Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-07
sUTRO AND THE COMsToCK MINING
COMPANIES.


and the most sudden friendships, the abrupt
est enmities and the most violent and instan-
taneous hatreds of any people of which there
is any account. In 1872 there came upon the
public ear the particulars of most preposter
Gus quarrel between John P Jones and Will
liam Sharon. This went so far as to involve
the personal standing and repute of both
these gentlemen; and Jones stood accused of
the tremendous crime of having fired the
Crown Point Mine at the time when by a
confagration there some forty miners lost
their lives. This chasm of difference seemed
unfathonable, but it was so fully bridged and
filled two years later, that both Sharon and
Jones spoke from the same stand, and they
exchanged visits and other courtesies. ct is,
perhaps, hardly fair to resurrect these old
troubles by as much as mere mention of
them; but they are SO notorious that no harm
can come from the allusion.) Politics thus
makes strange bed-felloWs but money or
noneyed considerations and interests make
equally strange ones. In 1866, or thereabout,
Senator Stewart, William Sharon and others
project. Stewart was the President of the
company Then, as their minds changed,
Stewart and Sharon and their associates drop
ped out 4; and the next phase was quarrel
between them and Sutro. In 1874 Sharon
denounced Sutro as The Wandering Jew
and Sutro, armed with most amazing land
not little Interestingly lecture, and fortified
with magnificent series of magic-lantern pic
lures and calcium light, perambulated the
State in behalf of his pet project, and in pres
ence of vast and curious audiences poured
the hot shot of his broken English into the
vitals of "Beel Shay-won and his Crooked
Railwoad in manner never to be forgotten.
And now it seems from the following that
" The Assyrian" having come down like
wolf on the fold, has made his bed with his
old enemy and rejoices in an alliance which
protects him from the insidious wiles of the
Bashi Bazouks of the Bonanza Firm. At all
events the San Francisco Post makes very
plausible story out of the materials employed
in the subjoined, and as things go, it is quite
as likely to be true as romance. Says the |
tiation is now pending between the Sutro
Tunnel Company and certain of our promi- |
nent mining magnates The matter takes the
shape of compromise which, if brought about
will be of great benefit to all who are stock
holders in Comstock mines. We have heard
it said on good authority that Flood & O'Brien
for long time have wanted the control of the
tunnel. They are at the head and front of
all the great milling, timber, water and sup
ply interests ON the Comstock, and naturally
wish to retain the supremacy during the years
to come. The advent of the tunnel will cause
radical changes in the manner in which the
above interests are conducted, and it is be-
cause of this that the bonanza firm have been
seeking the control. But the indefatigable
Adolph Sutro fatty refuses to relinquish his
hold on his great work, and it is doubtful if
the bonanza firm or any other combination of
capitalists can wrest it from him. In regard
to the compromise alluded to above we have
heard mentioned the names of the Trustees T
of the Tunnel Company, and those of the t
powers which stand behind the Bank of Cali i
loTIAld diIu Vic NSFdIlt tlc baHh VI T
California is at present a strong partizan of r
Adolph Sutro, forgetting in the now indisput- L
able utility of the tunnel, its hatred in the :
past 1t is believed that all the mines which h
are controlled by what is known as ''the bank I
crowd " will participate in the compromise t
without trouble The hitch now seemingly d
lies with the Nevada Bank, which up to this a
writing is holding off, though negotiation is "
still pending. We understand that all save f.
one of the members of the bonanza firm are a
in favor of the terms of the compromise, and -
we have heard it limited that it will soon be O
If such is the case the ru tx
nored plan of operations will be as follows II
The drift now being run east from the Chollar -
Norcross-Savage combination shaft will be
completed A drift will also be run from the
combination shaft to the Sutro tunnel When
.hese connections made the water which p
low impedes operations in the Best & Bel g.
her, Gould & Curry, Savage and Hale &
Norcross, will be pumped from mine to mine
INTO reservoir in the Choliar Thence it
viii run through the east drift to the combi- q
lation shaft, and thence into and out of the ii
,utro tunnel. As the water will only have to pr
'e raised to the 1700-foot levels of the above 80