Deseret Evening News | 1906-01-10 | Page 6 | Rush for Manhattan

RUSH BUSH TOR MANHATTAN I 1 cm Climp to to Hun Have Loi Jop of 01 People I Inhabitant I lire are excited over II e I thu now new Manhattan I district which U II l located about Si 80 S miles northeast of Ot Tonopah anti and late lato dIn cIl cIli dInI I i patches patched front from tho the went say nay 1111 that thi tit population of or the camp lino reached reach d Automobiles have hn vo been In tn such Much r popular demand Unit that owners have havo hiring them out tn to the fortune I on the Ih of at 00 per day 1111 I I Manhattan was WitS discovered lust last April I Boon thereafter It commenced to 10 at nt attract tract attention knit hut It hat hall only been ben c within the laid laet month that many miners I headed way Then the excitement I to grow Brow ro until suddenly Ii within the thu lat last week the tho rush Iu h begat began I Tonopah being the lIene t settlement felt the tho effect first t when nil the Idle from there slotted Then ihen caught the fever now I tho the whole part of at the thu tat 1 bun hils and the th ronda leading In III the direction of ot Manhattan are arc burdened with all nil the paraphernalia nalia nulla of frontier mining lire life Thirty I I teams drag dra huge huga loads bade of ot lumber camp antI and anti and nf ot food for lor men melt antI and beauts automobIles of ot every overy description hurry weighted down with men mell car CUI carrying and shovels with which to todo tl todo do vork or with pockets till full fu o of money mom with which 10 o buy 1111 al nt already ready rendy staked out by those Iho e fortunate enough to have coming op 01 opportunities all nil thin tho teams obtainable In Tonopah were tere w re pressed In Into inti to ti have been over tho the route with hao returned for tor tormore more hundreds of If Ignoring IgnorIng ing In modern means of locomotion un Uro walking In Isi heavily packed paclo boy bar borros barros ros roe be letot for them