Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-04-12

Charles NJ. schwab and his associ-
ates had become interested, and
this was the surest sign of the
camps success. The stocks of the
various Greenwater promotions sold
Hike gold bonds. From the securi-
dies OF Greenwater, Bullfrog, Man
haitian and Goldfield, and Fairview
where a big ,rike had been made
in the Nevada Hills, the money
was flowing into the camp in
golden stream.
This was the GoIdfeld which was
opened to the view of the people
who went there to see the fight:
and with many the fight was
side issue. The people of the east
and the middle west; from all parts
of the United States. in fact. want
ed to see a gold camp. Rice saw
the way the tide was going, and
kept up with the flood. He secured
a Greenwater promotion. another in
Bullfrog; one in Fairview and the
Lou Dillon in Goldfield. CLOSE in.
He believed in giving the people
what they wanted, and was not to
be caught short on any promotion
for which they might clamor.
In the height of Goldfeld's pros
perity labor troubles were brewing
IN the camp. The Industrial
Workers of the world, which had
taken in the Western Federation
OF Miners, started to organize the
camp. Vincent st. John was at
the mead of this and what he said
mad to go with the miners as well
as any other organization affiliated
Little was known of the |. w. w.
IN Goldiield at the time, and it
was not generally understood that
II was a central labor body, of
which the federation was part.
From what was afterwards learned,
the organization had it's origin in
Chicago, the original idea being
to organize unorganized bodies of
labor, hot affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. The l..
w. w on Goldfeld attempted to
organize labor unions already af-
iiliated with the American Fedora
ton OF Labor and then the trouble
began. Coercion was tried the
federation of miners being used
as club to beat the organizations
into line The fight was conferred
upon the typographical union, which
refused to forfeit their charter,
and the members refused to give
up their cards.
A boycott was declared upon the
Evening Sun and troublous times
ensued. The newsboys were form
ed into a union and enrolled under
the banner of the I. w, W., and
forbidden to sell the boycotted
paper The union of the A. f. of
L. went to the aid Of the printers.
carpenters sold the paper one
night; blacksmiths, the next night,
and so on. Diamondfield Jack Da-
Wis paraded the streets with papers
under his arm and an arsenal UNI
| der his coat danger was in the
air. But the preparations for the
fight went on; the big arena was
being built special trains for Gold
| field mad been arranged for from
all points of the United States the
world was getting ready to go to
Goldfield. And the promotions went
ahead without let up and the Mo-
hawk was making good as the
greatest gold mine the world had
ever known, and the money kept
pouring into Goldfeld from all
quarter of the globe. Everybody
had money, and everybody was
spending it. Money was the cheap
est commodity in the camp.
The nights and lights of Gold
/ field were dazzling to the newcom-
er; they were bewildering to the
old-timer. Moving masses crowded
the narrow sidewalks, and made
their way through the middle of
the street Below the town were
flashing the lights from two score
or more hoists in the Golden Horse
shoe wherein was located the ia
nous Mohawk, the rich Combina-
ton mine, Combination Fraction.
Laguna, the great Florence, from
which Joe Reilly and his associates
had taken more than 100000 in
seven months on the Reilly lease.
Here the electric lights were the
silent monitors of the great treas
ure vault of Goldfield. In the
town the electric lights directed the
way to the channels for the dis
position of the wealth.
They glowed in and above the
stock exchange; they piloted the
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