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Show DAILY PAGE TWO. UTAH STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1905. Chicago Salvage Youll Find the Latest, Newest Spring Clothing Styles BOYS AND CHILDREN. FOR MEN, : GOLDFIELD THE KLONDIKE : OF THE HOUR : the San Francisco Chronicle.) Coldfield, Nev., besides bring a won ilrrful success as a mining camp, Is many other things. It is a paradox. It Is unique, commonplace, selfish, generous. abandoned, staid, wonderful, stupendous, ridiculous and It Is, if the figure may be permitted, a gentleman, a sport, a prospector, a thug, an honest business inan, a promoter, a capitalist, an indescribable confusion of hybrid characters and emotions. This mixture of conditions, helter-skelte- r, heads or tails, hit or iniss, applies even to the great ore bodies of the camp. Some of these ore bodies are deep, some are not. Some of them are rich with ore, some barely assay. And it all lends an Indescribable fascination to the town. It is a gamble, a guess, but, contrary to all known devices of chance, in this case the percentage is in favor of the man who plays. A down-sinkishaft will strike a body of ore. it grows beneath the feet, it broadens out, it develops marvelous wealth the miner and his one or two partners, all of whom have perhaps been grub-stake- d, suddenly find themselves rich men. For the first time in their lives they have difficulty in counting tiielr money. They stand stunned Then accordin ing to the man, they do one of two things. They either go on a long spree and drink or gamble until they are reddish-black in the face, and pnystcally sodden, or they become men of influence and affluence, pointed at as successful figures of the mining camp. Goldfield has many of both types of men. iWHI.u! P. Hutch In g. ng Veins Are Uncertain. Then, all of a sudden, the vein of ore, to be in keeping with the Goldfield type, ends, or it may go lower or higher in value to the ton. High values, running even to the enoronnis sum of 110,000 to the ton, chop off with the lmmedlateiiess and definiteness of a giant powder explosion. It is. to say the least, disturbing. The miner is like the skipper of a catboat which has been overturned in a squall. He flounders, he gasps for breath; then, if his presence of mind does not desert him, he realises the necessity for action, and goes at it again. Goldfield Perhaps, within ten feet further, he finds a continuation of the vein, or the bsick end of another vein, and he is once more In .clover. Or, perhaps.' he finds nothing more at all. In the uncertainty lies the excitement. and excitement is contagious. The mining camp of Goldfield, Esmeralda county, southwestern Nevada, la on fire with enthusiasm. It seethes with earnest endeavor; it sweats with exertion. The prodigies of the camp are numerous. From a fifteen-fohole, no more and no less, the owners of the Kendall mine took 100.564. Such finds in this flat, desert coun- ot TEA Money back buys your confidence ; you cant help it You cant help it. Your gr 8 hiilim nr Mim (row imy if yoa doa't Base lilt they might be the original ones of '49, when a man was stood up wltl Iiik back against the wall and the bowie knives from artists in their use whizzed by on the other side, within half an inch of his head, the winner of the game being the one who could throw the closest without really hitting.. All the day the ruttle of machinery is heard from the mines. When night falls, the Joints flare with light and the whizz of the roulette wheels, the rattle of of cards are borne to dice, the the ears of the strollers by. Goldfield is an anomaly. It la old and it is new. The government la ridiculously simple. The sheriff, the di trk't attorney and the justice of the On the other peace run the town. hand, it has Just organized a fire department, and its chamber of commerce was started five days ago. Automobiles are already used in transportation, and the sight of an overalled and grimy miner speeding over the roads by means of a swift, electrical power la another anomaly, and a common one at that. try of sagebrush and sand, are like a brilliant remark from the lips of some man whose heavy stupid features had previously led you to think him a clod. You are startled, you look twice, and then you sit up and take interest anew. uu the Sandstorm mine, which waa, by the way, the original startler of the camp, It is an actual proven fact that, after the Bagebrush was thrown to one side, the soil swept up from bedrock, screened, sacked and shipped, netted for soil, roots, quarts and all. $250 per ton. This shows that it U not alone the stage landscape artist who produces profitable scenery. The But enough of the phenomena. lips of every old miner are continually moving in the relation of like marvels. Fortuna Hunters Flocking In, Seven thousand souls have flocked to Remarkable Record of a Year. Goldfield seeking to find the realisation Goldfield has been burn a year. It has of lifetime hopes. Others are crowdproduced already in its short life ing in. Some of these have discovered $3,51)0,000 and the ore shipped from Its what they sought, and are more or less satisfied. mines has averaged $300 a ton. These, like Antaeus, have At the present time the territory has touched the earth and been strengthbeen but scratched. Its veins have ened. To those less fortunate their been ojiened, but underneath the throb- success seems little short of marvelous. Men are too busy, however, to bing arteriea have not been touched. The pioneers of a mining camp are marvel long. The luck of others but inevitably poor. They are men will- rouses them to renewed energy. Pushing to bear privation and hardship on ing, climbing, sweating, tugging, they a chance. They are sometimes staked, toil on. Tor them everything ! at and again they scrae together what stake their ambitions, their hopes, money they can. invest It in a team of their lives. 'They see the land beautimules and a burro, a wagon or a pack ful In the distance, and the vision Insaddle, victuals and a tarpaulin and cites them anew. pull out from civilisation to search Back of thla fairyland of glittering their way along the bluffa, or and partly realised hopes lies the fact through winding valleys, continually that the geology of the district has sacking, tapping, examining. been a conundrum. It baa puzzled exThey are lonesome men, these pros- perts and worried mineralogists. It pectors, many of them educated, men seems volcanic. In fact, the whole of little speech, given to much field of operations comprising Tono-pa- h underneath the stars. and eighty miles south of With the first report of a find by a Goldfield running to Bullfrog seems to run in prospector, if the exhibited ore assays circles resemblinug the cups of extinct well, there is an Immediate deviation of volcanoes. the stream of wanderers who trail in This remarkable district became a restless discontent up and down the known quantity In the mining world land. After them, treading, In fact, at in the spring of 1903. Early the next their very heels, come the saloon man the great January mine began the and the small merchant. Then, if the year from its shaft. It has ore shipment boom still Increases and shows evisince. In the becontinuously shipped dence of permanency, comes the prointerest in thla a controlling moter of active mind and ready tongue, ginning fOr a the advance agent of the capitalist, and mine could have been bought lowest the tithe $100; price today, then the flood gates open and in pours would be three thousand times that naves of men in every walk of life. sum. The Indian mine, this wonderful A type of man peculiar to the mining should be called, for its ore camp alone la the itinerant locator, who producer so is red that the miners at work red conies into camp with the first rush, in the lower levels come out with the kicks at the high price of commodities brick complexions of a Sitting and goes away, but hangs around on fiery, Bull. the outskirts of town, then, as of imIn full sail in the wake of the Janpulse, straight as the moth to the cancame those already famous shipuary comes to is dle, back where the glare pers, the combination, the Jumbo and brightest. The shaft was sunk Goldfield is the candle that has at- the Florence. tracted and then daxxxled 7.000 men. deeper and deeper in these four and the vein showed no abateThe figures in the foreground of this remarkable picture of human interest ment of promise. In a short time it leads elemental passions and rampant greed was seen that the are as unique and striking as any of descended to great depths, and the futhose of the days of '49, when the ture of Goldfield seemed assured. Fifteen shipping mines are now down ground paid from the grass roots, The four already and the miner was a millionaire or a In the catalogue. pauper, according to his ideas, some- mentioned take the lead by reason of The Sandstorm, times within an hour. A year ago prior discovery. Goldfield was a augebrush plain. To- Quartzite. Black Butte, Lone Star, day it teems with life. It is busy, it Kendall, Tonopah Club. St. Ives and, Is r'ch. it Is rough and ready, it Is vital Velvet swell the list. and is most keenly alive. Buildings At this hour the Simmerone and the have sprung up like magic over the Quartzite promise for 1905 to be what were unlnhablleq plain. Adobe houses the January and Combination were in the first progenitors of civilisation 1904. now, substantial testimonials of proThe term at this hour is used adgress bank the town on every street visedly, for even now comes a rumor of But the spirit of "49 is there still, as all others. evidenced in the saloons whose rough a strike which surpasses over board out Jut the planking, signs calling attention to the llquora that Only Rich Ore is Shipped. within. Smaller may be obtained None of the mines are shipping ore buildings flank them gambling rooms, of value less than $100 a ton. The general provision stores and laundries. freight charges alone, because of lack The gambling places look as though of railroad transportation, reach $$4 Then the smelting company per ton. at Salt Lake only pays $19.50 for the gold it purchases, claiming two and lf per cent loss in smelting. Gold flip-fl- low-lyi- ip ng Gol-coud- as ore-beari- ng one-ha- PROFIT SHARING SALE Given Away Free $7.50 your own choice Free $3.00 cHoiro FfCC yoorown with $25.00 Purchase $10.00 '"" Free $1.50 75c ;rho.rfffi Free 25c & Free $5.00 "" $2.50 $1.00 Given Away Free Iwith Teas, Coffees, Spices, Baking Powder Also Free With China, Crockery, Glassware, Enamelware SEE OUR PRICES Great American Importing Tea Co. Our 100 Stores Help l!s to Help You. 340 munw-- r TWENTY-FIFT- iRtiKiM1 H 8TREET, OGDEN. nwifs ffr I. v.i iTreTriTmaBaEAmo it will be remembered comes at $20.67 per ounce. After the big shippers already spoken of. Goldfield can show perhaps thirty mines th.it are building up dumps composed of ore that will run from $12 to $75 a ton. These mines with proper facilities for transportation could be worked to great profit. In the meantime numerous reduction mills are being constructed, and the are impatiently waiting their turn. An outfit backed by San FYancisco and Boston capital promises a quick completion of a plant and will buy the ore right upon the ground. This will mean much ' to the small shipper, and the plant will smelt its ores on the shore o f San Francisco bay. The ore of these mines bears evidence of great fire action. It Is mostly Igneous, although there is much that shows merely the effect of great bodies of water In a previous age. There seem to have been repealed flows of rhyolite nnd andesite, followed by much Assuring of the rock in great garbled cracks. where the flow was suddenly brought into contact with dump-owne- rs cold nlr. There are huge masses of silica everywhere, even throughout the original porphyry, and there is much shatbreoclated and recetnented tered, quartzite through the entire district So it seems reasonable to suppose that after the lopogrnphy was settled for a century or more, there came a second fracturing. That this is true for tne appears veins plunge directly through the self-evide- quartzite dikes and are intermingled with the country rock. Apparently there were places In the earth's surface that were weaker than These the second fracturing others. caught and the new 'breaks were along :he course of the dikes. But with ail their different theories, the experts are unanimous m their praise for the richness of the district. In the language of the district, they say the camp will wear, ana those whom the wand of Mtaaa has already touched proclaim the experts wise. These fortunHte personalities stand out in the foreground of Goldfield's moving mass of"exclted humanity with The the distinctness of an etching. lawyer of whom It whs said that he re ina ined in the place merely because of your satisfaction by using an inferior Inability to dispose of his typewriter, now retains it, and draws a check for quality of flour when it is ao easy to get fifty thousand besides, with ease. Myers ft Murphy, the original discoverers of the golden goose, were from Tonopah. Today, including all their holdings, their bank roll is of the kind that men call half a grub-stak- ed million. Duffleld, one of the owners of the marvelous January mine, tried to sell out In the early stages for a single greenback with a single C" in the . v center. A whisky dealer coming into the camp, and wishing to ingratiate himself with the proprietor of a certain Joint for reasons of his own, gambled at the roulette wheel, won and bought a lot in camp with $100 of his winnings. Last week the lot sold for $10,500. Stories such as these are common. Baron Munchausen's tales would be quite credible in this land of marvels. The days of gold have verily returned. Men's eyea are bulging, their mouths watering, and the cry of gold, gold, gold,'" is heard in the land. Of courae there ia a great rush of people to the place; thousands of eager amateur miners are crowding in, and a great many of them, of courae, will never find anything but disappointment. Such la the luck of mining camps. Gives Health, Vigor and Tone. Herblne is a boon for sufferers from aneamla. By its use the blood la quickly regenerated and the color becomes normaL The drooping strength la revived. The languor is diminished. Health, vigor and tone predominate. New life and happy activity results. Mrs. Belle H. Shlrei, Mlddlesborough, 111., writes: I have been troubled with liver complaint and poor blood, and have found nothing to benefit me like Herblne. 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