The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-07-13
THE FATHER OF NEW NEVADA
Our Old Fellow Townsman, Jim
Butler, Visits in Eureka
Nearly a Week

Jim Butler has been a visitor in Eu-
reka for nearly a week. He was one Of
our fellow.townsmen not so many years
ago. and in those days he was noted for
his genial, happy. sunny disposition.
He is the same jolly Jim now he was
then.
His automobile is one of the finest
that ever made a track on the desert.
He has named it the "Mizpah." and it
was made to order for him in France.
II is . 60-horse power Durrac car. and
we learn cost, when ready to go ON the
road. $4,000.
While here last Tuesday he visited
several mines ON Prospect Mountain,
and many Of our citizens were heard to
express the wish that Jim would see
something here in a mining way that
would induce him to become interested.
But the fact is Mr.. Butler is already mp
to his eyes in mining matters all over
the State. He is a keen observer. and
il he does not become Individually in.
terested himself he will undoubtedly
inform men Of capital looking for legiti-
mate mining properties what can be
found here.
Jim was over in Rhyolite about ten
days ago and the Herald published
there said some nice things about him.
The SENTINEL believes his friends here
subscribe to all that is contained in the
following article:
Jim Butler went to Tonopah seven
years ago just a common everyday
prospector with about enough grub to
last him a month or 30 and enough
money for smokin' purposes. To-day he
is raed at a million and a half dollars.
With all his wealth. he has failed to de-
velop the egotism and big-headedness
which sometimes as a result of
suddenly reaching the pinnacle of fame
aud fortune.
Jim is just plain Jim to everybody F;
just the same as he was in days gone by.
His generosity and his n~everfailing in
terest in the boys are strong features of
his character. He is always helping
somebody who has had an unfortunate
experience. OF backing some one in this
or that enterprise. But Jim dosen't
stand for the hold-up game. He isn't
easy enough for that.
One may take occasion to ponder over
what has been wrought in Nevada since
Jim Butler and his good wife first put
monuments on the Mizpah. All the de.
velopment of the New Nevada has been
brought about since that time.
The triumph of Tonoph. the mother
camp; the glory of Goldfeld. the phe-
nomenal the rise of Bullfrog. the SUBJ
siantial; the opening of a score of good
mining camps in the southern portion
of the commonwealth; the winning of
millions of dollars from the earth and
the making of scores of ~millionaires out
of paupers-all these things aud more
have come into history since Jim Butler
found the Mizpah.
The map of the State of Nevada and
the map of the mining world have been
changed since 1900. The eyes of the
mining world, which had long been
anywhere but upon this commonwealth.
have again been turned this way, to
remain apparently forever and a day.
Great doings you started Jim. when
you wandered away from Sodaville and
dashed for gold across yon wastes of
desolation and isolation! Great doings
and no mistake. and happily you have
been literally rewarded
Jim Butler got $500, 900 in cash out of
the Mizpah, and then invested $50. 900
in stock. which went soaring up to 20
times what he had paid for it. His in
come in dividends is enormous-a COM
Portable fortune every year.