White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-18

II was 1ull eight years 'h1t tue
Garfield Smelling Company laid for
James Mccoy before it finally sprang
a trap to land him for what appears
to be his second and this time futile
attempt to salt" the assay samples
of a two-carload shipment of ore, by
which Sailing" he would have been
enriched by some $4,000, more or
less, if successful.
The other time he was not trap
ped and according to information
long held under cover he got away
with it-secured $4,000 for a few
carloads of country rock taken out
of a shaft of a good mine at Cherry
Creek.
The name of the mine will be
withheld. 1t is known to everybody
at Cherry Creek and many others,
but to publish Il would give the
camp and the district a wholly IN
deserved black eye and no useful
purpose would be served.
1t was in 1914 that Mccoy and a
mining man named Shurtlilf, accom-
panied by their wives showed up at
Cherry Creek, Shurtliff hailing from
Nevada City. They soon bonded a
mine. Il belonged, rs 1t still does,
to the George @. Cannon estate of
Utah. Cannon had been Brigham
Young's right-hand man in the Nor
mon church, left a large estate and
some twenty-five sons by his several
wives, and had served for years as
Utah's territorial delegate in con-
gress. Espey Telle Cannon was one
of two of the SOM having charge Of
the Cherry Creek mine and with his
brother, whose Christian name is not
remembered. made the journey to
Nevada to look after the deal.
Mccoy was one of the modestly
attired, gentlemanly fellows in ap-
pearance. He wore high-priced
clothes, but not loud. The colors
were quiet gray or sombro hues OF
any conservative kind. lie displayed
nc jewelry and he showed no effects
of dissipation. In his talk and bear.
ing there was no hraggadocio, save
that of his display of wealth. He
invariably carried a roll of big bills
$50 ones and upward, ON his person
and when he paid out a nickel he
would pull u that roll, large
enough to choke an elephant.
He made no display of the common
property of Adventures known in the
yernacular as gall" In every way
he was always in and kept his place.
At that time he was about 80 years
Of age.
Taking charge of the mine, the
first thing he did was to hire 4 crow
of men and start up the machinery
TO pump out a wet shaft. The prop.
erty had a dry shaft on the opposite
side of the little canyon where II
lies, but he made this move as a
probable part of the play of show.
ing that he was about to do big
things.
He could have taken dump ere OF
waste and shipped 1t, after the man
ner he is said to have done at the
Blaine mine. but instead he hoistet
and shipped several carloads from
about the shaft. As it came up 4
was plain that 1t was not ledge mat
ter, but an altered quartzite with
some quartz seams. which came from
one OF the walls close to the ledge
What then was the most remark
able circumstance until events ex
planned IL at the old camp was tina
il had always been known as a silvel
mine and the ore as silver ore. Tn,
values were in the seams from tn,
ledge matter, occasionally runnin.
high In ruby and chloride. But Nc
Coy's returns came back in writin,
from the smelter showing gold val
ues, and big ones. They went abou
$76 a ton. He took care that thcs,
returns were seen.
He went to Garfield on the arriva
of the shipment, but II Is claimed
that he never once entered or tried {,
enter the plant. He was on vigil al
each a was unloaded, and tina
was all.
A clue toward an explanation o.
this circumstance was afforded whei
II was remembered that he had pre-
viousfy remarked that he had a goot
friend in the employ Of the smelter
to whom he sent boxes Of cigars ant
a goods on occasion.
Unlike mill runs, smelling clean
UPS arc not made after each lot o.
ore Is treated. This would be i'm.
practicable Tor several reasons. One
of them Is the necessity OF usine