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The two most valuable deposits of the precious metals now known in Nevada are at Tonopah and Goldfield, the discovery of the first having been made in 1901 and of the latter in the following year. Some of the Goldfield ore has assayed as high as thirty thousand dollars per ton, and so rich were many of its ores that they were sacked and carefully guarded until landed at the reduction works.
A great number of adventurers flocked into the country, some desirable and some very much the reverse. There were circumstances, however, which kept away the rowdy and desperado element who usually make for a newly-opened goldfield. It was not a class of mining which encouraged the individual adventurer. It was a field for elaborate machinery, which could only be provided by capital.
"I'd do more than that for you, Joe, and you know it." Joe knew it. They were crossing the old goldfield now. There was a shaft close to the path; it had fallen in, funnel-shaped, at the top, but was still thirty or forty feet deep; some old logs were jammed across about five feet down. Joe suddenly snatched the note from his pocket and threw it in.
They handicap you with the loss of time it takes to learn them, at least; and I meant to be worth a million before I was thirty. Now I know that I shall be worth two or three or four millions at thirty, if all goes as I plan. So I cut college and broke for Goldfield. I ran a store and was a secret partner in a saloon that paid better than the store.
She had studied abroad and travelled widely but her whole interest had now centered in woman suffrage. Miss B. M. Wilson of Goldfield was elected vice-president and Mrs. Grace Bridges of Reno, secretary. Mrs. Stanislawsky had removed to California and the organization, with the long wait between Legislatures and no definite work, had but a small membership, no county organizations and no funds.
I worked in the Jumbo, at Goldfield, Nevada, up to last year. So did Baker." "When did you go into the White River country?" "August." "How did you go in?" "We packed in. When our grub ran out, we killed our horses and cached the meat for dog-feed." "Is there any other dog-feed there?" "No, sir." "Any people?" "Not a soul. The country is open to the first comers.
He went in as silent partner, as I was in the saloon at Goldfield; as a partner with a minority interest." John Prather paused to laugh to himself over his victory, while the movement of palm on palm was rapid and prolonged. "Our arrangement amounted to the commercial division of territory for the family, which I had suggested," he went on with appreciative irony.
He tells me that, quite independent of our feeling towards him, he is just the man he wanted. And if indeed it was he who discovered the Alaskan goldfield and organised and ruled Robinson City, it is a proof that Mr. Stonehouse's judgment was sound. Now he is injured, and blind; and our little Pearl loves him.
"Ned has definitely announced his intention of marrying his Goldfield girl," pursued Jim. "Yes, I knew that. Kill your mother!" "It'll just about kill her. And the latest is Ted falling in love with Bob Carleton!" "Carleton! Not the lumber man? But he's fifty!" "He's forty-five, forty-seven perhaps." "But he's married, Jim!" "Divorced, Aunt Sanna."
On one occasion, their daring rose to such a height that a band of them boarded the ship Nelson whilst it lay at anchor in Hobson's Bay, overpowered the crew, and removed gold to the value of £24,000 remarking, as they handed the boxes over the side of the vessel, that this was the best goldfield they had ever seen.
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