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

lingo Joe vas given Il private bu-
rial in the Ely cemetery Tuesday
morning. lingo ice is the ~jocular
name for Joe Ghirardelli. who died
at 8 O'Clock Sunday morning from a
complication of measles and pneu-
monia, as announced in last weeks
White Pine News.
Joe was a Hamilton pioneer of
1874. AS a mere boy he had then
just arrived from Italy and soon en-
tered the packing business at the
oldest eastern Nevada camp. It was
in that same year that Dave Mclean
was working in the old Eberhardt
100-stamp mill and Joe used to pack
quicksilver there with his mules.
lingo Joe had a pack train OF six
teen extra large mules. He did all
sorts of packing. His most notable
contract vas hat of packing nahog-
any wood from the top of White Pine
mountain for the Smoky mill. This
he did until the company get into
him in the sum of Sc 200 and ht
meyer received the money,
TOI IdNhiiS obu III VI -
days. as has been done since from
the mountainous of Nevada. aparc-
ioes were rugged with Two large iron
hooks on each side and the wood
lashed onto the mule with the reg
Ilar diamond hitch. The distance
Ghirardelli packed this wood was '
about three miles, which IS Il short
pack for an animal, but he put loads
on the mules that more than made
up for it. He loaded them with from
100 to 500 pounds Of wood each. and
at that it was not level ground, by
any means, but a hard trip down 4
steep mountain. To make them stand
up under this work he had to feed
well, which he did.
Whether from the first or not is
not clear. but during his career rs d
his brother. John Ghirardelli.
was a partner III the pack train. They
had many contracts. another notable
one being when. for a lone period,
hey packed all the ore on the backs
Of their sturdy mules from the Ne
rada mine, on White Pine mountain,
for jim Seary and Dave Ross. Later
had a large mahogany wood
contract from Charles ID.
I,ane wncn he was operating the
Chairman mine at Lane City.
John was the better business NAL
of the two and after some years
packing, from which he saved thou
e lo11,-, h. rff,,pnnI 70 Jt11V !
and lives there today. O~ld-tiiners say
he was quicker under the hat thar
John had two sons. who are
here. and one was in Ely the day his
uncle died He was allowed TO see
Joe at the isolation hospital and the
latter tried to speak Tut could not
Two sisters lived in this country
many years. One died in Cali
fornia about three years ago II the
other, Mrs. Gus Biggio, died Il year
at Eureka. her death occurring
July rs.
The California sister Is reputed to
have left $4,000 in cash and a will
beuueathing 5000 to a Catholic
church in San Francisco, $4,000 to
another Catholic church IN Italy and
tho remaining $4,000 to three Il
viving brothers. There seems to
been a clause or codicil to &C
cept the terms of the will by their
signatures thereon before it could
become operative. Joe would have
signed anything to get money, sc
sorely did he need 1t "a the time and
~afterwarG. Dut when tho will reached
John in Italy he spurned it. He wac
indignant over the requests to th'
churches and has never signed it,
and in refusing he declared loudly
that he had plenty of money and did
not care. With Joe gone it leaves
John and another brother in Soutl
Africa. The latter Is thought to be
most likely to need the money but
cannot get it under Johns refusal
1t also is said that the churches can
not receive theirs as long as John
refuses to sign, and if he survives
the South African brother and con-