Show A FORTY POUND GOLD BRICK wealth from the black hole mine carried through street in newspaper when one becomes accustomed to the handling of gold it is carried about in any old way here in the west ten and twenty dollar pieces are carried about loose in the pocket as carelessly as an eastern man packs about his pennies in the east when the common run of mortals get their fingers on a gold coin it goes into some secret hiding in t place or is hoarded in a vault because it is considered so precious but here gold is piled high on the counters of our banking houses and the customer in cashing a check can take his choice of gold silver or greenbacks green backs salt lake is a mecca for eastern tourists who sometimes marvel at the ways and methods of western people they see man mans strange e sights here to challen challenge challene e their attention and interest but they would marvel if they were to see bars of gold bullion carried about on the streets in a seemingly careless manner but this is what often occurs in zion A day or two ago the writer met ed S cha chatey ey the daddy of the booming gold camp of chafey in humboldt county nevada and the chief owner of the great black hole mine of this bonanza camp mr chafey was unattended and yet he carried under his arm a rather bulky package wrapped in an old newspaper when asked what he had in the package he answered only a forty pound bar of gold bullion I 1 am taking to the bank and unwrapping the same sam e he exposed for our examination and that of bystanders as handsome a bar of bullion as is seldom seen in any mining center and yet this ingot of the precious metal was w worth orth about if not more chafey has been a success ever since mr chafey made his appearance in this camp in may of last year the black hole mine opened by mr chafey has proven to be marvelously rich and other properties in the same section are proving up most satisfactorily with development time after time delegations from salt lake reno and los angeles have visited chafey dur ing t the past year and all unite in the belief that it is the making of a great camp and yet mr chafey states that he wants no toom loom founded on bubbles but that the district must improve and grow if it does make forward advancement on the real merit or of its mines the camp of chafey is growing along substantial lines quite a number of fine store buildings hotels etc have been erected since last fall and the coming of spring n now ow so sc near at hand will witness a revival of activity in the town and throughout the district |