White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
WHITE PINE PIONEER
RETURNS AFTER YEARS
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tLOiitEIuCu So JIM
give him $500 he would go to Sal
Francisco and make Jim give M,
my share OF the money. l told hin
no, that I did not care to put III
the $500 and take a chance of los
ing it. Parker got on a big drunk
and died there before it was ovel
when the money was gone. l after
ward met m of the men who helped
bury him.
"All I did about it was to go to
Cherry Creek and get my horse.
Tozier had removed Parker's no.
tices and put up his own, so / did not
even get to see the claim and never
was at Cherry Creek but that one
time. W. heard a name for the
claim. / do not know whether it
was the Star mine or what it
amounted to, only hat | vas told
it was a good one. Yesterday from
the train I took a look at Cherry
Creek, anyway.
Mr.. TAYLOR said that = few years
after that he made a large amount
of money in New Mexico. so that the
Cherry Creek loss was but one of
the vicissitud2s of mining camp
life.
Il just came back to see the place
nee more he reflected. II wanted
to have another look at it and see
the big things l heard had been
found.
Didn't you come back to look
up something you've held up your
sleeve all these years." the pioneer
was asked.
) well, nothing that l want to
talk about now he answered with
a sly grin.
Nothing that you are ready to
talk about?' persisted the inter-
viewer.
Not ready to talk about it yet
he admitted.
There is just one thing here that
looks natural he resumed, "and
that is Hercules gap. 1t looks to
me exactly as it used to. The hills
here do not look natural and here
where this town is there was moth
ing but a road that was used by
the stages. There were four-horse
and six-horse stages using it. re-
member the left-hand canyon, which
was the one that the water came
down. and the right-hand was
called the dry canyon. l could have
had all this then. 1t was claimed
by a fellow named George Lamb.
Il met Judge Mcdonald today but
never knew him before. I knew
Billy McGill and we We're friends
! think he ran for county clerk at
Hamilton on the ticket that I voted.
! knew the girl he married. his first
wife. Her name was Molly Fouts
and she was a daughter OF Mrs
Yates. l remember when Mrs.
Yates and her sister, Mrs. Peters,
drove in here with a two-horse team,
looking at the country. did not
know then what they were looking
for, but they came back with a
four-horse team and some cows.
Billy Peters used to milk the cows
for them and they sold the milk. 1t
was another sister of Mrs. Peters
who married A. c. Cleveland and
| knew Mr.. Yates when he died at
Silver City, Idaho. I also knew
Aaron Campton, who afterward had
the Ely TOWNSHIP. am told that
all of the old-timers except him that
l knew are dead"
After leaving here in 1874 Mr..
Taylor went to his old home in
Texas. where he married and raised
a family. Two sons are mining en-
gineers, one being located at Rands-
burg. He has a daughter at Salt
Lake, with whom he visited before
coming on this trip. His wife is
dead, SO he says he is a wanderer
again, with excellent health, and he
is not of a mind to quit. Hidden
wealth lures him on and he expects
10 keep going for many years. But
he might not leave here, at least for
quite a while, so he says. This dis
trict has been on his mind during
the forty-nine years of his absence
and he never would have been sat
isied without coming back while he
could.