Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-03-08

transaction showed tnat 1OnOpan
miners and merchants had actually
paid one-siXth of the total purchase
price of $336,000. Anderson remained
in active charge in the eastern office
with Turner managing in Tonopah
H. Jenkins before expiration of the
verbal leasing contracts on the Miz-
pah, where $50 leases continued to
operate after the ground had been
turned over to the new corporation
Not a man Jack of them had writ
ten contract or an instrument of
any kind to guarantee his rights on
the premises and for time there
was more than shadow of doubt in
the mind of Jenkins if he would be
able to clear the estate of the men
who were so busy extracting riches
from the Mizpah. The leasers had
Jim Buffers word that their hold
ings would be respected until mid
night of December 81, 1901, and all
he invited in return was the assur-
ance that when the whistles blew
for the new year every shovel and
pick would be dropped and leasing
pass into history so far as the To
nopah Mining company ground was
concerned. This agreement met the
enthusiastic sanction of the leasers
With the approach of December
81 Jenkins became very nervous over
the prospect of trouble and at 11:30
o'clock of the last night of the year
he importuned Jim Butler as fol-
lows:
Aren't you going up on the hill
to dispossess these people and get
them to turn the mines over to u.s."
Butler remained imperturbable as
he pulled on his cigar, saying: 1.-THE
boys are all right and they will do
the right thing. You may depend
on that. They have my word and
| have their word and / don't see
what more you want"
This did not allay the anxiety of
Jenkins, who continued to pace up
and down his room as he watched
the clock slowly approaching the
Hateful hour. One may imagine shis
delighted surprise as he peered out
through the darkness as the clock
doomed out the midnight hour to
observe the singular spectacle and
one never before witnessed in the
worlds mining history. Every leas-
er and every one of his employees
had quit work on the stroke of the
clock and between 900 and 800 men
walked down the hill with their mine
candles held aloft with one hand
shielding the light from the breeze.
The bond for the sale stipulated
that the leasers should be protected
to the end of the year. The tribute
was rs per cent after wagon, rail
road and smelling charges had been
deducted. Even then the returns
often netted $125 a ton and the
value of the ore may be gagged by
the cost of the wagon haul to Soda
vile, which was $14, railroad charges,
$40, and smelter tolls SIG to $1S. 81
licious ores were drug on the mar
ket as the whole western country
was pouring out almost unlimited
tonnage and whole trainloads were
sidetracked for the convenience OF
the smelters. At this time the bank
account of the Tonopah Mining com
pany with Wells Fargo in San Fran
cisco was pretty lively, ranging in
one day from balances of 100000 to
$4,000 the next day. Jim Butler
had guaranteed the leasers dollar
for dollar as fast as they extracted
it from the ground and in spite OIL
the sluggish returns the money fol
the miner always was Forthcoming.
Owns Yachts, Bars Autos
One of the strong contrasts of life
is usually found in the way mining
man endowed with millions usually
gravitates to the water. When hi.
fancy does not run to horses or il
less praiseworthy directions he will
commonly be found on the brin,
deep. Down around Martha's Vine
yard it is customary to address thu
founder of Tonopah as Capt" An
derson for the reason that he il
passionately fond of the water boil
as in internal application, for exter
nal use and for the making of
home. He has always dreamed o
the ocean wave and as soon as h
got money enough to venture out O
short dresses tradition has it tina
his first purchase was vessel tina
negotiated perilous voyage tn
length Of the paternal bath tub. A
his fortune grew and the money BE-
:. gan coming in by thousands and mi
: lions appeared rising over the hor
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