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The New Gold Fields ol Nevada. (Concluded irom pa^e one.) thn<i like a square meal averag es about a dollar each. 1 d?>n'( know 111 *t the pric s are high when one considers that K. K. freight, rents, labor etc., are all higher in proportion. Cooks get from $4.00 to $(>.00, waiters the 1.: v a t n/1 suuit*. casiiifrs, ?r-? vv. chambermaid, $4.00 etc. About 00</c ot tlie houses are saloons, ill every one <>f which is a gambling layout, biro, twentvono, craps, poker, roulette, in fact any old games are on all the time, 24 hours a day, and 7 days in a week. They never close. Everything is wide open, and yet with all the drinking and gambling, it is the quietest town I ever saw. You hear only tho ciink of the glasses on the bar, the rattle ol the dice, the low voice of the faro dealer, the metallic chink ol gold and silver as the dealers pay their losses or rake in their winnings. I saw no drunkenness, heard no loud talking or cursing. Nor did I see the desperate taee of the ruined gam bier that 1 used to read about in the Sunday school books, who went out and blew bis brains out. The only ruined gambler I saw, was digging holes for telephone posts at $4 00 per day. He told me with a care-lree laugh that that was what shooting craps did for him, and that as soon as he made a stake he was going baek and get what he lost back, or dig more holes. They are a care-free crowd and don't worry about tomorrow. M one.v is plentiful, and if a man goes broke, lie gets out and gets a job till he makes a stake. There is always work, lor those who want it, at good p<y, $4.00 for common labor, and $5.00 & $0.00 lor any kind of skilled labor, so there is ?\?? excuse lor poverty. The ores of the Tonopah dis trie! are what are known as smelting ores ? principally gold, Bilvor and lead. There are some free milling ores, but with water scarce and high labor, they are not doing much with them. Op erations are conlined at present to mining and shipping the high er grade ores, reserving the low er grades until they get a smell er on the ground, which tin Schawl)-McKano Syndicate have promised them at. an .early date, The Midway, Mizpdi, Tonopah Extension,Mont ana Tonopah,.) im Butler, and others are all ship ping ores to the smellers. Tin Eobruarv .shipuients over I lie H At < i. It It. were dm bio t he shipments male in Jr. unary VVIial the lesults were 1 could no. iind out. There is a great deal of haziness surrounding the actual results, and only a geiier a knowledge can he obtained Oapit albf s from d: over 'In piiin'rv ar there, with I! e i r check hooks, rendy to snap up all tie-go ;d things. A* is ev??ry whore, a poor man don't siand much ol a show. His only chance is to strike out into the desert, and find sotn- thiup for himself, or to pet a lease on some pood claim, on a percentage or royal fyThe average citizen has made more successes in this way than 4 ^ in any other. some of (hem mak I ing good 111 ?ney working their! leases or selling out at an ad j I vence. Of cur.-e where you hear ! o( one success, 'here are proha | bly a hundre I failu-^s, but there lis always a chance, and a pros ' pecfcor or miner is a born opti1 I mist. Illness and an injured ley:' ' npBBonlPil im> Irimi 1111 to , - ^ " j ' Goldfield, but the same oon-li ' 'jtiuns prevail 'h?*re as at ToiioI pal?, except thai the ore is more J of a free milling character, and J ' consequently cm he worked on ' the ground, when water is ob j tainable. Hundreds ot cliims have been staked out, and worked with varying success. Generally, where (here is one 'good claim, there will bo dozens ot others adjacent which are merely "wild cats," of questionable or rather unknown value. The original, or proven claims are snapped up at once by the , capitalists. Others of unknown I value are organized into com-' panics and the slock pill on the market, at. any old price; some ot it quo'ed as low as 3 cents per share, but all averaging, sav 10 cents. As the assessment work on a claim is only $100 a year, and the expense of floating the stock comparatively nothing, if the promoter gets any-! thing for his stock it is practi-1 cally all to the mustard. This is' the s'ock that is being hawked about the country at irom 6 to 10 cts. per sh?re, and a promise of a rise to $1.00, "when the machinery is placed." Now a word to proposed investors in this "wild cat" stock. 1st. You will not find any relia ble stock on the market at less than 20 cents. Even this, is nn developed property, and may, or ; may not, prove to be good. The stock of all the fully developed properties is either not for sale, or at a price too high lor the average investor. 2nd. These 4,wild cat" stocks, are a good gamble, but, make up your mind, a lien you invest in | them, that it a gamine, and only j a gamble. No man knows whether tliev are worth anything or J not. Prob b'y one in twenty will I prove to bo worth something, but, I that one, if a winner, will proba| bly make you a small fortune.] j Now if you i.'o in, in on that j idea, that you are making al ' gamble with the odds at 50 to I i . . . i against you My honest advice to! you is to ill a v cotton In' tires as a ! y better investment close at home j ' rather than minim: stock that j you know nothing ah nit 3000, I miles away. Or, it you like it Jj better, play poker; \oii vn i 11 at j least have some fun tor your money. Don't understand me to] condemn all the cheap stocks on, the market There i ? ;i possibility j that some of i he in will pan out i winner-, but you don't know j wl i> li one it wdl b?\ IJp a' M anujitt an, 11i i u di ' i continues. 5000 people have > gone there in I ho lit -ix weeks. i VV'hon I was t ho re, t ii r?? whh nothing doinir on ;ic<omit of lite \ ?j kiiow. Over 200 siiatts are l?oin 15 I 1 -unk in Mnnlialtan and vicinity,! . j with varying siioce-s. Most every-1 Mmio Bt ems to tluiik this is the, j liest camp in the district. I>ut I 1 another may he discovered toil morrow an i the rush he just as 1J big as that Work is g|>ing on I steadily at Searchlight. Palmetto anil Bullfrog. Tnese c?mps ?*re reached by st ?ge and automobile lines. The automobile lias come to its own in ibis desert. It's i he t est place I have ever seen f ?r it. ' You can mate the run fr< 111 I'onopah to Bullfrog, 40 miies, in a little over an h >ur. Manha'tan in a lit le over two hours, i ius'ead of an nil day trip by < stage Of course there is alwaxs danger at a hieuk iiown, but h\ carrying extra paris, tirrs ant 1 generally an extra wheel, l lie I danger of having to be "lowed ! in" s reduced to a minimum. ' Prices aro not exorbitant except when a rush is on, $15 00 being 1 the round trip to Manhattan, and about the same to Bullfrog; but when there is a rush $200 to 1 $300 a day tor a machine is not ' I considered high. This country will soon be accessible from the South. Senator ' Clark's road tr< m Las Vegas on ( the So 1'ucilic, Los Angeles & 1 Salt Lake R. R. is pushing rap- ' idly north toward Bullfrog, and 1 will soon be carrying to the } smelters the lower grade ores oi 1 the vicinity. 5 To sum tip-Nevada is the com- ' ing State from a mining point ' of view. As an old prospector ! put it, "God le't plenty of pre cious metal in Nevada and so he ' should?for he lelt nothing else." 1 To the prospector, capitalist and I to the young men, who have nerve, muscle ami health, it ' < iters an inviting fiel i. I know ' of no place where a man with I even $500.00 can get as quick return at large profits as in this j district. Or where a young man, 1 blessed with health and a will to 1 work can do as well, hut even he, 1 should land there with at least $'200 in his pockets so that he ' can get around and see where to ! take hold. Work is plentiful and 1 wages good, but out here a man ' wants to work for himselt-make I his pile, and get out. ( Old men, cripples and invalids ' better stay away. Lite is too ' strenuous, the climate too severe. [ and t lie rule of t lieuSurvival of I lie fittest," obtains. It is a young man's and a strong man's conn- | try, and the weak have to go to the wall. the Masons, Odd Follows, K. of l"s., Eagles, Woodmen, Elks and other societies all have strong lodges, and tase care of their own. Telegraph and telephone wires run to all the camps. All stocks are handled on the San Fran-h I cisco Exchange, and all transac tions are posted at once on the hoards at the different camps, so that i no can keep posted to the minute. Speculation, likej i:amIdiin:, is t lie order of the day. Kveryhod.v, even to the ladies, speculate in mining stocks. Kvery'ody diiuks, gambles and works. There are no drones in | this hive ol industry. A man's w-ril is a-< i:ood as his bond, un- | til lie |ioes hick on it Af er that, he had heller be dead. Ash long a< lie makes irood, he can liet credit, or anything he needs, without a scratch ol pen, but lei hi in once go back on his word and "It were batter ti millstone were hangod round his neck," for he is a "dead one," as far as his standing is concerned. Transportation of freight from the It. R. to I lie desert camps is ( by w.icoii, generally three heavy a wagons coupled together, and a i wa'er lank on behind, or a bar- e rid fastened to ihe side of each 1 wacon, drawn bv 8, 10, 12, or a even 10 horses, driven by one man. wi h a helper to put on c brakes going down hid, and to a assist the driver generally. It is n an interesting sight t<? see Ibeie li caravans start out. At a word n from the driver every horse h tightens up his traces and leans p in I he collar. Then when they ^, get the signal, all pull together | iiiul the grea', top-heavy wagons begins to roll out into the desert, n where they aie soon lost in a () Blond ot alkali dust f, Our old fiiend Col. Tripp has 'got there." At least he in a fair way to make his pile. Besides a lucrative position as manager of e lie Tonopali & Goldlield 11. I{, 'j lie is interested in almost every- () thing out there. He is bank 8 lirector, president of one or more v mining companies, a large stockholder in some of the best properties in the district, and "up ? mil In till boots, bill ;* 11 gent?onen. Clothes make no tlilferiict' here. I s tin* mm in tlicm. I lie's all right, he can wear mytliing thai suits him. Altogether it is an interesting ountry, and well worth :i vn-it, ml 1 am only t-orry that 1 wM mable to s'ay there and profit iy some ot the inmtiy eh a new to i;jiUe a f?utui.e. The day is rot hi* distant when Nevada will akn her place as one of the reatesi mining S'ates in the Jnion. Her mineral wealth is bout al I she has, so she had l>et tor lake the most ot it. For as my Id prospector remarked. "God ergo! the res'." Tourist. A tornado pi act ically destroy* d the town ot Hellevue, Texas*^ 'hursday, leaving only three out. 1 over two hundred buildings landing. At least eleven persons fere killed. OI.I) Newspapers for Sato. /tpply to flice of the IjADcaster News. Announcements. For <<>nin> Nuperrlmir, I hereby announce myself a o a inflate for County Supervisor, subject a the rules of the Democratic prilary. If elected I pledge myself to ischarge the duties of the otRce to he best of my ability. D. W. Hendrix . )n/\4'or ri/M\ /il arflc i v/ivaoiviiui v/ui \?j ' ~ Dr. J. E. WELSH, #' DENTIST. )ftice over Williamt?Hughes(Jo's Itore, formerly occupied by Or. i. M Galloway. LANCASTER, S. O. \ DR. R. G. ELLIOTT, ' Lancaster, S. C. Residence 'phone. No. 187. Office, >avis Building, cor. Main and Dunlup treets; 'phone No. 72. Will practice in both town and rotiny. AM calls, day or night, will reeive prompt attention. Wear "\MQIL. iiam Over' SHOES \ treat for the feet. I BY ies Company r\\>\< i<:. >ress Shoes . NVo have all kinds ami all prices 1 f 111 ladies' ()xf??r< 1 mi vi<i kid, eyelets?every pair gnat an ti ed inn our store yon will he dissatk new clippers. Also cull to see coders and Hosiery. Wo have / & Company ?nd a cumin" generally. Anything you see I lie name of Alon J so Tripp tacked onto, you can :>ank 011 as being good. He is in the way of making a fortune, find 1 only hope he will make t( liis million and live long to en- n ioy it, and as he is still as tough tl is a raw hide hame string, I ^uess he will do it. At Tonopuh, 1 made head- I juarters at the Mizpah Club, where I was introduced, by u friend, and made to feel at home. They have a nicely furnished rrennral room, readintr. wrilint* ^ b _ , 07 ...& and card rooms, and a bar fii ted ^ nj> with every kind of liquid refreshment for the inner man. All the latest magazines and /laily papers were on the tables, Mid here you heard all the latest news from the desert camps. I have never met a nicer lot of gentlemen than I met here, some ' if them rifiht out ol the mines, m overalls or greasy corduroys c SOLD Williams-Hug! <l\^i i s For Your E (.'oine to see '. S before you t>uy. from $5.50 down. Have a beaut Iiinde on tlie I;it4?h1 la->t, with laiye al $1,25. If you buy elsewhere tli lifted when you see your nei^hboi' us for your Neckwear, Hells, Susp lhe Hwellest line in town. Chern