The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, April 28, 1906, Page 8, Image 8
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