Show OLD OPERATOR IS VISITING Benjamin Hampton Viewing Field After Being Away Twenty Years twenty years ye after will be the sight that will greet reet the eyes erea of Ben Benjamin Benjamin Benjamin jamin Hampton late today After an absence of that length of time Mr Hampton is returning to the camp where once more than people formed the village which is now no in inhabited Inhabited InhabIted habited by about 1000 persons It was in his day that the city eft teemed with life of at f the rough and ready element of a mining camp Activity raced along at the zenith gambling of all kinds kind was running murder was frequent thousands of horses hor e were hauling freight and at that time Ume the nearest railroad was wae miles mlles and miles away Humanity in the settlement at the time was turbulent and ana it u it is is that mat I was turbulent and ana it u it is is that mat slabs in the village grave rave yard ard now mark the resting place of men who died a violent death Mr Hampton went to the camp more than thirty years year ago 10 and with W S Godbe was among the tie principal opera operators operators operators tors at Bullionville now Panaca When the flower of activity began to fade tade Mr Hampton pulled up stakes and left He has never returned to the camp Last night Mr Hampton left for Pioche with Murray C Godbe the youngest son of at Mr Hamptons former partner He lie is going back baek to the camp where the second generation of Godbe are putting new life and energy enery into properties which in the days dYB gone by were overlooked or passed up as un unpromising unpromising promising The efforts of the have done much to revive the interest in the old camp and they are at pres present present present ent the owners of the two biggest propositions in the district Mr Hampton is 1 an engineer of wide experience and although years yeara have intervened since he studied the store storehouse storehouse storehouse house vaults of hidden bidden treasure at his recollections of affairs is II keen and his opinions will be regarded with much interest v |