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Show Judge Belford of Denver Visiting Visit-ing Old Friends in Zion City. RELATES INCIDENT IN WHICH GOULD FIGURES Favorably Impressed With Future Fu-ture of Different Nevada Mining Districts. Judge James B. Belford of Denver arrived in the city from Los Angeles Wednesday evening, accompanied by D. B. Harrison and witc of New Vork. The party are guests of the Knntsford. They ato on their return, each from an extended ex-tended trip through Nevada and California, Cali-fornia, covering a period of one month. Judge Belford, when seen by a Tribune Trib-une representative-, talked entertainingly entertaining-ly and unreservedly of his recent trip, and the impressions which ho formed ol Goldfiold and southern Nevada. Ihc nidge has been a proininont figure in Colorado for more than forty years. He represented the Centennial State in Congress Con-gress scvernl terms, beginning his Congressional Con-gressional career in tho carl3r 80 a. The -judgo was a contemporary of all the nion nf "nnhlo nntn" who iipurcd prom inently in tho early history ot the State, but few of whom are now permitted per-mitted to breathe the air of earth. In talking of some of tho pioneer captains of industry in Colorado, the reporter asked the ,iudgc if he knew A. H. Love-land. Love-land. . . "1 know him well," replied Judge Bolford. "lie was one of tho most enterprising, en-terprising, cticrgotic men in the State. Mr. Lovelantl. in early days, built the Colorado Central railroad. Jay Gould once tried to steal the road from him, but Lovoland stole the .judge, i represented repre-sented Mr. Lovoland in the case and 1 lie defense of Gould was most laughable. laugh-able. Some years after, Mr. Huntington Hunting-ton brought a little black-eyed, bald-headed bald-headed man around to my committee room in Washington and introduced me to Jav Gould. Mr. Huntington said, This man,' referring to Mr. Gould, 'can stenl a railroad, but.' turning to Mr. Gould nnd referring to mc. said. - Hero is a man who can beat you. He stole a railroad and a judge, too.' It was exceedingly funny, the way the matter mat-ter came up, and we all enjoyed tho joke. . , , "But speaking of our trip: we had beastly weather lo contend with while in Nevada. At Goldfield. where we made our longest stop, the 'snow was deep, the weather cold and the accommodations accom-modations were frightfully meager. The wnter was scarce, the fuel scarcer, and, taken all together, it is not. a pleasant place to be in." "Yon have had years or experience in all the prominent camps in Colorado, what is your opinion ol Goldfield?" "I didn't get to see all of the dis: trict that I hoped to sec on account of the snow, but 1 saw enough to convince con-vince me that Goldfield is a rich camp, and if the ore goes down, tho camp will bo n wondorfulgold producer for years to come. There are five or six good producing mines now and perhaps double dou-ble thai, number of encouraging pros-pecis. pros-pecis. and hundreds of others which, to take stock in. would be a gamble. The excitement incident to every new camp is on fictitious values. This condition will probably continue for some time ro come, perhaps two years. But these abnormal conditions will be eliminated at Goldfield as they have been in all other prominent gold camps in the West. Goldfield today is a fac simile of what Leadville was in 1SS0. T believe, and my judgment is based upon . observation observa-tion and the experiences of others, that Southern Nevada, down to Dentin Valley, Val-ley, is the center of the greatest mineral min-eral "i';i.in- in this country. "T haven't been in Salt Lake for fifteen fif-teen years. T underol:"id it has iti'ic foiiii' considerable gmvih in the way of population and improvements within with-in that time. Tomorrow 1 am going to look around your city 'and call upon come old friends. I expect and hape to meet ex-Senator Frank Cannon, whso father T knew well when in Congress. T.n-fact, T.n-fact, we both lived in the same house in Washington." |
