Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-30
BEATTY TO BE
WINNING CAMP
Nj. b. BEATTY MARRIED INDIAN
GIRL WHO SAVED
HIS LIFE.

With the transfer of all the unoc-
cupied city property in Beatty from
Mccormick & Schwab to DR.. w. s.
Phillips of Chicago and E. s. Hoyt
of Tonopah, including the Montgom-
cry hotel, as has been already an
nounced, a new era seems to be
dawning for Beatty. Although found
ed earlier than Rhyolite, its immedi-
ate competitor for the metropolis of
Southern Nevada, the growth of
Beatty during the two years since its
foundation has been comparatively
slow. Months g Rhyolite caught
and passed her. but from now on
Rhyolite will have to look to her
laurels for Beatty is up and coming.
1t was a little more than two years
ago and the discoveries of the Midas,
Banner, Aurora Bullfrog and other
mines in the vicinity of Beatty made
1t possible to lay out a townsite and
begin the Matching of a desert metro
polls. Beatty gets it's name from M.
B. Beatty, the squaw man who was
the original owner. with his Indian
wife, of the townsite. And there is
a romance in connection with the
marriage of Beatty to the Indian
woman that seems worth telling.
One hot day something like twenty
years ago-and hot in this desert
means hot, so hot that only those who
know the country really know what a
hot day is lke-Beatty came wander
ing along with a prospecting outfit
loaded on the backs of two burros. In
those days the land was given over to
the indians, Piutes, who along the
Amargosa river had found water
enough to enable them to till the soil.
in a small way, a way so small that
1t afforded them a bare existence.
Among the Indians came Beatty.
worn and weary from his trip across
the Amargosa desert. He was not
regarded with favor by the Piutes.
They gave him grudging permission
to abide with them for a few days
while he rested and refreshed himself
in preparation for the continuance of
his journey. Day followed day, and
Beatty showed no inclination to de-
part.
The Piutes liked not Beatty's tar
rying. One day the chief plainly told
him that he must be ON his day,
There was not more than enough
for the tribe. The pale face must go
back to his W kind. BY this time
Beatty had rested and fed. The
strength that was given to those early
rangers of the desert had returned
to him and there was really no ex-
cuse for his staying on, no excuse
save one.
Among the Indian maidens who
had ministered to Beatty in first
days of his exhaustion had been
Mahanagos, Spring of the Desert"
Mahanagos was comely, as Indian
girls 60, and she found favor in the
eyes of the white prospector. 1t was
for her sake that he tarried, for she
had given him to understand that he
had found favor in her eyes. Then
came the test of her true love.
One night after Beatty had
wrapped himself in his blankets and
gone to sleep under the stars the
FLUTES held a conference. 1t was de-
cided that, as the white man showed
no inclination to go on he must be
killed. Mahanagos learned quickly
of the councils decision, and as
quickly as she learned she threw
herself into the breach, Her plea fol-
the white man was effective, but II
was so only on condition that she
marry Beatty.
Beatty was willing, and so a few
days later, with all the Indian cere
mony that could be mustered, th'
prospector and the Indian girl wer'
made husband and wife. OF tn
dogs that were sacrificed for the wed
ding feast no record has been kept
but Beatty settled down with hi
bride, gave up his ambition to be
come a miner and became, to all in
tents and purposes, an Indian. HI
and his wife and their numerous pro
geny are living in the camp of Beatt,
today healthy and happy.
: But Beatty had not become St
3 much of an Indian that he was no
I glad to welcome other white mel
when they were lured by dreams o
gold across the desert. He held on
inducements to them to settle on hi
land and so the town of Beatty be
came possible.