Technical High School - Tech Tiger Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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30 Ebe 011016 : 1907 Vvl- iv they are filled With metal and then sent to the refinery and the mint. In the middle of the afternoon, or late at night, one can hear the dull rumble of blasting in tunnels several hundred feet below the ground. The tenor of everything in the town is, D0 Something, Be somebody. The mountains, the intense blue sky, and the bril- liant stars are in themselves no mean inspiration. There is a freedom in the life that appeals to every young man, and Horace Greeley's Words, Go West, my boy, go West, still remain good advice. I 0 0 Bgm 3

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T-H-S ' UIUC NHOI6 : 1907 29 A Message from the West BY E. R. CLARKE, '03 T-'ii'lVIINING camp is amost interesting place to I visit for many reasons. It is of interest be- i . I ' cause of its products, its people, and its civilized s primitiveness. Does it not seem wonderful ! that, in the heart of a hill or down a valley, or I perhaps under one's very feet, lies a wealth of 1 mineral. One looks with astonishment at this A or that hole in the ground when told that many ' men have been made wealthy by the ore taken from it. To me, next to the production, the popu- Q B lation is the most interesting part of a mining camp. From every state in our country, in fact from all over the world, men come to the camps drawn by the hope that they may strike it lucky and get rich quickly. Another point of interest is the civilized primitiveness, as I have called it. You may smile at the seeming paradox, but it is an accurate statement of the conditions. On the one hand, men use their ingenuity to devise household utensils and fur- niture, while, on the other, they are provided with the very best articles that the modern manufactory can provide. Beside the big stone building on the corner is the single story wooden shack, across the street, built into the side hill, is a dugout, while a little further on is a tent house, in the stone office building electric lights are used, but the occupant of the dugout, tent, or shack uses a candle. Let me give you a little idea of Tonopah, Nevada, a mining camp in the heart of the desert. The town is built on the inside slopes of a horseshoe chain of mountains. Through the opening of the shoe one can see for miles across the sun-baked alkali Hats. In every other direction the horizon is limited by the tops of the mountains. The main street is crooked and steep, with wooden sidewalks in spots. At both ends of the street are boarding houses and shacks. In the center of the town are a few stone buildings, although the majority are but single story wooden structures. Scattered throughout the town are the big steel frames or hoisting cranes of the mines. Near each gallows is an immense pile of rock, called the dump, containing K'waste or low grade ore. Men are constantly heaping more waste on the huge piles, or pushing the little cars to the ore bins where E.

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