Show ODD PHASES OF UEE AND TIN NOT SO VERY BAD laUE GOLD CAMP OF as It Appeared In August 1905 Main Street Goldfield August 1905 Pioneer at Goldfield From Nov Sept 8 By the way I you to moot the discoverer of Gold Goldfield field said a as we walked down the principal street of the bis little min mining ing camp one day last week I turned expecting to soo a veteran prospector with witha a long gray board and perhaps hair down downto to his shoulders Instead I saw a smooth faced dark boyish young fallow apparently under 30 years of age His mure la H C Slimier Just years ago SUmler hiked the desert from He had hada a pack outfit and some prospectors tools One morning he stood on one of the hills near what is now Goldfield and observed through a pair of field glasses a that wa raging by some foothills two away The swirl of Band won oy but still kept his to the e He had scon an out outcropping cropping that looked very good to him himA A little later he had staked out the Sand Sandstorm storm claim a claim that has since brought fame to Goldfield and fortune to its discoverer It Is mo t difficult to believe that only three years ago the site of and its sister town Columbia looked exactly like the great gray expanse of desert around it Three years ago a desert place Today two thriving cities linked so closely by dwellings that they are one Goldfield has grown up like a blade of pras but it wwi never go down that way In the mining was all on the surface Gold was taken out practically at the grass root Jack Camp bell the expert for the L M Sullivan Trust company showed me a hole about twenty feet square ami not much deeper from which he out ore of the value of in seventy da s There are many similar holes around from which large fortunes have b ii extracted Early Day Ideas Disproved Un the early days sold a pioneer and I smiled at tho thought of calling three ago tho days and beardless boys pioneers we thought that when the mining was finished we would hay oc to move on Now shafts have been punk to the dc p and the values are get ting even bettor Geologists have said that gold comes irr from below Instead of being only on the surface and there Is every indication that Goldfield will be a permanent an t mining camp for days to is today the American frontier the frontier you have read about In the thet t truo histories of the early west Al Alf f the city has inhabitants there Is no organisation no mayor and andell ell or even selectmen The sheriff his deputies with the aid of a justice of tho peace and a constable two pre preserve serve order and keep the peace been said that practically every grown man In and around Goldfield carries a shooter and that many of them shoot from tho hip In the most approved west em style That Is they draw and shoot at tho same Instant Whether this Is true or not I cannot say I only know that I saw mighty few guns Soft Drinks Are Popular Everything Is run wide open There Br three of four saloons in every block in the business district and saloon hat Its gambling house attachment on the thet t floor Gambling Is licensed amder the theada ada statutes so the of It j no a violation of the Ia y There to Be a great deal of drinking going on In Goldfield but I saw few In Intoxicated men So many men have a habit of drinking mineral waters and lemonade And theres another good thing about Goldfield You may be asked to have a drink every few minutes but if you choose something soft nobody has hasa a word to say In other places even in Salt Lake City tho man who goes out with a party that is drinking has a hard time to keep from drinking them himself He is called a quitter if ho and tho evening Is generally made unpleasant for him I saw a party of ten mine lined up at a Goldfield bar Eight of them drank White Rock plain one drank a glass of lemonade and the tenth a glass of beer This it must be admitted was an case Nobody thinks there Is any harm in dropping a few dollars on tho roulette or at a faro game I talked to United Senator Nixon on this point He said Ther is not in my any more wickedness n Gold Goldfield field than in other outside of Ne Nevada vada Tho difference simply is that hero we make no effort to conceal anything There Is no doubt a good deal of truth In tho senators statement Goldfield men mind their own business very strictly ami newcomers are expected to ido the same thing When you come here dont ask anybody hs real name or his history be he left the east Or if vou must ask you had better practice shooting from the hip for some months beforehand How Men Are Measured In Goldfield they estimate a man not by what he was but by what he is Any man who s io be square ran find a place for himself In and no questions But the camp has no place in which a crook can hide himself once he Is known to be a crook Out Outsiders siders will find It hard to appreciate Gold Goldfield field conditions They must see thing d incongruous In the fact that Larry Sullivan the manager of a negro prize fighter and L LM M Sullivan president and manager of a abiff biff company are one and the same They cannot how Tex ard can be one of chief citi zens ana nc same time me proprietor of one of the gambling houses and saloons In the place But that Is Gold and it Is curious to see horn quickly the stranger learns to view from standpoint Everything is so new in Goldfield In three thanks to tho steady stream of that has pouring out of tha desert around Goldfield has grown from froma a single tent to a city where one may find practically all the comforts of homo One of the restaurants In is the equal of any In Salt Lake The ser service vice Is excellent the bill of fare widely diversified There Is a club the Monte Montezuma zuma whore tho wayfarer is made to feel welcome and whore every hospitality is extended to him there are business blocks that would look well In any city And all this out In a desert where the Yucca palm as the Se only sign of vege vegetation tation f r miles around If wo except oc bunches of brush It seems beyond belief that the first man Stimler ler should had the nerve to fare forth Into such a It passes un dor that ovon with tho wealth of coM about a should have reared In such a forbidding spot Boosters Are Plentiful Everybody In Goldfield Is a booster 1 was a booster myself before I had been here an hour It is in tho air When you moot a man who a year ago carried his worldly possessions on hig back and who today Is a millionaire you cant help be believing lieving In tho possibilities of tho ow And there are plenty such In and around George drifted In here from Tonopah something like two years ago The story runs that he had won some money In a card game starting from a avery very small sum This money he Invested In leases that paid him fabulous sums Today is the partner of United States Senator Nixon ho is a heavy owner in the Mohawk a mine that is taking out worth of ore every hours In the a mine with brilliant prospects and in other properties wealth is said to run Into the millions HeIs not yet 30 years of age a modest young man with gray eyes that bore you through and through and a voice that though soft has a of steel In it Wingfield is accounted ono of the bravest men in a camp of brave men He does not hesitate to express his opinions on any important subject and he has the nerve to back them whenever it becomes necessary sary Yet there is no bravado about Wingfield He never makes a loud noise but heaven help tho man that tries to block game when Wing field knows to be In the right An Episode With Satolli Larry Sullivan is another type Sullivan never ate a his life with his coat on The first thing he does whon he goes Into a restaurant is to take off that coat and hang It up Then as he says himself he feels that he can do a good job of eating Sullivan told the story of a banquet given in hon honor or of Cardinal Satolli when the cardinal came to Portland whore Sullivan was then to ordain a The ban banquet was given after the ordination cere ceremonies monies and Sullivan had a seat not far from the cardinal Of course the first thing I did when I sat down said he was to take off my tuxedo coat and to a waiter to hang up The dago noticed me there In my shirt sleeves while all the others had their coats on and he gets fidgety about It Finally he asked somebody through his Interpreter what that guy meaning me was doing with his coat off The Theman man know but the dago satisfied Finally he sent somebody own to ask me The fellow stopped at my place and said Larry the main squeeze wants to know why you took off your coat Tell him I says that I took it off to show everybody that Ive got sleeves In me That was the mes message sage that went back to his nibs and I thought hed fall off his chair After the banquet was h had me brought Up and Introduced to him and said he was sorry he talk English to me Sullivan has acquired large wealth In Inand and around Gold field and he has interests in nearly all the prominent Nevada camps campsAs As the story I have just related indicates he is a most approachable sort of man and a thoroughgoing westerner Sullivan has a habit of arriving with the goods promptly on schedule Salt Lakers Who Found Wealth Of the Salt Lakers who have made good goodin in and other camps of Nevada a great dial might be written W H Clark told me that he came in here broke about two years ago Today he could close out his interests for at least a quarter of a million he desired to do doso so Few men In Goldfield are more high highly ly thought of than is Mr Clark He is chairman of the Citizens alliance re recently organize to prevent labor trou troubles bles and everywhere he is recognized as asa a man of substance discretion and nerve Richard L Colburn is another Salt Laker who went to the long ago in search of fortune Ho quickly found It In the Red Top and other In which he Is heavily interested If ho were compelled to do so he could probably realise from his various holdings perhaps a great more Windsor V Rice who however makes his headquarters in Salt Lake is heavily interested in the gold camps Mr Rice has added materially to his fortune by his Investments there Among the others who have done well in Goldfield Manhattan Bull frog Beatty Tonopah and other are Ed Moad who lust now Js boosting Round Mountain W II Griffith A J Davis G S Holmes Leslie Savage Wal ter Whitmore Henry Miles A H But ton H G Heffron Max Warm bath James Cutler Charley Ranee a host of others Walking down street in ono meets almost as many acquaintances ag in a walk down Main street in Salt Lake City And yet Salt Lake Is not as heavily interested in the country as it should be To Salt Lakers was first told the story ot tho phenomenal wealth that lay hid den In the desert Some believed and ivere rewarded for their faith But it Js a matter of history thit Gait Lakos vere given the first opportunity in propositions that have since n avy dividend payers they could have bought stock for cents that are now sell ing for dollars Chance for Business Another point The mining machinery and supply men of Salt Lake ire over a magnificent opportunity to en large their business The ah and drills engines in fact all sorts of machinery used in I he opening and the development of Is being bought In San Francisco ana Lo Angeles Salt Lakers could ness just as wall as not If they would only go after It ItI I have waited until the of this inadequate story of t tell something of my most there D H Peery of Salt Lake and For many courtesies I am Indebted to Mr Peery He is recognized as oie of the substantial men of the camp and no man Is better liked It Is pleasant to bt atle to say that Mr Peery has by hs ments in Bullfrog Manhattan and other points accumulated a consid erable fortune He has be n IB now Interested with such men as Senator Nixon Mr the L M Sulli van Trust company and others on ilia ground floor of numerous important prepositions and an Introduction by him is a 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