The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-10-13
STANDS UP FOR .'scorrY"
Tug" Wilson, Of Bullfrog, Knows
Him Well


Tug Wilson needs no introdu,-
ton to a Nevada constituency. SAYS the
Bullfrog Miner. He is known as one
of the oldest of the old desert rats,
with a tale as long as any of them.
Tug in fact, has been prospecting
these hills and the desert so long that
he has become in appearance akin to
the sand dunes Of the desert and the
mesquite clumps of Death valley.
- have been prospecting all ny
life, said "Tug" with a hearty
'chuckle that denoted self satisfaction.
Tug is not only well known but he
is well liked, as is the case with all
g~ood-natured, honest, whole-souled
characters like Wilson.
Tug has just returned from one
OF his periodical jaunts to Death val
ley. HIS fellow prospectors were Jim
Gushing, Jack Hart and Billy Wilson.
Tug is somewhat of a partisan of
Mysterious Scott, whom he thinks
is more sinned against than SHINING.
Wilson says it is impossible to meet
Scott out in the hills without getting
to like him, and he says all the miners
and prospectors swear by the "mys-
terry Of the desert"
Tug says he met Scott at the
Eagle Borax works, 80 miles south of
the Furnace creek ranch. With Scott
was his brother Bill and an educated
Apache Indian called Antoine. Scott
smilingly showed a telegram from his
wife to the effect hat "they" had
found Scotty's mine. The facts are,
however, as related by Scott, that
they had only found a pair of shoes,
some cigars and a grub-stake that he
had buried "several miles from my
mine.'
On parting Scott said to Tug VIII
off the play comes right / will be in
Bullfrog in ten days.
'Scotty is a gentleman said
Tug in conclusion, "sand a man
that the prospector or traveller is al
ways glad to meet. He always has the
good fellow sign OUT
Talking about Scott and his mine,
the following telegram makes interest
ing reading:
Barstow, Arizona, Sept. 3d. Walter
Scott, the Death valley cowboy-miner.
who paid the Santa Fe railroad com
pany $4,000 to land him in Chicago,
from Los Angeles, is not a mystery IN
and about Barstow and Daggett. The
district in which his mine is located is
known and the miners have beer work
ing rich claims for more thar 20 years.
The mine is located on Furnace creek,
in the same district as the property
which De Lamar bonded for 100000 a
year ago. Scott's mine is one of the
several rich properties struck in the
district. He has a tale ledge. 90 feet
wide, which runs about $3.50 to the ton.
The ore is being thrown upon the
dump. The quality of ore being
shipped at this time is from a streak of
rotten stuff filed with free gold. Three
shipments by a train of II burros
Melted Scott $4,000.
His financial transactions are car
ried on by Third Vice President Girard
of the Equitable bank, New York.
No outsiders are permitted to visit
the Scott claims. Warning signs are
placed far from the plant, and the
camp is fortified. Krag-Jorgensen
rifles, capable of throwing bullets sew
eral miles, form the battery and spy
glasses are used continuously to note
possible intruders. Six men, selected
by Scott, dig the ore. The foreman is
16 years old, receives So a day and, in
addition, a $500 bill when Scott visits
the camp every two or three months.