Show Flivver Dominates Gold Rush Town 1 Ancient Take Place of Burros Burro Boarding Hou House e Opens at Weepah Nev March 10 AP Weepah new gold boom town of lIttle little tents and big dreams built on the hope that the theore ore recently unearthed un- un there which assayed 78 a ton may be plentiful today offered scenes never before witnessed wit wit- nesse in romantic gold rushes of the West Vest The dominant factor In the towns town's life is the flivver Battered Battered Bat Bat- old automobiles tires wrapped with hay wire to give a good grIp grIpon on the sandy soil and guard the rubber from occasional boulders were hills on which even evena a burro would have balked Dust or 01 mud sand or gravel the thy vets vers clamber up with much sputtering and skid down with great rattling had her dog tEams Tonopah Tonopah To- To her mule the whole West lays claIm to the ox team but th flivver Is to Weepah what the Mayflower was to the Pilgrim ta- ta The little automobiles dash around fields where heavier iel cars would be stuck In the soft soil soli Wags declare that if the camp ever earns fame as a gold producer she ought to adopt a rampant as her coat of arms LIFE IS ROUTINE LIfe in Weepah has been reduced to a routine The miners rise before before be- be fore daybreak cook at campfires ted fed with sag brush hop their flivvers and hurry oft off to ther it if they have claims to hunt hunt claims 1 it they are n new y arrivals A A boarding house opened today today to- to day and Frank Hortons Horton's comp company will b begin ln hiring a crew tomorrow Continued page 8 I Flivver Dominates Gold Rush Town Boarding House Opens at Weepah Continued from page 1 0 and andopen open a for them but at present every man must shUt shift for hImself Horton said persons slept In tents or under t tarpaulins last night while many drove to Tonopah Tonopah To- To after aCter dark The discovery ot of otrich ri rich h ore w was s made son Frank and another youth last week Water Vater for cooking and drinking purposes must be hauled to the camp Iron from Tonopah and was sellIng selling sell sell- Ing today at 10 cents a gallon There Is plenty of water for tor auto auto- mobile radiator and for mInIng withIn four miles of the camp Reports that Investors and speculators speculators on the San Francisco exchanges ex- ex changes were buying Goldfield Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- stock caused excitement here Owners of oC claims doubled their prIces immediately suspecting that the company directed by George Wingfield I Reno millionaire was about to take over the Horton corn com pany One man for a claim l land nd that would have been spurned If offered at 5 cents an acre a week ago Experienced locators lo- lo were more eager to get a guarantee ot of early development than to find tind buyers for claims |