The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-17

was not long before il was known in the
mining town of Ballarat on the edge Of
Death Valley, that a mysterious pros
pector had discovered a rich mine, and
many an endeavor was made to follow
tected himself in every possible way. go
ing TO his diggings by many different
trails, seldom following the same one
twice. 1t is said that some of those who
again
i've got a big thing out there" he
said One Of the biggest you ever heard
or I've got rock that runs between so
and $50 pound. A lot of fellows want TO
know where il is. Don't know that I've
been followed several times? I know
that desert country like book. and that's
fellows. I've got six different pack trains
in as many different places. from which
make up my mind which iii take until
the last moment. l don't want TO tip this
thing off 70 anybody. but the gold is
there and there's lot more all around
Fellows come to me when I'm around
town and they say to me:
when are you going out to the des.
ert. Scotty2' / always tell EN- tomorrow
and you can bet that when / do go l al
ways slip away without anybody fnding
kill me In cold blood for a mine like I've
got; men who wouldn't think anything OF
shooting a man in the back for a tenth
part of what l have found. But they've
got to get the drop on me before they can
shoot, and that's game 1 know little
A year ago last winter. one of Scott's
trips into the valley Is said TO have net
ted him in the neighborhood OF $4,000.
He had no pack train and all the ore was
carried out his back in sacks. one at a
time. He put a large part OF the money
he obtained for it in handbag. intend
ing to go east for good time. On the
train between Pittsburg and Philadelphia
with a woman in the scheme. had followed
Scott clear across the continent. and II
was not until three-quarters of the trip
was over that chance was found TO
drug his drinks. The eastern papers spoke
of rich Klondike miner robbed" but
the taciturn Scott never gave them his
true identity.
In the days of his prosperity Scott has
made many quick trips to New York,
riding on the fastest limited trains and
, paying his way like a prince. One black
waiter on an eastbound dining car will
went to dinner in his blue flannel coat,
they say and without a shirt. He took a
seat al a table at which a man and his
wife were sitting. Scott, always polite,
asked il there was any objection to his
taking the chair. and the couple answered
: what an oyster fork was for and he
scanned The menu with the air of a
The waiter saw the blue shirt and his
ariStOcr3tic feelings were hurt He tapped
Scott on the shoulder and told him that
{ the dining car was for none but first class
passengers Scott knocked the waiter half
4 the length of the car and would have
cleaned out the whole crew of negroes
but for the Intervention of man who
knew him.
SCOIJ hlnlSei1 Won Ndik. tieN say, OI
his experiences, save to old friends One
OF these is c. r. Van Loan Of Los An
geles. He told this among others to Van
Loan:
"One time back east I was going down
the line and lighting EN- up little They
hadn't never seen q man like / was
When ! went into the cafes they wanted
to throw me out until 1 flashed my roll
and began to buy wine. Then they were
! glad to meet me. Fellows went out and
hunted up their friends to see me spend
money. Every time we cracked a bottle
I l-,xr 1nfc no MIA 70
and make the man hump for the change.
7 reckon I'd have all the change in New
York if the gang had stayed with me
was too swift for 'em-they couldn't see
me through