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...crowd collected and dogged their steps wherever they went around Tonopah. They kept their mouths shut until a train from Los Angeles pulled in, bringing the desert-bitten figure of Frank Horton, whom most of the Southwest remembers as one of the big win-and-losers in the Goldfield rush of 1902. One of the boys was his son, Frank Horton Jr. Tonopah sizzled with excitement while these two and young Horton's buddy, Leonard Traynor, shut themselves up for a talk...
...York law school, and was sent out as attorney for the mining railroad and other interests of the Stokes and Phelps estates. There he became partner of " the famous Jim Butler," who discovered the Tonopah gold and silver field, and later had a hand in founding the Goldfield mines. So he is not a newcomer to the silver industry...
...Goldfield, Nev., was made of gold dust in a mining boom of 1904. Last week, catching fire, it flashed a tiny epitaph across the sporting pages. It was famous-Shelbylike-for the Gans-Wilson fight in 1906. Previous to the fire, the inhabitants pointed with pride to a certain Main Street corner where stood the saloon in which Tex Rickard "made his start...
Shelby, Mont., is to take its place beside Goldfield, Nev., as the scene of a great conflict. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, has signed articles to fight 15 rounds to decision with Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in Shelby on the afternoon of July 4. Shelby is populated by slightly less than 1,000 persons and is seldom dignified by mention on the map. Montana promotors have guaranteed the champion $300,000, nearly $700 a minute, for his part in the ceremonies. Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts...
...Geological Conference. Amygdules, Pseudamygdules, and Miarolitic Cavities," by Professor A. C. Lane; "Some Resemblances between the Comstock, Goldfield, and El Oro Lodes," by Mr. Augustus Locke, in Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum...