp out
of a sleep of years, and a smelter Is
being constructed which will be co
pleted in the next three months.
"Toncpah has gotten over its boom
! days and has settled down to a steady,
progressive camp with a pay roll of
about $4,000.
"'Goldfield has suffered severely dur
ing the slump, but the very fact of the
new strike on the Combination No. ?,
shows that only the surface has been
scratched in a mining way, and in the
near future | think Goldfeld will begin
an era of prosperity greater than any
ever dreamed of In its palmiest days.
"Pioche has taken a new lease of
life with the further development OF
its large mines. The Searchlight dis
! triet is improving. Las Vegas, the
county seat of the new Clark county, IS
producing, from a seemingly tarren
desert, fruits which are quoted at
higher prices than those of California
Nine artesian wells have been sunk at
a cost of only 5000 each, and have a
twelve-inch flow, and what was a desert
when the town was started there by TIE
Salt Lake road, looks now like a gar
den spot of the earth.