The Anaconda standard., 1899-03-14
ITS A FRUITFUL SUBJECT
Montana Men Who Operate in
the East.
A MONTE CRISTO STORY
Montezuma's Great Gold Mine Discovered
in Arizona, According to a Bril-
liant Pipe Dream-The
Prospectus.

| IldlcHu ol LOnSnOfn'' is the latest al
| legged Montanan who is responsible for
story in the Telegraph. It reads as
| follows:
II the young man who wrote the
! prospectus of the Spenazuma Gold
Mining and Milling company We're to
| devote his talents to evolving dreams
| for the yellow journals of New York he
| would doubtless command a large sal
| ary, for in his particular sphere of en-
deavor, honest though it may be, Rud-
yard Kipling Is made to look like an
| amateur.
In other words, this gifted person
has an Imagination that most touch
ingly and graphically exemplfies the
beautiful theory of Dogberry to write
from nature and should win him laur-
els as well as ducats.
In order to appreciate the remark
| able and unrvaed genius of this story
teller it is necessary that the reader
should know something of his new
work, which bears the original and
humorous title of 'Spenazuma 1t is
printed in colors; besides being hand
somely illustrated. All the splendid re-
sources of the printers art, in addition
to exceptionally clever freehand work,
have been employed in it's production.
When the little book appeared in Wall
street yesterday there was a big rush
for it. But this is not surprising, since
the work was given away, and Wall
street is proverbial for gathering in
things that are cheap; also discarding
them with equal regularity.
This may be an Indian tradition, but
knowing persons in Wall CT sai5 tr
the Man of the Curb yesterday that 1t
was a pipe dream. The reader is told
that MonteZuma, the hero of hundred
battles and a thousand other things,
had free access to the greatest banks Of
gold the world has ever seen-not eX-
cepting faro banks, sand banks and a
variety of other banks. But old Monte
was onto his job and had his trade
mark in the form of an image of him
self placed as a sort Of guarding angel
over this bank.
He called it Spenazuma. Any other
mines. not so marked are not the real
article. The hero of this story, how
ever, was an Eastern man. He played
half back on the Yale team, but mar
ried a chorus girl from Sam Jacks and
was disinherited by his father once
wealthy Wall street broker, but now
Vender of shoestrings and tips The
errlng youth migrated to Mexico, and
there met an, old Mexican who was
full of fever and tradition.
" I am dying said the native, and
he added if he had good luck he would
probably reach the heaven of Spena-
yuma. He impaired to the youth the
secret of MonteZuma's wealth before
taking his departure from earth, telling
him the exact location of this great
bank of gold. Was he dreaming.
thought the tenderfoot, or was the old
MpSjnln o. N@t ,-irl,; -,
risk his precious anatomy in a sleuth-
ing expedition for Spenazuma with a
century or two of pine whiskers on
his face, the young man impaired his
information to a Colorado mining ex-
pert. The latter found the spot in Ari-
zona. 1t had been peopled by three
families.
ITO continue this Monte Crfsto story,
the second chapter opens with the ex-
pert finding everything except two
things-the image of Spenazuma and
the entrance to the mine. He found a
vein OF ore located, according to the
description given him, upward of 200
feet wide and 10000 feet long. the sur
face rock averaging from $40 per ton
upward, just as you blast it or quarry
1t out. Going few feet farther on
either side of the gulch in the noun
tains. showed the doubling and trebling
of gold silver and copper Taking his
position as near as he could for the Goth
time at a spot designated in the de-
scription he had received. he looked
carefully at the black side of the noun
tain. which was partially covered with
trees. which arose abruptly for hun
dreds of feet above the valley. He |
suddenly beheld something which al
most fastened him to the earth. He
could not speak. He looked and rubbed
his eyes, and looked again AS his |
,s,t..
he cried out: Eureka! I have found |
til
Prof. T. A. Halchu of Longhorn, |
Mont, programmed as the great gold |
and copper expert of two ccntinents,'
supports this story of old Montezuma |
ct al. with his technical knowledge. |
Other experts back him up, surpass-
ing him in point of technical informa-
ton and boldly jumping into the very
nightmare school of Dreams even pene-
trating the chamber of horrors. Saws |
one expert:
$" I found one mountain occupying
the center of your vein, 5000 feet in
length, upward of 200 feet in width,
and that the ore is exposed in the
feet; will give you above water level
over 300,000,000 (three hundred millon)
TONS
"The extent of this dream will be ap-
when it is realized that run
ming mill with a capacity of 500 tons
a day it would take 1,642 years to ex-
haust this section of the claim, level
with the gulch, and the washings would
yield, at $40 ton Though the experts
say the ore will run $50 and upward),
50, 900, 600 900.
"Postoffice officials told the Man on
The Curb yesterday that there was no
postoffice at Longhorn, Mont. whence
nails the mighty Halchu, expert
1.-THE promoters, directors and officers
IF the Spenazuma company are given
Is follows:
'Directors-Thomas McEniry of Fort
Thomas. Arizona; f. C. Watson of San
"a Fe., N. M: C. G. Pilot of Houston, |
fexas; Walter S. Logan of New York
,ity c. Henry Mosher of Syracuse N.
Z; Judge Dwight Loomis of Hartford,
1onn.; William r. Whitehead of Tren-
on, N. J.
"Oficers-William r. Whitehead,
PRESIDENT: j. S. Manfull, treasurer: C.
ienry Mosher. secretary: Thomas Nc
1nlry. general manager: Logan, De-
nond & Hardy of New York city, at
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