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Show Rawhide, the New Camp Id Collier's Weekly of recent date, C. P. Connolly has a very Interesting article on "The UubIi to Rawhide." A capital paragraph or two reads as follows: "Beds, an where, from a dormitory tent, to a hastily constructed modern Rawhide hotel, with chlnky walls, are from $1.50 to $:t a day. Meals are reasonably cheap. Water Is $2 a barrel, and baths $3. Coal Is $8 a hundred pounds. Wood.or scrub timber stumps Is$45acord. Lumber which sells In southern California for (13 a thousand is $70 In Rawhide. The. hotel towels are Indian contract towels. They aro about as thick as two folds of tissue paper, and slip over your face like celluloid. Some wag remarked that the beer was made out of sage-brush. Out don't knock. Rawhide has done worrderfullv well. They build a frame building In two days, excavation and all. There were only two hundred people In the town last October. Today To-day there are close to seven thousand, and they are coming at the rate of two hundred a day. There Is one "Roosevelt Hotel." In front of it stood a load of furniture, and leaning against the pile stood four .rifles. , The days arc passably warm,- but half an hour after the sun goes down, the air becomes chill as steel. Raw-ride Raw-ride may suffer an epidemic such as Goldflcld and'lonopah had In their early days. Heavy drinkers, unable to llnd accommodations, or too poor to pay for them, will sleep outdoois without cover. When the night chill comes on, the stupor renders them unconscious un-conscious of It. Tho salt air of the desert, especially at night, has a peculiarly pecu-liarly penetrating sting. Up to March 1 there had been ten deaths in Rawhide, Raw-hide, all from pneumonia. A dual funeral took place one afternoon during dur-ing my visit. A long procession of men headed it. The cofllns lay on Hat-box wagons. The tlrst funeral was that of Dave Walsh, November 10 last. He died iu the Hermitage saloon. He had been drunk, his friends said, for twenty years. The saloon-owners, bartenders, bar-tenders, and gamblers took up a collection col-lection among themselves and buried him. There wero three improvised carriages. Fivo hundred people, everybody every-body in town at the time, accompanied accompa-nied the body to tho newly selected cemetery. A drum corps of three headed the procession. Bert Gibbous, tho lawjer, conducted'the funeral services, ser-vices, both at tho undertaking parlors and at the grave. He preached a sermon ser-mon and did very well, though to quote "Rag-tlrao" Kelly, the Rawhide sage, once more, lie was "handicapped becauso there was no one to dispute his argument." Llge Harris's little black team drew the remains. They were the same team that drew tho remains at the llrst burial at Rhyollto and the llrst one at Tonopah. When the rush to Rawhido started last fall, a Montana physician heard of It. He scut for seven high-power autos and opened up an automobile transportation company at Schurz. There are days ho sells one hundred tickets, in and out. That means, at ten dollars a fare, $.'10,000 a month, nis expenses do not exceed $0,000 a month, leaving him ,a monthly net profit of $21,000 The main street of Rawhide is the old California cinlgrant trail between Austin and Candelarla, The wheels of the emigrant wagons of tidy jcars ago crunched a ledge thutciosses tho trail at Rawhide and that runs In places $1,800 to the ton. |
