The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-07-14
Chas. Mottini, of |. x. L. Cam
yon Returns County Mon
ey After % Years.

we We hedru ABOUT men paying OUT
lawed personal notes. We've also
heard about real men who were forced
at some time or other in their lives to
accept favors at the hands of their fell
lows, who returned the same with prince
ly interest, but it remained for Chas.
Mottini, Churchill county citizen, to
show fidelity to promise and an inter-
probation of true citizenship, of the
rarest and highest type. The
facts in the case are substantially
as follows:
In 1882, while Mr.. Mottini was en-
gagged in blasting in his mine in IXL Can
yon, east of Saltwater, charge exploded
prematurely and he received injuries
of the most serious character. Bones
were broken, an eye was destroyed and
his condition was such that his life was
despaired of. He was without ade-
quate funds to get the proper medical
attention at the time and the county
authorities rendered him financial as
sisrance to the amount of $500. The
medical attention which the county
procured for Mr.. Mottini proved eff
ficacious and in due course OF time, he
was restored to health. Upon his re-
covery, Mr.. Mottini said he would re-
imburse the county in full whenever
such time arrived in his life, ii it ever
did, when he could do 30. Now twenty
eight years is long span of time rs
measured in mans cosmoramo, but it
did not serve to efface the obligation
from Mr.. Mottini's mind. On the con-
trary, he labored with his pick and
shovel and lived the life of a recluse
prospector. Sometimes, the larder had
bacon and flour and sometimes it didn't,
but Mr.. Mottini's goal remained fixed.
He watched the mining camp
booms come and go in various
parts OF the state, but the scrambles
never attracted him, nor did the lurid
tales of new found wealth ever deter
HIM from prospecting his locations in
X l. canyon. With a determinatien
almost stoical, he remained with his
first choice of mining ground, taken at
time when Goldaeld, Tonopah, Raw
hide, Fairview and all the other new
districts could be had for the taking,
and his faith was rewarded recently
when he sold one of his groups, the
Ruby, in which he was equally interested
with c. z. Cirac, for $4,000.
The first payment was of the usual
size calculated to hold mining bar
gain, and Mr.. Mottini set aside $3.50
of the sum to reimburse, in part, the
county's expense incurred in 1882 when
he was injured within short distance
of the Ruby group of claims recently
sold. Monday he presented himself at
the county clerks office. and handed
Clerk Sitton check for the sum stated
and gave history of his self imposed
obligation. The amount will be turned
into the sick and INDECENT fund which
supplied the aid for which Mr.. Mottini
considers himself obligated.
The case, to say the least, is a very
unusual one, and furnishes concrete
proof that Churchill county at least has
one citizen who has not been con-
taminated by modern day practices,
but remains an honest man. And such
men usually get their just deserts.
They tell US that Mr.. Mottini is the
owner of mining ground that will make
him independent. Surely there are
none who more richly deserve kind
treatment at the hands of Fate.