Show COLONEL FARRISH I IS REMINISCENT Tells of Early Day Travels in inthe inthe inthe the Nevada Camps When There Were Wre W re No Autos W A Farrish Fairish of New ew York City In la Is i paying his MS first visit to the camp and Is meeting friends at the Goldfield hotel Colonel Farrish is one ot of othe the he most widely idely known mining engineers n the country and has inspected ted proper properties ties tics from one end of the world worM to the oth othir tr ir r says sas the Gold Goldfield field Tribune Conversing with a Tribune man yester yeater yesterday ester lay day Mr Fairish recalled his first visit o 0 this state which he made about thirty two iWO years ago lie took occasion to re his listeners that the mode of travel ad changed in this thie country in the years lapsing since he found his way through Nevada evada and that tt it was a thin thing to be wondered at that today t day one ono might in a ai i LW iW w days visit the tho different sections of he ho state while in those old times It re weeks to make the same trip That was a tedious trip we made in inose dose ose days das when hen we left Hawthorne and urne d all over the southern part of wada ada because there were wert few roads hen and the trip was entirely by trail n rough the tho canyons and over the moun Then too we had to carry great of water for lor the comfort of our ourIves Ives lyes and our animals and altogether is le a trip that no man could find espe tally lally enjoyable I dont just know f we wo came through where Goldfield now noty lands tand but it is very ery vel probable that we weid id I have not been out much since my rival here but expect to make a pretty iose oe examination c of this district before leave My visit is not in the th Interest of my 11 one in particular and my ray inspection f r I the different properties will be 00 made or the sake Bake of gratifying my own curios as well veIl ell as t to familiarize myself with withe e 6 various formations found here Farrish states state that he has met a 0 few residents of this city whom had met in New York and had dis vered red that he an utter stranger all After he has finished his look about the in this camp Colonel Farrish II I J return directly to New ew York but says t his remembrance of his Bis visit to the state will be quite different n mm m that of his former visit which he heide helite hede ide lite so long ago as he puts it when I Ion Ion Ion on earth the first time he previous visit of Mr Ir Farrish was connection with the State Line mill millIch millIch millich Ich at the time was considered the mining Investment in the west Farrish Parrish does not impress one as asing a aing ing above the average in size but he de dered red Td last night that he once measured v f feet eleven el en inches but that at this me ne he was only about five feet ten There here Is nothing if not downright pleas p I nl nt listening to his stories which by byway byway byS S way th the colonel tells teUs with something n in ir to real enjoyment and when in a 1 moment he wanders again vr er cr the older mining fields of the United tes tas and aad foreign forel lands there comes to toI 14 I calm blue eyes a sparkle that tells teUs things accomplished when the dash dd vigor Igor o ot young youn manhood led his ad spirit into paths fraught with nger and where few men have cared 1 go RO While nearing three score years and ten tenion tenen tenen en ion the colonel harks back into the old jays 38 one ono might notice the almost C Jus straightening of his powerful frame nd the zest and earnestness of his story make itself felt in a careful little mUe oke Ike in tn ones ribs Colonel Farrish has lias just made rondo one of the lie most Important settlements probably ver er made in the history of mining in this tate Hate In adjusting th the differences be bethe bem been en m the and the Ohio Ohto property in Pioche For a long time these two important have been warring over oer a stub rn apex problem and other questions which so involved the mines as to make makes s lipping a thing thin out of the question D and Tactically forcing a shutdown shutdowns As s an expert in these questions Colonel T was called Into the ease case with the sult that everything has baA now w been ad Isted satisfactorily to all parties con and the mines will resume re ume opera Ions Incidentally Colonel Farrish is i credited c ith having found the largest large t gold nug nugH H t In the United States Stat a facsimile of which oh is now in the museum in the Ferry building in San Francisco The Thi nugget it hail been blen trimmed into shape it IB Is Isaid did aid was 8 sold for something like And irl pl was wao found in California He has bas opened up some Orne of the th richest nines nine in this country and has developed d loped some ome of the most valuable properties In New Nei and Old Mexico and tell tells wondrous tales of or the days das when hostile Indians menaced the trails leading Into and out of f the old frontier mining districts of ot the ld lId west It But the colonel declares every one of those Indians was all my m friend and then he adds with a little twinkle in tn his eye ey you see they ill me Colonel Fairish Parrish states that his visit to the district dietrict has us no particular significance sl but t ut is 15 made merely merel to satisfy hi h his own de desire desire desire sire to see the camp about which he hc has read and heard so IiO much He will remain I n Goldfield for some four or five va days and will then return to New York |