Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-08
scHENck AND THE EMMA NINE.

scHENCk AND THE EMMA NINE.
The appetite for investigations will
no. grow stronger in the stomach OF the
House OF Representatives if they keep
receiving such indiges.ible and unstim-
ulative food as is furnished forth by OLD
Zach Chandler and General Schenck.
With his customary yigor OF statement
and G!untness Of speech. Old Zach
nailed his man, Bell, as tightly as a
smith ciinches q shoe; and Schenck,
with admirable manliness and great SELF
respect, tells the Committee - their
teeth that lie is neither knave nor al
ass. Listen TO him
Springer of the Committee asked
Schenck if the Committee should say
that be honestly and il good faith ac-
Quired an interest in the mine, ire
spective OF any fraud which might have
been committed by others. whether he
would still desire further investigation.
Schenck replied that he desired such
investigation for others As we'll as for
himself. The ground he took was this,
that he was neither a dupe nor rascal.
He knew he was neither; but he il
vested his money in the mine with q
view of lettering his condition. He
made his Investment with his eyes open,
and he wished to show not only this but
thu. the mine is still al enormously val
liable property, and its failure vas owing
to mismanagement Of the company in
England. He did not want to appear as
simple BOBBY taken in by others, and
therefore desired to have the value Of
the mine fully established. Not one
particle of the testimony of Lyon would
be received in court Of justice. That
witness having INDUCED in innuendoes,
reports and inference, these things had
gone to the world on the wings of light
ming, to his prejudice, connecting him
with an alleged fraudulent purchase and
sale Of the Emma mine.
We have long believed that the Emma
mine is . very valuable piece of prop
erty. This history of quartz mining OF
this coast Is full Of the most egregious
blunders by Englishmen. As long ago.
as 1851 Sir Henry Huntley, as fine an
old gentleman as ever lived, former
Governor OF the Gambia, was sent to
California TO take charge Of some quartz
mining operations at Browns Valley, in
Yuba county. He proceeded, with that
admirable fashion so dear to the English
heart, to build great, big, stone houses
and mills; he was deliberate and digni-
fed in his demeanor, and q thorough
gentleman OF the old school; his hair
was white and his clothes were unex-
When he travelled he ate
arrowroot for fear Of the effects OF the
impure viands of the husky backed
miner. He had his traditions and his
and his dear old high-toned |
govt; and he spent quarter OF mil
ion sterling in getting q good ready on |
before he thought for momen. of pros |
pecting his mine. Then he went homo
lisgusted with this extror' nary country.
It was like sending the late venerable
Judge Brosnan to take charge of a log
,ins camp a: Sugar-pine Point. The
history of Sir Henry Huntley's opera
ions at Browns Valley makes one sigh
IS he smiles. In the winter of 1S71-72
We met our much abused ex-senator,
Sm. II. Stewart, in Chicago. He was
hen on his way to Salt Lake City in
ompany with lot of spindle-shanked,
follow chested, baggy- breeched, UNI
'rella-carrying, intelligent looking, strad-
ling, brandy-and-water drinking, young
,nglish engineers. They were going
ut. under orders of the English COM
any who we're negotiating for the mine,
D examine the same and report thereon.
nd they did examine it, their own way,
Numbered; and the English purchase
as made on the strength Of what those
Dung gentlemen reported when they
stunned home. 1t was as fair and 4
luare deal as ever was made; and
man like John Iackey had hold of
le mine we have not the slightest doubt ,
lat General Schenck's highest hopes