Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-08-12

They all tell me that Oscar a.
Turner is broke again. after making
millions in the mining game out Of
nothing, and is now located down in
Arizona, trying to prove up new /
copper find" said trail blazer of 1
the early Leadville days, who made /
his pile and invested it in govern /
ment three per cents says the New
York Mining Age
Turner" Sc said, "can make mon
ey faster and lose il faster in the
mining business than any man ever
knew He is lawyer by profess
sion, graduating from the law school
Of the Johns Hopkins university
nearly thirty years ago. He prac-
ticed his profession in Baltimore UNI
til the early days of the first decade
of this century. There was a time
when he owned a big interest in
such as the Tonopah Mining Co.,
which has paid nearly s11.O00,00O
in dividends to date: Ray Central
Copper Co, which was merged into
the Ray Consolidated. and Ely Cen
trail, which now lies quiescent after
turbulent mining and market ca.
reer. and others.
IN the late 9O's Turner emigrated
from Baltimore to St Paul Mimi,
where few years he practiced his
profession with only moderate succ
esss. Turner got the California gold
! fever early in 1900, and departed
from St Paul without telling any
body with regard to his destination
Nothing was heard from him unit
one day a postal card received b.
J his wife stated that he was the own
Z er of little California gold min'
I and was working it himself.
zone day Turner was sitting in hi
! little office near the shaft of thu
gold mine he owned in Grass Val
I ley, Cal. The mine was a produce
: all right, and Turner was making
: money out of it, The mining fiel
had wonderful attractions for hin
He dreamed bonanza dreams and hi
thoughts ran to fabulously ricl
strikes. He found real mining
little harder than he had anticipate
but worked continually into bette
things until he eventually anchore
y himself in Grass Valley in the S
D ezra range and settled down to tn
I'd management of profitable mine.
zone Jay the Hoskins brother
who had just started a new Pacif
Coast mining paper or We're abol
to start one, blew into his offic
Anyway they were out looking +
subscribers and double-teamed
victims. They nailed Turner to Il
"a cross and persuaded him to ST.
scribe for the paper and to agr
to cash orders for such Of his m
as they might induce to take I
- paper. They succeeded in getting
dozen or fifteen of the boys to 81
scribe at 8 year, and Turner cai
ed their orders on the spot. In gra
! tude the Hosxins offered to |
him on the dead-head list. This v
little too much for the mine owl
and he smilingly declined to acc
the gratuity, preferring to appear
the books as a real, sure enor
cash subscriber. He bet SO that
paper would last a year, and {
he might get his moneys worth.
a'e did.
"The very first issue of Hosk
ia paper that came to hand containe
- paragraph about the wonderful !
strike at a mining camp in New
that had been christened TonoI
which in Injun language means,
place where water may be fou
incidentally it may be remarked
e this connection that it is a pl
n where other things may be FOL
Anyhow Turner had never heard
Tonopah (nor had anybody ell
4 but his curiosity was aroused
= he wrote to his friend, the eo
of the Walker Lake tNevada) b
I. tin for information. The editor W
back at length to the effect thu
,E real strike had been made and
it was all that had been represe
that and more Furthermore, he said
re. the big man in the new camp
.A,. one Jim Butler who had been
first man on the ground and
men made the discovery. He also inf
So ed Turner that Butler had SCI
out partners.
! TO Having confidence in the e.
knowledge and good Judgment Of
Walker Lake editor. Turner de-
to pay a visit to the remote d