Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-04-29
ELL-FATED FINDERS
The Ending OF Some Of the Most Noted
DISCOVERIES of Pacific Coast Mining
Ca,nuS

The superstitious belief is an old ONT
with the early inhabitants Of Pacific
Coast mining towns that unless the dis.
coverer Of mining camp meets an TN
timely or bloody end the place of his
creation will descend into the future as
one Of the "excitements.r This idea
seems to be without foundation, where
ever it originated. OF thirty-eicht
| "hoom!ng' towns in the early DAYS,
the l0r3ter5 of twelve were killed bv
the bullet, one caved into deep shaft.
ana majority of The others drifted
with the tide Of emigration into OBJ
Ivlen, or died and were buried in
paupers' graves. "Old Nirginny" who
donated an everlasting name to that
queen of mining CAMPS, Virginia City,
came to his death by an cover" dose
from buckins mule, near Daytoa.
New, and the 10 less noted Comst0cl
died by a bullet self-administerCd in
Montana, AMI, like his predecessor, he
died financially broke. Colonel Storey,
whose name that county adopted, Wa.
killcc in battle by the Pyramid Lake
Indians. Billy Farrell, vino ".trurIl"
Meadow Lake, died a victim to re
morse in one of the leading hospitals in /
san francisco, haunted hy the spirits /
Of ten hundred dcludcd pioneers and .
proNpectors passing and requesting at the .
foot q his bed. He made no confession.
Ills name is household word. Ills
grave lies side Of that Of Uoughnut niI! !
In the Lone Mountain Cemetery, where
he was planted in 1858. The locator
f the fist tind III Phoebe is said to
nave stopped a stage-load of shotgun
mes engers early in the Black Hills ex-
'itement and rumor says that he was
'uricd alon side boulder not far from
he line CT the read. kelsc Austin,
whose name is attached to one of Ne
ada's pioneer mining towns, is
nch0red in northeastern Elko county.
nd is probably 10 nearer the golden
cal than the legion Of early settlers
Tho surround him. OF they who first
ncovered the dead in the White Pine
linc,' the world knows little. a lone
rave under a whitepine tree tells
1apter in the tale. OF Eureka's first
'hahitants netting also is told US, but
is safe to surmise that few nuggets
eighted down his blankets as he =,
ak; d out over the grade. Tuscarors y
as the work of an insanc.emigrant
ON Massachusetts. Legend locates
: tombstone near the adobe shacks OF
e Old townsite, but those posted infer
at he atonod for his miss!ced by sink
2 himself to the bottom of The Nwyhee
indeed, he did not fall into the hands s.
Il determined vigilance committee. =
lror2 started goodIy-sized grave
ri with her coolest inhabitunt.' Bill
dy slept himself "a way. in snow
rm few miles from the present 7,
iting. When his memory had
'ched the age Of twenty years his
hes were resurrected and after being
-aded at the head of procession of {
ldeTfeet through the town after his
Il name they were identified by his
comrades and buried with imposing -
emory among the chad men from
die" A monument was raised to
memory, and it still stands unpaid
in the stone-cutter's yard. Homer,
Homer District, followed in the sui
al tracks Of Comstock, and after
a small fortune shot his
ins out in the streets of San Fran
o. These are but few of many in
ices, bat the fates have befallen the
ny who have ventureG in the dis
cry of new lodes, and succeeded,
+ the old timers out in the belief
still has existence in not few
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