The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1902, Page 2

I C Z ._' m O e m A - THE SUNDAY ' CALL., ¢ » WHO LN DISCOVERED# “But I always knew there was some ing on when, good ore down there and spring of 1900, I wasn't feeling v per in health and had a chance to away from my place of Dees nev and County Superintendent of fron e e Schools, I just packed up two or k s r T . Arme burros and lit out from our r’lnt‘h‘ in the mountains, a dandy green spot that we call the Little Empire. Down near Tono- pah, ninety miles from our ranch, It's & PRa 2 % o birdseye porphyry country, where the w *;:;w-ry;i 8 M,w‘,(mfl volcanic action shows, and where the of white mualin, his stepdaugh- ledges of bearing sulphide ores are crop- ¢ white muslin, his stepdaugh- ping out and crossing each other. Here i e e o K on Py T T struck some rock ome day that turned tures of a second daughter and a fine out later to be the foundation of the town looking young fellow, his . 1 finally persuaded him to let me have one of the of Tonopah. I walked right over the P pictures of his wife to put in the paper Mizpah ledge, that cropped out PaInlY. o p "o naiion that it should “come out I took some samples to the assayer &t g, 508 and not make her look rough, Candelarta, confident that I had found for thix is the first time I'd ever allow what I had been so many years 10oKINg her picture to go out for anybody.” for. I offered him a good big share of “Well, to go on With my fnding the the product if he would make an assay. richest camp In the country,” he sald, a He did not think much of it and I went We Walked out In the corridor again. home and got busy. “Now, 414 you ever see a prospector that . I went ¥aé anything out of the usual to look at? ‘Three months passed and then Maybe not, but they must know quarts for my assay. The man had thrown the g3 formations and reefs and deposits samples out behind his shed and they and many things that mines show. Now, were laying there yet. I insisted and he if I'd been a sallor or a man of some made the assay. And, sir, it went eight- profession why, Tonopah would still een hundred dollars to the ton. That as- have & secret at an elevation of six h ed feet, Well, after we located sayer made thousands of dollars out of . ‘o) uing winter and spring leasers his job.. I went back to the Little Em- o7 SO O CE T T4, and I had o lease to pire quicker than I came, and my Wife every hundred feet. They paid me & and both my daughters were as glad as good percent on what they took out. That 1 was. was pretty good for & man that ‘nm been “We got somebody to do the haying, took hunting for gold as long as 1 had, waan't little Tonopah, the smartest dog that ever 'l'w 1‘{‘ f‘“‘l““’;“";‘f"r'("'l‘_"Il{‘;;a‘:f“f:“‘;“’ .':C was, and Belle and | went down to file | o ouu’in thare and perhaps go broke. the locations, My wife, she'd lived In & [ know what that s, though I can play & wining camp & good deal of her life, and tidy little game, and I always have ways I tell you she knows good rock, and she uf getting money, but I always have some knows as much as I do almost about Of the fellows -nfn\"v‘n to take care u[f "V'\flyn chutes and winses, stopes and chimneys. 1 40 have it. (WA, samettnes Cen lay Well, when we got down thore we camped v hand on it and &t the end of & week and she hauled the water with the team (¢ |s gone. You see, you got to know me from Tonopah springs while I plled the a long time to know me, Why, there's cated elght claims one fellow up there that I give about five dollars a day to, just to buy him monuments, And we end all we could in sight. And the first s R thing I did I says, ‘Now you locate & “7 1 .‘Ihlm'.‘., l\..]l"“ and. she pleked out the Then 1 thought 1 would sei} out and ke b £ wtock and & group o Mizpuh, which was right In plain sight, and which turned out to be the fuvorite and the richest claim of all. That ledge is thirteen hundred feet long and twy Lundred feet deep now and paying all the time. Pays all the way from two dollars to one thousand dollars per ton Thut was a regular poor man's mine, “We stayed there till October, doing the loeating and work. Funny how my old woman named that ledge Mispah. She bud a woman friend that was always a writing to her and puttin’ Mispah at the end of her letters, I belleve that means somethin' else in some other language; on, [ pose, for and eonc maies a showing never sur s, 1 80 it for three hundred enides what ght have held nd that womethin' about bullding monyments or #ort sich like, same as you do when you lo- 1 400 bt s pt g byt P oo me. was some Kind of an insur “You would like to have my wife's ple= gnce man and hé theught. he. could ture, you say? Look here, young feller, v " A8 my agent, b 1 aon't you git too fresh— Oh, to put in m 1 1 T could do v . had a nigge: the peper! I wouldn't want her put in the paper and make her look so rough abyad us 1 see some of them Sunday pictures ji.vo anvhody could git prty’ do.”" He fished a little wad of white tis- \What's that feller coming after?’ as the w or & Ik at I'd ha m you. sue paper from his pécket and unrolled photographer whom I had telephoned for carefully two little photo buttons. He came up the corridor. “Well, if you ain't held them up proudly and I saw that the d—est. Well, if you a sin’ to tell the history of the Mizpah, I guess I they port 1 a very fine looking woman, Ry ¥ 3 have to give up to you, if you'll let me he's a fine looking woman for yoo'tna' picture before you get it in the her age, and a deserving one, too, I can paper, and If you don't make my wife tell vou. wune never played for money or look rough. If you do it won't be safe drinks in her life like them bon tongs do to come rougd b But you'll be round in this town. If she takes a drink it's A&ain 'bout to-morrow afternoom, I know right in the bosom of her family. She SRC I . rides horseback fine and she's a great tavorite with all the miners up there.” His lLand went down into his inside racket again. There was a touch of scar- le. velvet against his ceat. and then there 1 shed on my sight something that hurt my eves. It was a magniucent dlamond s nburst! hat's one of the presents they gave her up there as the locater of the Mizpah, and 1 brought it down here to have a n put on it so that it can't git away. I'm a sport! My father was J. C. er and he dldn’t raise racehorses for you w acquainted Then we marched down into the court- . in't plunks, it a beauty? Cost six hundred She's got a beautifnl wateh, too, ALISKY PHOTO! RS FOR GO AND FINSLRY FOUND 1T HE TON IN TRE GRASS ROOTS. ¥ < -~ - I've found that and seven miilion dollars’ worth of ¢ Jlars in good gold ore heard that stony befare, but in his case T (() r'n for about Kght and all ready to be shipp Do 1 He is nearly 40 now, and ever since believed it, anfl also when he sald, *if ) time 1 git u car @ gun up there, you say Well,'l hoy of 15 he rigged out a burre and st you write anvthing about me that ain't j- b 455 uid say se; and 1 was g the ed cn an exploring trip from the straight I'll retaliate and give the true ghts of Frisc lust night with seven or where he w horn in El Dorade Ceunty history of the favorite mine, for that's ‘ SN . eight fellers that | wouldn't mind get- his life has been that of @ prospector en What they eall the Miapah, in some other 4 p; . . bat ¥ ng Ir tight e with, far w ene the stfll hunt for gold, And that life has P&per.’” He's a man that would dpo what* : : " panic f us could shaot & man's evelids off and left him ag open and big-hearted, as sim- he sald, even if it were to keep o promise s er touch his eye, There's my pet, ple and genuine as the nature that he to do you good or harm. : ) Vall. Nevs Woe loves, He has brought all his simplicity 1 teek that mueh of him In en sight, - o nd 1 saw (hreugh the hottom of my 880 unconventionality with him to Ban just as T coneluded that it was A eonces e o be tl le the hiny bore of a six-shooter Francises. 1 knew that when he first elon on his part te leave in Nevada his I know just Which Jim Butier had just laid down on FPoke to me boots that had so long shielded the out e one of them per the polished wood of the bar 1 alinost van inte his arms as he eame Elde of his trousers, The spot Where Lig or than & aat ir 1w istening the w of 3. L. oul of the Muss Mouse parlor from ses- ETAVISh flunnel ehirt met them Was gullt y SUSE st Hutler, the ¢ er of Tonopah, N¥e ing some fiends, e has found that rew 1968 6f & belt and the leosely knotted tie, that when I'm Cour vadu, suld to exceed 16 FIoh- frionds claim him since his discovery of WMEN Buggestcd another Bap to conv R made out of harley e & famotis mining camps milli he has peen “diseovered,” and 0NBl appearances, was aderned hy a ' W't home 1 foil e JHm Butler fe a rough dlamond il the world {s ready to buttonhele him HUEEEt PN that would eoin into & goodly ' S8 ‘Yiars of sleesiing t hae fallen out of Ite golden setting and make requests of him. 1 did it with DBUmber of gold dollars, 1t was chained vt with starvation and for & brief while. His very presence Lakes imalloe aforethought, for - thel tore WILH & Bold cabls, of which he sald, when . s siie in the face, Weil u into the free and easy life of nature. others of il ;mi'_‘m‘l ‘]'"_ML:"FF"WRR;':; he saw me looking at iti “Yes, that's ; ’:“"'::fl"“-‘h” r:“:‘:"'['“v‘; Sa i von niw yire cat slept with rattle. and Nevada, His is the type of strong for “Jim. If you had only known him Pretty heavy, ain't if, but T'm bl enoush yoia'p e 1ile" Gt ok ”“,M.h e 1 them much, But elurdiness that one can piotute sUppltE one minute you' wouldn't call him #Mg, 10 Pack 1t It wes blg and a relie of o U0t 8 ERT NS O i e the starvation from a broneo in the starlight and stand- Butler.” He ish't that kind of & than, ' 91d Comstock lode, to the value of 4. 0.5 (0" 00 ‘:v):'»{: l”‘i‘?:u:‘zrh:w'\li:rel nk in with a glad breath the which makes him all the more refreshe Chiee hundred dollars pretty good finds, but didn't have the skeery of you newspaper WArm. eplcy odors of sagebrush and ing amidst the artificlal ring of life in a e stood and looked at me with an tX- money to follow them wup. Mines are 0 i vadu got Chapart l‘ that sweeps over the hille. Or ity pression of quifzzical jollity on his round where they are found. Lw‘k is mé com- wr things ‘about in more riotous mood he could lead Alkall six-ghooter episode came later, face with its big mustache. He took his mon cause of thelr exposure. 8o some gh clothes s lookin’ like Bal through the first set of & mining when 1 accepting his hospitality in pipe out of his mouth and lifted with re- think. [ think otherwise. They tell sto- to wear 'em. I can ©4!6p dance with the best grace in the gne of ti veral interviews which it flective perplexity his broad-brimmed hat, 1les about my getting mad when I was I rany time I like land. He is Mt a saint, Is & dead 8hot took to wrest this story from him. It something belween a sombrero and a hunting for the Tonopah mines and e moncy to apare. T tell you *nd afraid of no living thing. If Bret was part of hig genuinen when he told slowch, This disclosed a round, shrewd- throwing my’ hat away one day, and, go- 3 h d . central part of Nye County Harle ever meets him Jim Butler will go me that he didn't want notoriety, and I 1ooking head, which he immiedidtely cov- g to pick it up, finding it hung on a o 5 204 Ill show you a good pleture of best-hiiown Bup 1o, Nivade.” sa 1 g vou know, young feller, that between book covers in a twinkling, even don’t see what good my picture'll do you ered again, as he stood and looked me knob of solid gold. Those are all bloody hesrc;/..‘ aindi's pliatiiiage round through e, Neters of the discovere? of Tonopah, » Tonopah there s between six guicker than he found bis fortuns of half and I don’t want it in the paper.” [ had over. . lies. 1he) GrHidaTs ATl) We A U0 w peml Taar T e D IR that was made a present to her. Uomme yard of the hotel, he picked up a dog that A 4