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Show UivJi , JV,i, --TELLS ALL-A'BOOnOE .; -r ; NEVADA GOLMELDSr 2.1 Dulton, formerly cartoonlBt on the 1 Tribune, but now In Qoldtleld. Ke'v., has written the following Interesting letter to the Butte Evening News: GOLDFIELD.. .Nev Aug.. 23. On blowing Into Goldfleld there were two things that' I was wised up to before going half a block, and both by personal per-sonal experience at that. One waa not to listen, to the first fellow. wb. has a rich fraction, shows you samples, and will let you In for development coin. The other Is not to argue with the doom clerk, just drink it down, never bat an eye and say you like it.' Hot! Well yes, some. The whole ! desert is hot in the good old summer j time. -One ' humane young' tenderfoot was discovered holding ; an umbrella ! over a horned toad. "To -keep him from being overcome ' by sunstroke, don't y know," he replied to a query, ' Got Hij Coming. I haven't been "stung", very hard yet. I am' expecting to get mine any day, i but I am going to take my medicine j and say nothing. In company with some of my "associates at this end of the line," I "grub staked" some prospectors pros-pectors a short time ago to locate for us. They are still out, and we are waiting for them to come In, across or through. . Going TJp Buy Now. I have taken tips from the wise ones that "this stock is going up tomorrow, buy now," have' paid for assays that, maybe, were well seasoned with both salt and pepper. ' I have been let In on the ground floor, in through the window, and have fallen clear through to the cellar, but I think I'll be satisfied to continue-making cartoons. car-toons. The "prospector's friend," the burro, better known as the "desert canary," Is everywhere in evidence, especially In the early morning when they rasp out their early mass fine for the .canaries. About the Town. -' Goldfleld has had its "mushroom" 8ta:e as well as all new rich mining camps have, and has now settled down to the substantial metropolis of southern south-ern Nevada. The era of "wlld-catlng" is a thing of the past and operations generally consist of systematic development devel-opment with a view to the extensive opening up of the great ore bodies of the" district, upon their merits. The standard gauge railroad will reach here from the north by September 1 and Goldfleld will then be the natural outfitting out-fitting point for all rich mineral such as Silver Bow, Lida, Beatty camps, south, east and west of here, Bullfrog and Rhyollte. The last three, some eighty miles south of Goldfleld. are thriving towns and destined to develop one of the richest mineral sections In the world. . , Malcolm McDonald. Malcolm McDonald Is one of the wealthiest men In southern Nevada. He has holdings from Tonopah to Bullfrog, is president of the Southern Nevada Consolidated Telephone and Telegraph company, and also of the Nevada-Utah Auto Transportation company. One of his chief interests is the famous fa-mous Montgomery-Shoshone mine in the Bullfrog district on which a $300,000 deal Is now pending In New York. Donald Gillls is busier than a bird , dog looking after Malcolmn's interests. He is superintendent of the Tonopah extension at Tonopah in which he is himself quite heavily Interested, and Is also Identified with Mr. McDonald both here and In Bullfrog. . Prank's Stamp mil. H. L. Frank's new forty-stamp mill Is under construction and will be one of the most complete and modern mills in; the West. , H. L. is one of the most enthusiastic believers in Goldfleld's wonderful future, and we Montanans know the value of his opinion. f 100 to ?40OO a Ton. . Recently on going Into one of Gold-field's Gold-field's rich mines and examining Its workings he watched the men sack and hoist the free milling gold ore, running from J100 to $4000 a ton. He never) spoke a word. He seemed dazed, dumfounded. When he came on top he was asked for the expression of nls opinion of the property. He stood silent a moment, wiped the perspiration from his brow, pinched himself to make sure he was not dreaming, then replied: "I was raised in a mining camp. I have lived In mining camps all my life, I have mines of my own, but this beats all I ever 6a w. I can scarcely comprehend compre-hend it,"' .;.- Tent Houses Going. Gradually the tent houses and wood-en wood-en shacks are giving way to massive stone structures. United States Senator Sena-tor Nixon's new $70,000 three-story stone and steel office building is nearly completed com-pleted and will be a marvel of beauty. Our electric light plant Is a credit to any community. The water is as good as .any in Nevada, coming as it does from deep wells sunk In granite hills south of the city. The main streets are sprinkled twice daily. A $50,000 Ice and cold storage plant, one of the finest In this part of the country, is In operation. Ice sells at 4 cents a pound. A dairy of some sixty milk cows, a large chicken chick-en ranch and modern slaughter-house supply the town daily with fresh eggs, butter, milk and meat. Green garden stuff comes from Bishop, over the California Cali-fornia line, 100 miles awty. Autos on the Desert. The "chug, chug" of powerful three-seated three-seated touting, cars can be heard day and night, bringing in and taking out passengers -to and. from the various desert towns beyond, and we "can put Butte in the shade when it comes to numbers. ' ' One may Jump into his auto on a Sunday afternoon, ride out to a modern mod-ern baseball park, which has the largest larg-est grand stand in the State, listen to the band play and "witness a professional profes-sional ball game. . Both Tonopah and Goldfleld have imported professionals from the coast leagues. .- . The Click of the Chips. Of course gambling) is wide open and they play higher than a cat's back. Fortunes are won and lost In a night's play. I didn't know there was so much money In the world. I saw two men, one from Butte, by the way, start shaking shak-ing dice for their diamond rings. Then they 'shook for: money against mining stock, and finally wound up with one being loser 165,000 shares of stock selling sell-ing at 40 cents a share. That's coming a few. . v . ( He Prefers Whiskers. Shaves are 85- cents, baths $1. I wasn't very dirty when I first came in, and whiskers always were becoming becom-ing to me. The rapid strides that civilization has made in the rearing of this little city of 8000 human beings on the barren, burning sands of the Great American desert is amazing almost beyond comprehension. com-prehension. , . Metropolitan and Cosmopolitan. It cannot be called a typically Western West-ern camp because of Its metropolitan methods and cosmopolitan population. Millionaire speculators touch elbows with the humblest prospector. Nearly all classes and nationalities are represented repre-sented but John Chinaman. He has been warned that we have a young exclusion ex-clusion act of our own. At the Trysting Place. Recently two Celestials endeavored to stem the tide of popular disapproval. The glad tidings were 'phoned in and they were met outside the town and turned back. The Art Department. Our newspapers, of which the Gold-field Gold-field Sun is the leading one and the only daily, are metropolitan in every respect. Linotype machines, modern presses and art department are all up to date. Our railroad edition will be forty pages with three-color cover pages, ably edited and pretty well illustrated, thank you. Harry MacMillan, formerly former-ly of Butte. Is editor and manager, and has built the Sun up almost from a band bill. Even away down here In the desert I have taken several falls, In my humble way, out of "Old Rocky." Hie "charity halo" Is still his crowning glory. News for Bale. The Evening News is for sale at every newsstand here, and Is eagerly sought for, especially by Montanans, and there are many of us here: - AL DUTTON. |