| Show 1 PRACTICAL MINERS DINERS SAY THAT TONOPAH NEVADAS NEVADA'S NEWEST MINING ii DISTRICT WILL FILL BE THE BIMETALLIC CAMP IN THE STATE S teu vr en J J g T- T I r. r er r e 3 Y I r j. j I. I r J L u ul 1 O. t A. A t Jw I tl i j Jd f a. a 1 If J 1 I Ir t J f. f f r tJ c ZI II T r L 14 4 y r t S o r iI- iI 5 Ii 5 i w wr t. t I z r. r lJ iA 1 i 0 I J. J t j J I 71 4 J r y j t I t I J J 1 r t 1 K w. w Tf J tr t r l L i 1 ff iJ r p r r In l r. r f. f 1 J I IY I W t tf 0 f f. f t. Y r lf r r. r 11 t L l rL Y I F. F 4 J- J r r a c.- c. J ild II 1 Q i l lt t P-t rin tt 1 f. f Jt a. a r I l.- l. 1 or ILL r u c t i r J 0 a hj s 's a I 1 J Yo Po I S L. L L t F i s S. S fL H 14 i ilk F 1 Y Z i J l i. i t t f. f I- I yO rt f U I 0 I. I r. r r 1 D i 5 1 W J SU JJ fi a R. J- J tr h Co w a I ik i fr frS S S i I c a I i t.- t. TL I. I EJ q it loT at a t. t fI- fI jt E fr rl j. j 1 v. v t t- t I f J rt ft D i w t i f i L. L uI JJ t. t t tt 1 1 L to n i I i. i 1 1 l 1 LI yb JJ x 1 rJ x J r t 0 fr Va j ts t ft ff t 11 1 cr r t c. c iV I. I a. v 1 i r e f l Ir YI p r. r p t 4 O- O J T j nV i J Y i 6 J t S I M t i At e.- e. C L A J A- A in 7 fit t T f 1 1 if 1 t r tt t i f J I i R r Ir L p. p t c oM- oM c q p J t S c-S I. I dG 1 jf 1 t f J 1 t- t fb i fi C P rc I 0 t. t V I r 6 tA t f a I I. I 1 Ir 1 lt 7 t JC j 2 S r. Photo by Al Smith I t t 5 TONOPAH FROM F A PHOTOGRAPH Sr TAKEN IN THE SUMMER The Tents Are Not in Use SN Now and Houses Havo n Takes Places bits JIu ts Brower Shows w in the Background nd I BY DY W W. H. H FEENEY Tonopah looks good to me mI Seems ns as though this Jack crackerjack camp way down In hi southern Nevada Is 15 Isrow row non b before forc rn vision as It was actually for tor one whole week There half hair thousand or so IO of oC hou houses game houes-game e frame buildings unpainted all d alt these In th wide I f canyon canon while up there on the mountain side Is this elty- elty Ike r residence of tho the leading mining milling company's super up r. r 1 Here Here's Heres s Main street chalk a block I with saloons where hundreds of or strong 1 brave men arc are battling with Frisco water lire In concentrated efforts to down all nil such mCh as may be brou brought ht Into Inlo camp The clink of or the gold oId and silver coin the buzz at nt the faro layouts and anti the of or the roulette wheels are arc In their own ways telling the stranger i person that Tonopah Is Indeed a goon good camp a camp a money moncy camp that ore arc worth hundreds of oC dollars to 10 the tho th ton Is being t taken ken out oot If H riot not convinced co look up the Incline of or Alt Mt It Oddle on the left and F see e the precious stuff stacked up there See te the long line of or freighting wa wagons ons making their groaning rpm nl trips aco across s the d desert rt to the railroad at Soda llIe or I sixty miles north of or It It Would you ou see Iee Tonopah as u I have seen It It-as It as the enterprising TeJ Telegram ram wished me to see it It for home depiction depletion Take train on tho the Ore Oregon on Short Line to O Ogden I the thc Southern Pacific some I 55 miles mlle to Reno Two thirds of oC the distance h Is made made but hut but anI only third one-third of oC the traveling period Forty miles south to Mound 1 house past palt Carson Carron Pit City ity on the the- lr Virginia Trucker Truckee ch change cars for miles milts on the Carson arson Colorado I railroad th the Southern Pacific's smart I narrow narrow De Desert rt waste wasil I Is broken h by a t thirty mile sheet shed of or water vales al Wal I I kers ker's lake where lake where the tho wild duck haunts I I I In hundreds with th the scratching mud hen See Hc the r reservation flutes card- card I playing on th the sand dunes dunt At the lakes lake's head is Hawthorne with real trees Heres Here's where we stop for t the e nl night ht Trains Train await the dawn Here Hrc Is One Orle Whiting at the depot the depot the jolliest man manIn manIn manIn In Nevada Ne proprietor of the Nucleus hotel Here la is a settlement of MO souls I I and ond here here- everyone e stops tops going oln t to o or I coming from the camp t lp tp l the south routh Hero Here after supper oon congregate characters charac charac- I who came cam to Nevada Ne tf In Iq the dasI days das I of tho the Comstock over o at at The san sands h have the cd l tar good t to o them since Here Is 11 the oracle of oC southern Nevada Town Marshal A A. B B. B Brown From Kentucky Kentuck suh sub A Judge of oC good liquor and anel fine women A man with a a. I vocabulary whom every ty city man will c. c esteem My I motto suh Is love lo to m my friends and hate for Cor my 01 enemies s. s Tha That's tt A. A B B. Drown Brown Town Good stories You bet ht yet yer t Tolls TolI one about his old home McCracken county lOt O I Ky Ly and Sommers Sommer's creek along the hanks banks of or which lived the worst people so o the th says l S In do six States The farther r up you ou went the tougher the they got And vAnd m my folks lived at the head hend I of oC the crl crick k But Butone one should hould hear heal the i Consta Constable ble tell It On 3 again in the morning by the train to forty miles farther This Is the Jumping off of place Heres Here's a a. P European Eu u 1 u- u hotel a n tent wn wagons ons and mules sand and and sand Heres Here's a a. stage line Travelers Traveler with black clothes buy overalls at the stores Then comes an hour eleven ride through sand sand and and more sand sand meeting meeting for humans only the folk at nt the relay I station and the I 1 heavy freighters making a a. mile mUe an hour ore laden furniture laden lade carryIng carry carry- In Ing wat water r pipes groceries and tind whisky Eleven le o'clock at night Ahead of or u uIs us Is Tonopah t the driver says Tonopah nS Tonopah the camp of or all Interest As Aa we ve enter the canyon canon lamp lI lights greet us Hero first of or nil all Is th the red curtain rendezvous of or the half world Theres There's a wind blowIng blowing blow blow- In ing down the canyon and Were We're full of or sane sand sand Band and In cC eyes ears cars and antI nostrils nostril sand In cur pur clothes tho the sand of or the gold and silver country which they say MY will never be bo entirely brushed out nut Up the wide street of DC th tho canyon canon we go the creaking of or the stage stag q wheels making an accompaniment to the blare from the wind and from tho houses gambling Tho The Palace hot hotel l la Js Continued on page pago t 19 1 Continued from rom Page Pago 3 9 full fun to the ears cars according to tho the clerk derk at the bar A hou house acro across s the street has a room over the bar and here I 1 camped for or the night But the men dow downstaIrs are enemies to sleep Money on the bar they sa say and aripe a aripe aripe ripe voice is chortling Laugh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Laugh h with m me now noon If you can Laugh ha ho ha ha ha ha ha hat ha ha rn For Im I'm a convivial man Droll gat fellows are belo below Men Ien from all over oyer Men who knew Nevada Ne when Mackay Fair Fall ej cJ al hit the wonderous wonderous won won- derous ore State Men Ien who have ha hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot thou thousands ands yet et and men who hay ha blown as much and have noth noth- ing inS Still they are arc strong men men among men men with nith hearts the finest fellows I have haye met from ocean to ocean through many a State Morning two Sixty vo hundred feet above the sea level the sun feels good The altitude a third higher than Theres There's a color in your our face and In to oth oth- ers Meals four bits and up Plain meals these The street is alive alle with men You wonder onder If It there are any women In camp During the day a surprise comes A woman In tailor made as natty as asIf asIf asIf If she came down town to In her brougham from Brigham street I Is out shopping She ha has no big stores of or finery to visit and here she ahe misses a a. joy that should I be hers She mu must t secure her clothes b by mall mail order See Sec the admiration that thatis is hers though Men Ien In laced high shoes and dust dusty p clothes clothe follow her her- with their visions respectfully Sunday Sunda there are more revelations revelation Notice the photo secured on Sabbath morn In th the tha office of ot the mining exchange ex ex- change Theres There's a a. schoolhouse and a church churchIn In town The latter Is 15 St. St Marys Mary's s Itoman Ro Ro- Roman Roman man Catholic attended b by members o of various creeds Here Herc on Sunda Sunday massIs mass massis massI I is celebrated b by Father Butler who has the reputation o of being besides a forceful forceful forceful force force- ful preacher and pious pastor one of or orthe the best men of business In the camp He has built his church Installed a n good organ and regards the whole population population pop pop- as his Hock dock whether the occasion occa occa- Ion sion be he one of or sickness death or church collection And right heartily have the members of this quaint community community com com- reciprocated Churches Churches' of or other other other oth oth- er denominations are arc said to contemplate contemplate contemplate plate building In the spring As to the mines and their products let It be said good ore Is there ore containing containing containing con con- silver sliver in great quantities and too onE third one as much gold which is ismore ismore more than even the famous Comstock could boast for that was a silver sliver camp almost exclusively Of or course ourse the I I h heart rt of ot all discoveries Is the famous I I ledge In the Tonopah Mining company's compans property Here was where i I Jim Butler found what he was looking t I l for two years ears ago ago Jig Butler Dutler king o of I the camp toda today today- That finding is history I l I which has been written before Here at the Mizpah Is being taken out ore worth two hundred and fifty dollars a aton aton aton ton With th thousands of or tons in view and in do sensible theor theory Here on the side hill hili a a. few rods back up from the street treet where the thc saloons are an are the famous leases least's where young joung Tom Lynch and the OMeara O brothers took look out the tho better part of or a a. million dollars' dollars worth of oC ore going goh or more to the ton allon all allon allon on an original expenditure of rental Now they are an off orr to Lone mountain twenty miles away with even cven as hood good a prospect there Stretching StretchIng StretchIng Stretch- Stretch Ing down the mountain side the land landof landof of oC the big the company the Tonopah MIning Mining Mi MI- ning company connects company connects ts with such claims as the West Rest est Ends End's which takes up much of the main street land that will probably be torn up later on now that sinking shafts thereabouts have reached re paying ore the Tono Montana pah and the Midway Adjoining the West End is the Ohio Tonopah's s claim also clo close e to the heart of or everything e while to the south Muth toward Gold mountain moun- moun tain Is the New York-Tonopah York company's compans company's com com- pany's pans ground the talked much property of or those clever Salt I Lake boys bos the Davis brothers Farther south six miles is 15 Gold mountain mountain but but that's another matter I am going to let m my friend Dart as practical a mil mining mi ml- ning man as I have met describe for tor Telegram readers the mineralogy of or Tonopah on another place on this page thus giving the readers of or Utah's greatest newspaper a scientific treat for their 3 cents Twenty shafts are w working that 01 king that Is In sinking sinking- timbering or 01 In ht taking out ore The Salt Sait Lake and Tonopah company compan ha has struck good I ore at al less than feet depth th the Fraction company compan has lips met mot Its product t tand and Its Us management Is happy happ These are arc two tv of or the companies having haing claims in fn town and not fur tur out Some of ot the companies mentioned will wilt perhaps strike the trend of or the Mizpah ledge maybe all of or them thorn w v lil for certainly the main street does docs not cut It oft off As s to pl pleasure in Tonopah one must learn to drink or gamble amble to thoroughly enjoy enjo this t typical Western mining camp at lit present Dances are few ew andare and andre andare are are- treat great treats Oh I 1 almost forgot the tho band Id I'd t forgive e m myself If Ir IrI I had LI Listen ten to them play Hall Hail to the Chief when Candidate for Governor Gover Gover- nor John Sparks comes to Miners Miners' hall This on Saturday night Mighty proud of or that band I Is er e every heart In Tonopah Tonopah Tonopah Tono Tono- pah of or those horns and cornets To miners fellow and merchants Som Sousas Sousa's st's was never a marker compared pd with this melodious or organization organisation Political cam earn campaigning p In Tonopah Is much the B same me men n as in other places 8 All AU the speeches arc rather stereotyped ped excepting that of or the thc unique candidate the candidate the rugged lugged millionaire mil mil- and cattle king of Reno neno who once worked for 15 per month who ashe as ashe ashe he says has been broke broke- more than thon once In his career whose heart Is 16 proportioned proportioned proportioned to hi his physique Ho He HoMS HoM'S MS M'S says Ladles and Gentlemen Gentlemen- 1 I amnot am amnot amnot not a a. speech speech-maker rI I am and al a always 8 will be a a. friend of organized labor I 1 Ilove Ilove love Nevada Here I have hav lived JIved thir- thir ty three years car in this grand old State To me it is the greatest State of or the Union If you ou give me your our support I 1 Ishall Ishall shall tr try to make as few mistakes as Gover Governor or as possible Does he win them 1 Rather The Tho day clay and night were otherwise quiet t in Tonopah that last period spent thereAs thereAs there As As' As AsI I said the camp looked good to tome me me-It me It doe does yet vet |
