| Show h ere ater Ana n o Are In 1905 I i r on f U r re L I J e t 11 r I 1 1 i f UI J 1 1 10 I I 1 I a r 1 E i 1 wn t f r w dc d dd q qi L tt I d I 1 fJ I r I 11 It r 1 i 1 r r M tH tiia tHi Z M i r i 1 a it t l jl tl i ii ii Vy i tl i r I 1 I i I 1 1 I Ir Irr r I 1 u II tl J JI T fA 1 I It I lf rY I I 1 t anil f 1 I II J jt I if i I I 1 j I 1 I I ji 1 i i ti r 1 J Jt t ir 11 f 1 I jf 0 Ii i I II i I l lt t 11 iii iiiI i Ji I I iii t fi t tI 1 a I a Ii I i iA I I A j 1 f 1 ray i 1 i r V r I t N 0 H r 1 1 j i t r r i I It k in ro I Y r 1 A t I If 1 f j jJ 1 t tr tb r b t tr 0 I J I r St ti r i iA A j ij 1 5 ht T 1 t P t 3 1 Via q f h 4 s r w 4 1 f 5 I J y I It S Ir t j jq 1 j r t i t tl tl I II q ti N M a ta f fJ t Zw aW k J f a f 4 L O t hJ j q t r rdO THE EVOLUTION EV LUTION OF THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM ON THE FORBIDDING NEVADA DESERTS i dO 0 is 1 In an nn un unnamed T named district Nyo county State tta of ot Nevada N mill mid nil d WilY between southern Bouthern than Klon Klondike lolI dike end Hun ban Antonio Allt mining district In tho tha cast enst foot hills of ot valley aJ 16 miles east cast and and alII n little north of Sere Lone mountain sad anil nn about 3 a s south end and west of at spring firing That Is tho the way tent Jim Butler the location of ot tho first g claim h he located lo In what Is now known knon the tho world over ocr as tas The Tho notice was tras fil flied j for record with the tho recorder o or of Nye 0 county Nov 20 Q 1900 1700 and the prospect was alas called tho the Desert Queen claim Tho rho notice was written by hy T or TI r rL I 1 L O Idle Jim Butlers partner and at lit that time county attorney of Nye coun coup county county t ty y Only five years ago anti yet ot It took such ouch nn an effort of both tooth county at lit and the tha experienced 1 prospector who MID w knew every even t burro burr I trail all In III the tho des desert crt ert to ID describe the tho plaice place where today stands one OM of the tho must most widely known mining camps cami a of the tho world worl 1 Tonopah n o growing city with life and energy and on 1 with hopes And 1 possibilities that few possess rs Timo Ih thirsty prospector In tho tha docent 1 t 1 D he first for tor tho the chef cherished lie t water To hu luu It I la ls more than golden mid nod the signs that Illat Its lis existence arc are more mora to than tho the richest float noat that ever eer v r lay fay upon a t hillside hlll Situated In Inthe Inthe Inthe the cos east cast toot hills hAIS of ot tho valley alley or San Antonio desert de ert ore are th the Tonopah springs so ao called by the flute Plute Indians and tho the name Tonopah menu menns to them thin tha brush that where water can ho ha found 1 Bo 80 slowly closely as ne associated n are arc water oter and sold gold with Ith the tho desert rt prospector that It require no nn stretch of ot tho Imagination to see ace that Tonopah wan well named for tor It the spot gold Bold Is ha found and found fOUlI In ouch auch abundance that almost almust every Iusi tru that rOwa growa upon the tho barren sides side c of ot Jit It nil nn the foot feat hills beyond Indicates Its existence 0 lidos below l elo The rim l 1 Li T first location l was tinted dated August 27 1500 1700 I OO and ond at tho the samo nano time or In III Inn Ina a n few dins after U ii I Butter lo ID located sated th the Bun o Nh Ked Plume Phu ne flush Hoard Boar l Sand Saud Urns Grass Valley View and Oliver Top claims Duller associated associate ate with himself eit In these e locations Ids hits wife Mrs Irs rs Hello Nd Ia 11 Riving the famous stator claim T I L O III tle Hubert HI IJ It Chrysler nail J J II n i Wll on her also aleo secured nn on Inter tut St and he and Duller Butler and Oddle corn com commenced mancell tho the development of the th proper property ty ly nt at the time of the location And It ItIs IB Is not nut out of place to mention here hero that no three men ever worked under creat groat creator or cr l hardships p s t than they the d dill did They built the tho roads hauled their water three miles tutu had nothing but hut the desert brush to o 0 burn slept n out lilt u on tho the barren hlll hili side tl carried ea cried their samples sample GO 50 miles on horseback to learn what ore to save sa 0 fur for or shipment and nail thon then In a little tittle rick rickety ely ety et old ohl wagon waSon commenced to take out their ore to market hauling It miles to Austin They made mado two 0 such ship shipments shipment ihl P meats ments about n It ton tot In each cacho from ruin which they netted COO the ore are going about ton Their cn to start with was Ii and the COO put lut street streel and they com coar commenced them then on easy cas work vigorously The Tho ore ora was world wend sown noun found round It Tonopah commenced to stow grow Leases were Ut itt It hy by 11 Butler Hutler and asso associates rigor veins upon ullon elates upon the tho different a n royalty of ot 25 per per cent and fortunes tm were made modo by b the lessees a conserva conservative extracted 1 tive estimate of ot t the e amount on tho the ledge lo lg alone being 1 while It Is safe mite to say sa that Ihn t trice that amount w WItA ns taken out from nil till the tho leases leasell The fhe mining world was astonished nt lit the results from tho the work of or time the Ic leases es and men melt poured Into Int i nto Tonopah from every every country nUll and an ovary every COr clime A It began to take on Oil metropolitan airs air and ond along that line tine until now no the live years from the date of ot th the it has hat n population uC of f soul souli It Is III a city ell with all oil the tho comforts and wealth cnn can nl suggest It t Is in II supplied electric anti and rower I er from rani n 11 est Hilled JI hed d at Bishop creep creek cr t In du 11 Inyo county count California Cn r 00 miles Iti across die desert d sert Two venter companies franchises to dirt UP Its 1111 and furnish the Inhabitants with wat have havo sufficient for tor twice the present population A telephone tel and tele telegraph telegraph graph system a connect It with the world beyond the t desert and an all ull the muting mining F camps within n ct radius of miles A sewer system lane haw been established anti antia n a sanitary system H e slem e put Into operation From Frain the wealth of lIt Its lis own minoe n a railroad standard has bas been built hullt 60 miles to to connect with the Southern and 1111 11 a special train with couches coaches antI and diners dIneSS connect It t r dally ollY l with valt t the world marl d und un l with f hit Its It II neighbor g to time the south It has lias n a social club tho the lz named from forn Its lis famous mine tube with members than whom none can be bo found more general or cosmopolitan or hoe Toll the tine Story Sto It is 18 now nor the tho county count seat fedt of ot Nye e county COli and the tins spot that was urns live five years ago in the tho hlll hills of or orthe atthe the valley Is la graced by lIy byone byone one of or tho the handsomest court houses In Inthe Inthe the thc west and no doubt the st In Inthe tho the state slate of at Nevada built buill during time tho th past ye rent r at a cost of It 11 has baa 11 hason nn on assessed valuation of ot taxable prop property erty crt of of which Is Iii real property and U la personal prop erty ert It has Increased In tho the valuation I of property In Nye county ouI from i in In n 1900 1800 to In 1005 1003 or nearly HenrI fourfold and It payi alone Into the county In III taxes 3 against the total receipt of or tin the county count In 1900 1000 Two hundred ar are enrolled In hr I public anti fin a 1 new nw building to 10 toi i accommodate twice that number U li In InI course of oC erection The spiritual wel welfare I tare fare of Jf tho community Is In fn the hands of ot time the i anti and antiCo Co three churches churchell being sup KUp supported up ported J The miners miner union supports n 1 all nil miners minae contributing 1 t per Iler month for Its support A m hos Imo hospital hospital pital pitch will trill ua bo erected during durin the lime by I the union Three banks binks the Nye 8 and a fill County bank LIlli th the State Stitt tank Hank and Trust corn com pony pAnr and Tonopah flanking Q all ell colts handle time the wealth of the camp a imd their average monthly clearings clearing run fun up to A Year Yea I of Grout tho li liTho Tho The past year ear has been lIeen one of oC tho the most active In III the building build In of oC homes and an blocks 1 uto large stone buildings varying 1 In III cost front from to have hao been be bee on t t erected anti and nil II IIII It II has hili taken 1000 10 ears cors of ot lumber Urn home cement anti other building materials to tn tho the Over Oer fa feet tet t of lumber here have been used mell In the many buildings created at nn an cost co olt t of 0 per 1 to the con COli consumer sumer eumer Fn From m the tho time limo of ot Its tte It advent into Int Tonopah July 23 3 1901 1001 until Oct I 1 1903 l the Tonopah railroad hauled Into Inti camp tons ton II of freight and ond tons of ot ore were weN shipped out A t board boar 1 of ot has boon been established with 00 members m to look after Arter the tho material immaterial pro p Three newspapers newspaper thrive In Ia the tho camp the Sun a n dally paper and find the Miner and Bonanza weekly ekly pa firs r All 11 are aru ably alii edited anti rants rank among omon the t tw best be t papers published Pu b t In tho w Jour Four to live lIe dollars per day duy are ars the wages cages for miners minere engineers engineer and machine men and find 1000 met men are cm em emploYed 1110 d In III the camp campa a number that will willbe willbe be more snore than doubled as soon moon as oon arA such uch that the ores area of tho the can be milled mlle 1 or marketed marketell Th Thee Thie e eare are n a I few of the things which tell of or orthe the growth of ot Tonopah of ot the trans t of or the unnamed mining 1 K dU dIa dl In him the east eRst toot foot kills hili of the Mon Mott Montezuma Ol valley Into the proud pros porous city of ot today Hut It Is not only the growth of o Ton Tono Tonopah opah o that can lw be credited to the mar marvelous veleta on Ml alt It Oll live I year arll ago 1111 of r Oilier Campo The Tonopah Tono D Dand aln belt was soon lOon located Jacnel c and the tle thousands who came gold seek lug ing were forced to spread out over ocr tho the Every J ely spring l r and water hole became beCAlM the place of scores of or men amen In of the yellow lIow treasures and ond on nearl nearly every even hill hili could be bu heard the song ForiK Ion of or the hammer and the tho roar of or dynamite One Ono camp after another carne came Into existence anti ami soon Id end anti Inter hater Bullfrog were hustling fuelling Ton Tonopah opah the mother mothr en camp in p for the honors of or being the greatest gold producer I fold Mountain Manhattan sliver Silver low Ho Hay tay Atwood laden ElI Ool 1 Need n Ii lle hellen and Golden Arrow are among amon amonI the other camps ciAmpI that promise great things thing that owe ole their existence tence to the ther I Argonauts r of Tonopah while hlll Lane Ime Mountain Sliver Silver eak ak Ilda Lida Reveille nello and an l other old time have hay been rejuvenated and ao are ar now hI up wealth that w will not rich enough to bo be betoken token out put In the days when freight rates rated came camo high anti and railroads were loth to project themselves out over ocr overtime time desert places place And co o Jim Butters discovery line transformed tho the desert tilled it with Wih au an eager caGer throne or ot wealth seekers made 1 lado hi t by bYI b y I I tie I e score and and Is le dolly dally making Nevada I the greatest mining area in the tha world worl What It And An 1 what Is there back of oC It all Tho rho mining minim world orld today tollay or a large laro proportion proportion tion of ot It believes that the rich ores of ot tho the nines mines were gouged out by b limo tha leasers anti and that now no tho companies l here have settled down to n a steady productIon production tion of ot low to w grade ores which with the lima working of a n tow few to wildcat wll propositions lions constitutes the entire operations of time the camp Nothing could be e further farther from the truth Tonopah can challenge the world worM to show slow a J camp of o similar ago age with greater grantor ore reserves reserve re ene or a n greater production under the conditions which have hae existed In III th tit the camp comp Sixty miles from Crom n it railroad and a II narrow sage gags at II t that at nt the time of at o Its Us discovery and without even wagon road It was alas til ul almost most st Imo Impossible to get et d d dout In I or out and arll since the the tho construction of tha the Tonopah railroad the growth of or outside camp has necessitated a 1 division of ot the th transportation tran facilities which haw hau reduced time the output of Tonopah added to this trIs I the Inability to secure water supplies and machinery has hall checked the mines min ct In their th output Hut Jut Just as liS these tile were overcome tho the smelters announced announce that the tha developments of ot Tonopah hail had them overstocked with elp clous ores and II nIl limited the production I of the Tonopah ah mines mince The fhe affect of nil all this has pea been ben to reduce dividend III but hul nevertheless n during durIn the I pact t year ear O each have been itald by II the tile anti ond Tonopah alon elan the tha Tonopah company has lies ported four quarterly div dividends of 26 cents each making milk In 1000 or per cent OlIt on III the th capitalisation of the company and It has lea also its preferred stock Besides this big producers havo bent beon added to the list Hat during the Uio past part ra t year oar the time Tonopah I 1 Midway Y North Br Star and ami Welt inu ami an w V I tho the Golden Anchor McNamara c anti and h ij II i have hao struck the ore that t thas has brought wealth to tho the they havo not yet et become shippers pers I t I j i J JI JA I P PA A change In to time the methods of ot mining t i tho limo ore has hu resulted in tho time coming of ot i ithe I the time railroad which lieu hal given Ivon a n 1 fatso also 1 impression as All to the volumes values in the ores 1 of oC tho time different mines They have havo not T TI t j 11 i I changed loan from the tho palm balmy days of the th l 11 leasers leaser but with reduced reduce freight 1 charges charel and no 10 wagon haul tho the big I i veins are lire mined and an l dumped Into tin the i r Ji i i F cars cam without sorting and ami tho thu average t I vt values jo eO extracted lire are 0 O per ton tOil II m I j about silver sliver and 1 i gold Were the urea ores or of or Tonopah sort l j I the tb days when the lausern louser r today as III In ht f h r were shipping MOO to ore from fron the tho l 1 I teats famous Napalm ledge lede lell thos values would not nut be he considered high at all nil All t i d dof i t of the producing mines mine have values run fun running i i Ii ning into the limo thousands and p ot of t that grade largo large enough to ship In ill Ili abundance but the methods method of oC extrac extraction tion pursued are riot not followed In all alt 1 t big mines mind at al the present p ut thaw About A bont nines 13 i iThe f f j The values are re found In the tho forma COrll j i I 1 I flan known as ea the lode lolle horn hornblende 1 Ii l blende which ha II has been proven n nto s to exist for tor more than feet in lit j III width and Its It length K ts 1 not lIot yet t de determined d I while the tho mineral minerai aone Bone Has hu I 1 i i been proved for nearly near three miles In III length from the Belmont to th the West fleet i I Tonopah and and front from the Jim Tin butler lutler to the tho f Anchor nearly 1000 feet feat |
