The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-07-26

J 1DeIe were LO Ctass
those days. or at most, there were two
classes. The men who struck 4" and
made stakes, they were one class; the
others. who never guessed right, they
made up I other class. The first were
the self made. pendent and discerning
stalwarts;'' the others were 1.-THE care
less and improvident Ones" who even
in that golden field could not make
good.
There we're others, natural born u
nauciers, who believed were such de-
poslts If ore a. those IN the Comstock
existing, there were chances for more
magnificent gambling than was ever
seen before, and that the ones who
could gather in the percentages OF the
game would do pretty well.
Chief oil these was William Sharon,
and for many years he was riehtfuliy
held as the king of the Oomstock, for he
had the genius to keep the work going
on and to keep the workers paid prompt
ly on every pay day. and if the bulk of
that pay went into the mining stocks.
80 much the better. And he found the
bouanz4 in the Belcher and Grown
| Point and many lesser ones. ln seven
years after 1870 more b q slO.OO0.OOO
was paid there IN dividends, which the
people got.
Among these was Charlie Foreman.
A shrewd man was be. He estimated
everything. not only the daily presenta-
| lions in the mines. bat the probable life
Of the lode, the influence Of the great
heat as the mines were explored deeper
and deeper-everything. So when his
wife wanted a comfortable house. be
built her a fine one, but keeping every
thing in mind, not a spike was used IN
the frame; it was put together with
wooden plugs, so when the orange was
squeezed and other men lost their
houses, he had the pegs sawed on. TOOK
the house down. loaded it on cars.
shipped it TO Los Angeles. a 1t set mp
there and lives in it yet.
And speaking Of houses, 10 one knows
how many beautiful homes in every
State in the Union are the products OF
Oomstock ore and stocks. Why. here
in New York, / notice that ID. o. Mills
died as one Of your most respected citi'
zens. That was right, too. for his
character was high and his life clean.
even where, in a little Office in Cali
foruia. he bought gold dust at the going
rates of placer miners. But b Com
stock made his great wealth. despite biz
own protests. 1t was the precedence OF
William Sharon, backed by the broad
mindedness Of w. O. Ralston. that
caused him through the Oomstock. to
become a l5-times millionaire.
W. II. Hobart was another one. &C.
NAL and generous every day of his life
he took in the Comstock. and while
dealing indirectly in Comstock shares,
to minister to his own tremendous en-
ergies, went up IN the eastern slope Of
the Sierras. put the shackles on q
stream of water there aud made a lake
and in a V fiume. sent down millions Of
feet of timber to supply the Comstock
and then sent the water dow thu
mountain side. across Washoe valley
and up the range in which the Com
stock is located, bud so gave Virgins
Oity the snow waters OF the Sierra
every day in the year. And that yoI
may appreciate what a feat that was
it is only necessary to say that where
the pipe crosses Washoe valley there i
a vertical pressure of 100 feet.
Then Mr.. Hobart left Nevada, bough
a great estate near San Mateo, a few
miles from San Francisco. stocked i
with beautiful horses. and meant Il
!, spend the evening Of his life there
But there was to be no evening. Hi
life went in a twinklIng out of the sun
light into the darkness-there was nj
twilight for him. He was rated as ont
of the California ~millionaires. and h'
!, owed it all to the Comstock.
The laee Isaac Requa was another
California holds him in memory as on
of its great m~illionairss. Every dollaI
of his fortune came from the Oom
stock. When he went there. ~sterlinI
man that he was. he was too poor e
raise an umbrella.
General Corbin of the United State
army married a lady who was a mil
lionaire. Her mother is several times q
millionaire. but she closed the eyes o
her husband in Gold Hill. where he
through years of trial, concentrated hi
earnings in Crown Point when tn
stock was 90, and q little while after hi
death his administration sold it fol
$500 a share.
The late Lucky Bald win" made
s. L..a.od thNoa.nA lo1lara on fh,