Show DESERT LUXURY I COSTS MONEY I Bigli Stakes Paid for Auto e tween Mining Camps 1 HOW TELEPHONE lE IS U E i BOOM AT BULLFROG IS JUST B GINNING Special ta to The Herald Her hI Nev Ney Sept IThe The automo automobile automobile automobile I bile is I conquering the desert The ells din I tan from the th original Nevada gold goldcamp goldcamp camp of or Tonopah where a hundred mil mit millions lions M are blocked bl ek d out cent underground to 10 0 I Goldfield the settlement is i 1 about bout miles and from Goldfield M tf the latest latent of or the great mining district that Nevada is w I now stow offering to the world wo it is miles mU There is but desolate desert between tile the points There are fashioned old Mage of the Dead Deadwood wood style tyle made ia Is mona moua by b Buffalo Du 10 Bill that traverse these theae desert distances but the twentieth w way or ot traveling tr iu is by auto over ova roads that have been especially construct constructed ed cd to fo th tb the traffic I From Tonopah to Goldfield the fare ie is ilG G 41 and it takes you only a little more than in ton hour to traverse the distance Each auto carries from four to seven I passengers and nod the man who drives tha Ule tb machine over the desert d ert sets gets le i K SG e or the Ute amount of ot a single ainsle fare for each trip that he makes Prom From Goldfield to Bullfrog Bullfrog Bull Bullfrog frog the fare tare is SIS a I Most of or the trips tripe are made by night and they take anywhere from six to a dozen hours according to the th ability of the chaffeur and the eta sta stability of ot his hili machine Cold Nights on the Desert The nights in the desert are usually cold eold just jUlit as the days l are generally hot hoi and a breakdown for any length of time timo means discomfort But these auto met men have some HOme marvelous expedients J for ob oh obtaining obtaining taming relief Bullfrog and Goldfield have haft been connected by b a Il telephone line ever since the this Bullfrog district was discovered discovered discovered ered about a year ago ao Sometimes the auto comes tOmes to a sudden Budden stop atop and you OU are told that it may be several hours before it is in working order again The chauffeur chauffeur reaches readies under his llis seat and unite pulls out a little box with which he disappears disappears pears across the desert waste He lie Is a s headed needed for the telephone line lIneS which to IN INnear near the auto road and with his hili tiny field instrument he climbs cUmb a pole Ie and in ht inthe 11 the shortest possible H ible time he has made his wire connections and Is In communication cation with th the home horn office There here is JI the loneliness of ot death all around at und you but In that flint instant you OU can hear your man talking to the so many miles away If the damage is the company compau will wU send rend out another auto to take you on your way WilY and these rescuing expeditions are always outfitted with bodily comforts such as all food and water Each Ea h machine is not only provided with a tele telephone tel telephone phone but always with a fire extin exUn extinguisher for use in an au emergency The Marvels of Bullfrog The reward comes when you finally reach r ach the rich and beautiful Bullfrog country h when the e sun is just t appearing over the e we eastern e mountains n i When all other things have been n said and done about the communities that have so HO ma magically magically arisen in this thin dread dr ad and over oer overwhelming O er whelming desert the palm for picturesque esque Que location and for tor useful environment must be awarded to this thin tented town of Bullfrog nestling ne as it does at the feet of ot those famous mountains Bonanza Ladd and Montgomery The marvels marvela of ot a II desert town are many man but not all of them have even yet teen been bet n exemplified in Bullfrog When the tho first prospectors went into the desert dettert water was waa as scarce and almost as valuable as asI gold itself With the passage age paa of one short year however Bullfrog now boasts of a I tremendous supply piped from mountain springs more than fifteen miles mUes away aVay Where There not more than twelve months ago agoa a man inexperienced in desert ways was would almost surely have lost his life 1110 from thirst it was waH only a recent occur occurrence oc ur rence that u It water ater main bursting so flooded the collar cellar of a leading business establishment that merchandise valued at many thousands of dollars was almost completely destroyed Bullfrog is hi just juat commencing comm to experience experience its boom days Men of fortune who have be been m associated with Colorado California and Montana gold d d mining suc successes have Md themselves of many likely properties there and are buy ing big town lots Iota and otherwise showing an inclination to cams cam on an the breastworks An offer otter of for a single property pro per t that could have been pur purchased purchased purchased chased for four months ago has already being labeled Millionaires just lust been turned down and the town is already being labeled camp Crowds are pouring into the town of ot Bullfrog daily daft and a city is i being built in a night |