Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-18
MOHAWK SAVED
VETERAN 5 HOME
FORTUNATE INVESTMENT BY
LOS ANGELES FRIEND
Large Sum Realized by Placing 5000
in Nevada Mining Stock.
Story of Human In
terest

How many absorbing human interest
stories lie behind the cold, common
place quotations of the stock exchange,
especially when those quotations mirror
market at cd tide!
What stories of riffs in the clouds, of
uplifts from the depths of despair to
the heights of hope, of transitions from
the ruts and chuckholes of Hard Luck
lane to the broad, smooth shining pave
of Easy street, are hidden in figures
that signify ascents in market values
of hundreds and thousands of per cent
within comparatively short time!
What debts may be paid; what long
cherished plans may be at last exe-
cuted; what hopes deferred so long that
the heart became sick may be realized;
what comforts and luxuries may be de-
slowed upon loved ones. How immen-
sely indeed. how incalculably the sum of
human happiness has been augmented
out of stock profits that within a month
massed into millions, as the profits in
q long list Of Nevada mining stocks
have of late.
Profits of 5000 Per Cent
In the last half year this list of stocks
have shown advances in actual market
values up to 5000 per cent, the apprecia-
ton of the last three weeks as shown
by the transactions on the San Fran
cisco and Goldfield mining stock ex-
changes, approximating in the aggre-
gate $7,O00000 the tumultuous rise in
values rivaling anything of the kind oc-
curing in the storied days Of the Com
stock Lode development
If the princely profits could only be
followed to their respective recipients,
and their significance cleaned, themes
fit for the pen of William Dean HoWells
would be found in plenty.
One of these themes cropped out yes
terday in the course Of a conversation
with r. ID. Robinson, president of the
r. D. Robinson company of this city,
a house heavily interested in Nevada
mining enterprises.
A Friend in Need
Early last spring Mr.. Robinson re-
ceived letter, accompanied by a draft
for 5000, from a small town in Virginia,
which, by the way, is Mr.. Robinson's
birthplace. The writer went into con-
siderable detail concerning his affairs,
excusing himself for thus trespassing
on a busy mans time by stating that
he had been advised to do Just that
thing by a mutual friend who had re-
Gently returned from California, and
who, while in the Golden State. had
been much in Mr.. Robinson's company.
He explained that he was one of those
who in early manhood had followed the
stars and bars oft to victory and at at
all times in honor, if, ultimately, to
defeat. The vicissitudes of war and the
reconstruction period had left him a
fraction of large patrlmony a small
plantation, a remnant of a great one
on which he had been born, and even
that little possession was mortgaged
or 1EN5.a Ian
that there was absolutely no probability
of it's liquidation when due, which
would be about the last of this year.
When the mortgage was Incurred, many
years ago, the writer was sanguine that,
with the help of bright boy, then just
emerging into a lusty manhood, 1t would
be paid at maturity.
Only Son Died
But fate had seen fit to take away the
boy. The latter, like so many thousands
of sons of the new south, had responded
valiantly to the calls to arms when the
United States decided to lift the tyrant's
yoke from bleeding Cuba, and enlisted
to fight for the flag which his father,
a generation ago, fought against; the
boy returned, but he was not the chap
who left so gaily animated by high
patriotic fervor-shattered of limb and
with Tire uSetuly olocdoSS VI NuDdh anu
Philippine swamps consuming his vital
ity he fingered with the old people
az while and then passed to the realm
where the beat of drum and ound Of
bugle are never heard, and the father,
broken in spirit and weighted with the
infirmities of old age, was left to bear
an all too heavy burden.
The amount $500 was sent by draft
he wrote represented the careful saw
ings of long period. 1t was too small
to be of any avail by itself, and acting
upon the advice OF the mutual friend
who had told him Of some of he(hand-
some profits made In western mining
stocks, the virginia veteran sent 1t to
Mr. Robinson to be invested according
to the latter's discretion, and with the
fervently expressed hope that the result
would be fortunate enough to enable
him to save his home, the last bulwark
between himself and the almshouse.
Last Shot In Mohawk
Mr. Robinson promptly invested his
fellow Virginian's funds-''his long,