Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-30
TRUTH ABOUT
SCOTTY'S Mine

Sidney Norman, mining editor of
the Los Angeles Times, a. d. Meyers, |
locator of the famous Mohawk, and
Rol King, the well known proprietor
of the Hollenbeck bar, have, Just re-
turned from trip to Death valley,
where Death Valley Scotty lured
them with promises of revealing the
secret location of his wonderfully
rich mine. Editor Norman tells the
thrilling story of the party's exper-
fence in last Sundays Times. 1t
seems after arriving in the vicinity
of Scotty's tabled mine, the desert
faker drove off the mules, leaving
the trio for seven days and nights
encamped in the hell on earth, 275
feet below sea level, fighting horse
flies as big as bats by day and suffer-
ing intensely from the heat Scotty
left camp ostensibly to find the mules
and was met returning after seven
days by Norman and Meyer, who
walked to Furnace Creek for a team
to send after King, who was very
sick and unable to make the trip on
foot. Both Norman and Meyer were
willing to accompany Scott back, but
the Death Valley mystery" hedged
by saying they had better return to
Barstow and make new start in ten
days. Norman sizes up the great
desert faker as follows:
Death Valley Scotty, peroetrator
of the greatest and longest-sustained
mining hoax of the day, has utterly
| failed to show title to mining prop
erty of value, and must now be class
ed among the biggest fakes in the
mining world. There is no question
on that score-he has utterly failed
to make good one one point and,
pushed to the limit, has again had re-
course to hi sthreadbare tricks of de-
ceit An attempt was made to resur-
rect the grisly fake few weeks ago,
but even in it's cheap dime-novel
shroud it was too feeble to stand the
searchlight of truth and has again
retired to its charnel house In the
Valley of Death. There let it rest
a warming to the gullible and the
foolish. / assisted in the attempted
resurrection. May the Lord forgive
me.
Il have recently returned from a
three-weeks' trip to the scene of the
alleged mine, impelled thitherward
by thirst for story, induced by
Scotty's promise that he had tired Of
the desert life and was ready to show
i his great weaith-producer to a quiv-
ering world To say was Disguised
would be putting it mildly. | was
disgusted, sure, and footsore to boot
My disgust was not brought on b!
the fact that l did not see the mine
(that goes without saying) but be
cause the whole business was Sc
coarse, so cheap and SO palpably rot
ten. l had expected to, meet a. cleve
: man with clever scheme, but alas
met but a penny Dare-Devil-Dicl
7 of the Desert, wofully lacking in in
genuity of the highclass kind, clutch
ing a whisky bottle by the neck ant
, posing like five-cent hero in five
cent drama on the Barbary Coast
so far as ! am concerned, Dealt
, valley is but an unpleasant memory
, wild horses could not drag me Their
again And think that any maj
; who will follow the Scotty will-o-the
; wisp is a fool and should earn auto
; matte entry to Matteawan or an.
: other resting place for the criminal
; insane. He is Just a faker and on
; who would be called by another an
; harsher name II his victims of tn
!. past had not been afraid of bringin
; the laugh down ON themselves by e1
posing him through the channels O
the law"