The San Francisco call., 1896-05-15
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Ihere is remarkable man at the Occidental
houel- he is Joseph r. Walker, the million
are panRer and mine and real property owner
Va 0ait Lake. Probably between the two oceans
there is not more striking illustration of the
prosperous self-made man. 'iIn 1852 1
ana my three little brothers persuaded
our motner, then living in ST. Louis, TO
come out west" said Mr.. Walker yesterday.
our 1ather and sisters had recently died and
my. mother was left alone and she didn't know
"hat 10 DO. We boys persuaded her to start
W Ihe mountains-just talked her into 1t-and
50 Que oay We all started out from st. Louis in
nttle wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen. 1t
was frightful trip to attempt in those days,
out we boys, who didn't know anything about
uahger, and our mother who was ready to
accept any situation that we were willing to
accept, pursued our way and took our chances
we were six months in getting through. Our
oxen gave out at many places along the
foao and 1t was all we could DO to
get them along at all. The long
Instance from Green River to Salt Lake We
maze entirely alone; there wasn't even an
other wagon to bear US company. We camped
at every green spot where the oxen could get
grass and finally, after great hazard in a coun-
Try overrun by Indians, we reached the Nor
mon settlement at Salt Lake. Times have gone
prosperously with me since then and for many
years have been in possession of very
large fortune, but at no time since acquired
IL nave seen the happiness that saw when
Jogging along in that little old wagon over the
plains and mountains, when dreamed dreams
OF the money would make and the positions
would hold" Mr.. Walker ow ms the Big Alice
mine at Butte. Mont, and hall u dozen other pay
properties. He says the new Mercur district,
hity miles from Salt Lake, is developing some
enormous mines. The Golden Gate mine there,
he declares, has S1O,OOO 900 worth of ore in
sight. He predicts the district will become
another Cooigardie.
J. d. Hanbury, one of the wild boomers of
San Diego and Lower California in 1SS7-SS,
when the heaviest part OF the population there
was engaged in the town lot business, has
mace big strike again at Toxic. The amount
which he is said to have raked in is 100000,
but 1t may not be so much when all the details
are known. When Hanbury was operating in
the south he had partner named Garvey.
They became the agents ara finally the virtual
successors OF the Mexican International Com
pany, which organization claimed to own 49,
OOO,OOO acres in the peninsula OF Lower Cali
lorna. They caught many good tenderfoot,
Tor they so doomed the peninsula that land
around EnsenadA, over 100 miles below San
Diego. was sold at from $40 to $3.50 an acre.
A lot OF dizzy towns were launched, notably
San Carlos, San Quintin. Punta Benda and
oIHNis- DiOdu avenues were cut through the
sagebrush, and gifted promoters sang their
alluring songs day and evening to. WOO the
good red gold from the crowd Of people who
fiocked that way. An overland stage, with re-
lays OF fine horses, put on. Everything
hummed. In the midst of this the bubble
broke, and people woke up with scarcely
enough to buy a breakfast.
Mr.. Hanbury, who had some time previously
founded a watch factory at 0tay, CAL,
was foored fatty as any of his con-
stituency. He pulled himself together, how
ever, after some months and transported the
watch factory to Japan. He took twenty work
men along and they proceeded TO make watches
for the little brown men of the Mikado's
realm.
The factory was success. Hanbury made
money out OF it and finally he unloaded it to
the Government. The result is that Japan is
not only making watches, but has gone step
further and is now making the machinery
with which to make more watches. 1t is pre-
dicted that these same watches viii be ere
long coming TO the Pacific Coast, here to be for
sale and compete with American watches.
Hanbury, who made the comfortable stake,
has gone TO Paris, on some new scheme il is
ssid, and he is expected to be back ere long.
Garvey, his whilom partner in the days OF the
BOOM disappeared somewhere in the East
few years ago.