Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-10-30
LUCKY BALDWIN.

ing luck rs special y applicable ~, and
associated With, mining ventures. Tic
participants were ab'ut equally divided
ia opioion as to whether luck or shrcwl
judgment was paramount rs an aciuating
motive In the genera,iiylof mining Opera.
tions Appeal was finally made to an old
California miner. Who had hilLertota taken
no PARK in The CONVEX sution, and he res
pondcd as follows: .s a..
III may not he business to say 81, but
during many years uf experience have
noticed that the prospectus who heliev. Il
firmly In luck, ana WHO had the most nc
lions and supersiiiions, always got ito
the best gron.d They did less @e.k and
less, trsmping, but their luck always
br pghl them more cash 10 spend in the
rain, season."
Can yeu Tell us some instance where
nothing bu, tuck brought u fortune to a
pocr fellow" asked QUE st the parry.
"GJlly, could Talk ID occurrences Of
this kind al night, but ahele Is Que case
that was running in my mind al the time
this coptab has been going on, only tho
chap was not particularly miner, but u
carpenter who did jobs Ia the mines when
WORK Was slack In The to@ns y
oh Lcver mind HAT, but l,ll us about
him." said several ydiccs ut once.
"All right, i sou ever discover any
thing but nigy : luck la The story, stop
me without ceremony. 'Spase you've
heard Of Lucky Baldwin over Oh the
coasty"
"Of course we have" said ev. ~ body.
We'll, he's The chap. Did you ever
know why We dubbed him Lucky Bald
why" ,
No" was the general response.
Times had & tn lilile d,ll and stocks
were low, and 50 Bldwin, who was al
ways Sud, ing up some wild scheme or
other IL make monty, concluded to go l.,
China ON some racket, and MS he ha, pen
cd to have 1000 shares III Crown Point
which had cos HIM $3 per- share, he was
mighty IA xious 10 realize on them. The.
price being ell several points, he raised
the wind some other way, ,ahd fes lingth
the time would come when he couid ~,
even ON his stock, he lei, II with fricnd
OF his to sell when HE prior rose Ia % Il;
share. and off he went to CHINA Smsl..a
ter his depart, re the Comstook got into i
bonanza and prices began to fly up Bald
wins friend, who, by the Nay, was y cas :
pentcr. als,,, watched the market clusei, :
and when his SD limit was reached the,
rushed down to broker and ,uld him a..
sell l,0U0 shares ot Crown Point al g.
The Broker exam. ined the siock and then
said Have You power OIL attorney to
sign Baldwin's nameT Net u power, RI.
piled the carpenter, We'll, then,' said the
broker l can't sell This stock, nor will
any one ELSE You see Baldwin, in &C
crdance with his customary.ca relessness.
or rather ignorance of usiness methods
had gone OFT without transferring or in
dorsng the stock made out in his name
Of course his business trip to China was
q failure, as were all his delila ratel, i.
planned en- ernrises, and he arrived in
San Francisco snapped, butsoon found
that Instead of having 5000 waiting foi
him ii had swellcd to an even million oi
dollars"
mo wonder they call him Lucky Bald.
win," said Chi ago lie derioot,, -.
Hold moment, pardnor" remarked
the old Californian, nobody Thought q,
giving him that name for little lucky
thing like that Waituasil get It'll.
further al,,ng with my story ana QUIZ see
a better reason isG the name" ~ \
lis there morescomingy Great Scott
Wasn't one million enuugh on such !.
"
ave Didn't Give names those days in
men earned them-yoo
Can bet your bottom dollar on that. Bald. |
WIN cashe> in lis sock, and is he WAS |
con >idered rather fresh the boys put tpa
job TO divide the million among the gang. !
Jim, Keenc WAS Baldwin's broker, and lt |
snd the rest concluded tllat they woH)d
saddle big block of Ophir on Baldw;pl
II from $40 To $l5 PER share, which theya
proceeded to do, thus tapping him forj
more than half his pile. No sooner |
lad Baldwin got his bundle of Ophir. in
0 his possession than the big bonanza