Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-01-11
JUMPING OF LOTS.
The Citizens Of 1Onopah Take Hold
and Stop il for All Time.

Surveyed the lots of the town of Ton
opah, from all information and evi
dence at hand he did dirty work that
will always cause the finger of scorn
and derision to be pointed at him
He twisted lots upside down, cut a
street short to gobDle up couple of
lots that might bring him in $500
apiece, His work has been so rank
That his name is daily spoken of and
in language that would not look well
in print The corner lot ON the east
side of Main street and Brougher
avenue was given to I. l.. Logan by
Jim Butler and staked off. When
Gayhart arrived here to survey and
plat the town he cOntiscated tins lot,
30Xl0O and 10 feet of the lot adioin-
ing above, making his corner lot
lOXl0O 10 do this he moved the
owners of the lots above one peg
along the Lock. The feeling has
been so bitter against Mr.. Gayhart
for this and other of his alleged
fraudulent doings in the survey of
lots that on Saturday last the Dub-
bic of dissatisfaction burst and
party jumped the Gayhart lot above
mentioned and erected u small build
ing thereon, Every law abiding citi-
zen realized that If this move was
allowed there would be a general lot
jumping stampede in town and sew
rral shooting scrapes would follow
and probably result in the loss of life.
A meeting was called and a commit
tee of eleven was appointed to notify
the man who had jumped the lot
claimed by Gayhart that he must
yacate. he at first refused to do so
and was told that on Monday at noon
the building would be moved if it had
to be done by force. The committee
also found purchaser for the struc-
ture and the man who had jumped
the lot, seeing that the citizens
meant business, accepted Sl41-the
amount he was Out-and the building
was moved oil ut precisely II o clock,
as the committee said it would be.
The citizens in acting as they did
did not do so to protect Gayhart, far
from that it was to protect other
lot owners who had paid their honest
coin for their real estate. Every
citizen in this town now claims that
no one shall build on this lot until
Gayhart donates the same for public
purposes or to the Miners Union.
Anyone buying the lot will not be al
lowed to build upon it, People have
tried time and again to get Gayhart
to come TO Tonopah and do the right
thing but all that can be got from
him is IA promise that he will come.
The deed To the lot is said to have
been stolen with other valuable pa
pers from H. c. Cutting There is
one thing certain, no member of the
company will sign another deed for
Mr., Gayhart.
Two other parties were squatted
on lots belonging to other people and
when shown by the committee that
they were trespassers willingly
agreed To vacate. One party has a
tent in the street, surveyed as a
public highway long before the squat
ter arrived in Tonopah. 1t is said
he will vacate; if not prompt action
will be taken against him.
A few loud mouthed good-for- moth
ings, especially a man named Ball
from Tuscarora, who was mixed up
in a Jackpot scrap at Elko recently
in restaurant free for-all fight, was
telling what he would do, and that
nobody would put him off "a lot if he
had jumped it, There were several
citizens waiting for him to make
move, and had he done so would have
been called down single-handed and
given the down the canyon route.
There were several other loud
mOuthed Willies who were going to
show the people what they would do
and nobody could make them move of
u lot. They were only hot-air, like
BAH.
The committee is acting for the
citizens and the property owners OF
the town, and believe in right and
justice and will see thatit prevails.
Mr., Gayhart must not think for a
moment that anyone was protecting
his property, for they were not it |
was other peoples properly they
were looking after.
We hope to see Mr. Gayhart square
himself for his crooked work in Ton
opah and make amends for the
trouble and inconvenience he has put
our citizens to by his surveys,
through surrendering all his claim to
the lot in dispute.
And in so doing let Mr. Gayhart
come to Tonopah and square things
up right.
Attention is called to the Chloride
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