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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26
GRANITE MOUNTAINS RICHES BROUGHT GREAT
SPEEDY WEALTH TO INVESTORS; WAS BASIS
OF FIRST REAL ESTATE BOOM lM ST. LOUIS

and in 1880 had been acquired by
the late Charles D. Mcclure, one
of the officers of the Hope Mining
company, then operating not very
p%rofitably at Phillipsburg. The
wealth of the muontain was not
then fully realized.
After acquiring the property,
Mcclure went to St. Louis, first
granting his brother in : law,
Charles Clark, at Phillipsburg, the
right to sell all his interest. In
December, 1880, Mr.. Clark, having
satisfied himself of the probable
richness of the mine, went to St.
Louis for the purpose of interest
ing capital. The disgruntled stock
holders of the Hope refused to sink
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26

any sound. The gag was about eight
feet long and Walsh was confident
of his ability to tie his captor Sc
curely.
Leave that to me-" Campbell says
Walsh told him when Campbell sug-
gested that perhaps the gag might
not accomplish its purpose.
The knife Walsh had was a table
case knife, which the prisoner had
sharpened to a razor-1ike sharpness
on a slab of concrete he tore from
the floor. The concrete he wrapped
in a sack making an effective billy.
The knife Walsh told his fellow
prisoner, was obtained by means of
a wire and hook. The condemned
youth filched it from a window sill
four feet distant from the bars of
the cage.
Talked Again
The prisoners glib tongue could
not remain silenced. He told his
plans to Campbell and importuned
his fellow prisoners aid. Campbell
says he told Walsh he didn't want
to have anything to do with it."
1t was on Sunday, June 8th that
Campbell was i~ncarcerated in the
Boulder Jail. On the same day
Walsh told his plans and asked
Campbell for a string.
eff I had a string, I could melt
these bars like so much BUTTER" he
is said to have told Campbell, at the
same time pointing significantly at a
bottle which Campbell believed con-
tanned acid.
Campbell armed himself with a
club and each time Undersheriff
Knight entered Walsh's corridor
stood nearby watching
Walsh.
Time after time Walsh ~entreated
aid. "He said to me-"
declared, "What do you
to stay here for? They'll rail-
road you like they did me. You'll
be here from two to five years
Would Rob Bank
Walsh, according to Campbell,
1rew a map of the route he intended
O take after escaping. He planned
according to Campbell, to rob the
bank at Victor, Idaho.
He told me-" said Campbell, "that
after we got out, assuming that
was with him, we would steal a
harmon car in Boulder here. He
aid he was going to drive all night
o the Snake river. If the water was
leep enough he planned to bury the
machine in the river. If not he was
,oing to burn it.
"Then he was going to steal a sad
lie horse; if I was with him, two
The robbery of the Victor
,ank was to be a daylight affair
nd Walsh said it was a pipe
Campbell Savior
Undersheriff Knight is convinced
hat but for the presence of Camp
Walsh would have worked out
is plan. Had Walsh known he was
DING to Deer Lodge at the time he
id, Mr.. Knight believes the prisoner
you'd have attempted an escape
raving the club in CampbelPs hands. ;
Walsh could not conceal his d1sap-
ointment when he was told that ne
going to be removed to Deer
lodge. /.
Walsh asked for a clean shirt.
While his captor was getting it the !
risoner, according to Campbell, +
iezed the bottle believed to nave
obtained acid and smashed 1t IN a
a~vatory bowl and flushed the BOWL: T
eff / had that that the first time, I
Walsh said, according to Campbell, ,
1 never would have been brought :.
ack here" l.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26

any money and Gully a few took
stock. Before the new year, how.
lever, a syndicate was formed ane
money provided for the working.
For two years the hackers die
nothing but produce money for de-
ve1opment and receive the jeers Of
the wiseacres of the old Hope com
pany.
In November, 1882, the work
had passed through a chute of 40t
feet of ore averaging so ounces If
silver to the ton, and then through
lis feet of barren ground before
making the strike. Then prosper
ity began.
During the following year the
bonanza realized the investors
$274,OOO. In July, 1886, the pro-
duct of the mine as sold and GER
dited in a bank at St. Louis was
$2,17O,OOO. From Octoer s, 1880,
when the first tools were sent into
the mine, to April s, 1885, the syn
dictate had paid assessments. In
April, 1885, the mine began to pay
dividends on its capital stock of
$1O,OOO,OOO, divided into 100000
shares of par value of SIS each.
By October, 1886, the mine had
paid dividends aggregating ST.
100000, after paying all indebted
ness.
The first dividend declared was
10 cents a share. This amount was
paid for several months, and then
increased to rs cents a share. This
continued for a year or two, and
then then SO cents a share was
paid every month for a number of
years. Thus a man holding $4,000
shares-and there were such-re-
ceived $4,000 a month in divi-
Once or twice the dividend
was rs cents a share. This condi-
ton made Monte Cristos of men
who had been comparatively poor.
From 10 cents a share to the out
set the stock was sold as high as
500 per share in the market in
1889.
Granite Mountain silver was the
The foundation of the first real es-
tate boom in St. Louis. With but
one exception the fortunes reaped
this mine were employed to
the interests of that city.
The Merchants bridge and the
Terminal railway of St. Louis are
monuments of Granite
Mountain and into the famous
Planters hotel went considerable
If the profits of the mine. Several
If the original directors built mag
lificent homes in Vandeventer
Place and other Fashionable ST.
-ouis districts.
/. There has often been told an in
eresting little story to the effect
hat away back in 1875 Eli D. Hol-
and, while hunting, followed a
leer high up on the mountain side
nd finally came upon a bit of rock
which had been scraped by the
loof of the deer in its flight so
hat the mineral content was ex-
'osed, Holland carrying the speci-
nen with him and upon having it
ssayed found high values which
ed to the stalking out of the Gran
+e claim.
The late Paul A. Fusz, who was
alter president of the Granite-Bi-
fetallic company, made denial of
story. He said:
"The Granite fissure had an ex-
osed outcrop and consequently
ad no aid from the deer which the
iscoverer was alleged to be follow
lg at the time. It's discovery was
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26

were no surface indications of val
Tie and the act of locating was
merely perfunctory on the part of
Mr.. Holland, he deeming that
someday something might be re-
allied by SO doing.
"The following year he and his
associates contracted to give a
quarter of the property to a miner
named Mcintyre if the latter would
sink a shaft fifty feet deep on thhe
ledge. This working was COM
pleted, SO the contractor thought,
but upon measurement was after
wards found to still lack a foot
of the distance agreed upon. The
owners insisted upon a compile
ton of the work before the sur
rendering the deed, but Mcintyre,
a veteran miner and prospector,
declared he would not walk up the
d hill again for the mine
"The mine in reality was discov-
cred by Charles D. Mcclure who
had visited the ledge in the sum
mer of 1880 at the request of Hol-
land. In doing So, he came across
a small piece Of float which, upon
careful examination, created in his
mind the impression that the big
ledge had merit, and he became SO
convinced of the truth of his be-
lief that after subsequent visits he
bonded the property in his own
name for 10000 and Immediately
took possession"
Through him a syndicate was
formed formed consisting of St.
Louis investors and up to the
of 1883, $4,000 was ex-
pended in development, the total
disbursement in purchase and de-
velopment amounting to about
100000.
John R. Lionberger was the
first president of the Granite
Mountain Mining company, he be-
ing succeeded in December, 1884,
by Lewis R. Rumsey, who occu-
pied the position up to the time of
the consolidation with the Bi-Me-
tallic property in 1898.
C. D. Mcclure acted as superin-
tendent, but was later succeeded
by Frank L. Perkins who had been
superintendent of the Hope Mining
company which in 1885 built the
Hope mill, the first silver mill in
He remained as super
until March, 1885, when
the Granite developed into a Boz
nanza, when he was relieved by
Captain John w. Plummer.
The Granite paid its first divi-
of 10000 in April, 1885, less
han a month after P1ummer took !
In 1884 Mr.. Mcclure purchased
he properties lying west of the
Granite and in July, 1886, incor-
oorated them as the Bi-Metallic
company, of which Charles
was the first president and
vas succeeded in October, 1889,
~ Paul A. Fusz, who served as
UGH up until the organization of
he consolidated company.
The members of the boards of di-
ectors in these companies being
he largest stockholders in both
companies it was deemed advis-
BILE to consolidate them, and on
april 6, 1898, a charter was OBJ
aimed under the name of the Gran
te-B i-Metallic Mining company,
which took possession the follow
ng month.
Beginning with the year 1883
nd up to May |, 1898, at which
ime the properties were turned
yer to the consolidated company,
ullion and ore was shipped from
he Granite to the value of $22,-
03, 1Oo.2o, and from the Bi-Me-
allie to the value of S7,267,813.2o,
total of $2o, 36O,o19.55. The net
rofits divided among the stock
o1ders during that period amount
d to S13.77O,OOO.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26
PRISONER REVEALS
WALSH'S PLOT
ROY WALSH PLANNED TO DO
VIOLENCE TO JAILER
AND GET AWAY

Removal of condemned murderer to
Penitentiary may have prevented
tragedy; White SLAYER tells of the
plan of Walsh.
Smyrna times., 1924-06-18
STEAL $1,000 WORTH OF HIDES
EastOn, Md, Thrown an Darkness While
Organized Band of Thieves Make
n,,;ot- Cot n Woxy - r,obiIoS

EaStOn, Nd, Thrown an Darkness Wmle
Organized Band of Thieves Make
Quick Getaway in Automobiles
Eleven thousand, one hundred dol
lars worth of muskrat hides were
stolen and the whole town of Easton,
Md, thrown into darkness to open an
avenue for the robbery and subse-
quent escape Saturday, June IA, of
thieves who produced a fire on the
EastOn electrical line by a contrivance
perhaps new in the annals of thiev-
cry in this country. The thieves
broke into the warehouse of Ernest
H. Burns, at St. Michaels, a small
town about twelve miles from EaSton,
and carried off the hides. Saturday
night, about IL o'clock, the whole
town of Easton was thrown into con-
fusion when the electric lights sud
denly went out. Employees Of the cleo
trio light company, which also furn-
ishes light to St. Michaels, traced
the trouble to a transformer on
pole about midway between the two
towns. When the trouble-fnders ar
rived they found the transformer box
wrapped with blazing rags, which had
been saturated with coal oil and set
on fire, causing a break in the circuit.
The robbery was not discovered until
Sunday morning, when Mr.. Burns
went TO the warehouse and discovered
his loss. The thieves, he found, had
attempted to force a number of the
windows in the building, which is a
large two-story brick affair, before
gaining an entrance. During the sea
son Mr.. Burns has had, all told
10000 muskrat hides in storage, and
still has about $4,000 left. The the
ory of the State highway police, who
Mr.. Burns notified as soon as he dis
covered the robbery, is that the same
persons who set fire to the transform
er perpetrated the robbery. The only
clues to the robbers are the fact thai
early in the evening two cars bearing
Pennsylvania licenses, were seen neal
the warehouse and two or three sus
picious looking men were seen loiter
ing nearby; that watchmen stationed
at either end of a short stretch O
road in course of construction, wher'
there is only room for one car Il
pass over at a time, saw two DOdg
cars, heavily loaded, pass through il
the direction of Easton.
Smyrna times., 1924-06-18
NO INCREASE in KENTs RATE
County Taxes in Kent County Will
Remain the Same AS Last Year

County Taxes in Kent County Will
Remain the Same AS Last Year
At Tuesdays session of Kent Coun-
ty Levy Court, the County Assess
ment for 1924 was presented by the
Board of Assessment, accepted by the
Court and the tax rate fixed, the same
as last year at IS cents County tax,
both real and personal and 25 cents
school tax as provided by law. The
tax rate remains the same notwith-
standing the issuance of $6OO,OOO
Good Roads bonds authorized by the
County, on which there will necessar-
lily be the interest to pay on same, so
much to the credit and economy of a
Democratic Levy Court in the adj
ministration of county affairs. The
total amount of the county assess
ment aggregates $27,S16,6S4. Cap
itations total S16,204. For the first,
second and third districts, including
Smyrna, Clayton, Kenton, Cheswold,
and Leipsic, the assessment is as fol-
lows: First District, Capitations, 1914;
real, S2,S61, ,42S; personal, S115,S32;
total, $2,976,760. Second District,
Capitations, 1900; real, SS,35S,699;
personal, $144,15O; total, SS,497 ,S49'
Third District, Capitations, 1859; real,
S2,351, SAT; personal, Sl7s,s12; total,
| 81, ,530,359.
Smyrna times., 1924-06-18

Miss Mabel V. Stevenson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William ]. Stevenson,
of Milford, and Mr.. William E. Glen
daniel, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
C. Clendaniel, of Lincoln, were quiet
ly married Saturday morning, June Z,
1924, at eight o'clock at the NJ. P.
parsonage by the Rev. C. R. Straus-
burg. The bride wore a travelling suit
of midnight blue with hat, gloves,
slippers and stockings of gray. Imme-
diately after the ceremony the happy
couple left by automobile for a short
wedding trip. On their return they
will reside at Lincoln.
Smyrna times., 1924-06-18

The special memorial sheets for the
DUPONT Boulevard celebration have
been printed. They show the several
modes of transportation, from the
one-horse sha and OK cart to the
stage coach; the first semblance of a
hOrseless machine to the modern
automobile, and truck conveyances of
the present day. Sheets have been
placed in several places in down-state
towns.
Smyrna times., 1924-06-18
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger Renin-
sula Towns and Communities

Harry P. Cannon, Bridgeville can
ner, did not open his factory, as in
tended, this week, due to the peas not
being matured. He expected to start
on Monday for all-day canning. This
crop must be canned quickly or the
peas get hard and are unfit for use.
Smyrna times., 1924-06-18

James Cooper is suffering with blood
poison and lOckjaw at Laurel as a re-
suit of a bruised finger received while
working on the stone road. He is re-
ceiving the anti-toxin treatment but
his condition is regarded as critical.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
A BUSY YEAR AHEAD

Seward has everything coming it's way that the town can handle. Work will be started on the big dam for the pulp mill some time in February or March; the New England Fisher ies will be here this spring; the ca
 ble headquarters will be here in May or June, according to reports from the head office in Seattle; another big concrete building is going up; two large garages, and twelve stucco cot tages will be built for rent. That is not all-the Nuka Bay properties will open in March with force of forty or fifty men; the sawmills will start work February 15, with a force of thirty to forty men, and a distrib- uting boat for the Standard Oil com
 pany will make it's headquarters here thru the summer mnths Seward av- eraged a boat every four days the past season not counting the hund- reds Of small gas boats calling at the oil and fish docks, and the present season will see this number augment ed by hundreds. With the railroad hauling it's own freieght from Seward half hundred longshoremen will have work, and the large machine shops here will have an added force.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
WOULD LOWER GAME BAG

The Seward Game Club has gone on | record as favoring lowering the bag of gib game from two moose a person | to one, on account of the size of the animals and the lessening of waste. he club has also gone on record as tayoring a bounty on wolverines, the most destructive creature on four feet, not even excepting the mink and weasel. The club also asks that strip one mile wide on each side o1 the Alaska railway be thrown into game reserve in order to prevent killing game out of season by section hands and other railway employees. All of these are good measures and should be passed by the game commls sion. There is some difference of op- inion as to the bounty on eagles not being large enough, these predatory birds being especially destructive to foxes, thousands of dollars annually being lost by fur farmers from this cause alone.
 The newly organized club is func- tioning smoothly under the leadership of Dr. o. A. Braafladt, president, and Prof. A. J. Goodskey, secretary, and will use it's endeavors to back up the
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
SEWARD DOLLAR SALES

The merchants of Seward have in augurated Dollar Day Sale, the first of the series coming off today. Some genuine bargains are listed in these sales in nancy cases some ar ticles being cut from fifty to one hun dred per cent
 Without doubt these sales will be awaited by the bargain loving pub lie, and will increase with time. That they are money-makers is shown by their popularity in the States, where they are conducted each Saturday. To be efficient they must be genuine. Se- ward merchants are enjoying a good business for this time of year. and there is no doubt but that the Dollar Sales will add to the volume.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
COL. LANDS INVITES
 HAYS VISIT ALASKA

Among the missions Colonel Lan' dis will combine in his trip to Wash ington in connection with the Alas ka railroad will be to interest Will Hays. director of the motion picture industry to come to Alaska to make Alaskan scenes instead of at Holly wood and other places far removed from Alaskan scenic atmosphere. Just before his departure for Washington Colonel Landis stated that he had written to Hays setting forth the sug' gestion that he make trip to the Territory with the movie object ln view.
 Colonel Landis is of the impression that motion picture production ln Ali aska will go far toward advertising the Territory and that there are sui licient romantic themes to keep the producers busy for a decade.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

The present year will be the banner one in Stewards History.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
GET THE FACTS

The editor of the Valdez Miner should first ascertain the facts be- fore stating that The Gateway IS al- tempting to have the court house raadouartprs removed to Seward. This ;s moi the case. There is hardly one citizen of Seward who gives plugged nickel where the court house goes, II ii ooas anywhere. What the Gate way and Seward citizens are Worklhs for is regular term of court each wear. such as are held in Anchorage, Cordoya and Valdez. The balance or the year the court bunch can rusu- cate in Valdez if they so desire. we h.l.eve and have always believed Sc ward to be entitled to have all cases originating to the westward trled Ill Seward This would be a great say ing of time to witnesses and to cltl- zens. u is true that citizens of Se- ward are called to Valdez to attend court. but so far as We know no Juror has ever been drawn from Valdez to attend court at Seward. There IS no necessity for them to be so drawn, SC long as there is sufficient popula- tlon from which to pick a Jury. IL is this unfairness that has caused the :.gitation for removal of headquarters. l rle judge desires to hold a term ot
 t1Ol1 the westward there, this would fur tler cheapen court costs, and should be done, and probably will be done at some time in the near future.
 But so long as this is not done Sc ward is entitled to a courtroom, grand and petit jury term, Il heceS- sary, at any rate petit Jury term. Seward and Anchorage citizens are ,usrlv indignant over being compelled to spend weeks away from thelr Dus- luesses. There is no necessity Tor It,.
 So far as we know, and we cialm to know. Seward citizens do not wan, the court removed. They prefer it to remain where it is; as distance lendS .lchantment, Again we assure our ,,eignbor that Seward is not ana mas not been working for removal ol tue court and from sentiments express ,d at recent gatherings ot our clu- .ens will not work for its removal, uh i4ss ii is necessary to do so TOT sell preservation or recognition of our claims to a court term Accorolhe u attornevs in Seward cases orlglnat- ing from here have been lmpopftahl enough tor a Jury term, ana these same attorneys claim their request .ur such term has been turned down.
 In regard to the railroad, our neigh DOTS apparently are as mlslnlofmeo as they are on the court house ques tion. There has been no new route surveyed; there is no intention ol looking for another route, and coa is being hauled over the railway t( Seward as fast as needed. The La iouche at the present time IS loadlnt 4Vo tons for Sitka from the Seward dock, all of which was pulled over tn' railroad at one time by one locomo i've. Ii the market justified shippln .our thousand tons could be lande ..ere in a day. We do not claim t have the best railroad in the worl .,ut up to the present time 1t has hal uled everything presented for snll .nent and could handle one thousan
 times the volume of freight were
 available.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

Eastman kodaks, Seward Drug Co. If
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

Suits maoe to measure. See Urbach.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

New shipment of Men's Overcoats urbach. If
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

game wardens in protecting and pro- pagating game.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

Eat home grown Cabbage, Sc per Il at Brown & Hawkins Corporation.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26
COLD AT kANATAk

Officers on the Latouche report ihaI if was II below zero at Kanatak wher the vessel called there this week.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-01-26

FOR RENT-Furnishe house. g. rooms and bath, furnace. See Dou6h rety. tf
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-22

Unamity of both parties in ap
proving the Japanese exclusion
clause seems a general bid for the
California vote.
The Holly chieftain., 1924-05-22
RESPONSIBILITY

A beautiful example OF how the
contagion of party disloyalty may
spread from Washington to the
voters is the letter of Senator
Norris published the other day in
the Nebraska State Journal. In it
he says point blank he won't sup
port the straight Republican ticket
in his state and that he wants every
body to know that he is on the
ticket as Senator Norris, not merely
as Republican. He says he favors
the abolition of party responsible
lity and the establishment in its
stead of personal responsibility,
This is preaching what is being
practiced at Washington by Re
publicans and Democrats alike. 1t
is such far cry from the party
loyalty the president talks about
that the voter is bit mystified as
to who is in the party and why.
Naturally if he has any sense he
begins to think in terms of giving
and trusts rather than to party
that doesn't seem to stand for any
thing in particular. Naturally this
will tend to emphasize more than
ever the personal responsibility
idea among congressman and sena-
tors, and puff!-there goes some
more of your party loyalty. No
wonder the political leaders are
worrying Eagle