The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13

strike you as with chill. So in those
days there was dressing room for
visitors, and great many suits of
rough clothing hung on the wall. If
he had to go into that dressing room
take off his clothing, put on one of
these suits, and, returning from the
visit, take bath and put on his own
clothes. The suits worn in the mine
were, thrown on the floor. gathered up
by the lanitor and duly Numbered
"Well, this broker on this occasion
clothes, put on suit Of the company 8
clothes and descended into the mine.
Mr Mackay saw him and he said to
the janitor:
- Do you know that man that Just
went down. in the cageG'
We'll, keep watch. When he re.
turns and throws off his clothing, you
-" Why, Mr., Mackay, that gentleman
is always neat as n pin. No man is
more scrnpulons about his personal
habits. Why should you burn up his
suit7'
Mackay's answer was: 'You burn
up the suit. 7 want no friend Of mine
to ever put, on clothes that have ever
been worn by that - scoundrel.'
Zone day Tom Fitch, having made
one of his periodical fortunes in Ari-
zona, came up TO San Francisco and
was standing outside the Palace hotel,
when Mr.. Mackay came out. Fitch did
not see him for moment, and Mackay
said:
80 Hello. Fitch, have YOU got so rich
that you do not speak to your friends
any more?'
g 'Oh, no. said Fitch Il still speak
TO them, but [ have grown cautious. |
do not loan doubtful people money any
more
"And while they stood there chatting
each other. G.. ?. Huntington came out,
BE greeted Fitch very cordially and
Mr.. Mackay said Good morning, Mr.,
Huntington, While Mackav had been
mining many years, Huntington had
Fitch in moment that Huntington did
not recognize Mr.. Mackay, and he said:
Why. Mr., Huntington, do you not
know Mr.. Mackay7
" What, Mr. !. ". Mackay?'
"Then he was glad to see him, held
out his hand, shook hands, but Mackay
flushed clear to his forehead, because
Mackay did not know Of any reason
why Mr. Huntington should not know
"Then Huntington began 10 talk and
he said: California is not getting
along well. The people are too extrava-
giant. What people need here is to
come down to pennies as they do in the
east, because as long as they ignore
pennies 1T means that they are an eX
travagant race.
I" Why said Fitch, 'Mr Hunting
ton, what could you buy for a penny7'
oh, , he said, an apple If you
* Well Fitch said. why not pay
a nickel for it and give the apple man
a chance?
CAT this Mr Mackay interposed and
said, stammeriDg pretty badly; Would
you have the g-g-gentleeman pay five
cents for an apple, l-l-lose four cents
and b-b-break his - hearth
"Jn those days there were some glori
ous things done by the Comstock in the
way Of noble charity, in the way of
angels. In Sharon IS campaign for the
senate in 1874 one General Dodge went
up TO Virginia City and spent several
weeks in volunteer work TO help Mr..
Sharon. 7 do not think he made vote
because he was not tho kind to make
votes, but he showed his good will,
"Toward the close Of that campaign
Isaac Bateman, who built the old In
ternational and the new international
hotels, went to Mr. ". c. Ralston and
Northern Belle mine down at Candle.
leria, which is on the way from Reno
10 GoldfIeld now, or TO sell the mine.
Ralston listened to him and then said:
hear he wants q mine Tell him about
it
"He did so and the next day General
Dodge bought the mine and paid for
it, There is no possible doubt that he
paid for it with Mr.. Ralston IS money,
because Dodge had no money TO speak
Of. He ran it along, took out great
deal of money, counted it mp into the
for it was a splendid mine,
but they pressed the milling facilities
faster than they did the development
work; and so when it got down TO
where they had to work low grade orc
altogether the proceeds fell off as did
also the dividends. The natural result
was that the stock fell in value. Be
fore any great fall came, however,
Dodge unloaded an immense block Of
stock upon friend assuring him that
the mine was looking fine.
"About this time Dodge was taken
with fatal illness, He was a big
man He weighed at least $50 pounds,
and in few weeks illness he lost a
hundred pounds, and his doctors as.
surcd him that all they could do would
be to patch him up. that there could be
no permanent repairs.
Zone day he sent for this friend
that he had sold the stock to. He told
him he had been thinking Of him while
he had been i'll, that his physician had
told hlm he never could get well, that
he had been worried because he feared
not only that his friend had lost money
which he could not afford to lose, but
that he had lost his good feeling to-
ward himself, and he said to him:
F'I want TO buy back that stock,
[ cannot give you what YOU paid for it,
but ] will give YOU ten or fifteen points
above the market price, which viii
make You comfortable
And the friend gratefully unloaded
his block Of stock and went away.
that he had done Dodge an
injustice in thought in believing that
that was n deliberate swindlc on his
part. But in two or three days he
noticed that Northern Belle stock be-
gan TO rise on the stock board and in
an Incredibly brief space Of time il ad
vanced to twice what he had paid