White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-22

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friends. After several weeks he told
me that back east at some theolog
ical school which he named there was
a young mar about to graduate, but
he was undecided about entering tho
ministry. If he could get him out to
Tonopah to preach for a few weeks
he might be induced to make it his
life work. Mr.. Robinson asked me
to write the young man a letter, tell
ing him my impressions of Tonopah
I wrote, telling him had spent years
in Seattle, Dawson, Honolulu, vari-
Gus places in California and back to
Dawson again, but that Tonopah was
the first place where I had rel made
any money-that / was making $500
a month there on an average and as
high as $1,100. l handed the letter
to Mr.. Robinson to be passed upon
before it vas to be mailed. In a few
days he said to me, cautiously:
Mr.. B., l have read the letter
and from the standpoint of some per-
sons it would be interesting, but it
is not exactly what I wanted. You
spoke of making money, but that
would not interest him. I hate to
ask you or to put you to the trouble,
but I would appreciate it il you would
write another letter and say nothing
about money making. Tell him mere
ly what Tonopah is like, the kind of
people you meet on the streets, Their
rough garb and give him an idea Of
life in a mining camp"
l did as directed. Mr.. Robinson
said the new letter vas fine. In three
Or our weeks the young mar arrived
and took the job.
When l met him he asked a few
questions about that stuff over there,
referring 10 the big Mizpah dump
that was supposed to contain a few
million dollars in gold and silver, but
his friend appeared to have the right
dope, for he apparently did not get
excited.
won't mention the young preach
er's name or those of some other
characters to enter into the drama.
| did not think of It at the time but
l heard aftcrward that several of the
"oIhCh tIOa6ht iC was hnhtloOtlCs
Prior to that time it was one of the
live traditions of the camp that a GER
tain mining man there had sunk a
shaft about GOO feet in the heart of
Tonopah and because he did not have
the money to buy more rope for his
whim SO that he could go deeper he
commenced prosecuting and ran into
\ oil Gtn1c nf ronnnu This uyo htcfo-
rical and happened to be the truth.
There were just two eligible young
women in Tonopah at the time of
about the young preachers age, regu-
lar attendants of his church, who
were fancy free. The father of n
of them was a plain spoken patriarch
who had been lucky in the mines and
stocks. He told me one evening, with
something that sounded to me like a
tingle of piquc, that the other young
woman, a sister of the guy whose
rope vas too short, had said that that
preacher could pack his clothes in
her trunk any time he would say the
word.
In a few weeks it SO happened. |
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to pack all their clothes, but the last
I knew they were still knocking
around the coast in quite good style,
preaching the gospel and not missing
their three-a-day so far as anybody
has heard.
The question is, Did I write the
right kind of a letter the first time
or the second, or did it really make
any difference, which from iother?
Another church builder entitled to
fame as such was Father Butler, To
nopah's pioneer Catholic priest. He
was a witty son of the ould sod and
he used to love to crony with another
f1annelmouth, DR.. Edward Bowes.
who was an Irish Protestant, and also
witty
When Bowes made his great strike
in the Bowes-Kernick lease on the
Jumbo, Father Butler would meet
him as he came back from his FIRE.
quent trips to Goldfield and ask
about the priest that had been SEN
there.
"Oi want we to luke afther thot
little prayst," said Father Butler.
"He vas stint theer t. build a church.
TIL little shrimp he's a book worrum.
Shure he could not build a church.
Poeta nata est o fit. Grafters. loike
poets, are barn, not made"
A stylish woman member of Fa-
Their Buffers parish wrote t Bishop
Scanlon at Salt Lake demanding a
new father and that Butler be trans
ferred, relating that there was oppo-
sition to him at Tonopah and the
church was divided. The bishop wrote
a noncommittal reply, which she
seemed TO have read wrong. thinking
she had won her point. But as a
matter of fact a copy of her letter
was sent to Father Butler in the same
mail, which shows how he stood. In
a day Of two she met him on the
street and woman fashion said;
"Oh, Father Butler, I'm so sorry