White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-18
MCCOY "SALTED" CHERRY CREEK
ORE SHIPMENT EIGHT YEARS AGO

nuAeS, the latter carrying values anu
the product going into II lot. Set
Elements are made by sampling only,
and in the ease of the lot in ques-
| ton it is alleged that it was several
made the discovery that it was s40,-
900 behind what it ought to have
been. A checkup was made of past
smelling and it is related that the
Mccoy shipment was the one dropped
onto as the occasion of the big leak.
The company held its peace. but as
it now develops it has been laying"
for Mccoy ever since.
While on that visit TO Salt Lake
City Mccoy, for some then unknown
reason, summoned AL Rummell, fore
man of the mine, to meet him in that
city. Rummell found the j. Rufus
Wallingford being feted by automo-
bile statesmen, representatives of the
Cadillac and other high-priced cars,
the same joyriding him about the city
and other cities as far away as Og-
den and he having a great time.
Rummell was taken aboard. Mccoy
preached nc business proposition but
saw that Rummell was his boon COM
panion everywhere he drove or vas
driven. He paid Rummell Salary
due and told him to send the money
home. His expenses to Salt Lake
Mccoy paid and $10c besides. Nc.
Coy would not let him spend a dollar.
Finally they stopped in front of
the Merchants bank, since failed,
and Mccoy took Rummell inside. One
of the Cannons was cashier. Mccoy
seemed to be delighted to meet a
digniied looking elderly man in the
lobby Approaching him they greet
ed each other with expressed pleas
ure. Mccoy introduced Rummell.
by the way" said Mccoy. II won
der if I could draw about a hundred
thousand"
We'll, I'll see," smiled the bank
president, owner. hacker or whatever
he was supposed to be, drawing a
book from his pocket. You have
a balance of about seventy-eight
thousand. Yes, you can have a hun
bred thousand or anything you want
up to a couple hundred thousand, >
he told Mccoy and his Cherry Creek
foreman and guest.
Rummell probably realizes at last
and has for several years why he
was summoned to Salt Lake. He was
handed a copy of the smeiter re.
turns.
Meanwhile Mccoy sent $500 to
Shurtliff at Cherry Greek to pay off
their men. Mrs. Shurtliff used the
money to buy the Cocomongo mill,
a plant that had cost 100000, which
she got at a bargain had she had any
use for It.. 1t afterward was sold to
the Piermont Mines Company and re-
moved to Spring valley.
Mccoy returned in a fine car. lie
went into Leach Brothers store and
pulling out his elephant choker said
he wanted to pay his store bill, which
was then about $500. One of the
proprietors told him the bill was not
made out, that it would take quite
a while and to let II go until the first
of the month. He persisted but was
pacifed and entered q saloon next
door, where he sprang the choker
and threw a fifty on the bar. demand.
ing the drinks for the house.
Next morning early he drove GU,
of townoand has o been seen al
Cherry Creek since.
Behind him besides the store bill.
he left the unpaid payroll and the
Is per cent royalty on the ore due
to the Cannon estate.
He also left his wife and a Fort
car which she drove. His goinp
caused no anxiety and each day the
woman drove out a few miles ane
back. One and the last day she lost
her way or forgot to como back
at least she has never been there
since.
The Shurtliffs departed. too. in due
course and by devious ways.
The Cannon brothers came ant
looked high and low for their mine
buyers. The Cannons were the mos
honorable Of gentlemen. cultured
polite and refined. They could dt
nothing and admitted that it was g
trifie crude to permit mine buyers q
ship the ore and let the royalty gel
Through the owners fingers.
As all of this had finished trans.
piring Cherry Creek awoke to the
fact tht 1t had entertained some
world prodigies in their line.
How II was put over was the mys.