Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-08-18

demand only the price OF the festive
"bik."
4 Il is strange to relate. but true.
that there is a grave on the desert.
and the poor fellow came to his un-
timely end through thirst. 1t is about
three and a half miles north Of Roses
Wells The headboard, contributed
by a passing stranger. taken from
cracker box, reads: "A J. Kennedy
He lies at rest" Kennedy may be at
rest, but his leg. up to the thigh,
sticks out of the grave, exposed by
the drifting sands. or dug perhaps
from his resting place" by the coyote
or some other wild animal Kennedy,
we trust. Is truly at rest" but his re-
mains. as they lay partially exposed,
are certainly not at rest according to
our calculations.
Borax Smith, the borate king, cuts
a figure in this country. His mounds
are scattered far to the south to the
distant mining camp of Candeieria.
He has located ali the borax fields and
they are all his. He is thirty-one
miles south of Ash Meadows and he
is coming with the Tonopah and
Tidewater as fast as his enormous
wealth can drive 1t to the north His
Led c is but short distance TO the
south. 1t is reputed to be the richest
and best borax mine in the world.
Furnace Creek is moving. Il is the
most promising copper district thus
far known to man. As | sit on this
empty salmon box writing on the card
table in the thirst parlor. | can hear
the prospectors detail the fabulous
possibilities of the district and those
boys never stretch the truth. F. NJ.
Fagen, an old Colorado miner. has
just came in with his burros to re-
plenish He Is prospecting six miles
east of Greenwater and he says the
copper veins rib the whole Funeral
range. He says he has as good as
any, and TO clinch the assertion he
proclaimed that the Funeral range can
supply the world. He packs his water
sixteen miles. He had to get his sup
ply from the natural water tanks in
the hills. but they are all dry now. II
has taken him six hours to fill ten coal
oil cans of water, and these he had TO
lower thirty feet from the side of a
precipitous mountain.
II. d. Fox of San Francisco is at the
Meadows, together with his partner, p.
Lincoln of Boston. Mass. They dupli-
cate every statement made by his
brother prospectors. He says water
and water only is the drawback, but
1t can be and il viii be developed to
answer all demands. Sink and water
can be developed anywhere il the uni
form opinion
! do not want to say anything about
Greenwater am going in there.
know this before | reached that dis
trict From what | can learn. the
country Is what Is claimed for IT, The
Funeral range. sixty miles in length,
is ribbed with copper. gold, silver,
and all the minerals. as well as pre-
cious productions of the earth are
here
Even Scotty is here Scotty has a
cave. made by nature. and he has
taken possession, and now occupies 1t.
II Is hidden In the mountains, and It
was a safe retreat before Patsy Clark
caused the rush into Furnace creek.
Scotty has a spring in the very center
of the cave under the floor. The sides
of the cavern are embellished with
cuts clipped from newspapers and the
Police Gazette art gallery is much in
evidence, and there are provisions
enough to last week or ten days.
It Is situated in the rugged fastness
of the Furnace range. secreted and hid
from the prying eyes of an inquisitive
puDAlC III DtuLh HoSh CoAJCAs ~sAAs 80
says he could not find a mine or the
semblance of anything that would indi-
cate mine. but that mine is reality,
as many declare, while even here
there are many who are of the opinion
"scotty'' never did have mine in the
country There is not trail OF any
kind. either to or from the cavern, but
fresh traces recently made indicate
that Scotty has been there but a>brief
short time ago.
This place Is crowded today. some
with teams. others with none, but
searching for them to carry in their
belongings That excitement Is on, IL
only too true. bat It Is only the cons
ma. a