Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-05

sold you for dollars share is down to four dollars
will make good the loss you have sustained Bring the
stock to me, and will give you what you paid for it..
The stock buyers regretted. of course that the Cen
eral to be taken away but were otherwise
delighted and lost time in delivering their holdings
In few days the General miraculously recovered his
health and it only short time aterward that the
stock scared to fifty dollars share.
MORE robust measures in the frantic chase for the
w 1ucre of the mines those of mine boss who
had been sent by relative to take charge OF property
in which no considerable body of had been found
The shares in the company selling at three dollars
EACH One day. however the boss present when the
miners broke into a ledge that seen to be enor-
rously rich 1t his duty inform the stockholders
of the discovery; but wealth doomed up and duty went
down before it The boss assembled the surface, has
tily collected blankets. food liquor and tobacco and
lowered them to the bottom of the eighthundredfoot
shaft with note to the shift boss to the effect that the
might work and make themselves comfortable,
because they would be kept there for few days. with
double pay and grtuity of one hundred dollars to each
Their families said would be told that an
cdent to the machinery the of their detention
With this done, the manager hauled up the wire cable
took out necessary pieces OF machinery closed and
locked the hosting house. and placed trusted con-
federate in charge He rode thirty miles horseback
the railroad station that night caught the train and
the next morning in San Francisco. His relative
of large resources and within three days they
had quietly bought up about twotrds of the stock IN
the mining company This stock advanced from three
dollars hundred dollars share and the conscience
less operator cleaned up seven million dollars.
A MORE primitive game that OF two adventures
1 \ who were employed in the assaying and melting
of one of the big mills They practised pnchng and
pocketing gold and silver amalgam, few pounds at
time, until in the course of year they had stolen and
secreted over hundred thousand dollars worth of
precious metal But the question was how to market it.
The bullion of the mine had identity of its own and
any attempts sell it outside of the regular channels
were likely lead to detection In this dilemma they
took another rascal into partnership. He had few
thousand dollars.
The Bumblebee Mining Company was bankrupt
corporation that owned abandoned mine and dis
mantled ivestamp mill in a decayed mining district
about forty miles from where the stolen bullion
cealed. The man bought up the Bumblebee stock
for tr1e and took possession of the property. By
of long journeys in the night he and the others
carried the bullion in spring wagon to the mill Then
they reopened the Bumblebee, reftted the mill, and
began crushing There metal in the Bum
bebee and to this actual yield the consprators added
the purloned amalgam by degrees, until it all
keted. The continual yield from the Bumblebee gave
the stock market value and it fed to the public at
gradually advancing prices The swindle netted each
of the three about one hundred thousand dollars.
AND yet the pursuit of mining the simplicity of the
life, the daily wrestlings with Nature have a ten
dency develop rugged strength of character and big
sort of kndliness. In no that l have met
these qualities prominent than in John w.
Mackay. He had sympathy with the strivings of
honest men. He understood, because he himself had
been through the struggle. AS young man he swung
pick the Nevada hills In his journey from the status
of prospector that of bonanza king he did
aside trample other He helped them when he
could Long before he laid the cable for the transmission
Of electric fluid between the New World and the DID,
he had established magnetic connections between him
self and the hearts of those who knew him well.