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GOLDFIELD , a See also:town and the See also:county-seat of Esmeralda county, See also:Nevada, U.S.A., about 170 M. S.E. of See also:Carson See also:City. Pop. (19f o, U. S. See also:census) 4838. It is served by the Tonopah & Goldfield, See also:Las Vegas & Tonopah, and Tonopah et Tidewaterrailways. The town lies in the midst of a See also:desert abounding in high-grade See also:gold ores, and is essentially a See also:mining See also:camp. The See also:discovery of gold at Tonopah, about 28 M. N. of Goldfield, in 1900 was followed by its discovery at Goldfield in 1902 and 1903; in 1904 the Goldfield See also:district produced about 800 tons of ore, which yielded $2,300,000 See also:worth of gold, or 30% of that of the See also:state. This remarkable See also:production caused Goldfield to grow rapidly, and it soon became the largest town in the state. In addition to the mines, there are large reduction See also:works. In 1907 Goldfield became the county-seat. The gold output in 1907 was $8,408,396; in 1908, $4,880,251. Soon after mining on an extensive See also:scale began, the miners organized themselves as a See also:local See also:branch of the Western Federation of Miners, and in this branch were included many labourers in Goldfield other than miners. Between this branch and the mine-owners there arose a See also:series of more or less serious See also:differences, and there were several set strikes —in See also:December 1906 and See also:January 1907, for higher See also:wages; in See also:March and See also:April 1907, because the mine-owners refused to See also:discharge carpenters who were members of the See also:American Federation of Labour, but did not belong to the Western Federation of Miners or to the See also:Industrial Workers of the See also:World affiliated with it, this last organization being, as a result of the strike, forced out of Goldfield; in See also:August and See also:September 1907, because a See also:rule was introduced at some of the mines requiring miners to See also:change their clothing before entering and after leaving the mines,—a .rule made necessary, according to the operators, by the wholesale stealing (in miners' parlance, " high-grading ") of the very valuable ore (some of it valued at as high as $20 a See also:pound); and in See also:November and December 1907, because some of the mine-owners, avowedly on See also:account of the hard times, adopted a See also:system of paying in See also:cashier's checks. Excepting occasional attacks upon non-See also:union workmen, or upon persons supposed not to be in sympathy with the miners' union, there had been no serious disturbance in Goldfield; but in December 1907, See also:Governor See also:Sparks, at the instance of the mine-owners, appealed to See also:President See also:Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Goldfield, on the ground that the situation there was ominous, that destruction of See also:life and See also:property seemed probable, and that the state had no See also:militia and would be powerless to maintain See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order. President Roosevelt thereupon (December 4th) ordered See also:General See also:Frederick Funston, commanding the See also:Division of See also:California, at See also:San Francisco, to proceed with 300 Federal troops to Goldfield. The troops arrived in Goldfield on the 6th of December, and immediately afterwards the mine-owners reduced wages and announced that no members of the Western Federation of Miners would thereafter be employed in the mines. President Roosevelt, becoming convinced that conditions had not warranted Governor Sparks's See also:appeal for Federal assistance, but that the immediate withdrawal of the troops might nevertheless See also:lead to serious disorders, consented that they should remain for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on See also:condition that the state should immediately organize an adequate militia or See also:police force. Accordingly, a See also:special See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the legislature was immediately called, a state police force was organized, and on the 7th of March 1908 the troops were withdrawn. Thereafter See also:work was gradually resumed in the mines, the contest having been won by the mine-owners.
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