The morning call., 1891-03-10

tory of Nevada. He discovered silver on
the ground of the celebrated Gould 50 Curry
mine January G, 1853, and on January odd
located the same. Curry was mine-jumpeF
or 'fOater" as he was then termed, and
Jumped the location Mr.. Gould had made
and forced Mr.. Gould to take him in as a
partner. Mr.. Gould made arrangements with
party of prOSpectorS TO develop the mine,
and these when they found how rich it was
managed to swindle him ont of 1t, and he
never got dollar. Curry sold his interest
TOT Henry Meredith, who was afterward
killed in a battle with the indians at
Pyramid Lake in April, 1860 George Hearst,
who eonfided in General Orlando Evans the
secret that a Dutchman by the name of
Charles Tinnis had traced up the float TO
high ledge ON the Gould & Curry location,
made proposition to General Evans that
he take piece of the rock and go to Ne
yada City and interest Henry Meredith,
john II. BOstwick and Sam Curtis in the
enterprise, for which the four men, Mere
dith, Curtis, Bostwick and Evans, were to
pay $1,000 for 200 feet. General Evans
started for Nevada City by the Carson Can
yon route in the early part of December,
1860. ana about the time he left for Nevada,
Meredith left by the Hennes' Pass route tor
the Comstock, aud came near perishng in a
snow-storm. The General went to Nevada
and had an assay made which showed over
$4,000 per ton. The General Immediately
made us proposition to BOStwick and Cur
It's, who agreed to it, and they sent $1,000
right back to George Hearst. The follow
ing March Evans, Curtis and Bostwick met
Hearst and Meredith in Virginia anu were in
formed by Hearst that it would take $4,000
instead of $1,000 to make the purchase.
They put up the additional $1,000, aud in
the meantime Hearst had formed a CO.
partnership with Bill Lent aud others of
San Francisco, and they in turn succeeded
in freezing Evans, Curtis and BostN lex out,
and Meredith, having been killed by the
Indians, was no longer in the way. General
Evans did manage, however, to get 81, 900
out OF property that was worth that many
millions. Bostwck sold his interest for
$500 and Curtis got out with a trifie.
Hearst and his San Francisco partners got
the mine and soon after bought Len Savage
and Charley ChaSe's interest in the Savage
Mr. Gould, who had been so shamefully
wrOnged. lived on the Comstoek until 1865,
when he left to try his luck in Montana. and
finally drlfted to Cheyenne, Salt Lake and
back to C0lfaX, Cal, where for nun Der OF
years he peddled fruit and fifteen years
ago he came to Reno and has since been in
the fruit business. In the hard winter of 1859
he went to Placerville for supplies and was
showed in, and when he returned he found
the eight or ten miners on the lode in almost
starving condition and talking of robbng
Dutch Jake's store in Johntown, and Mr..
Gould Immediately left for Honey Lake for
more supplies. The old man was unques-
tionably one of the first men ON the Com-
stock, and was followed up by Comstock and
James Fnney. He furnished the money and
sent C0mstOck to San Francisco with the
first lot of ore to have assayed. The old
way, and he is talking now of going to New
Mexico to begin anew, living illustrate on
OF Pope's assertion, that man never Is.
but always to be- best"