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The Lancaster News LEDGER J 852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO. 59. SEMi-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., APRIL 20. 1906. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. The New Gold Fields of Nevada. i A Recent Visitor to the New: Mining District Gives an| Interesting Account of his j Observations?Col. Tripp, \ iTormerly of the Old Three C's Railroad, now Making his "Pile"?-Advice to Prospective Investors in Mining Stock. Written lor The News. So much lias been said and written of the new mining dis trict in Nevada tha* a lew lines from one who has lately been there might be of interest to your readers. Tonopah and Goldfield, which are in the center of the districtt are reached, from the West, via Southern Pacific Ily. A through train, consisting of baggage and express, smoker, day and chair coaches, and Pullman buffet sleeper, leaves San Francisco daily at 7 o'clock p. m. for Goldfield, via Hazen, Nev. From the east, you leave the train of the main line of the So. Pacific, a? iiazen and catch the train from San FranciKpn in iV?? mining ? vvr Vliv 1111111 M ^ district. Hazen ih situated in the r western part of Nevada?in what, we were taught in the old geographies, was known as uThe Gieat American Desert," a rather indefinite term, which was used at that time to cover not a multitude of sins, but a multitude of ignorance. However, it is a desert. Not a comparative ly poor streak ot country, like some of our own, but absolutely and unqualifiedly barren. General Sheridan's threat that after he went through the valley of Virginia ''a crow would have to carry his rations," in flying over it, would apply to this des ert, only a crow has too much sense to try to fly over it, with or without his rations At least I did not see one attempt i' From Hazen to Tonopah?197 miles, with the exception of a few cottonwoodg at old Fort Churchill, 27 miles south of LIaz en, it is absolutely batren ? not f spear of grass?not oven tbe fuzzy bunches of sage brush, winch covers the plains tart her' east, are to bp seen?no lite or | living thing, except at the section ( houses and tanks along the road; nothing except the hare, rockv ! mountains on each side of you ' &nd the brown alkali plains I- l -I iiiii'ii^u wiii<;ii mo road runs.! The whole country is an ancient ocean bed, ?von io the very tops of itie mountains, you can see the beds ol gravel and sedimentary deposits. The valleys are level as a floor?simjdy sand ^ and gravol. After leaving Fort Churchill, the roa 1 runs for 30 niilos along the easiei n shore of Walker Lake, a body of cloar, blue water, with no outlet, held in place by a semic r< u'ar range ot mountains on i he wesi like a dam. It is in a depression of the plain, ami isj probably the last of the old ocean C which formerly covered the conntry. You can see the shore marks where it has been gradually receding for centuries, and it is gradually, but perceptibly drying up a little eacli year It is a beautiful sheet ot water, but that is all. It has no ot her at tractions, ancl while there is some talk ot trying to make a summer resoit of i?, I hardly think it will materialize. JJA few miles south of the lake is the town ot Mitia?a depot, one store, two restaurants, lour sa loons and a blacksmith shop. Here Col. AlonzoTripp, formerly Supt. ol the old 3 C's. R. R. from Marion N. C. to Camden S. C., now Genl Mgr. of the Tononah Ar Cold field R R charge of the trains. From Mina 1 to Goldfield is just an even 100 1 miles. Passenger rates 10 cents * per mile, and freight rates in ^ proportion. The road ought to 0 be a winner, and under Col. c 1 Tripp's able administration no doubt is. To one who has been r used la traveling on a 2^, or 3 1 cent basis, this sounds like a hold 1 up, but it is only the beginning ot what he soon gets accustomed c in, for from now on, prices are ^ from one hundred to four hun dred per cent, higher- 1 From Minn to Tonopah, it is 65 miles, through the name desert country, in a south easterly di- e reetion and gradually rising on 1 the plateau to an elevation ol t 6400 ft. j Tonopah. the original mining c camp ot this district, is now a good sized town of probably 2000 a regular inhabitants. The popula- " tion ebbs and flows, sometimes f more and sometimes less. In the v rushes to new finds, sometimes * it is almost depleted ol its floating 1 population, and filling up again ' from the outside wot Id. with new 1 arrivals in search of wealth. It consists ol one long street run '] ning straight up hill irom the s depot, to I lie foot ol the moun- j tarn On aeh sicle are one story f frame building*, tent*, shack*, c etc. Higher up, in th.* center of e the town, are a better class <>f f buildings. One, tl?e Nye and e Crosby Co , Hank building, is of I stone, two stories high and ail handsome building in any lown;jt cost, $30,000. 'I ho Nye. Co. t Court House is also of stone and j t is a fine structure. Also several L; other business buildings are ol (. stone, but the prevailing style ol t architect ure is the one-story,t c wooden store with high front. J v (rood sto.-ks of goods are carried ( and one can get anything that i v the San Francisco m.irket. ntli?rila ' l at a price. The ohtola, of which ! there ire t wr?, the Mere units and the Mizj?;ih, are "iie-Mory :?t- i fairs vs. i11? a lew looms, j ossihly . 20 each, a bir and a restaurant. L liotli run on the European plan. s Beds from $1.50 to $3.00 per f] night, and you pay in the rentau- ?, rant tor what you order. Any ! (Continued on page eight.) | a Our Georgia Letter. jeorgia Farmers Using Big^ Quantities of Fertilizers?Sympathy for the 'Frisco Sufferers?"Former Lancastrian" Favorably Impressed with " Tutor's" Articles?Macon's Progress. Mr. Editor : Just at this time, lie farmers through Georgia are may, very busy, planting and neparing to plant their crops. Ve cannot say that the cotton icreage has been materially in? reused, although the trernenlously heavy sales of tertihziern ;oint to that conclusion. We ind that farmers are fertilizing nore heavily than c/er before; hat is, they are using a greater mmber of pounds per acre, some ising as much as four and live ons and some even more than bat to the plow. Besides, lab ir is too scarce for them to take hances on getting an unusually arge crop cultivated and we d ? lot think the increase in acreage s at all proportionate with the ncrease in the sales of fertilizers. All Georgia is sympathizing '.reatly with the people of San Francisco in their trouble; in laving in their midst, perhaps, lie greatest calamity that has >ver befallen an American city, ar out-stripping the terrible arth-quake of 1886 in Charleson, numerous floods and fires hat have occurrod at, different leriods, in horror. While reports f this terrible disaster have louhtless been greatly exaggerated, it must certainly be awful nd tlie oilers of financial aid rom numerous cities, together vi'h 'ho appropriation made by Jougress. will be of much aid, >erhaps, in assisting many home-1 ess people, who have lust everyhing so suddenly. Those articles bv "Tn'or" in [Mie News, concerning the public chools, are sensible and to the )oinl. They contain much ford or thought for parents, who arc tireless and indifferent about the duration of their children. I nortunaloly, a great many parnts tail to see how a day or two nst out of every week can in a erially affect the progress of lit ir child at school. They fail o see ihe reason lor certain me hods which a teacher sees fit to ise and never fail to inlorm the tiiIci <>f such disapproval much o the joy and delight ol said hiid. We hone "Tutor'' will irrile oil*'m nn the subject: he she, we believe it is? \ knows Vhereof he speaks. Our city is pushing forward nore rapidly than at any time nthin Ii?t history before. Irn >rovem nts of all kinds h ?ve teen steadily goiny on for the ast few years and still they corne lomewhat akin, though perhaps iot quite so "spirited", as the Atlanta spirit" :s the ' Macon ' pint" of her citizens, especially o in later years, and the Cen tral City is rapiHv pushing her way to the I rot) I among her sister Southern cities. The latest ! bitr thiim on foot is the erection of a tourist hotel. Nothing being! more conductive to the progress i of a city than a hotel ot this kind, the leading men in the movement are very enthusiastic ' and a hanlsoine tourist hotel, j filled every Winter with North I era people, who have money to j "born" and don't mind "blow i inn" it, is well nigh an assu red j tiling. Former Lancastrian. Macon, Ga. Rev. Paul Pressly's Sermon at "Waxhaw Commence-1 ment. From Waxhaw Enterprise. Rev. Paul Pressly, of Lane astor nrnnnU/i-1 . l , [/.VCIVUCU llio <1111111 <11 SerillOIl of the closing exersiHes of Waxhaw Institute in the chapel of the school building last Sunday morning at 11 o'clock to a large and appreciative congregation. The sermon was well in line wit)) ihe best and ablest that have been preached on similar occa sions at Waxhaw Institute, and to say that all who heard it were highly pleased and edified is to express a tact very mildly. The sermon was the product of no ordinary mind and evinced deep thought and research. Rev Mr. Rressly made a very strong and favorable impression upon all who heard him, and his sermon on this occasion lias been the Qllliin<>l f m n ? i? ^1 ^ ? I " ? ? ... 111 Milj iniMHi'iuf; compliments by the best people ol this community. Morrison Case Heard by Supreme Court Wcdnes-I day. An interesting case argued in the supreme curt today was that ot \V. T. Castles as admin-] istrator of the estate of John T j Morrison against the coun'y <?l ! Lancaster, a suit lor $50,000 damaues lor the lynching of Morrison, a white man who shot another white man dow n on the street in particularly brutal circumstances, The appeal argued i tod?y was from the order of Jmlge Gage granting a change: of venue in 'lie ca-e to York ; cui-ty. Prominent men of Lan- ; caster were implicated in the case, it will be remembered, but Solicitor Henry got into a tantrie in the case ni? !?er>i-?nMf iO s< ?ne wild work of ex-Constable Howie, wli ? wa run o.it >. the f unl>, and the prosecution end- i ed in a fiasco The at torneys in I he noe :irc VV. II. New bold and J. C. Wi'born, the one an ex-| constable and the other an ex- J railroad commissioner, f"r the plaintiir, and W C 11 ?i. ^i? uid i Ernest Moore f ?i 'lit* < < nit v.? Columbia Record. Dr. Sampson Pope, a well known Carolinian, died at his home in Newberry Sunday j night. He was a prominent tij;ure in state politics at one time. *u*u' ? Railroads Fighting Tillman? A Wild and Woolly Story* from the West. Washington special to Greer* ville News: first gunshotH opposition to Senator Tillman'* renomination to the Senate today in a letter from De'rojiTp in which it is stated that the rereads are understood to he preparing to defeat him tor re election and to try to send some ma* to Washington whom they c^a manage. While there h -s heeti sp<caption as to wlielher or not there vv '4 *5 nnv imu in " ? ...... .;i uuuul VJarnilll* who cared to meet the Senate 011 the stump during the present summer to contest Ins seat in th? Senate, and while several loc'l men have been suggested fror* time to time as possessing thenecessary requirements, etc., the railroads have been watching him, and keeping track ol the fight he has been making for belter rates since the Senate bill wa-f turned over to him to manage. This has not suited the railroads of the country. These gigantic corporations, looking ahead i? the future, see that lie is making trouble lor them. They hav? agreed that they cannot stand for this, and he has been notified by the people in the Kar West thai 1 t no may Jook tor defeat if it is in their power to carry out there pi a us. lie has been asked the poind blank question whether ho proposes to continue to wape wvr against the railroads and corporate interests, and the people wh? have inaugurated the movement say that they demand of him i categorical answer to many questions that they will shortly put to him. While the roads are playing Senator Tillman, they aie at tne same time making others dance to the music, one of these beinj Representative Charles E. Town send, o! Michigan, author of th<* Ksch Townsend rate hill. Tho South Carolina man is ready l> f any fight the roads may make ? their eflorts to unseat him. Young Lady in Chester Narrowly Escapes Death. / '? : ' ' vmitbioi pjjcriMi '.ii i nursttav ? Charlotte Observer : M iss Luciie McNinch, employed in the over ill factory, was ine victim o1 what might have I een ,w -erious aeodent to-day. As it was she escaped wtlli 1'iih a few bruise? and the loss of lc v ctolbinir. became entangled m one <>t tb-> machines and, boh.re sho could extricate herself, was drawn bodily into tlie machine, h'ortnnate.ly, however, fchipt Hakor not ice t the oeenrrcne and threw t he bed oil the pul -y jw*t in the nick ol Lime, thus undoubtedly saving the young lady's lile. ? Attention is called o Mr A. J. Clark's notice in today's News in relation to insuring; cro^s against damage by hail.