Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-08-09
HARRY RAMSEY
SOLVES MYSTERY
PIONEER OVERCOME BY
AN OLD MALADY
DECEASED MADE A HANDSOME
FORTUNE IN THE MINES
OF NEVADA

III iie ShduOWS, hurry RdihSSy hH"HS
crossed the great divide Saturday and
the insidious disease from which he
suffered recorded another victim. AS
was stated in the Bonanza at the time
of the operation which was performed
some time ago for the removal OF a
malignant cancerous growth from his
stomach, the physicians declared he
could not recover and that his term
of days was numbered Harry Ram |
sey was a Tonopah pioneer and one |
of the founders of Goldfield. He came |
here in the very infancy of this camp |
site of the Tonopah Liquor company |
The first period of leasing went by
and found him in the same condition
financially in which he arrived for he
had not, as he stated, yet solved the
secret of money making. He con
tracted a severe case of the strange
) rheumatism for which the desert is
, noted and remained at Valleys
springs for many months in the early
: part of 1902. But with full return
to health his old ways of handling his
r business passed and he came into
r period of successful activity which
2 was the marvel of the old timers and
D which placed him in the first rank
y of the wealthy men of the early days
e of Tonopah and Goldfield II has al
& ready been told how he gained for
a tune in the Fraction ground here. He
= held a large interest in the North
Star and ventured in the new region
which proved later to be the very re-
gion which proved later to be the
very spot where nature stored her
e treasure-G oldfield.
. He owned one-half of the Combina-
L. ton mining property which was sold
to L. l.. Patrick and associates and
u had many another interest in property
in our southern neighbor camp which
yielded large profits to him He was
one Of the original locators of the
Gfeenwater district and those of US
II who recall the boom in copper mining
VI at the time this district was struck
are well aware of the great fortune
Ramsey had for the taking If he had
. cared to liquidate his holdings This
! venture in Greenwater was one in
q which he erred in not 'cashing in
Z as was his custom, for development
; did not prove the expectations vel
3 founded and Ramsey with others held
z large interest in the various prop
2 critics too long, but he had maze
enough.
In November, 1906, his wife and
himself toured Europe. While on {
visit to Egypt they spent short time
in Alexandria where his wife became
I'LL He hurried her across the Medi
terranean to Rome, where she died
The disease proved to be the blacl
black smallpox, characteristic of tina
tropical land.
His experience with the grating OF
rich Americans practiced by the hote
and tradespeople was very interest
ing tale indeed Suffice it TO say here
however. that during the thirty day
his wife lived the expense, for loss o
patronage the hotel suffered by III,
presence in 1t of the loathsome dis
ease his unfortunate wife contracted
which he was obliged TO make GOOD
services, medical and otherwise, an,
the subsequent guarding of himself ii
quarantine cost him $4,000. He re
turned home and settled In Berkeley
He bought large ranch in Mendocin
county, married again and leaves
wife and two handsome children L
mourn his rltimey end.
All the old timers of this countr
will grieve to hear of Harry Ramsey
death, for his was kindly nature an
disposition which grasped hi
The very fearlessno SIS Of his charat
ter made him champion for tn
", ak and the oppressed ana his cha
ity was of the kind that reached an
removed the cause of human suffe
ing. Such men as he are the ones 81
\ lected to build new countries and the
| leave their imprint on the hearts {
all who know them. The Bonanz
lays a garland on the bier of the sta
wart Tonopah pioneer and offers {
his bereaved ones its sincere syn
nathy with the assurance that tn
community In which their dear on
lived so long mourns with them.
THOMAS II. PRICE is up from sa
Francisco and is guest at the Mi