The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-04-22

world knew that Goldheld was on the
map; aud other promoters who had
been figuring on capturing the greatest
fight since that of Fitzsimmons and
Corbett were thrown off their pins. The
offer was guaranteed by the Goldfield
Athletic Association. never heard of be.
fore, and having no existence before the
idea of the fight was broached. And
l.. NJ. Sullivan Of the L. NJ. Sullivan
Trust Company. was president
Of the club. Those were the days when
the L. M. Sullivan Trust Company was
advertised we'll through the work of
George Graham Rice.
Rice pushed his own promotions as
hard as they could be driven; and be
did not overlook the Mohawk. The
fight was secured. the gladiators took
up their training quarters in the camp,
and the papers began to be flooded with
the literature of Goldfield. Mohawk
kept up its reputation; more and more
Of the high grade gold being taken out
from the lease; and stories of high
grading on a large scale we're sent out
broadcast; it made the camp and its
| discoveries more and more fascinating;
| the eyes of the world were being TO-
cussed on "the greatest gold camp in
the world"
The price of Rice's Manhattan fiota.
tions were going up with the boom.
and he kept the securities we'll before
the public. Many of the buyers were
of the impression that Manhattan was
Goldfield's neighbor. so cleverly was
the literature of the l.. NJ. Sullivan
Trust Company worded. And the
world, too, had the L. NJ. Sullivan
Trust Company rated auong the great
financial institutions of the West.
Fight stories were going out mixed up
with the great developments in the
Mohawk and the doings of President
Sullivan Of the Goldfield Athletic club,
who was also president Of the L. M.
Sullivan Trust Company"
Greenwater, away down in Death
Valley, had meantime been exploited as
1.-THE worlds greatest copper camp. +"
There had been a big rush to Green.
water and the most wonderful things
had been promised for it. Companies
and promotions were formed, and the
majority Of which had their head
quarters at Goldfield. The people
went wild over the stories of copper
which were to the effect that the
riches of the Calumet and Hecla, and
the early days of Butte were to be
outdone. Everything was copper in
Death Valley; even the water. Charles
NJ. Schwab and his associates had be-
come interested, and this was the
surest sign of the camps success. The
stocks Of the various Greenwater pro-
motions sold like gold bonds. From
the securities of Greenwater, Bullfrog,
Manhattan and Goldfield, and Fairview,
where big strike had been made in
the Nevada Hills, the money was flow.
ing into the camp in golden stream.
This was the Goldfield which was
opened to the view of the people who
went there to see the fight; and with
many the fight was side issue. The
people of the East and the middle West;
from all parts Of the United States, in
fact. wanted to see gold camp. Rice
saw the way the tide was going, and
kept up with the food. He secured
Greenwater promotion, another in
Bullfrog; one in Fairview and the Lou
Dillon In Goldfield, "close in." He be-
lieved in giving the people what they
wanted, and was not to be caught short
on any promotion for which they might
clamor.
In the height Of Goldfield's prosperity
labor troubles were brewing in the
camp. The Industrial Workers of the
World, which had taken in the Western
Federation Of Miners, started to organ
ize the camp. Vincent st. John was at
the head Of this and what he said had
to go with the miners as we'll as any
other organization affiliated. Little was
known OF the l. w. w. in Goldtield at
the time, and it was not generally
understood that il was central labor
body. of which the federation was a
part. From what was afterwards
learned. the organization had its origin
in Chicago. the original idea being to
organize unorganizsd bodies of labor.
not affiliated with the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. The l. w. W. of
Goldfield attempted to organize labor
unions already affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, and
then the trouble began. Coercion was
tried, the federation of miners being
used as a club to beat the organizations
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