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Show I . ' ! GOLDFIELD AND TONOPAH. : Editor Truth: Having spont tpn .t days In Tonopah and Ooldllold, No- ' vada, I though some of tho readers of 1 . Truth would llko to know what I saw ' ,., there. Not being a mining man nnd j i r not knowing anything about mines 1 can only Judgo by what I saw and ! ' heard. I boliovo that tho wholo-etrlp ; ; 1 of country from Tonopnh to Las Vo- ' gnB, Nevada, Is destined to bo the ' j greatest gold bolt in America. At , Tonopnh thoy aro down 1,300 feet and j the oro from- top to bottom nvoragea j " 1 '-; over $100 per ton In gold. Drifts nnd I ' ',, i tunnols 2.C00 feet long havo been dug ( j nnd tho samo results obtained. At ' j Goldllold thoy aro down over 300 feet in r ; sovornl places and tho oro Is as good , ' If not better than at Tonopah. Tho i big mining compnnles nro putting In ! . I millions of dollars worth of machinery 4 ' ' and buildings, nnd aro getting m big returns for their monoy. Every- !' j . thing Is on tho boom and big money ' " Is being made. Common laborers j got (30 cents per hour nnd skilled In- r j bor from 75 to ?1.00 per hour. A man i 1 and team ?10 to ?20 per day, etc. j - About 130 peoplo arrive in Goldllold daily and about 40 leave, which makes a not gain of 90 peoplo ovory 24 hours, i, ' Many peoplo bring tents, beds nnd ' cooking utensils and by that means , ' thoy reducothoir living oxpenses over ono-half. Board and lodging varies from ?2 to ?G per day. At Ueno 1 found many knockers, men who hang around tho depot and advlso peoplo to keep away from Goldllold. They tell all tho tales of sorrow, woe, deprivations depriva-tions and suffering tho people havo to onduro there. They toll as harrowing harrow-ing stories about Goldlleld as tho Rev. Gcorgo Bailey and Itov. Wesley Hill do of Utah. They point to tho few peoplo returning, but say nothing of tho crowds that aro going. When I arrived at Tonopah and Goldllold I found that tholr stories wero absolutely absolute-ly false. All tho people who went with mo readily found work at tho rates mentioned above. There are hundreds of people out of work there, but they aro a class of people who do not wnnt work; people who loaf around saloons and gambling houses looking for a soft snap, looking for a job whore there Is no work nnd big pay. It Is this class or peoplo who aro tho kickers at Bono. The newspapers newspa-pers havo taken up tho cry and aro telling of tho awful death rato from pneumonia, but I found that while there wore many deaths from pneumonia, pneu-monia, 95 per cent of them were men who sat' around hot saloons and gambling gam-bling houses till midnight and filled up with boozo then olthor slept out of doors or In a tent, and that kind of treatment would send a man to glory In a cllmato like Los Angeles, St. Gcorgo or Key West. Tho drinking water In Tonopah nnd Goldfleld is good nnd healthful. A good well can bo obtained at a depth of 50 or GO feet. I found at Tonopah Mr. W. E. Law- son, an old Rio Grando passenger agent, who has a flno ofllco nnd Is get ting rich dealing in mines and mining stocks. Ho wanted to sell mo stock in tho Silver Pick mlno at 17 cents and now It Is quoted at 31 cents, a nice llttlo advance In eight dnys. I also met Mrs. Emma Paine of Ogdon who arrived In Goldllold on March 17th. On tho 18th she bought the Overland hotel. She throw tho bar and fixtures out, renovated the whole building and by tho tlmo I came away, March 2Gth. hor rooms wero all filled with good peoplo and her prospects aro bright for big returns on her investment. Tho Rev. Samuel Blair of Ogdcn has been doing good work for Goldfleld nnd has struck It rich. Tho Rev. Blair has a good word for Utah as well as Goldfleld. Ho visited Pennsylvania last summer nnd In January this ypar I hnd tho pleasure of visiting Kingston, Kings-ton, Dorrenston, Wllkosbnrro and several sev-eral other places whoro he had been, and by his good words for Utah sev- oral Mothodist and other families will visit Ogdon, Snlt Lake nnd Bear River valley this summer. What n pleasnro to follow a man whoso mission mis-sion is love, pence and good will to nil men. How different was tho Rev. Blair's talk to another Utah mission-nry mission-nry who said in Wllkesbarro that most of tho Mormon children had soro cyos and blood dlseaso and many of them wero club footed nnd otherwise deformed. de-formed. It wns another Utah missioning mission-ing at Rcdlnnds, Cnllfornln, who said in a lecture there that she wanted to raise ton dollars to help tho cause of Christ and tho poor down-trodden hu-mnnlty hu-mnnlty or Utah. Sho said it pained hor to think of tho awful destitution, poverty and wnnt in Utah and to cm-phnsizo cm-phnsizo her talk sho actually put hor hnnd on hor corset to show the audi-onco audi-onco where hor pain was. I met Mr. .Tamos H. Brown of Brown, Terry & Woodruff, at Goldllold. Gold-llold. Ho had on a khaki suit and a two weeks' growth of whiskers, but ho scorned to enjoy It. Wo thought by tho description Truth gave of tho Troy laundry of this city a fow weeks ago that Mr. Brown had a gold mine in thnt and was coining all klr - of monoy there. But wo nro never SuJs-fled. SuJs-fled. The mnn who gets $100 a day is always looking for an increaso in wages. Mr. George J. Brown,' formerly of Snlt Lake, hns a harness storo nnd factory at Goldlleld and Is doing a nice business. Mrs. Brown Is a director of the Ladles' Aid society and there Is strong talk of electing her its president. presi-dent. The distance from Tonopah to Goldfleld Is twenty-eight miles by a fairly good road. Tho stages make tho distanco in six hours including ono hour for dinner at Ramsey's or tho Klondike Wells, about midway between be-tween the two cities. The automobiles cover the entire distanco In less than two hours. Tho big 20-mule freight teams make tho return trip In four days, and haul ten tons of freight each way. The Goldfleld country is going to make a good outlet for Bear River valley products. Tho freight rate to Reno from Ogden and Bear River valley val-ley on hay, oats and barloy Is only ?5 per ton, and when tho narrow gauge railroads south of Reno arc changed to the standard guago much more freight will bo shipped. Tho Southern Pacific company has changed their road to Hawthorno, 141 miles of the distanco, and by August the entire distance dis-tance will bo standnrd gauge. The transferring of freight from tho standard stand-ard to the narrow gauge (about 40 ca'-s per day) at Waubuska, Is what now cause tho delay and congestion of freight. To the persons who havo never seen an up to date hustling mining town. I would advise them to tako a vacation and go to Goldfleld. It Is a pleasant trip and enables ono to see what has been done In twelve months and what is now being done there Is marvelous. Electric lights and city water works are getting old and street cars and free mall delivery are now being agitated. The railroad fare from Salt Lake to Reno Is ?25; from Reno to Tonopah, ?17.50; from Tonopah Tono-pah to Goldfleld via stage, ?4, or via automobile, ?6. The return trip is ?G higher from Reno to Salt Lake, tho Oregon Short Line train leaving Salt Lake at 10:20 a. in. makes good connections con-nections all tho way through. V. S. PEET. Salt Lake City, April G. n - |