Show I 1 1 I IJ tJ i i l i s 1 I i i d I t ylI C I I I I r J i Although Not Noi Yet Yei four Years of Age Goldfield Is Now the Largest Settle Settlement meni ment In Ii Nevada Nevadar r c jO o 0 young oun Is 15 the i Nevada mining camp to t which United Staten sol soldiers 01 diers were ordered be because bee cause e USo oC ot o conditions aris ItrI arising ing from a 11 strike ot of the he 1 that the tho place Is not no yet et on the Atla maps nor In the latest encyclopedias dias Vet el Ct Is hi no baby bab so to tar an WI Importance Imparlance goes It Is the worlds mutest gold fold old mining center cen ler It Is III Klondike Cripple Creek re reo rented f Aled antI nOlI then to employ i nfl n expresIon ston Ion made elegant by Its recent use Ue In Inho tb ho Slates States senate has h them all skinned a ii city block A genius named Goldfield The town lite Ue ile and the region round about con a 11 Held of ot gold By 11 cultivating cl with the proper propel kind of ot Implements It Is 18 possible to 10 produce a u crop of the tho I he yel yellow low Ic 10 metal almost anywhere around there litre and In some favored spots the theMA MA JI yield ld Is 13 phenomenal There are many Jold old mining camps camIli In that part ot of Nc No tidA Tonopah Bullfrog Manhattan ind ani others ethers are rich In III gold gohl Marin rock but Is 18 the the the most astounding of them theman ill an is 18 now flOW the most moet populous city ell In the state Mate of at Nevada In the mm leg region to distinguish the place from ill all 11 other camps camp to put pul It upon Its ped pad to apotheosize I it Goldfield Is keown popularly as the tho Big EI Noise Only One Reason Perhaps persons exist In Gold Held eld It would woud be he hardly hard correct to say cay that they the thC live there It Is 18 not nol a 11 pleas pleasant ant place In which to live Nobody who hi hs has lived where grass grows trees wave ware and ind water ater runs would stay overnight In Ina Ini a i place like Goldfield or any other Ne Nevada Neada Neada vada ada ada mining camp cave aava for tor one reason eason People exist exl t In because by staying there for Jar a It time they hope to jet get hold ot of gold enough to enable them to live somewhere else yet Goldfield Is tho the present abiding place of many millionaires Practically ill eli these rich men were poor men up to three or four years ago ngo They The went Tent In Inand and nd struck It Il rich They The stay sla there be because because because cause they ther are lire striking It richer It Il may be accepted as cc an underlying fact tact however that not nol one of at them expects to te spend the rest of ot his life lite there not nol noton on one Intends to make Goldfield his home Even now moat most of ot the newly rich ones make occasional trips tripa to the pleasanter world outside de visiting New York San Francisco Los Loi Angeles or some come other city where conditions ore are ro less crude The rho rest of the lacking the price under the Influence of the fever Cever ever of ot excitement Induced by the lure of at told gold manage to o remain there all the year jear around nursing the hope that tome day they the may go back home and live happily ever eyer afterward Some Borne fellows In 1 will tell you that they live anywhere else elne They ont until they get rich Many Man Manof of or these will be planted In n one of at Goldfields graveyards No grass crass ss will wave trove ave above their grave There Is IB no gracs In One gold made millionaire who built himself a 11 pretty prell bungalow In the town two or three years yearn a R aro to O tried to grow n a Crop of ot groan grass In n his yard ard from Cram Imported seed lIe He paid a man limn 5 n a day dlly to cultivate the grass graBs and spent about as WI much more I r l 07 BY ey W bOH r T for water to 10 keep It from dying By ily the Ule end of tho season he lie estimated that thal his hi crop of at grass had cost him a 11 hundred dollars a blade This probably was un an exaggeration even In Sustained by Hope Nevertheless tho the Is not necessarily unhappy Hope which springs eternal In the human hum n broast springs s quite actively In a region where the poorest man by some sonic stroke of ot luck or freak of at chance may become be ome the richest There is no more honest and honorable way WilY of at getting rich quickly than by b digging gold out of ot the t e earth lie Ito who does this takes wealth from tram no nobody nobody body bod but b adds wealth to the world It may bo ha that this Is not nol the view taken by most of at those now seeking wealth on the Nevada desert but it Is none the less true for Cor that Goldfield Is I now close clo e to four Caul our years old It was In the spring of o 1903 that a II government mineralogist reported that signs of ot rich had been discovered around arou l Columbia mountain The next year tents and shacks began to blossom out of ot the desert In the midst of at sagebrush grease wood cactus and the tho occasional Joshua trees of the region rellon The Joshua tree Is called a tree merely as a 11 joke jolce olce or a josh The only thing It Il Is In good for tor Is fuel tuel and an it is not good bood for tor that These The tents and shacks multiplied they turned Into tent houses with plank floors doors and side planks halfway up or orInto orInto orInto Into rude box bo houses with real glass windows s The thousands of ot thirsty prospectors poured In Heavy mining machinery was hauled overland at atenor enor mobs cost coat In transportation Mines were Iere opened As the tho drills and picks went deeper Into the earth carth the ore Increased hi lit h richness The news continued to spread By Ity the spring ot of 1 OG I had become a 11 pretty sizable town with I streets nore Inore or less regular and bust bus flees houses more or less leIS pretentious By Dy that time was a sure thing T are re was no longer any an doubt as aa to Its future as A the new El EI Dorado of or Nevada had arrived Now there are stone atone business blocks In of at them theft three story skyscrapers sky They are built buill of oC the Iott Ish Nevada sandstone which cost coat al almost almost most mot as an much as gold ore before the railroads from north and south were built into the camp damp It Il Is said that the front wall of ot n g 1 atone building only on Iv two to stories high cot cost approximately become the stone had to 10 be over overland overland land lan from ft IL considerable distance now no ha hili several fair to mid middling dung hotels There was W S a It period when rich men had to 10 sleep on the floors of ot the or sitting Bitting In barroom chairs chain As the saloons stay open all night with boisterous gambling adjuncts at side or rear these lodgings were not particularly conducive to pleasant dreams I Goldfield Is built mostly of ot wood and canvas though there lire are many man human habitations tearfully fearfully and Ind wonderfully made maile To the present day visitors are pointed out the thc champion specimens of ot several unique styles of at architecture One Is the Hit barrel house houte another the bottle house houBe No these are aro not saloons The rue barrel house houlle was built buill by b the man who could not afford atford to buy lumber at from ISO 50 to 10 76 75 a n thousand feet He lie scraped together a lot of at empty barrels sot set et them in rows tier on tier chinked the Interstices with mud put ul on a 11 roof roar of at I tin oil cans flattened out and soldered and had shelter from the rude world The rhe bottle house Is still more striking An indigent genius collected thousands ands of at empty beer bottles there was plenty ot at that material shortly after arter the camp was wan opened and built his house walls at of them By fly laying bottles flat on the ground as a starter and thus thull stacking them until the wall reached the required ed height this builder soon had a house boulle truly accommodating The pa s be between between tween feen the bottles were plastered with mud Tho The bottoms of ot the bottles form tonn the outside surface while the Ibe tops lops stick Inside being used for tor clothes hanger bangers Light through the glass to m te the tho interior lilt prIor by tiny day Scores of ot miners millers build huts hut of oC tin Un The A Prospecting Party Ready to Make a th Start 1 r I it 1 f i 1 I I s 4 C S l t J I IC II I I I i t s I I f t Y 1 I I t j t J I t I I c I Ible big ble engines at nt the mines use a II great deal of oil for tor fuel The oil In large flat tin cans conn C The home builder lays las these cans Just JUHt as aa bricks are aro laid making a II thick wall Cans cut flatten flattened ed cd and soldered form torm Ute the roof root You con can have your choice In birrel I bottle or tin Un can mansion I A Unique Camp From the peak of at Columbia mountain moun ln hard liy hy one olle may view the landscape oer and behold such a II city oily an as exists nowhere here else There Is ic the long lon Main street with its Ils stone atone and wood business blocks Un Its hotels hotle Its Ita a assay Auay ay Its saloons and gambling rooms till lie dance halls To ro left and right ar are the tha struggling gling struggling streets where whore more business la Ia 1 carried on and where tha th residents dwell As Aa the lite distance from tram the principal street treel Increases the lite sizes of ot the buildings decrease alao also the structures are lire farther tarther and farther apart It Il appears that the town to t has ban made a desperate effort to 10 run out but has hunot not succeeded Far to the outskirts all allaround allaround allaround around are scattered the stringtown huts shacks chucks tents and ane other nondescript nondescript script habitations Not Nol much effort to toward toward toward ward street regularity appears In the tha outlying sections The miner or pros prospector prospector or broker or gambler has haa built his habitation here there anywhere Most ot of the tha habitations about aboul the outer edges irmy Ins be bo picked up and carried out of the way In future street straighten straightening ing in g Here ghere and there thore the sp s spectator from the mountain will see soe a commodious artis artistic artistic artistic tic bungalow the tho mansion homes of ot Goldfield The painted l walLs waits and roofs rood Still It a Town One Would Select Deliberately as ix Place of Permanent Residence a t supply a pleasing contrast to the ne pre prevailing re veiling vallin canvas aspect 9 et of at the tM place The Theman Theman Theman man on the tile mountain newly newl arrived understands understand after efter this tWi surrey surey urn why Goldfield Is la called a camp The town looks for tor the most part us IS It If It Il had hal been beon r pitched for the night always excepting the chief central centra r which hats ban taken taun on an air all of ot permanence 3 Night in Goldfield Is II two tIO kinds of lit a n ariot ariot riot neither of ot which Is particularly perilous to life lite and limb if tt the tb man rain in inthe inthe the crowd knows a live wire wIn when ha he la Ie laIn In Us Its neighborhood Goldfield has lull a 11 ariot ariot riot of electric light Is la i perhaps r the tIte cheapest thing In c save sae dust and air Pen Even ven the miners shacks arc are lighted by electric ole bulbs The stores store hotels clubhouses and sa ia saloons n loons are a II blare of ot bulbs In connection connection connection tion with the lost last named institutions Institution M Mare are the tho gaming houses wherein goes on oct th the other riot mentioned d a riot of ot rou roulette roulette roulette lette faro poker poke tend ald the whole hole gamut of ot games Kamu that lure luro the gold from teem mil millionaire and mine laborer Alike Not a II Tough Town hut But with all its drinking and gam ram gambling rambling bling Is not a Do tough to h town lown in inthe Inthe Inthe the sense that t some come of ot the early Califor Californian nian mining camps were tough The bad man is B there to be sure ure but bul time and transportation have tamed him down Where railroad run you are not nol g i apt to find many men who cut notched In hi their gun handles to correspond with the th mounds In their private r cemeteries Too many men of milder natures get Into the population to 10 permit an nn excess of ot that sort of ot thing gov governing 10 governing ion In the main Is La made mad l lup up liP of serious earnest men who are ars are there for tor business who ho respect the laws linn t tand and expect everybody else elee to respect them It Is well to remember the fact that thal every acre nere of ot the land for tor many miles around Goldfield already Is staked out by mining claim holders The man who goes to the camp now no need not ex cx expect expect t to It possIble to pick up a II for tor fortune fortune tune by driving stakes Into the ground and selling a R claim prospect But Dul he ho l will find many mrm opportunities to buy mining stock some good some indifferent ent some utterly worthless From time timeto to time new districts In southern soul hem Ne Nevada Nevada t vada yield pay pa color to prospectors and the man near at hand who ho has ns the pluck and the necessary necel grub stake to 10 tomake tomake make the run TUn may secure a II claim and a fortune and he may not produced d more than the fIrst year ear of ot its existence as a min mining mm ing camp The output has hM Increased t steadily Optimistic observers predict that thal the camps campB output will reach a 11 year Jear when all the prospects are tUII opened and worked In the lower levels Optimism however Is in characteristic ot of gold camps Yet when all Is in done and sold said Goldfield Is III the champion Infant prodigy In mining camps campa and more pro prodigious prodigious surprises may mil be yet rot In store Blore t LOVE |