The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-22
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Correspondence New York World.)
Rockland, Me.-Captain John T. c.
Nash is here to visit his boyhood home
after an absence of forty years He
went away a poor boy and comes back
a rich mine-owner. He recently learned
through his young and charming wife
that his two brothers, whom he had
supposed to be dead, are alive and liv-
ing here, in his birthplace.
He took advantage of the first leisure
moments after his arrival to tell the
story of his life, which makes a story
as full of interest as an absorbing ro-
nance.
Chapter IA Poor Sailor.
John Nash left Rockland in 1860 a
youngster without capital other than a
bold spirit and a sturdy frame He be-
came a sailor in order to reach the goal
of his ambitions-the gold fields of the
Pacific coast.
He rapidly mastered the secrets of
the sea and its navigation, so that he
soon became the captain of a fine clip
per ship engaged in the China trade.
Later he was a commander of a pas
senger steamer on the South American
coast.
Chapter ia Lucky Miner.
After a few years work on the sea
Captain Nash felt that he was ready to
follow the object of his early ambition,
and became gold seeker. He was for
tunate form the start. From a quartz
mine he located in Idaho he made no
less than $4,000 in two years. He
bought a mine in southern Oregon for
$4,000 and sold it soon after for $4,000.
On one occasion he and two compan-
ions were out prospecting when his
pick struck something that felt like a
stone, but which yielded to the force
Of the blow. The second blow of the
pick loOsened the earth about the OBJ
ject and out came a nugget of gold
the size of a small cabbage.
Captain NaSh'S nugget was found to
be worth more than $4,000, and his luck
made him famous through the mining
camps.
Some time after this Captain Nash
and party of prOspectorS were at
work on the Green river in Colorado
when a band of 100 hostile Indians
swOoped down upon them. After a run
ming fight the prospectors got away,
after one of their number had been
killed.
Chapter III-Sad News False.
While a sailor Captain Nash had
heard of the death of his brother, Ny
rick, by falling from the crosstrees of d
vessel, and later was notified that a
schooner on which his other brother,
Ezekiel, had sailed, had gone down
with all on board. These brothers were
lads in knickerbOckers when CAPTAIN
Nash life home.
He mourned the loss of his brothers.
and, having heard some time before
that his mother had died, felt that the
last of his home ties had been severed.
He was so certain of the truth of the
tidings he had received that he made
no further attempt to verify the in
formation.
Shortly after his marriage, a few
years ago, Captain Nash's thoughts
turned to his old home, and he spoke
to Mrs. Nash Of his desire to return to
the scenes of his happy boyhood DAYS.
His wife advised him to write, to see
if it were really true that none of his
family survived. He neglected to do so.
Finally Mrs. Nash. unknown to her
husband, wrote to the postmaster at
ROckland, asking for particulars of the
fate of members of the Nash family.
In due time she was delighted by
reply from Postmaster LovejOy. stat
ing that Ezekiel Nash and Mvrick
NASH WERE still llNlLS, the 1OiuleI d
mariner and the latter a hotel proprie-
tor.
Chapter IV-Great Brothers.
Meantime, not having heard from
their brother John for many years, and
never getting any trace of him, in spite
of repeated letters, the brothers in the
Maine town gave him up for dead.
The letters that followed the result of
Mrs. Nash's inquiries were received
with great joy, as well as surprise, and
the correspondence ended in CAPTAIN
Nash's long trip across the continent,
accompanied by Mrs. Nash.
Captain Nash is delighted at finding
his brothers alive and we'll. and has an
nOunced his intention of remaining lf.re
with them all summer. He has found
but few in this neighbOrhOod who re-
member the boy who left to seek his
fortune forty years ago. The years
have wrought many changes in the
town and its people. even as they have
bronzed and bearded Captain Nash's
manly countenance.
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