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Show ;;::::Y.D7'GiAiff-STii::5s I Every St::c IsEIIed Vntli :K:t7 Arrluils tot!:c Hid It. B. -Davis of the large mercantile firm of Lothrop & Davis , of Tonopah. who Is In Salt Lake today purchasing: ctock, declares that here will be a great rush, to the Nevada camp thl sprlnr and that everyone there Is making: preparations pre-parations to take care of the persona ho are expected to flock to the new Eldorado. . ' . Two Ctages Pilled Dally. "There are two stares running- - Into Conopah every day." Bald JTr. Davis, "and they have all the business they can handle. Many are arriving- by wagons wag-ons and on horseback ' and some are walking. A rich strike recently made n the "West End claim has caused the excitement of last year , to be revived and efforts to locate the hidden treasure treas-ure are being redoublejL -"Hany new claims are being staked : cut, now that the snow has disappeared. S nd development work on the property i f 'r-ady located Is being- pushed forward v "h. the utmost cpeed, . . Veaty-Etainp 2I1U Going Up. ' "Work haa Just been commenced on the frst stamp mill of. the camp, which will have twenty stamps and a cyanide reduction plant and win be erected on i the Hid way claim. The grading of the . site has been undertaken and It is ex-. pected to have the mill in operation by the latter part of June. - "As I was coming out I was Informed that the bill of lading for the first shipment ship-ment of machinery for the mill had Just been received. 7atar Problem I Solved. . . "The question of a water supply which has been puzzling the camp has been successfully solved by a company which has sunk several wells .about three miles out of town and have struck an abundant supply of good water. This will be pumped to reservoirs considerably consider-ably above the camp and piped to the consumers. . . Population of 6000. Y The population of, Tonopah Is now nearly 6000. There are, of course, many miners and i prospectors - operating around about that country who make Tonopah their headquarters and trading trad-ing point, and are not Included In this count. - ..... . Surreyin.47 for Eailroad. : '"The proposed railroad. , of "which there has, been so much talk recently has not materialized as yet. . Some say it will be constructed this summer and others believe It will not. - The survey Is being made, however, and it Is reasonable rea-sonable to suppose that in view of the large number , of. people located . thert and the amount of business that is already al-ready being done that the road will be built as soon as possible. |