Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-23
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alleged to have s91 the PROPERTY 20
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IN ks 8szgzzt zga O Earr
ai IA. a EaFeA %. 1893. re
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agreeing 70 Share ge yro5a aad ~
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sia-s En ne Pz1z-izr range q -oun-
t@n III 1880 eo1ztr cziitorn5a Hart
ensrzA Ch rirh hzFfng zgDTograt-
ID reees fr01 that Business On .
gn il eEeesg o. stes.ssG ard thai
Ozis has refesss 70 make an seaoant-
ing
ne bo.e d ogats1tiOu %ws1
the parties seems to - the Ownership
Of rae skid0o mias Of which nzuy
dsserens hHed stO-i@ hare been r.
eeBsed from tie West
The Nsog n intrfgge thai Hart
tells b To the eject that be 8Oaded
the RanaazY and ThOmPsoa hOe2tions
~ tEeafy-fosr claims IN the via
Ram dfsfrla. in Death valley. Tor
fzzas8 March -, 1895. taking .
one-azlf interest hinseif and one
hair f0r his TREAD and gzrrns
George oth Of this citT. 4 cash
naoant Was paid down. with arrange
mesr that the remainder was 70 b
gzas the original Dcstors, I'd Thomp-
aoa and John Ramsay. At the end Of
sfxry days
Hart eft he LOs Angeles end u
the deal In the hands 81 Otis and an
o1her mzn. Whose e~onnsetiOn With
TIE natter does not appear a this
tinae. and himself took the deed 20
yew York 70 his attorneys The lat
ter boxed il Oyef snd found il satis-
faerory. then delivered il TO the
wegieFsrgo Express COMPANY. %
forward 70 the recorder Of Inyo coun-
~ Tor record there.
One dsg Har received the surpFE
ing newz that Ramsay and Thompson
had sold 70 BOB Montgomery. Ter
days z be returned to Los Angeles
AFTER hard and patient wOrk and fre-
queat Indications that neither Otil
nor Montgomery was willing u show
Rara claims any consideration. the
lstter announced that the men be AZ.
c.aa mnst come 70 time d he would
take summary action.
+. Oscar Hart was a mYsferioui
DerKonage about whom many strang'
sfories we're woven in the West las
spring Early IN March Walter Scott
the self-styled Death valley mys
tery met Hart and made much cap
lfaI 81 the fart that he was going on
70 Death VALLEY on q trip about whicl
he would tell nothing. Scott alleges
that Hart was going out to steal tn
famous Scott mine and be mad
great ado in preparing an "expedi
ton and starting out after Hart I
protect bis rights.
But Hart was not looking 10
s~coffy's claims. He was lookinI
after properties Of his own, when b
met two prospectors, Ed Thompso.
and John Ramsay. who showed hir
specimens and told him stories tina
made his eyes bulge. They asked hir
10 90 ont and look for himself. !
the wild Rose district on the wester
edge Of Death valley, on the easter
slopes Of the Panamlnt range.
There, he says, he found claim
that SURPASSED ANYTHING he had eve
seen. He visited every part Of tn
territory and with every step becam
more enthusiastic. He brough
Thompson and Ramsay back to Lc
Angeles with him, signed them up ]
what he thought was an iron-boun
contract. paid them part of the none
and had the deeds made to himse
and Otis. He impressed on his par
ner aud The third man, whose col
nection with the case Is not know
the absolute necessity Of holding Il
ground at all hazards. Then he wei
East.
Before the sixty days during Whit
his contract for purchase a hi
passed the San Francisco earthqual
occurred. Otis wired Hart that Il
holidays declared by Governor Pa
dee pending the Strengthening up
San Francisco's tangled affairs, wou
suspend the expiration Of the leas
but that everything was 20. X" III
promoter went to a local brokerai
firm and laid the proposition befo