Show HE CALLS GOLDfiELD A BULLY UllY PLACE TO GET ET A AWAD AWAD WAD If YOURE YOU'RE Y lUCI I NEW V YORK Nov Nor 4 I 4 I recently have havo visited tho the widest open town it 11 ir America and the closest shut One Is Goldfield Nov Nev the other othor I is In Zion City Ill says W. W J. J Lampton I struck on a a. Sunday night There was a party part of us and wo we here ere met metal metat metat at al the railway station statton by a committee with a be barrel of oC beer on a n. truck There was WEl a up round-up at th the tho Montezuma club Rome some minutes later which Vo was not op opened ned b by prayer Goldfield IR Is a n town on the tho desert but It Is not a n dr dry tO town t I J contains contains con con- a n population of more mor or less les and Is 18 the tb liveliest I mining camp on earth Real estate is plenty plent all an around and It used to be that a man could squat t on a lot and hold It It but things thing are different now no-n. a at t least leas t within tho the corporate corpor te limits Dirt comes high and rent makes tho the Ne New York variety look like a dump One man told me h he h had two shacks hack costing about which he rents rent for 50 50 a month each A friend nd of mine has a H. small cottage with rooms In It like a New York flats flat's for which ho he pays a month I asked a woman In a main street shop twelve feet tel wide what the rent was waa She said paid It belonged to her but the rent would bo be a A. month Priced High Hotels Tho The Ignorant t toll tell us that New r York has the highest priced hotels In the world Walt till they tackle Goldfield Speaking of real estate Goldfield has more moro loose dust to the square Inch than any on th the footstool and owners of unimproved lots co cover cor r them with canvas when tho the wind blows to keep them from being moved to tome some other locality Gardens n might be grown on tho the house tops Jf If there were means o of Ir Irrigating Irrigating Ir- Ir the soil Bootblacks s charge a quarter a shine and lose mono money It costs cost that much to shovel off tho the dust before beginning operations It Is estimated that at least acres of Gold ld real estate estat goes somewhere rj every time the tho wind blows for a n. day Still there seems to be plenty p I left I ft If It It ever rained there at the tho same time the wind blew the mud would cover cr the town a a. hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred feet deep The only la lawn 1 Isn't much bigger than a a. tablecloth cloth but bUl costs COts It Its owner a month to Ot k keep p It green There Is nothing else eleo green In town except tenderfeet The earth rth all about Is IA full o of holes hole and the holes aI are full o of money real money real mone money gold and that thal sort The They showed us a In the Mohawk mine about as big as the Inside of a meeting house from rom which had hod beep been taken Another mine had paid the month mth wo we were thero there One man who was Voas poor a n fo tow few years ago Is now now worth Another who had borrowed borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed the price of ot a ticket to get th there re from Los Angeles Is now worth over n u million dollars A newsboy 14 years oH old pulled out of a deal somewhere Two girl stenographers are arc to tho the good and others other from up They pot got ot 50 a week salary salary- Reporters Well Well Paid I asked an editor who was na showing me hl his hi of office OCt what he paid the tho girls foldIng fold fold- ing papers und and he told me mo 4 a day ay Reporters Reporters Re Re- porters got gol 50 A week and the foreman the tho came camo Ono One bank clerk told m me he was Retting getting a n. month That Thal Is Ie tho the Income tho the outgo O IB Is In proportion It Il costs to live o Water ater Is a n dollar a a. barrel and liquor twenty five rents cents a drink Everybody Every Every- bod body speculates If It It Isn't mines It Is tho the wheels and slot plot machines Investors Investor may bo be accommodated In any amount from a n nickel up I dropped ten nickels Into a n slot machine to get tho the price price- of ot a n breakfast Breakfast t cost col 50 cents extra that morning Every saloon Is la fitted with nil all the modern conveniences con of gambling They are arc worked overtime Fe seven Fen n days In the week The town has electric lights and red lights Thoro There Is no question about the color of oC these latter latter- the they are arc real red Thoro There Is III no off rake to tho the police pollee There Is no police as ns far ns as I could see The government Is 18 for Cor the people peo peo- people pIe by the tho people I believe I recall Feln seeing a church on a a. back street but It was not er very demon- demon Religion Is not yet ct long suit Prospective dividends dl are arc too remote In that line Goldfield Is out for forthe forthe the tho stuff and wants It quick Railroad frel freights are modest mOdest anywhere from to 1200 1200 a car But that comes cheaper than across the sand There Is neither a society nor Baptist church In town town not not enough water Voater In Insight sight eight to conduct their their- services sen Waterworks Waterworks Water Water- works Are arc on tho the way from the tho moun moun- Gol Got mountains plenty Ono One saloon hn has been Incorporated by a company compan of thrifty and tar tar- seeing far citizens citizens citi citi- zens zene with a n capital of It has has' paid as high as 35 per cent cont monthly divi divi- monthly month monthly not yearly earl The wages of sin sin sin-Is Is wealth Hundreds of ot tents and tents near yet ot dot dol the thc desert suburb but the center of or the tO town 1 Is building up with stone and brick and concrete and the thump of the hammer hammor and tho the knock of the tho striker Is heard In the land Concrete Con Con- crete creto adobe they call caU It It It-Is Is the tho building build build- ing material of the arid west Some day Goldfield will be a n real city with all the Inconveniences of oC tion In th the mean meantime LIme It Is a bull bully place to get close to nature and the simple simple simple sim sim- life and to gather a wad wad wad-If If you are In luck Dont Don't go there I If you are broke The charity charlt organizations ar are aro not yet l In working order and there Is no grazing on the 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