Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-10-08

ty-eight. Good words, too: about an
timony ore and why there should be
a tariff on it i'll order TO perpetuate
the Grand Old Policy Of Protection
and enable some interested parties
to open property that had been clos
ed.
Now take it this way: Suppose, in
stead OF gabbling. ten million words,
the ninety two Senators mad follow
ed the peerless leadership of George
S Nixon and had ntented them
selves with one hundred and forty
eight words each. The tariH would
have been settled in two days, in
stead of in three months, and peace
and contentment would have brood
ed over this fair and OF ours until. of
course. the arrival Of Messrs. Cook
and Peary scared the brooder off the
nest.
Scoring the attempt 10 make it an
even one hundred and fifty. George ).
Nixon CONSTRUCTED his one hundred
and forty eight words and sat down
He said what he had to say and quit,
totally unlike most OF his colleagues,
who said what they had to say, what
they didn't have to say, and what
finally, when they had nothing fur
ther To say said that, \ man Of few
words. Just so, \ man of 1899 .S52
fewer words than La Toilette. for
shining example.
And while on this subject OF mil
lions let us glide gracefully from
woIds to dollars, an easy ConVersa-
uOnal glide. but Il tolerablc rough fl
naucial one. The Senator may have
tariff words tucked away. but when
it comes 20 dollars he can 90 long
way toward matching each word OF
the senatorial output with a Nixon
dollar. You see, he is, or was, a min
ing king. He has abdiCated. in way
now. ana is not SO deep in mining;
but when he abdiCated he took the
ulOuay aICug with him. Alter man
ge,s more than million dollars il
Is futile to speculate how riCh he is
1t is all com mparatIve. Nixon is rich,
Sood and rich, even when stacked up
against other Senatorial mining kings,
like Guggenheim, OF Colorado.
.>IAou ArNcr was miner. His
money came from buying m.ncs. ur
claims. after they hau Jceu dIsCUN-
cluu. IhIs is now: He was born in
California, in 1860, where his father
had iruit ranch. He could mai. up
nut boxes laster than any Of the
otLer boys when he was Il lad, and he
woIhed at that during me picking sea
son. When the 4rult was rlpenlnS he
shot the birds that destroyed Inc
snoot quaIls ICr the mining camps,
paying nm Il dollar ana Il naIf a uOz-
Ell Tor them. mus, his boX-naiIIn: :,
ability and mis- eXpertness with the
shotgun gave HIM employment, and
- tne tune he was nineteen he had
few hundred dollars.
Then he went into railroad station
and learned telegraphy and moved
along until he reached Humboldt Ne
vada, where ne had an offer to go in.
to a bank at Reno. He made some
rcal estate turns, and few years
later formed a company and opened
bank al Wlnnemucca. Now he has
u chain Of banks, with a big one a
Reno. All tnis time ne had beer
stalking prOspeCtOrs and buying claims
made money with his banks. and ha,
| gone extensively into real estate ant
cattle, but most of his mining ven
lures had been losses.
One night, not long after the dis
coveries at Goldfeld, Nixon was il
San Francisco. A man he knew cam
| along anu lOlu MIN lneTe were thirty
taree claims at Goldfield worth buy
ing, and that Nixon could have
] quarter of them for five thousand dol
,ars. Nixon bought the quarter, an
later bought another quarter for fo
ty-fve thousand dollars. This mad
IL total Investment of fifty thousan
dollars at the start. The claims h
bought developed into what is no.
the GOldfeld Consolidated propert!
ahd Nixon got rica so fast he couldn
keep track of his money.
In Senator Stewards Old Place
II is Il classy thing to come to tn
Senate from Nevada. if you are
millionaire, and Nixon decided he ha
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