Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-21

the MONDAY sun at sea.
He knew all the mines and all
the managers. When some Of the
managers made a statement of con-
ditions he wagered that ii was true.
when few others made statements
of what was and what must be
in the immediate future, he unload
ed all the stocks he had in the
company and sold short as many
more.
When Mineral Hill had been
opened a certain depth and halted
for want of funds to procure ma
chinery, on the advice of Joe Far
rem he put his shoulder to the com
pany and helped the owners
through, taking his fair commissions
of course. Mineral Hill was a por-
phyry vein in granite, and to those
who understood the formation, it
was always safe to estimate its
value down to the lowest point that
the porphyry was explored, the
lief being that al any time the un-
DERIVING rock would mark the depth
Of the porphyry and the ore body.
But the porphyry held good for
1900 feet in depth and yielded sew
eral millions of dollars.
When Buel and Bateman obtained
their option on Eureka Con. at
Eureka, Farren joined with them,
and Uncle Billie backed Buel and
Bateman, and the result was a
splendid success.
But Uncle BiIlies greatest tri-
umph was at Bodie, south of Car
con, but on this side of the Sierras
in California. He opened and also
equipped mine there which for
three or four years was more like
mint than mine. No one except
Mr.. Lent's heirs knows how niue
money he made there, but it was Z
vast fortune.
He must have been close upon Sc
years of age at the time, but "age
had not withered him nor custom
changed his genial nature, his
shrewdness, nor his tireless energy.
Most of the bonanza kings had
manu- enemies. 1t is a habit of
mankind, when they see fellow
man accumulate a great fortune, no
matter how fairly, to brood over
it, and many grow to believe that
if the worlds gifts had been fal.
divided, no one man could have
gathered to himself SO much
treasure.
| never heard of any ona who
had that feeling toward Mr.. Lent
When a man is called Billie Lent in
his youth, Uncle Billie Lent in
middle age, and old Uncle Billie in
his old age, those are all indications
that he has the love near him and
the admiration and kindly thoughts
of thousands who never clasped his
hand
So while Uncle BILLS was as
sharp as the sharpest, while in bust
ness he never asked any odds of
any one; he managed to hold his
own; to line his path with charities,
to say generous and hopeful words
to those less successful than him
self; to draw to him in splendid
" hn
work out his enterprises, and If he
had any enemies never heard of
them.
This was because he was always
manly and frank and candid; he
had no false pride; every man met
him on equal terms--a pair of over
alls was as fine as dress suit with
him if the right man wore the
overalls.
He died in San Francisco many
years ago away past the eighties,
but still affectionately remembered
there.
have a belief that If he is there
as he was when he was riding on
the coaches here-he has the choice
of seats, and if he had his pick of
places, there is a phantom ocean
bearing ghostly ships into their ha-
ven, and spectral mountains in the
back ground that contain celestial
ores, and that he divides his eter-
nifty making wagers of what ghostly
ship is nearly the offing, and count
ing on the news that the next eth
ereal areoplane will bring down
from the mines.
In the meanwhile all the neigh
boring ghosts are wont to gather
near to hear his ghost tell of the
lively time he had on the Comstock
and how in his old age, he scooped
all the young men when he took in
the Standard mine at Bodie.
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