White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-24
Try b. r. MILLER.)
PART ELEVEN

1878 Cherry Creek made little
growth, but new impetus was given
the camp about the latter named
year through the finding OF new ore
bodies in the Exchequer and Tea Cup
mines, and when the writer returned
TO Cherry Creek In 1880 the Tea CUP
was building a new mill. From q
camp of several hundred, Cherry
Creek had by this time grown to be
a town of about 1900 prosperous
people. J. II. Roberts at this time
was superintendent and general man.
ager of the Exchequer, while Ed
Smith held the same position at the
Tea Cup.
The starting up of the Egan prop
critics, together with the operations
of the mines and three mills at Cher
~ Creek, created great activity. To
supply these four mining companies
with wood, coal and mining timbers
necessitated the employment of be-
tween seventy and eighty men by the
writer, who had the contract to sup
ply them all, II being necessary tc
lay in supplies during the summer to
last through the winter. The Star
mine at this time was employing 140
10 $50 men in the mine, with thirty
or forty more working in the mill.
During 1SS1-S2 the Tea Cup and Ex.
chequer combined were working
about as many men as the Star, while
the Egan mine and mill employed
forty or fifty. These years, immedi.
ately preceding the crash OF 1888,
rank as the brightest days of the
camp When the crash came in the
latter year many of the business men
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fields, while a few weathered the
storm and stuck with the town.
The Exchequer and Tea Cup hav.
ing been closed by attachments about
the time of the Star mine fiasco. the
exodus from the camp began. Taylor
at this time was just beginning &c
loom up and many went there. Pete
Weber, Ed Crowley and dozen 9th.
ers went 10 the Occur d'Alenes. In
Idaho. John Quinn went to Needles,
Cal. while Ward. who was a partner
OF Willis Brougher in business, went
TO Salt Lake City. Mr.. Brougher
went TO Belmont, where he later was
elected county clerk and subsequently
county recorder. The latter Office he
held until the discovery OF Tonopah.
where he went with his brother dur.
ing the fret excitement and managed
TO amass a comfortable fortune.
After leaving Tonopah he purchased
the Arlington hotel at Carson city,
which was then, as now. the chief
hotel in the state capital.
A. NJ MacCauley. another OF Cher
ry Creeks old-time business men.
bought out the business OF George
Kennedy In the early sos and, like
many others, weathered the storms
of the towns later days. The writer
had Mr.. MacCauley as business rival
for many years and can truthfully
say that never did he have better
friend or more honest competitor
In business M-. MacCauley is cit
izen OF whom Cherry Greek may
Justly feel proud. Rufus Fillmore,
another of the old settlers, has been
a resident OF Cherry Creek for over
forty years and has always ranked
as one Of White Pine county's best
and most honored citizens.
Hughie Frank, A. II. Nuckels and
Wren Pierce are other old-timers
who, with the exception OF n few
years spent by MIR. Nuckels as deputy
warden at Carson. stayed continu.
ously with the old camp until the
death of Mr.. Pierce several years ago,
Pete Cannon, one of the towns earli-
est settlers, was engaged In business
for many years and was postmaster
for awhile during Grover Cleveiand's
administrations. Adolph Sunberg,
another popular business man, hav-
ing once been a miner. possessed
many friends and always had large
business following.
Joseph =. Moore was one of the
earliest settlers and best known resi-
dents of Cherry Creek and Egan can
yon. having been engaged In business
in Egan as carly as 1874. When
Egan slumped and the camp was al
most deserted he moved to Cherry
Creek and engaged in the butcher
business. always making friends who
stayed with him. The writer knew
Mr.. Moore from 1874 until he left
the state In 1904 and during these
thirty years never heard an Ill word
spoken of Mr.. Moore.
Timothy Shine came to Cherry
Creek with the writer In 1880 and
Immediately engaged In the saloon
business. Tim Shine had large fol
lowing and was a factor to be reck.
oned with In politics. The Egan
canyon boys made Shines saloor
their Headquarters while in Cherry
and the 1ate A. Z. cleveland used u
say that the hardest factions he had
to contend with In county politics
were the Boss Weber corner and Tin
Shines Irish reservation at Cherry
Creek.
Michael r. Boyle came to Cherry
Creek In the early sos from Eber
hardt. being for years engaged In th'
dairy business and owning a ranch II
the foothills south of Schellbourn'
until along In the SOS. Mr.. Boyl'
served two terms as county cor1mis
sioner and worked hand In hand Will
Crane Gallagher, M. b. Carraghal
and John b. williams for many year
in the interest OF the taxpayers. HI
health broke down in the latter 90
and he moved to Salt Lake City
where he died
John A. Carlson, then n beaedles
boy OF 1S. reached Cherry Creek Il
1901 1000 an,nsnn Itrao4 from