The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-09
BODIE HAS SHUT DOWN..

~ u'rO1bNesy uSeKtaratOk 10 ~ r Ut
hlissI After Many Years.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
what did I tell you"" triumphantly
said General Daniel Of'onncll. formerly
of Nevada, last light. 81 never knew IL
to fail yet. That camp held ont n long
time but the boys were right and she went
under i'm time"
He held i'm his hand "a newspaper and
pointed To u telegram announcing the
stopping of the pumps i'm the Lent shaft
through, which the Bodic and Mono MINES
have long been operated. Then he read:
1.-THE lower levels of those mines have
been abandoned.
"Thc water will he allowed to rise to
the upper levels, where for IL time "a little
prospecting will he done.
"Out of IA force of forty men employed
in the two mines only eight men will he
retained"
"Thcrc il is" continued the cx-Ncvadan ;
''tliat means thai the mine has p..ters.d
out, and this is their way of admitting il.
least twenty men say that the camp would
go under, one night ten years ago. OF
course there are one or two OF the niiI.'s
still going. hut Bodic Con-. was the back
bone of the e. mp and now its broken"
SHOW did those twenty men know what
Coyote BiI was Iynchcd that night"
answered General otonncll: 'strung up
to the flagstaff i'm front Of the Miners
hall, and the boys all said il would hoodoo
the camp; and il did. of course Bill de-
served what lac got, and II would have
Deem ~ ntty tn let nm i've lIttr his klIUn
"a man righ, in The ballroom for taking "a
woinan's part against him, but though IL
was good morals and made the camp
steady forever aftcrward, IL hoolooed
Bodie.
"rhe feeling that i, would kill the luck Of
the camp nearly saved Bills neck. but
there was "a lot OF those know-it-all fellows
who said the whole thing was nothing but
u silly superstition, and they strung him
up. The gamblers and hard citizens gem
orally were ordered out of town next day,
and they wcnta lot more willing than they
would have been il they didn't think the
"Wcll, within "a few months the Bcchtel
mime got afire and "A lot of damage was
done and several miners were killed. The
town had hardly gotten over this when
the cable that held the cage i'm the Tioga
snapped, and the nine men ON her went
tn the bottom of the shaft and came up in
pieces.
..Thcn i'm one of the smaller mines they
were hoisting two men in "a bucket aud
the bucket came up empty. No ono knew
what threw the men out. Then they
struck the water in Bodic, and the end be-
''Tho Bopic kept on paying dividends
some years. but il had to stop finally. and
now IT'S shut down.
dcnd stopped that il was the lynching
did it,
the end of Bodies good days is the true
on" or not these facts are certain: The
camp was the liveliest ON the coast: they
lyncheti a man there; IL is now AS dull as
Everybody remembers the excitement
that followed Bill Bodies discovery i'm
Mono county.
The standard mine was located, listed
ON the stock board and soon was booming
and paying big dividends. Then Bodic
Consolidated was located, placed on the
market and almost before a pick was
struck into the mountain the price of its
shares was shooting towards the top.
But il made good its promise and was
soon the biggss payi.,g mime of thc lot.
Its dividends were big and frequent and
nj "a 1hss a..h IN
Then the Mono came into the stock
world with prospects that threatened tn
near the Bodies. and there was no reason
that il shouldn't pay as well, except that
the rock wasn't there.
Still IL was valuable to drain the Bonie.
So the Mono stockholders were assessed
for getting the water out of Bodic while
the Bolic Stockholders drew the iivi-
dcnds. But no one had time tn consider
that then; the boom was on. and the
Bechtei. the TioSa. the Syndicate, the
Ore and the Jupiter and about "a thousand
wild eats crowded the market. -.
virginia City was on I'll" wan" and
successor as the boss mining town in he
world. Brsie had 10000 people, thcat.rs.
hotels aud all that went with IL; The day
indeed. but they kept The average of
morality well up. Occasionally "A hours
stabbing. but this was sure to he atoned
for by a double or triple killing within the
next "a.
II "a. III 'tEts W.T. sEet
TIN people nearly all came from Virginia
City AMI they. with the recollcctiofls of
the early days of their own town, deter
mined to make their now Camp as lively
as their old one. They succeeded adj
mirably, and Boslie boomed until they
lyuched "A murderer and drove the ''sports'
ont of town. When this elcmcn went all
the wild excitement went will il. The
steadicr people left behind missed the
poppiny with six shooters. and in tas
SILENCE managed tn think, and thinking IL
bad for mining towns.
They decided to sink the mines as deer
as the Comstock, they sunk them ana
struck water.
That was the first y of decline
Gradually the dividends ceased and as
easements took their place. The theater
closed and people began to- go away. Nov
there arr. not 1000 people in Bodie and i'm
stead of thousands Of men il is doubtful /
there are 10 delving IN the Mono noun
tains.
The stopping of all the deep mining an,
letting the water flood The lower levels n
the main mine of the district almost end
Bodie.
Estes 4 Conncll are selling knit good
regardless of cost.
Don't sioH pour cio'hing or soil you
hands tcifh ydi,t-Dof aud brush. but ruU a.
the " Sta nddrd" office and hare your 3. Z,