The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-02

| one of the strongest N tha State. Both
are graduates Of the University of Cali
! fornia. but both were pioneers at To,
nopah and slept on 'he ground and
cooked their own grub, ana on Sunday
mornings used TO take q kettle and
| their big dish pan and g. up to the
! snrino and build a fire and wash their
own Shirts and socks and hang them
on the sage brush to dry, Joe is IA
forite at the Mizpah, ard therefore
everyone shouted: 'Oh, you GO way
go way This is our fight; You
ain't in it, You ard Your brother
Fred arc an outrage-you re beyond
the pale. You sneaked off TO Ely last
winter and gathered up everything
! that wasn't nailed down without say
ing boo to your old friends. Go way
90 way from us and talk to million
aires. You re in their class now,
But don t come back here and put
on dawg,' for all of rs remember the
times when You and Fred used to
wash your own shirts and socks up at
the spring like the rest Of u.s."
Joe smiled at their char in that he
nignant way that only a man who has
made a couple of millions IN G"e.,e
months can smile, and hc said: 81
overheard your talk. Now don t try
TO dodge. ScarchGght is great
camp, and the Quartette is very great
mine. Bullfrog is a great camp and
the Shoshone is great mine. Gold
field is a great camp, and the Mohawk
is great mine, and right here you've
got the Tonopah mine, which you all
know has got more value III sight than
any OF them. But you fellows have
got used TO thinking millions and tens
of millions. while over at Ely we
reckon values by hundreds of millions.
and the Nevada Consolidated there has
got greater wealth of mineral in
,,y,LNI ,ln,, i,a. rtn.r l,n
the Mohawk an the .Tonopah all
taken together. s got fifty million
tons of ore in sight, good for fifty
pounds of copper To the ton, which,
at 20 cents a pound, stands Tor a
gross value of $50G. 600, O,OOO-and that is
not probably a quarter of the value the
mine contains. That ; only what is in
me. pray, TO remark that is doesn I be
come you fellows, 1t dJesu Z evince the
spirit of the true Christian brotherhood
among you, TO jump on ne and Fred
the way You do Tor catching on at
Ely before you woke up You all
had the same chance as we. All of
us read the first story of Ely by Fitz
Mac right here in this club year
ago at the same time, and that S
what started Fred aId me over there
across the country with the fastest
team we could get. -ou fellows ex-
pect fortune TO come 10 YOU and pour
her treasures into your lap, but Fred
and | bumped ourselves after reading
F'itz-Mac s story and went out to meet
fortune half way
"Aw-a-al Fitz-Mac's newspaper
story That was too big to believed"
50 Yes, - replied Joe, cit was n pretty
big story to believe. that 5 so, for
fellows of your small experiences in
mines, and to tell the truth Fred and |
didn Z much more than half believe il
and were tempted several times to turn
out that Fitz-Mac S story wasn't as
big as the truth-ani the theory of |
the ore deposit at Ely which he pro-
pounded has revolutionlzed the ideas of |
the camp and led to the location of |
thousands of new cla,ms, and he got |
the Government to give us . geological |
survey of the camp and it IS now being
Fitz- Mac is here. I saw
him in the reading-room studying the
q Bring him out! brjug him out!'
When Joe came 20 bring me out |
be put a gentle flea in my ear by say
ing; Now, Fitz, Won stand up for |
|, II murder you in your tracks: y After
1he babel subsided-such babel as
his, all in one jumbIe-'' Now tell
he truth, Fitz (if you can, by some
'ynic, ,sotto voce);. isn't the Mo.
lawl the greatest mine in the StateY'
-'Ob, Fitzll tell the truth; he
knows it's the Shoshone.'' - off he |
knows any more n burro abogE a
mine he II say it the Quartette. -
He does know mine. and hen say
s the Tonopah. - ~ said the Ne
yada Con. has got $5o0,oO0. 600 in sight.
Fitz; now. has it, or hasn t it?-say
right out,'
The Nevada-Douglas.
cit has, Joseph my sweet infant
said, promptly. cit certainly do have.
And of course that makes it greater
han all the mines mentioned. Jumped
,ogether, but-well, Joe, to tell the
whole truth, [ have my doubts that it
$ after all, the biggest mine in Nava,
In. Capt. Delmar' S Bluestone mine at
I ierington is, in the aggregate value
n sight, the peer of any Of the great
mines you have named except the Ne
'ada Con. But the Nevada Douglas
n the same camp is as great, | think,
IS the Nevada Con. of Ely, and | IN