Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-02-06
LONDON MINE PROMOTER
Whitaker Wright, Who Preferred
Death 10 PIIsGs, Made a Stake
al Laks Valley, \, N.
an INTERESTING EPISODE

whitaker Wright the London mine
PROMOTE who wra convicted Tho 9th.
or day by the kings bonch division
I NJ tho hIEh court 0f Justice AZ London.
being sentenced 20 seven years penal
orvItulc. and who committed suicide
uy taking pol on. proiarrlng to choose
IOa,h rather chan prison, had most
.omafkablo career ro bhnkruptol
many of the nobility OF London in bic
. fraudulent schemes. lie began hia
/ career ln the boom days OF LCadyilo.
fnd. from accounts got a biz start ou'
/ ~ che s.l.or mines Of che Lake Val.
/ ay district of tails territory.
sometime ago. while In New York
I bc told the story Of bis life IN Colo.
.alo and Now Mexico, and that part
/ ID IntcIost 90 New MCyicans is aa
/ follows.
Wont you tell about tho pccohon.
.as episode 'n your .ifc. when you
were saved by fquuwf
THAT was while ! was p.oapccting
.n tho sn1'. riyor in idaho. tho sum
NOR before { aont ,0 I.calyiIio' pc
aid. "rhc lndioua Noro on the war
path ana soyral parties had been mise.
.aCrod uoar whore J was, when an lu.
liam and hls bride pitched then font
near ms sha1ty ! called 20 see them
and noticed thal they enviod thc good
smoke was having. Eo J took a BIG
plug of tobacco 20 them
When Ne Was Saved by a Ssuaw.
90 he3 hardly returned 90 my shan.
10y when a war party OF braves ride
/ up Thor chief started Tor nay hu,
and IN Is minute I guoss 60 would have
been an over. bat that nQuae ran up 20
the chiefs horse. caught bis bride and
! talked fast f0r four or Eve minutes
/ { don't know what she said but che
party rode on and an hour after kiiI.
al three OF ms friends a few miles
down the river"
Mr. Wright was not supors,.ttius
bat be cannot help fcc.ing that any
hing with the word lake la Dc VII
come out an right Tor him. Il WA The
Lake View mine in West Australia
which made more money for him
while Il lasted. than anything else
with which no was ever connoctai
and Il was tho Lake Valley mines ..
New Mexico which ch.ehy contribute.
90 make him a millionaire a. so.
Perhaps there was some luck %
that" he said Here are the fact
anyway. After my experience ID
Loadvlllo I Invested IA this group o
mines IN New Mexico and built
. branch railroad 10 them from the AZ
Gibson. Topeka & SANTA re The prop
critics we're very rich on tho surface
and the assays were high, but on de-
d. volopmeut Of the mine we did not an,
any permanent body OF ore for q lonl
umo.
o Troubles Win indians.
b I'VE we're getting discouraged, anl
J what with the high price OF supple
J and troubles with the Indians. w
. we're almost ready 90 givo up. tn
Apachos about this time went on th
b. Warpath and Killed several prospect
q ora and murdered women and chill
% dron. throaing one little Eirl into th
@ air and catching her on taelr spear.
L That happened not FAR from whore
10 was
l. This aroused the mining oommur
g. ny, and my superintendent and man
L OF my miners accompanied a o0mpan
~ % United States soldiers on an eKped
b. ton 20 punish the redskins. but u'
v. fortunately the Indians led the Who'll
d. party Into an ambuBcado and kille
Is many OF them. among them my supo
.e ntondont.
Is II was on my way back 20 the Inc
be- AZ that timo, and vas given an oacol
is by my friend General Phil shorida'
10 Meanwhile. the worg II the mines ha
h been continued under the direction
b. a foreman. ana just as the body
d. my superintendent was being brougl
b. into als bungalow On the camp a bod
OF ore was penetrated which ran Sll
*. OoO 10 tho ton. and enabled 10 10 pa
ir dividends OF 100000 a month for
s ong time"
NJ Mr. Wright for a time seemed
NJ have forgotten his troubles az ho tal
ht ca. but they suddenly we're recalled
lo him.
ln "rhose cycles ot rising and dOcrol
10 ing values no man can control. but
o. through a keen insight into q
IN causes that lead 20 these periods
prosperity and depression that shro'
. men make millions, and thcn arc ca
IL. ga lucky.
Nd "That g. tho only trouble villa n
ne. could not stem the tide OF dopro1sl
th which followed tho Boor war. I fail
"a. 10 acocm pash the impossible. | ga
81 up a fortune IN the attempt, but
X could not stand alone against the
M tire London stock exchange"