Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-09-03
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EDITOR GOLD HILL NEWS: The En-.
terprise Of this city Is continually
straining itself to its very utmost to
drag down Mr.. Sharon. and with him
all Senatorial opponents of. P. Jones,
by holding them up as the interested
representatives or servants of rich
moneycd monopolies, or as 1t pleases
to term them, Bank and Railroad
Rings. On the other hand, 1t Is a
etcrnally trying to pull wool over the
peoples eyes by praising and laudina
MI. Jones as one of the laboring class,
pretending that he Is no monorolist,
that he works the mines he Is inter
ested In solely for the benefit OF the
stockholders, and that he Is M Of the
most unselflsh, generous hearted, dis
interested men Of the nineteenth cen.
fury, possessed of true missionary
spirit. etc. Now, sir, l am one Of the
laboring class, and l a truly say that
I have never known Mr.. Jones to meet
with that class socially or In any other
capacity, except that he had al object
TO attain, politically or otherwise. So
let us stop for a moment and seriously
think this matter over for ourselves,
weigh it well, and see II Jones Is the
concentration Of dlsinterestedness, the
immaculate, the Enterprise would
make him appear. Bankrupt and In
debt Jones came to Nevada and was
giyenthe superintendency ofthe Crown
Point mine. Glad to get a situation,
Tor as we working men term 1t a job)
he joyfully accepted the offered chance.
Not many months thereafter develop
ments were made In that mine which
babe fair to raise it to a place of worth
and eminence. Did Jones Immediately
inform the stockholders, tho owners,
the men who were giving him his
bread, Of the rich discoveries made,
the almost illimitable wealth he found
them possessed Of? No such thing /;
but he quietly conceals all this from
Its rightful owners, until he can ar
range with moneyed monopolists for
the means necessary to buy the con-
troll Of the mine, letting the men who
had been struggling In their poverty,
paying assessments to work their
niue. and paying him too for his ser
vices to find out, when too late, that
they had untold wealth, but Jones
owned it all. Was this the kind Of
honesty, the whole-souled generosity,
the trtistworthiness tho Enterprise
means
Again, the mine becomes a rich div
idend paying institution, work Is
pressed in every direction, and every
nerve IS strained to make the Crown
Point pay a bigger dividend than any
other mine on the Comstock, when 10!
all ut once from the l200-foot level up
to above the HOO, the insecure work
gives way, aud nearly $500, 600 that
should have gone into the pockets Of
share holders, Is passed oyer to repair
the damages. Was this, too, done for
the benefit Of the stockholders? or
don't every man that works in and
about that mine know that 1t was done
to laud the name and increase the fame
of Jones; that the very lives Of the
men who worked the mine were risked
to make Jones appear the most famous
Superintendent on the lode, and there
by increase his popularity and make
political capital. But he o%verreached
the mark, went a little too far, and the
outside stockholders must loose their
just dues to crafty his selfish ambition.
Nor Is this all /; his credit increased,
and inflated with his success, In con-
nection with another speculator, he
gobbles the Savage. Times were flush;
rising daily, aud every man and
woman OH the coast, that n n dollar
saved up, was watching a chance to In
vest it. Everything Is propitious ;
Jones see and knows 1t all: now Is the
time, his friends want advice, and he
has q good thing, why not divide 1t
with them /; so they all buy Savage.
after strike Is reported in the
mine, and UP goes the stock, and Jones
Is the bulliest fellow in Nevada. But
his friends get uneasy and want to
know what to do hadn't they better
sell? "Oh, by no means;" Savage
was "another Crown Point" and
would 90 to a thousand dollars n share;
sure thing" 1t would never do to al
low them to throw In and break the
market ; borrowed money must DO paid
and credit kept up, so hold your
stock by all means )" and hold they
did, and Notwithstanding the industri-
ously circulated reports that Jones and
Hayward had 49, 900 shares locked up,
from 300 TO 500 shares found their way
OIL the market daily for weeks
on a steadily falling market, so
that there was no chance to claim that
1t was the same stock sold over and
over again, and Savage went down
and Jones friends kept their stock, and
hundreds to-day, after borrowing OF
their friends, are hopelessly involved,
bankrupt and ruined through this
:. second Crown Point"
Now, what [ want to know Is this,
that If the ore was not there why were
such strikes aver reported ? and If 1t Is,
why do they not uncover 1t n give
the poor devils, who are being frozen
out day after day, a show? II such
things rs these constitute ability, broad
minded craftsmanship, aud generous,
public sp~iriteduess. then let the Enter
prise still continue to blow his trum-
pet and sound his praise, and let the
voters Of Nevada gather at the polls
on the 9Th of November next, and con-
sign Mr.. Jones to the political grave he
so richly deserves. II you object to a
monopolist, what mar In the State Is
more Of a monopolist according to his
means, aud If you want honesty In
your representative In Congress, how
can you trust him there If you cannot
here? Il. w. \
Virginia City, Sept. 3, 1872. n
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