Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-17

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And speaking Of houses. no one
knows how many beautiful homes In
every state ia the Union are the
products of Comstock ore and stocks
Why, here in New York, | notice that
d. o Mills died as one your most
respected citizens That was right,
too. for his character was high and
his life clean, even where, in little
office in California, he bought gold
dust at the going rates of placer
miners. But the Comstock made his
great wealth, despite his own pro
tests. It was the prescience Of VIII
liam Sharon, backed by the broad
mindedness Of w. c. Ralston, that
caused him. through the ComstocB.
to become a fifteen-times millionaire.
W. H. Hobart was another one.
Genial and generous every day of his
life he took in the Comstock, and
while dealing indirectly in Comstock
shares, to minister to his own ire
mendous energies, went up on the
eastern slope of the Sierras, put the
shackles on stream Of water there
and made lake, and in V flume,
! - - -
Der to supply the Comstock, and
then sent the water down the noun
tain side, across Washoe valley and
up the range in which the Comstock
is located, and so gave Virginia City
the snow waters of the sierras every
day in the year And that you may
appreciate what a feat that was,
It is only necessary to say that where
the pipe crosses Washoe valley there
is a vertical pressure Of 100 feet
Then Mr. Hobart left Nevada
bought a great estate near San Ma
teo. few miles from San Francisco
stocked it with beautiful horses, and
meant to spend the evening of his
life there. But there was to be no
evening. His life went in a twink
ling out of the sunlight into the
darkness there was no twilight for
him He was rated as one of the
California millionaires, and he owed
It all to the Comstock
The late Isaac Requa was anoth-
er California holds him in memory
as one Of It's great millionaires. Ey-
cry dollar Of his fortune came from
the Comstock When he went there,
sterling man that he was, he was too
poor to raise an umbrella
General Corbin of the United States
army married lady who was a mil.
lionaire. Her mother is several times
a millionaire, but she closed the
eyes Of her husband in Gold Hill,
where he, through years Of trial, con.
centrated his earnings in Crown Point
when the stock was 50, and little
while after his death his administra
tor sold it for $500 share.
The late Lucky Baldwin" made a
, few hundred thousand dollars on the
Comstock. He loaned 100000 OF
100000 on a mortgage on 10000
acre farm of half wild land few
, miles from Los Angeles. He speni
a good deal of money in other direc
, tions, for he was emphatically 9
f plunger. but he was forced at las
[ to take the ranch When he dice
it was about all he had, but it was
rated at $2O,OOOOOO The nest egs
was the Comstock
\ The first glory of San Francisc,
was due to the Comstock, and tn,
final impetus which led to the build
e ing of the first overland railroad
|. was the Comstock-what it yielded
I and the hope it held out of the posst
bilities that slumbered in the desert
The revenues which the Comstocl
gave to that road daily for years, i
freights and fares between Sacramer
to, and Reno, was enough to build
mile of new road.
. Marcus DAILY graduated as mir
: er on the Comstock More than tina
he caught the Comstock spirit, an
see the miracle he wrought in MOI
tana!
e David Keith dropped down, o
m rather. climbed up to the Comstocl
d. a green boy from Nova Scotia. II
Is had worked in the coal mines ther
d. On the Comstock he sank the Cal
- donia shaft and an air shaft or tv
over the Sutro tunnel From thei
he drifted east and went to wor
in the Ontario mine in Utah. A
| ter a while, consulting with anoth,
. miner, he thought he saw somethir
= ahead. so he gave up his place al
= started a tunnel The result WI
. the Silver King, which has made q
. concerned rich and has more reserv,
q In sight now than ever before