The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-20

missing of fortune so large that though
another man has ~ now NOBODY KNOWS
quite how big t IS. II was MISSED ~
Hayden Bennett He was ar Morgan
competitor for the formation OF the
United States Steel corporation, and &c
was only by a matter OF minutes that ne
did not get the control OF the most 81
sante OF an fortunes.
and was a little in advance OF him IN inc
negotiations When the great project
was an but ripe he took a special train
from san Francisco for New York. ana
came near creating a record There Is
not much doubt that he would nave
brought off the big stroke and Gained the
mastery though nobody knows what Mr.
Morgan may have had up his sleeve.
SIDE Chicago brought the special train 10
"a standstll bv derailing IL, though with
out any fatality. lt was half an hour
before the journey could be continued,
the trip into Chicago was finished by a
single engine, which took the flnancier
in The CAB. But Mr.. Morgan, who was
already at Chicago made his arrange
mcnrS Dy tolegrap h-he never seems 10
De ln hreakd0Wns OF any kind-and won
the coup. He is said 20 have acknoWl-
edged alterWard that only MS nNal
breakdown gave him time
one of the biggest fortunes missed, and
by minutes-alm0st secopds-only was IN
I'm California When new and valuable
land which has been partially prospected
is 20 be allotted In large claims, those
who want 10 get hold of them have 60
peg OUT their portions and then deposit
their papers at registers office.
The result Us "a magulflcently exciting
race. Do which good horses, fine horse
manship and endurance win. Those VINO
peg out and register first win their
claims.
The best of all these claims-now the
big Los PatOs' mine-WOrth over A4U0-
. 900 a year, was first discovered by Bur
ton Neville. who got an mixing OF the
value Of the claim from hasty nspec-
Several others became aware of the
value Of the place, however, though
neither the finder nor anyone else nad
any idea how rich it really was. On the
appointed day, when thirty claims were
TO be allotted. over forty riders appeared
for the fOrty-mlle and back race. ANY
number could compete for the same claim
after marking it out, and the race, as
usual, was 10 the sWiftest. Mr.. Neville,
who was as fine horseman as any,
being an old "cOW-puncher, was ilrst
on the new grounds, marked his claim
and raced back. Ills horse f0undered
and came down when only mile from
the registry office on the return journey
and though he started 20 run the rest
of the journey a young Californian named
Davis, who had been crowded out OF
other claims and had remarked Neville 5.
came past him on a horse that stll held
out and registered the claims while ms
rival was running up en- the distance
less than two minutes too late.
The only real chance OF a fortune
among an the sunken treasure" searches
that SO much has been heard about was
missed by less than an hour. when IL lay
plain IN view, promising certainly many
thousands of pounds. This was the
Spanish galleon al Trinidad, which was
discovered by accident six years ago IL
I q sheltered bay of the island. 10 was
lying on the bottom, partly broken up,
In two or three fathOms of water ana a
small case Of gold pieces and silver IngOts
was graDpled up and proved 10 be worth
about $500 The rest Of the treasure
was more difficult to get up. and the find
er, an Eugllshman named Bryand. the
owner of the trading brig Barmecide.
went at once 20 Rio and fitted out a small
steamer with proper apparatus and div
ing dresses. This took a couple or
months. and on the way back TO the spot
where the galleOn lay the steamer en-
cOuutered "a terrific storm from the east
1 northeast rare quarter in the latitude
20 get a hurricane from. The vessel
nearly fOundered but when the storm
[ cleared away and the island was reached
/ IL was found that the sunken wreck had
disappeared, all but a few remnants the
hurricane and resulting tidal wave hav-
I ing dragged 10 out into deep water and
il was never found. A single case OF
I precious metals ives recovered worth
3 about 81 800.