White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-22

come home" the handsome little
woman interrupted me to say almost
sharply:
Gene Musselman is my mother"
She had previously told me that
Mr.. Musselman was her grandfather
and Clyde was her uncle, but it had
not soaked into my epidermis yet
where Gene came in, but with the
last explanation l tumbled.
The little woman explained fur
Their TO me that the old county seat
feeling still exists there. She said
that at a dance at Augusta almost
forty years afterward some Ell Do
radoan had thrown 1t up to a home
town dancer that he was a son or
grandson of one of the men who tried
to move the county seat from Ell Do
RADIO by armed force.
My father was the contractor who
was just then completing the Ell Do
RADIO courthouse and you al mag
inc how scared my sister. brother and
u were when that army drove by
within $50 feet OF the schoolhorse.
incidentally the county seat Is still
at Ell Dorado.
The whole school expected to see
powder smoke and hear guns rafting
in a pitched battle any minute, but
these things did not come of. Better
counsel prevailed during the day, the
hours being given up to argument,
but that night a man and his horse
were shot dead. | think the IAN
also his horse-were of the Augusta
bunch.
After they had gone / distinctly
remember how the Ell Doradoans
backfred the prairie grass on every
side of the town, excepting that fac
ing the Walnut river, to keep the
Augustans from wiping Ell Dorado
off the earth with a prairie fire.
About a month after Barton Pitt
man in 1904 had opened his Tonopah
brokerage Office he wired to Pitts
burg for 1000 Tonopah Extension at
market, II then being 65 cents a
share, with instructions to ship the
stock with draft attached. By the
time /. arrived the quotation was
S1.50. Without a dollar TO start
with and no money to pay for the
stock when it arrived Barton merely
told John S. Cook, then cashier of
the Nye County bank, to use it as
! collateral and loan him the $3.50 to
pay for it, which was quickly done.
Thus he had made $3.50 and was that
much TO the good.
The same week he turned another
trick or two like 1t, and II being IN
of those raw spring days for which
Tonopah is famous, Tom Lockhart,
elderly d~iscoverer of the Extension.
was at Barton's Office to keep the
fire going for Alice Clark, the stem
ographer. Tom was in the money.
He had sold control of the Extension
TO John McKane and Charles NJ.
Schwab mad had 100000 in the bank.
He lived in a dugout at the lower
end OF town and because he had 50
much money his living conditions
and his platonie way of making fires
for young Alice Clark on those cold.
windy days was a matter of some
little j%ocular comment.
On the day in mind Barton had
made these initial turns and was
feeling his oats a little. AS he sat
in the Office he told the bunch of US
that he had made $1,000 that week.
After he went out Mr.. Lockhart said
to me that he was looking for an
opportunity to go into partnership
with some young man who was ca
pable of making about 81, 900 a week
and that he would furnish the money
to do 1t with, but he only wished to
remain in the background himself
and not be known as a member OF
the firm
Barton had been saying TO me that
he wished he could find a hacker with
thirty or forty thousand dollars and
then he could make all kinds OF
money, but the trouble would be that
the partner would want too much out
Of tat least half the markings. as
he put II.
Now see here" I said to Barton.
"a man who will put up $4,000
against your nerve-for that's every
thing you've got-is entitled to half
the profits. have a man on the