| Show r GOLDFIELD THE GREAT GREA T IN STRIKING CONTRAST 1 X k F H T Braedon Bragdon President of Mining Exchange Pictures it as Desert Waste and as a Mighty Modern Modem Camp 3 1 TO O III Slyly of cwi in ill in u I O roii Id u LJ antler c cus than tunic in me and to 10 forecast its one os possessed with WI iI the iI 11 t vi 0 rt ra Face Faa his IMS hist been a 1 t Out one and nip the ac world at it il Its future promises eien more moreAu Au No Christmas Christinas Ids bells pealed pt alad forth sad glad tidings three years Jears a a where now 1 stands It Ii was a it barren desert d waste wash disturbed only oy by bv tile the of 01 the coyote royo One Oue loue lonc tent stood near Ilear the Sandstorm mine lIli The hue following 1101 i jo found about OM OIt on hundred h and alti fifty if I people prot scattered about the thc prevent present site silt of the Iha city all in ill it tents tile the exception of two Iwo stitch small frame buildings build that flail time the tilt Combination oll com coin i to 10 send scud itt its riches to 10 market The leasers on 01 the tI mine with I shipments shi in ill February the in i May and out the Jumbo in iii July The he ores m hauled by b wagon over about silt miles to hi and then to lu the JI smelters by VI a l gauge road its traffic already congested by bv the file he heavy shipments from Tonopah 1 It look weeks to get gd from the and ami business necessarily dragged June J 1904 1104 found the Imp camp f about aboul 1000 inhabitants inn but b ut ul as it its ii wonderful wealth became or and tiuI the lire railroad was nU completed to it Tonopah T thirty milts miles away any mtr y a i rush to tile the dig tIt gings commenced that has litIS lint had fw equals It established a cily of irith willi thousands th II III IIII of people whit when lIm the list IlI year 1905 05 was War d in inA ill in I A II YEAR OI OP GREAT During the t 11 buildings haw Ir sprung tt up ut OH on every hand as QS a if by Stone blocks that would be b a II credit to any Imy city dy hait been bun erected at III costs COlts from to io 85 85 83 and alIt tile the amount of lumber put uit into inlo buildings during tire the year car is ii measured by the he hundreds of carloads The output of o gold told for the year y cor or approximates ll lilt md of 01 the ilk camp to It date daic and i J Ilic work of I the ikc past year j ar Iras has Ito herr been hampered hall by many mallY i adverse circumstances Most of the lire leases expired er ired IM lu iN January and nm when the companies ls took tooL possession of their crl U they lucy Ie fount found them in ill no IO condition to be bc worked system systematically f aI and ald to 10 secure that tal end cut Juts has as taken months of II labor lalor Most M of f them are arc now tn ill in good shaft to 10 Q lender r a I good account Y C H V v v M vv H V v VV vv rr X j f 1111 lI i hare lc ItI c blocks blocs af stuck stock which has lias unit hint It m companies with properties in il the promotion of their claims daims The organisation olI of lie Minim with wili a membership of fifty will many such troubles I 10 II as uIS liS it will till endeavor to 10 investors honest reports upon 1101 Ill all promotions in the ji camp The exchange will ill be bc a great factor f in 11 tie the lI of The Bullfrog stampede in in the spring s tool took loo hundreds of people peo from front and thousands s of dollars 4 of its il catal and tutu the IIII advent of tile the railroad acl dis an all of o teamsters and animals rr all affected the business the greatly of camp Dissatisfaction with the freight rats rates hat kept 1011 front from shipment thousands of tons Ions of ore orl or and yet cl 11 under all these c the ta tauni stands in 1 its is it growth unparalleled in ill its gold old output o l for the lite term of 0 I its existence I CUSTOM JA D OTHER MILLS lou Four custom mills II and aid one olle company mill still have been bem erected during the Ille past act year Q 1 and all aie at successfully treating the ores orrs of the Ille camp The Mining company Florence Jumbo and all cut Red Top companies cam will H ll erect mills to 10 treat Ireal their orts ores during the coming year Im car and a before another Illa I her Christmas time comes around will be bc attacking their im immense in mense low tow grade gradt It is tS not these companies alliC alone or the present shippers that thai f 1 have ore arc blocked out ul for future treatment y carl every ledge opened in ill tile the camp calli dis discloses discloses closes dos s ore with milling values alucs and aery cry day dllY is now putting in lit sight thousands of touts tons for future fullre treatment and ami this Juts is being done an circa area of o about abul fifteen square miles In 11 S these Ih se deposits lie the great future of the camp mm and mId as 1 I said raid it needs a IJ more mort prophetic ro betic pen than hunt mine to foretell its is future From FOIll m I I I knowledge though h of tile the physical conditions of tile the mines of the camp cini I am satisfied that sisal the year tar 1905 io will till be bc the tlc banner year car of the flue f camp Its production ll will till be increased iu new act discoveries will be tic made and Christmas Ch III as 1906 will find lild still standing atone abut unequalled and setting the pace pae for fo all oth i ers IS to 10 follow allow l 1 T bRIGDON 1 I 1 WK w M x H w r X Vo |
