Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-09-19
CHAA. d. LANE.
The California millionaire Miner Wis
its Dayton on Business and Talks
a Little Politics.

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companied by Abe Cohn, A. Living
stone and F. w. Brann, of Carson,
paid Dayton a visit this week Tues
day to look at the gravel diggings
in Gold Canyon. The party visit
ed the King claim near Johntown,
and the Ninety Four ground at the
mouth of the canyon, also the
ground i'll Daney Canyon. The
gentlemen left for Carson Wednes-
day morning, and we are informed
that Mr.. Lane was very much
pleased with the prospects he saw,
and expressed himself as surprised
that something had not been done
with the properties mentioned on
large scale long before this.
There is not man in Dayton
who has not heard of Charlie
Lanes good fortune, and there are
some who knew him when he was
punching bull team across the
desert from Mason Valley to Wads-
worth and Austin, dressed in the
garb of the typical frontiersman
and wearing two navy sixshooters
and bowie knife by way of orna-
ment and protection from Indians.
This was thirty odd years ago.
When it was learned that Mr..
Lane was in town, those who knew
of the liberal manner in which he
was helping the silver cause,
thought it would be good idea to
give him little serenade. So the
brass band was corraled, and Mr..
Lane was informed that the people
would like to have little talk from
him on the political situation. He
readily responded, suggesting that
everybody take drink first to bet
ter acquaintenceship. The band
then played a few airs and Mr..
Lane was introduced to the crowd
that had assembled in front of the
Union Hotel.
Charlie Lane is a man whom
wealth does not injure in the least,
and if he had all the money in the
world he would be the same whole
souled, genial, homely Charlie Lane.
Before he had talked five minutes
the crowd became so enthusiastic
that it cheered nearly every word
he uttered. He spoke of the Chicago
Convention, and what an able man
Bryan was. He did not know Bry-
an before he met him in Chicago,
and when he was told who had re-
ceived the nomination, he said he
asked who the hell Bryan was, but
it did not take him long to find out.
He said Bryan got broke in Chica-
go and was short of funds to get
back home on, and that he was
quite intimately acquainted with
man who let him have the nec-
essary money, and the crowd yelled
because they knew that man was
Lane. In regard to the situation
in California he says the Populists,
Democrats and Silver men have
pooled their issues and that Califor-
MIA will give Bryan $4,000 major
ity. We have seldom seen man
more enthusiastic over the silver
question than Mr.. Lane, and when
it is known that he and his part
ners, Hayward and Hobart, are pro-
ducing nothing but gold, it cannot
be construed that his enthusiasm
comes from any personal benefit
that they would derive by free coin
age of the white metal.
Mr.. Lane said that he and his
partners were producing tons Of
gold, and so much in earnest was
he on the silver question and Bry-
ans election, that be would give
every ounce of his share Of what
they were producing if he could
only be in position to decide the
coming contest between the monied
men and the farmers and laborers,
and the crowd shouted itself hoarse,
not person was there present who
doubted that he would do just that
same thing.
When Mr.. Lane closed his re-
marks the crowd cheered him for
about ten minutes and the band
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