Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-21
WHENCE CAME THEIR WEALTH.

WHENCE CAME THEIR WEALTH.
When the police in theirrounds discov-
er a suspicious character, with no visible
means of support in possession of large
amount of funds, the fact is to them priDad
fdcia evidence that the wealth has been
dishonesty obtained, and they govern
themselves accordingly. So, when men,
occupying positions of public trust, and
who hold in their hands the disposition
of life and property, the bestowal of whose
favor would be of vast pecuniary value !;
whose acts have been such as to excite a
belief that those favors are purchasaole
commodity, and have actually been made
the subject of bargain and sale, the pos
session of great wealth, which cannot be
accounted for plausibly excites public Gu
riosity and suspicion. The Judiciary OF
this Territory have. through such pro-
cess of reasoning, excited suspicious as to
their integrity, which it would require
very plain and lucid explanation of the
sources of their wealth to allay. Two
out of the three judges of the Supreme
Court are notoriously wealthy, and as
their history and their pecuniary circum-
stances prior to their incumbency of the
bench are well known, the acquisition Of
this wealth has become subject of ear
nest debate among the people, and the in
quiry is general and pointed" Where
did the money come from:" The Chief
Justice of that court came to this Terri
tory poor. That is fact beyond contra
diction and one which he would undoubt-
edly admit upon inquiry. The salary OF
the position is mere pittance, barely suf-
hcient to enable him to live in respectable
style and leaving no margin for outside
speculation. What is his present hnan-
cial condition. A very brief time since,
Judge Turner owned six feet in the Gould
and Curry mine which cost him, in round
numbers, $4,000 per foot. He owned
also twenty-five feet in the Yellow Jacket
which cost him $1,000 per foot. The
stock in these two mining claims, consti-
tutes in itself very handsome property,
more than twelve years of Judge Turner'S
salary would have bought, had he clothed
himself and family in fg-leaves and
fed on air in the interim. He has
been upon the bench but fraction OF
that time. This mining property does
not constitute the entire wealth Of Judge
Turner. He is in possession of ready
money to an amount that is, of course,
impossible to ascertain. That he has such
money is fact which can be demonstrate
ed by proof whenever required. The
fact of its possession is not so suspicious
and black looking circumstance as that
he desires to conceal the fact Of its posses
sion. That he endeavors thus to conceal
this fact, can be shown by the other fact,
that either Judge Turner or his wife has,
from time to time, made loans Of money
c!anGestine!y. That is to say, well
known money operator in Carson has ef-
fected loans for them TO a considerable
amount, conceGIing from the borrowers
,cRose the Blonsy eas The name of this
money operator it is unnecessary to men,
ton at this time, but it can be forthcom-
ing whenever necessity may demand. As
we said before, the exact amount of Judge
Turner'S wealth cannot be accurately or
even proximately ascertained; but ru-
NOR, and the surmises of those who have
watched matters with close attention,
and for purpose, Ak it at from 5000
to 100000. Is, or is not the sudden ac-
QUESTION of this considerable amount o.
wealth matter of some mystery: Does
it not prove clearly that Judge Turner
has had sources of revenue other than the
compensation he receives from the Terri
tory and the General Government And
lastly, does not the fact that the posses
sion of large sums of money is cautiously
concealed by him, lead strongly to the
suspicion that the money could not be
plausibly accounted for, and must have
been obtained by other than usual and
honest means: That the Judge has never
been a speculator is a notorious fact.
Submitting the foregoing as one PROPOSE
ton, upon which the people can ponder
one day and sleep on one night, we leave
it with them while we prepare another for
,ba;r confederation