Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-02-04
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cisco. Whereupon the OalV Lake
Tribune rears up and dances madly
upon Sutro's record. After ex-
bausting the vocabulary of invec-
tive it finally settles down to rea-
son and makes one specific charge,
viz: that Sutro went into the great
tunnel enterprise poor, and came
out worth millions.
Did it at that moment occur to
the Tribune editor that the very
men who for years fought Sutro
went into mining poor and came
out worth millions?
Does the Tribune suppose that
man is going to spend the best
wears of his life piercing a noun
tain with one of the grandest tun-
nels in the world and do it all for
glory?
Let US analyze the opposition OF
Sutro, He conceived scheme
which is now acknowledged by all
practical miners to be the salvation
Of the Comstock, but he was the
only long head in Nevada that
looked into the future far enough
to have faith in the practically Of
the venture.
He induced European million
aires to advance the capital for the
enterprise. Bringing European
capital into Nevada cannot be con-
sidered practically against mans
record. He asked the mining com
panies to sign contracts giving him
50 a ton royalty after the time
when his tunnel reached the Saw
age underground workings.
Nobody had =, anything against
Sutro until he began to near the
Comstock with his tunnel. Men
who had all along predicted that
the tunnel would be a tiasco saw
that it would be a fixed fact, and
that the time was not far off when
the royalty would have to be paid.
Up to this time Sutro had been
fighting the elements of Nature;
the water, the clay and the rocks,
but now the combined capital OF
the Comstock allied itself against
him. and millions of dollars were
thrown to the front to down him IN
the halls of Congress,
1t was one determined man with
right on his side, fighting for his
rights against the combined inter
ests of the grandest combination OF
capital ever seen en- this coast,
and mixed up in the combination
we're some of the most spacious
clioues Of robbers that ever fed
upon the vitals of California and
Nevada.
The men who fought Sutro
stopped at nothing to win. a man
went on the stand, and under oath
attempted to make the Congress
ional Committee believe that the
Ophlr mine had been as dry as a
powder horn for years. Sutro, at
an expense of several thousand
dollars had the weekly letters of
the Ophir mine telegraphed to
Washington that night and showed
that the Ophlr had averaged 3oo
feet of water in the shaft 300 days
in the year.
To make a long story short,
Sutro won his fight in Congress,
and his contracts were declared
iron clad.
Then the organs of the rings
began to belch mud at Sutro, but
they had to pay the royalty all the
same.
Tom Fitch, the venal tongued
blatherskite of Nevada, California,
Idaho, Oregon and various other
localities who harbor him at irreg-
ular intervals, was hired to beslime
him, and he did his work as he was
paid to do it.
But all the time Sutro fcurished
like a green bay tree, and at last
reused to action he delivered lee
ture illustrated by a magic lantern.
The way in which he fayed his
enemies is remembered by them to
this day. That lecture showed up
in its true colors, the rascallty OF
Comstock mining management.
It remains unanswered to this day,
and will pass down to posterlty IN
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