Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-25

with anOtneT. "HeH the plstolS "ele
emptied the stranger resumed his
work (mending a whip lash). and Mr..
Harris rode by with a polite nod,
homeward bound, with bullet
through one Of his lungs and several
in his hips, and from them issued lit
tie rivulets Of blood that coursed down
the horses sides and made the animal
look quite picturesque.
| I'VE found the state palace OF the
governor of Nevada territory to con-
sist of a white frame one-story house,
with two small rooms in 1t, and
stanchion-supported shed in front for
grandeur; it compelled the respect OF
the citizen and inspired the Indians
with awe. The newly-arrived chief
and associate justices Of the territory
] and other machinery Of the govern
ment were domiciled with less splen-
dor. They were boarded around pri-
vately, and had their offices in their
| bedrooms"
Lest the reader should gather from
| this that the inhabitants Of Nevada
had nothing worth gambling away,
the following passage from Rough
ing 1t" is worthy of attention:
There were nabobs in those days
in the flush times, I mean. Every
rich strike in the mines created one
these. They were careless, easy-go-
ing fellows. as a general thing, and
the community at large was as much
benefited by their riches as they were
themselves-possibly more in some
cases.
1.-TWO cousins, teamsters, did some
hauling for a man. and had to take
small segregated portion OF silver
mine in lieu of $500 cash. They gave
an outsider a third to open the mine,
and they went on teaming. But not
long. Ten months afterward the
mine was out Of debt and paying each
owner $4,000 to $4,000 month
say 100000 a year.
lone of the earliest nabobs that
Nevada was delivered OF wore $4,000
worth Of diamonds in his bosom, and
swore he was unhappy because he
could not spend his money as fast as
he made 1t.
Another Nevada nabob boasted an
income that often reached $4,000
month, and he used to love to tell how
he had worked in the very mine that
yielded it, for IS a day, when he first
came to the country
THE silver and sage-brush state
has knowledge Of another of these pets
of fortune-lifted from actual power
ty to affiuence almost In single
night-who was able to offer $780,
900 for a position Of high official dis
tinction, shortly afterward, and did
offer it-but failed to get 1t, his poll
tics being as sound as his bank ac-
count.
Then there was John Smith. He
was good, honest, kind-hearted soul,
born and reared in the lower ranks OF
life, and miraculously ignorant. He
drove a team and owned small
ranch-a ranch that paid him COM
but little hay, what little 1t did yield
was worth from $3.50 to $500 in gold
per ton in the market Presently
Smith traded a few acres Of the ranch
for a small undeveloped silver mine
in Gold Hill. He opened the mine
and built a little unpretending ten
stamp mill. Eighteen months after
ward he retired from the hay busi-
ness, for his mining income had reach
ed a most comfortable figure. Some
people said 1t was $4,000 a month
and others said it was 100000. Smith
was very rich. at any rate.
"And then he went to Europe and
travelled. And when he came back
he was never tired of telling about
the fine hogs he had seen in England
and the gorgeous sheep he had seen In
Spain, and the fine cattle he had no
ticed in the vicinity of Rome. He was
full Of the wonders Of the old world,
and advised everybody to travel He
said a man never imagined what sur
prising things there were in the world
till he had travelled
"A youth Of 19, who was a tele-
graph operator in Virginia on sal
ary of 500 a month, and who, when
he could not make out German names
in the list of San Francisco steamer
arrivals used to ingeniously select and
supply substitutes for them out Of an
old Berlin city directory, made himself
rich by watching the mining kilograms
that passed through his hands and
buying and selling stocks accordingly,
through a friend in San Francisco.
Once, when a private dispatch was
sent from Virginia announcing rich
strike in a prominent mine and advis-
ing the matter be kept secret till
large amount of the stock could be Sc
cured, he bought forty feet Of the
stock at $40 a foot, and afterward
sold half Of it at $500 foot and the
rest at double that figure. Within
three months he was worth $150,O0O
and had resigned his telegraphic po-
stion.
But why go on? The traditions Of
Silverland are filled with instances
like these, and I would never get
enumerating them were 1 to
attempt to do it."-New York Even
ing Post.