Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-04-16
WEEPAH READY FOR
CALL OF DESTINY
Magic Camp Like an Ex-
position, Waits in Hope of
Rich Treasures in Ma
ture's Storehouse.

(By a Las Vegas Observer)
All paths lead to Weepah these
days. Cars of all sorts, cheap
and expensive, battered and shin
ing, are constantly coming and
going over the winding desert
trails that lead from the old
camps of Goidfleld and Tonopah
to this infant camp, but lately
brought forth in the barren noun
tains Of Esmeralda county, Ne
vada
From afar one can tell where
/ the road leads by the constant
/ clouds of dust which hover over
/ it. One senses the very presence
of this baby camp by the fresh
/ hope and enthusiasm evident in
/ the parent camps. Hotels, long
on the down grade, are once
again full t. overflowing, while
/ Stores, brokers' offices and barber
/ shops reflect the excitement at.
/ tendant upon the ushering in OF
! the new gold rush.
( After travelling some 40 miles
over sage brush flat. down Pay
master Canyon, past the old soda
/ lake, and again into the hills
ones car suddenly approaches q
+ stiff climb at the foot of which
/ is a sign, "Weepah Mile"
A last squirt of the mOtor-the
/ top of the grade is made-and
behold Weepah! the new gold
camp, talk of the civilized world
/ No glittering streets of gold
4 greet the eye of the eager visi
/ tor. but tents-hundreds of then
spread over the landscape
/ Hundreds of automobiles seem
! hoeplessly mixed with the white
and kahki colored tents, anC
as the approach to the camp i:
made, one is able to pick ou
perhaps a dozen rude frame
buildings which lend some little
effect of substantial construction
at a distance.
The thrill of the first glimpse
/ is somewhat dampened upon clos
/ er inspection. The tents prove
! small and fIimsy, many being
ragged and full of holes. The
/ main thoroughfare straggles VI
/ the line flanked on either side by
the business houses of Weepah
these geing conducted for the
most part in tents. Lunch rooms
| grocery stores, barber shops and
a bakery occupy canvas housing
One may find almost anything
| in the way of necessity or enter
1 tainment along this main street
! Signs advertise "Toot's Hollywood
| Club" '"Tessiels Cook House, Try
Our Hot Biscuits ''The Hole in
the Wall" Walls & Belmont
| Groceries" "Jerry's" Baths,
Jacks Coffee Shack" "Rudy's'
Barber Shop" Bills Place. ''The
Mohawk Club "The Southern
Club" Goodwin Bros, Engineers
& Surveyors" "The Covered
Wagon" Boston Cafe" Monte
Carlo of Nevada" THE Casino,
Northern Club, - Aimee
Shack, ,""Coffee Johns" peggy
Inn," Claims Bought, Sold and
Exchanged "Tents for Reht and
For Sale" "Royal Shoe Shop
~. S. Mining Exchange" anC
many others.
|
hot dogs and mustard, and per
haps it is this odor along witt
the huge jars of red fruit punch
| that gives one the impression OF
being in attendance at country
carnival Crowds of people NOV
| ing up and down the street, many
of them with kodaks, and {
| great many men sit around il
idle groups, but no real activit!
is apparent.
Practically all the frame build
ings are occupied by gambling
and dance halls. These new
white pine buildings, with theil
false fronts and swinging doors
loom up above anything else il
| the camp. Men pass to and fro
in and out, but no view Of tn
interior is obtained from tn,
street. In the center of each nev
pine door is a big, black splotch
which has come there through
contact with many grimy hands
These splOtches somehow seen
fitting labels for the resorts
| therein.
In all this taWdrlneSs, 1t is d1t
ficult, " catch a suggestion o
real adventure.
Then, up the hill to new
wooden shack to see the big find
Particles of free gold are visi
BILE to the naked ava, and as ONT
listens to the oft told tale of the
find and the chances of encount
ering the vein at a greater depth
and then looks at the panning!
where the particles of gold as
sumo almost the proportions o.
nuggets, something happens.
| Suddenly we feel the thrill o
adventure and romance which the
hunt for gold will ever bring
the thrill which drew the forty
miners around the horn and across
the plains.
And looking down upon the
crowded tents. the auto camps
and the dance halls, this spirit
somehow casts a kindly, golden
| glow. We see Weepah hopefully
awaiting the cali Of golden
/ destiny.
| MARRIAGE LICENSES
| County Clerk w, L. Scott is,