Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-22
LADY BRYAN.
"wHAr COPS UP MUST CONE
down."

There Are SSH Two Opinious v q
she Mine-Captaio kelly asd His
Drill Hole-He Reaches she End
or 1.-THE "NeWs" Man kx.
plains.
Lady Bryan is the excitement still.
This is not on account of Its boom, for
that has ended. 1t would seem. but
because OF the turn things have taken,
and the sudden collapse Of the blown
bubble OF It's ore development.
The News man wa called all sorts oil
names on the streets Of Virginia yester.
day because no expressed . conviction
that there was no wsll-deAnsd ore body
there, although punches Of rich ore
were very likely to DO encountered.
When he obtained some Of tho rock be
could not wait for the assays, but
directed wsigsnd 4 Co. to telegraph
them to the News. The message read:
"aold. one sixty ; silver. thirty" He
made the mistake Of calling the "thirty"
$50. It should have been 80 cents. and
the total 81 90, instead Of $3l Gu.
Still, all who visited the mine yester-
day reported the formation regular and
the vein we'll defined, and that 10 coz.
siderable for that bunchy section where
few tons Of very rich ore m to be
encountered almost anywhere along the
ledge and at almost any time. This fact
OF the regular vein formation and the
mistaken telegram Of assays led to Q
more favorable mention Of the mine In
yesterdays report than would otherwise
have been made.
But the community Is still puzzled
over the boom and the boomerang. It
docs not appear to be enough for some
that the community has been most
eRregiously tricked. confoundedly fooled
and damnably swindled. It il not
enough that widows have put up their
last dollar and lost 1t. that the lsborer
has been led to invest and has failed 10
win, that suffering 10 nj midst has been
increased. that Flowery has received .
confused optic from which 1t cannot
recover in years and that disgrace In the
syes OF the world has fallen on the whole
Comstock and through the Comstock on
all mining in Nevada because OF this
thing.
People want an explanation. There
Ia one and an obvious one: II was o
trick, carefully planned and ingeniously
executed and infamous from beginning
to end. John Kelly knew when he sent
mon down there yesterday that there
was no ore In that orosscut or he does
not and never will know anything. The
question is then, why did he tell people
to 20 and sssl He must have known
that adverse reports would be made.
that the stock would drop, that general
disgust would so operate upon the people
that they would get rid Of their stock at
any price II possible; In short. that just
what did occur would occur.
Knowing all this. why did he send
people there The only reasonable
explanation Is that he had out q full line
Of shorts and wanted to fill.
But there was another view OF the
case last evening and this morning.
People believed Kelly honest. Out Of
consideration for the public he reported
only 800 assays from the hole, II feet
above where he declares he got ' Q
5000. His reason was that the public
would not believe the 5000 assays. Then
he sends o drill in where the crosscut
was aftsrward run, and To- $1,000
This pencil was not In Lady Bryan
yesterday, but It has confidence In the
opinions OF some who were there. In
reaching the ore ~ body . clay wall
was cut through. Yesterday, when
experienced miners were in there. they
examined this clay and found 1t shaking
of. This shows what2 Simply that
that clay wall had been cut through two
or three days before and that DRIFT all
prepared for visitors. Yet Mr.. Kelly
yesterday morning must needs 60 down
there first himself to see II the crosscut
was In the vein, and II 90, then, forsooth.
men could go down and look at 1t. BE
came back and the ''go.snd.sse" fol.
lowed.
Yet, Mr.. Kelly keeps q good show Of
honesty! He comes back from the mine
this morning and tells the dear people
that the crosscut has been pushed to the
end Of the drill hole and there Is nothing
there! Still he cannot give It up. He
''got over 5000 assays IL feet above,
aud. by George, It must be there some
where"
But the end Of that drill hole ends the
sweet tale hope has for the past twenty.
four hours been telling to many o sad
heart. It also ends the Lady Bryan
farce. unless the dear people have more
money which they wish to transfer from
their own pockets to those OF Mr.. Kelly.
He needs II. no doubt, and Well
widows and orphans can get along very
we'll without It, evsn Il II 10 winter.
They are not used to having much any
way. 49,.
But about that native silver. 'horned"
from the rock. It IL explained. A friend.
or at best q visitor, brought up some OF
the rock and was 30 well pleased that he
could not wait for assays. He took 1t to
q bench In the works. hammered II up,
horned II out and 10 /! free native silver.
It 90 happened that some melted solder
had been spilled on that bench. I'm.
fortunate circumstances truly. and there
Is not much difference in looks between
solder aud silver after all.
It is useless for Mr.. Kelly to charge
all this fraud to the men at the mine.
No n takes him for q fool, least OF oil
do the trembling wretches he employs
in the mine. To believe that the men
fooled Kelly is to believe him . bigger
fool than any Of them.
That there was q job put up at Lady
Bryan IL clear, and that John Kelly
helped put It up Is equally clear. Men
have been hanged for less.