Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

CARLY every Hl'h'"h
A .,ost has had hard luck
mi hehind its discovery, and
V "s,Saeld is no exception to the
.o.. 1t is well known 90. now S,, ionVp ne'
rue .,sd on capital Of go divided De,
stare Tim Butler, T. L. oddie and
wv" prougher and how oddie ana
""ss or rot their fortunes merely for
PIN ping the rock which bu'ier haa
ass from the Miabpah ledge put
pf0ns 80, stand the expense OF hscer-
cou'u ia value. The discoveries OF
ANA naold Harry c. Stimler and W. A.
u .'"ssb were not even as wen hxed as
M"' s incky neighbors at Tonopah' Har-
NV, s.,,,ler with his sister, Mrs. j. y.
~ slime slime TO Tonopah from Belmont,
Ney, Harry was born 20 years ago,
Witt after Butler Commenced the iirst
shUi 80 an the Mizpah and with cohsiuer,
VIZ VIZ money they had accumulated
uu.nrted boarding house, lhers were
MOI ~ ~, and more hungry men, and as
% hIatch string was always out, the
Inc Ia tion soon made way with the
co ,iI. st, fe and the boarding house was
closed.
worked for Grub Stake"
stmler worked around the camp ana
SUI mi, abo,tt the first Of December,
n ~ 'rers,,aded Jim Butler and Tom
isO-naou To- grub stake him and Blly
herS for prospecting trip The boys
sod no particular place In view SO BUT
,"r and Kendall did not nave much
ssitb In the enterprise, and ltted them
n"t with delapidated Ola Duckpoaru'
20 which was harnesscd llttle mule
smaller horse. sand commissary
~ hale OF hay and grub enough
u. Few DAYS. With such an outfit 1t
ioot them until midnight of the second
Go,, m reach Rabbit Springs, about two
IL south of the present town or
GniJaeld and 30 miles from Tonopah.
az. neyt day. Dec. 4, l902, they located
pabblt SPRINGS and started out to pros
roct the most likely looking place In the
,iclnlty a high mountain to the north
row called Columbia mountain, and on
mat day and few days following To-
cated 10 claims, which Included the
eandstorm. Kendall, May Queen, Ne
,oda Roy and others. all OF which have
since formed the basis Of big lncorpor-
otions and are active, operating prop
srtles They took samples and returned
% Tonopah and while they had no val
res TO excite any one. 1t was agreed
mat they would do the location work
ond hold the claims. The boys returned
with the same old outfit and for long
time hauled their water In wagon,
,wo wheels of which were without tires
and held together with baling wire.
while at this work. Stimler and Marsh
we're all alone in the country and had
hopes enough In their discoveries 10
dignity the district with name, so
called IL Grandpa district for the reason
that they wanted to be in style. Tono-
nah was all right, Hannpah and Wee
nan were coming to the front, and
theirs promised we'll enough to be the
Grand pa OF all OF them.
sandstorm Riches.
In January they discovered some rich
ore on the Sandstone but it was kept
quiet But little stock was taken in
their operations by their friends and
others In Tonopah and they were laugh
ed at for continuing work where every
one was certain nothing would be
found. Their discovery finally leaked
out and IN May, 1908, Tonopah COM
menced stampede 10 the Grandpa dis
trict
Among the first to arrive was C. d.
Taylor, now probably the wealthiest
man In Godfield, president Of the jun
DO and Redtop companies and how he
managed TO get over the 80 miles from
Tonopah on the old crowbait of horse
that he had was a mystery to Stlmler
and Marsh, but the horse brought him
and also a barley sack partly filed
with grub" He camped in the gulch
below the Sandstone and the next day,
May 10, located the Jumbo and Florence
claims. about the same time 4. d. My
ers arrived IN camp and commenced
looking scr extensions OF the Stimler
and Marsh locations.
Boys Showed Him,
The boys showed him where their
lines ran and told him where they could
locate some good looking ground. Be
fore this Stimler and Marsh had located
oil the ground now embraced In the
Jumbo, Florence and Combination
properties, but Kendall and Butler
thought they had enough, and as only
s. assays could be secured from the
surface as far as II had been prospect
ed, they did not consider the claims
valuable enough TO complete the To-
cations, and as Stimler and Marsh had
already been compelled TO give up por-
tons OF their interest In the first Local
tIons which they considered the most
valuable, 70 keep up their end In devel-
oping, and felt too poor to do the
work themselves they told Myers to
kick down their monuments and take
the ground, which he lost no time
IN doing. He called the claim
the Combination and afterward
sold Il for $4,000 and the
story of Its development and wonder
ful output Ia told In another column.
The Jumbo Ground.
The Jumbo ground. secured by Char
ley Taylor, had been located by Stimler
Tor himself and George Schmidtein OF
Smoky valley, land the latter came down
TO see II at Stimlsrs request. when
he was ready TO return, Stimler broke
on about 30 pounds OF the groupings ana
fhTaV thpr1 int Go mt D,