Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-08-23
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John Reynolds, son of DIR. and Mrs.
A. s. Reynolds, of Shepherdstown,
has been in the new gold regions of
Nevada for the past three years, and
has been doing lively and successful
business in the towns of Gold6eld
and Tonopah. As stock broker and
promoter he has made great deal OF
money and has had an important part
in building up the towns named.
His latest accomplishment in foun6-
ing the town OF Ramsey, Nevada, ex-
cells all his other efforts, however, for
in four weeks his town grew from
nothing to place Of 500 inhabitants,
with FIVE stores, two restaurants,
twelve saloons, two assay offices, a
newspaper, lumber yard and 100
tents and buildings. From the Sec
ond issue of the Ramsey Recorder We
take the following account OF Mr..
Reynolds work there-it shows
lively state of affairs:
John Reynolds, the champion BOOM
er of Boomville, the man that heard
about Ramsey at midnight in the
Montezuma Club in Goldfeld, and
started to hotfoot for the new camp at
half.past FIVE the next morning, is
about the most ubiquitous thing in
Ramsey.
His success here is only dupli-
cate of his three years of success in
Goldfeld, Tonapah, Bullfrog and
Manhattan, and it takes three men
and boy to keep track Of him.
Reynolds started for Ramsey after
hearing Capt. Mayne tell a party of
men one night what he had in Ram
sey on the Clark bonanza. He i'm
mediately hunted up the owners of
the Rather No. 2 and bought the
claim before a stroke Of work had
been done on it, taking the chance
that successful men are always TAX
ing. Since then he has refused $780,
600 for that claim and has dozen
men sinking shafts on it and uncov-
ering the big Clark ledge that runs
through it some twenty feet under
the loose earth and malapai.
This claim cinched, he went back
to Ramsey canyon where there were
twelve tents. He bought out the
Towle Bros, Tickner, the Ramseys,
Geo. Fletcher and the Montezuma
company which held claims on what
is now the townsite, and announced
that the site was to be the town of
Ramsey and that he would create it.
Notice was given that on certain
day the townsite company would give
away every other lot on the site to any
that came, and the men in the dis
trict moved with one accord to the
new town. Then began day and
night search for water, happily found
in two wells.
Reynolds by this time was going
some and began to sell lots that adj
vanced in price until he disposed Of
$4,000 worth on Mayne and Rey.
holds streets. Surveys were made,
the town was plated and the rush
began. Inside of four weeks from Y
tents and II men, Ramsey grew to
over 100 tents. a dozen houses and
400 men, and corner lots on Mayne
street cannot be bought for $1,000.
They are held at just twice that
amount.
Reynolds then began to circle
around bit, and he mas bought the
Red Mountain mines from the Ram
seys, and bought two other groups
from other owners, and has corralled
some of the cream of the district in
half dozen proven claims.
There is nothing quiet about Rey-
nolds, he is going all the time and
makes noise wherever he goes. I'm
bounded enthusiasm, youth and
good constitution serve to keep him
at it, aDd though he is one Of the
firm of T. J. Robinson & Co., brok-
erq, of Goldfeld, and has large bus.
mess there, he finds time to attend to
that as well as keep things moving
in the new town of Ramsey.
Of such is the type that made Ram.
sey what it is. and will make it great
er than it is. There are a dozen just
like him in the camp and they are
all busy, all doing everything in their
power to make this the banner camp
of the State, and are sanguine of sue
cess.
When such men take hold of a
proposition, it is bound to 60. and to
make money for all interested while