The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-27
LOCAL MAN IN
ROMANTIC ROLE
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light in Somerby avenue as any
where else, and that's better chance
than you would have by starting from
the center of the city and asking car
conductors or passers-by.
As to Somerby Avenue.
Somerby avenue is a trail of dust
eight squares from anywhere either /
way. The nearest object of interest /
are the car shops of the ID. d X. G.
They are in the middle distance.
| There are a dozen ready made look
! ing brick houses in dense groves OF
dusty sunflowers. On one side of the
street there is about fifty feet of ce-
ment walk. And there the recogni- |
ton of the street department seems
to stop. The cement walk has hoof- |
prints, human and dog, embroidered
in it in the early making, common to
the efforts in the outskirts of Salt
Lake. 1t is a most unsafe bas re-
! lief,
There were couple of kids in blue
denim overalls making pictures in the
thick dust of the road There was
smoke from the shops, and Mrs.
Bengtzen sitting on her front porch
weaving over it all the magic spell
of maybe" and shaping it into a
shady hillside by the Cattegat look
! ing down from the Burgess home on
the hill bought with Australian gold.
She was mentally removing the little
boys overalls and reclothing them
from the best that could be bought
in the Christianborg strasse, when
brought painfully back to Salt Lake
! City by an interrupting reporter.
Carl and | did not want to get
the news printed in the paper yet,
as we are not sure of the exact
amount of our inheritance or that
the elder Mr.. Bengtzen will admit the
justice of the case. We are thor
oughly assured, however, that there
is large, amount of money involved,
although not certain of the amount.
! We have papers from Denmark fully
proving, we think, every point in our
case. Mr.. Mccormick has seen them.
| am sure that if he wishes he will
be able to make the necessary ar
engagements for us to get in touch
with Mr.. Bengtzen and to get the
money. If we do get it, it is possible
that we may go back to Denmark.
81 am not myself a Danish woman.
My husband was a Dane, but is now
naturalized citizen of the United
States. I came to Utah from Trondj-
hem, in Norway, about twelve years
ago. and met my husband here. My
husband has worked for the Utah
Light and Railway company and has
been engaged in exploiting some min
ing prospects which he has in Ne
vada. Most of them are near Ely.
Charles hardly remembers his mother
and his father left home when he was
n oh n pnth
from him for many years or of him.
After he came to the United States
and grew up he began to wonder
what had become of his father and
to project some means for ascertain
ing his whereabouts if alive Finally
word came from Denmark that he
had gone to Australia and was re-
puted to be wealthy. We determined
to use every means at our disposal to
locate him. We wrote several letters
and finally Charles began to question
everyone whom he encountered who
had come from Australia Finally he
was informed that such a person had
recently been engaged in operations
in the Perth Amboy mining district
in West Australia.
1T was at this time that he was
finally advised and agreed to consult
Mr.. Mccormick. We are possessed
of certain amount of convertible
property and of the prospects which
we have in Ely. 1t was upon these
latter that my husband desired to
borrow money as collateral to inves-
tigate the Australian claim. He took
to Mr.. Mccormick the evidences of his
claim locations and assays of the
mineral which he had mined. He
has gone to Ely recently and will
without doubt return at an early
date with incontrovertible proof for
the banker that his mines are well
worth the small advance requested
upon them"