Show A trip to gold field Tono tonopah To nov nev dec 26 04 PROGRESS REVIEW our party consisting of goo geo C richardson S R ketchum ril ed flecke thurn and myself left rw arrison irris for this placa on the I 1 ith hh dinst it took us ns four daya t f got get to ely 75 miles f from rom garl gari ion wo we went out of ely to the nth up a fairly can v 5 n and not a vory very steep ij it from the top and the second yi tit nt out wo camped at judds irli 11 miles to tile south west of 0 lily and from thoro there to the hood head of currant creek over a very steep summit this thia was a i hard drive as it was up hill and sandy tho the next mornin morning we came on down own tho the canyon to tho the currant creole creek settlement which is strung along tho the creek creely for about three miles but is is a prosperous erous looking little place with good orchards big stacks of hay and lots of fat cattle it Is called 29 miles from judds ranch the nebb place is the blue ea eala eagle la ranch 15 miles frow from currant crook creek and the last place where hay bay can be bought on the road the next watering place is bull whack nino nine aniles from blue eagle digle tho the water is a little brackish but there is plenty of it roads arg are dug up pretty badly with the travel to goldfield the next water is a well which is 18 miles from bull whack the dust harols hero is almost knee deep the next water is twin springs 0 30 miles f from roin the last placa there tsik fine stream of water here running out on tho desert to waste wo we next come to hot spring which boil boils out of it a sharp knolt knoll and runs down over the side of it whito white with foam and is hot enough to cook eggs it is 17 miles west of twin springs ard and is the only place for camp wood on the road creek from this place it is 17 ralles miles to stone cabin some sometimes tivies called holo hole in the wall plen alel ty of water herd berd the next water is 11 at hanipan Hani pah 18 miles tho water is purn pumped pod butof out of a mine and is nut good tp cook with next ext Comaj tl Tono pali 48 16 cita u r t ing mining camp of about people and lays about duo due west of modena utah wo we got hero here on xmas doy day this town is situated in a basin on tho the west side of a range of mountains with sharp pointed peaks on all sides the V railroad runs in here and unloads train load after af ter train load of all kinds there are actually acres of f freight relight r piled along tile the tracks and tile the streets are blockaded with big 0 freight to of from four to twenty m in a team continually every day hauling bauling ai freight to goldfield gold field and bull frog our oar four borso teams and bi wagons although M they tire are considered good in snake valley look like liko toys when we drive up beside a 1120 20 outfit with 1600 lb ib horses and wagons that will hold twenty tons tinb the hind wheels of if which have tiros tires ton inches wide and are soven seven feet hish our outfit loaded load ed for goldfield today which is 28 miles south fifteen dollars per ton div if the price paid paia for coi common ninon freight some kinds is higher I 1 suppose a great many of your readers heard beard of the woman driving six horses borses who passed through that country from colorado sho she shot herself accidentally while on tho the road to bull frog with freight the day clay before christmas and is now dead in goldfield Gold neld e 11 wo we haven t t go goo there yet and if this t got gel sidetracked side tracked I 1 will write n nain again 0 ain FG bl smith il |