Water, water, water! has always been the cry of the trail blazer of the desert, and water has played an important part in many desert flight. When a little handful of men were trying to establish the town of Rhyolite as a rival of Bullfrog in the Bullfrog District, one of the chief obstacles they had to overcome was the lack of water. Curtis Mann realized that the town which should first be able to provide its people with water in abundance would be the town that would win the fight. With this end in view he promoted the Indian Springs Water company, and in ninety days after the paper was signed, four miles of pipe line had been laid, a pumping plant erected, and water was there for all comers. Curtis Mann is a splendid respresentative of the best type of Western man. He was born in Wisconsin and received his education at St. John's Military School, where he studied civil and mining engineering, but most of his life has been spent in the West. He has mined in various parts of Colorado and became interested in a lease on the Combination Fraction in Goldfield before he ever saw Nevada. It was to investigate this lease that he came to the sagebrush state. He is the kind of man who never lets a good opportunity pass, and hearing that houses were much in demand in Goldfield, he sent out two carloads of house tents. The same week lumber arrived in Goldfield, and when he tried to dispose of his tents he was met with "I want a house." He had never built a house in his life, but he made a beginning, bought all the lumber that was to be had, employed fifteen carpenters and put up fifteen of the first houses in camp. He went into the Bullfrog District with the vanguard, built the first frame office building in camp, and this he occupies today. He has brought as much outside capital into the camp as any other man. When he first arrived in Rhyolite he bought many prospects, taking a chance on anything offered to him at a reasonable sum. Many of these he has developed without finding anything, but all the money has been spent in legitimate mining--it has been put into the ground. He is among the first on the ground in every mining rush in the southern part of the State, always looking for the prospect which will some day make a great mine. He has the confidence of capitalists in various parts of the country, and all of them are ready to go into the thing which he considers the right one. Since he first went to Bullfrog, he has kept two prospectors in the filed most of the time, and one of them broke samples from the ground which is now the property of the famous Skidoo mine owned by Bob Montgomery. The samples were taken from a point within a few feet of the outcroppings which later led to the discovery of the mine. Energetic and full of ambition. Curtis Mann is one of the men who will go ahead in spite of all obstacles.