Show GROWTH SLOW BUT SURE the growth of gold circle has beer been slow but sure its existence was knowl e ight eight or ten months ago but the field wa held principally by needy prospectors last fall enterprising men established th midas townsite but the winter was drex drea and nothing doing the town at this time consisted cons isted of the office of the townsite corn pany a saloon or two and the tent rooming house of the scott brothers two enterprising young men of salt lake and the tents tent of the prospectors early in the spring J A foley of salt lake with foresight cal to make him a fortune in the nea future entered the district and secured a number of valuable properties either b purchase P or option other men of means meane and resources followed in his wake notably george F busch and the browning brothers brothern of O ogden oden den who acquired valuable holdings in the new camp and also platted the townsite of summit in which enterprise they were joined by george IV seay and others during the latter part of february it was evident that gold cold circle was on the verge of a boom and that a wave of public ap was about to break over its gold gol 1 hills although the camp was un prepared for the incoming tide and the in flux of mining operators and investors investor S 1 it t could not be restrained and one morning the early pioneers awoke to the fact that a ai genuine boom was upon them almost in ill the twinkling of an eye as it were beav travel set in from golconda a and nd battle mountain to gold circle stages and auto lines were established and these were crowded to the limit many freight teams began to line the roads tents and business houses sprang up as if by magic excited people thronged thron ged the streets of the two towns and the hills became the stamping ground of an army of prospectors mining men investors and mining experts of local and national repute many improvements are now under way substantial business houses are in course of construction and arrangements are being perfected for the inauguration of extensive mine development and exploitation |