r Wednesday, June i$ 1904 THE SUMPTER MINER 5 SILVER KING AND ITS LUCKY OWEER How Senator Kearns Got His Start on the Road to Wealth. Wbeu I was in Park City, Utah, the other day a gentleman said to me: "You surely ought to go through the Silver King. It is the richest silver mine in the world." "The richest silver iniuo in the world?" I repeated. "Yes sir. Last year thoy took out over 50,000 tons of rich ore! The mine paid in dividends last Do cumbur 810,000 a day. She is stocked for 250,000 shares, which can not he bought at all. It pays big in terest at the rate of 680 n share. The King is a dry mine. It. is a nice one for you to go through. " In company with a friend 1 started in u carriage up a steup, dusty two mile road which led to the mine. Wo iiad not gone far when wo over took two old minors going to work. "Jump in boys and rido up," wnid our driver. "Shine, " said one of thorn in a rich Irish hrnguo. I wiih not wrong in judging Hint frointhoso two old timers 1 could got. the host possible infoimation about. this famous mine, so I led Ihom Into '. murrlml hurt year to Mollos Fin- lan'H h'y. "And ,lohn Judge," continued the miner, not. interrupted by the re mark, "left his widow a big for tune ' "And a foine lidy she is," said Pat. "Sim's building for the b'ys that, slung picks and made her rich a nice homo in Salt Lake when thoy got ou Id." "Kinory." wont, on Pat's friend, "made a good stake, too. but Dodge kiudoi got into a Mpioo.o, and .Mo (Jornick, the big banker down in Salt Lake, put. up a couple of bundled thinks maybe he'd lose the case. So while he was under the ground lie I scrambles around to sue if he could ! find something doiti1. lie sbot otf a tuuuel and run it clean oil' of the Mayllower claim. Uut he keep mum , about this him and his trusties. He won out in his suit all right, and bought six new claims. On one of those ho sunk a shuft right down and struck the tunnel he had made ou the quiet. Right here was the rich est silver ore in the world, and that's how he got hold of the King." "Well, he must be a pretty smart follow," said I. "They's lots of us they'd erill sruairt if we was only loocky, " said Pat. "But th'oy's ot'liers besides Tom Kearns and Dave Keith that was in on the ground lioor of tho Silver King," went on the miner. "You see, Tom, he didn't have nothing to go on with except Dave's wages; so when thoy commenced to show good and want money thoy goes to Jimmy Ivors, who was working in the Daly blacksmith shop, and lie puts up 82, fiOO. John Judge, foreman then in tho Daly; A I lOinory, bookkeeper foi the Anchor, and Hill Dodges that, inn a saloon, chipped in, too." "An. I II,,,,.'.,. ..II ..,,1,11..' I,, ,.l.,.lu..u .111., 111,1, ,U Mil IIJIHIII 111 ,.III,IM-C1 . now," said Pat. I "Yes," said Pete, taking up tho' thread. "Jimmy Ivors for his 62, not) that, he put in in '!ll is worth, over a million." , "Shore," said Pat. "And ho laid j a chick for .10, 000 on his dnirlor's! widdlu' breakfast plate when she j (BA4T 1mm lfkaHNs&iL BI&mr OF SUMPTER Capital Stock Surplus, $1000 $25,000 orriccns J. W. SCRIBE R ,- -. Pr.Blifnt ED. W.MUELLER, . Vlo-Prsl4nt R. H. MILLER - - - CathUr Safety Deposit Vaults Gold Dust Bought Does a General Banking and Exchange Business talking. "The uo? King is an old mine, is it. ?" 1 asked. "No," said the minor, whom his Irish friend called Polo. "She was struck in the "JOs. She's just begin ning to show what she is." "And a good stroike it was," said Pat. "Who lirst discovered the mine ?" I asked. "Well, it wa kinder like this," began Pete "There was a claim up hero thoy called the Mayllower. Tom l.'iiiiiuiu wiin wnu ii'firkiiiir in tlm On. IllJIVIIID .. ,...,.-....... - ... ,. i.t j tario for his little Sll.fd) a day, uml I tlionHiuicI an. scooped in his shaio." Dave Keith, who was running the big 'L'Iioiiiiib Kearns. who is now tho pump in tho Ontario, wont in Hoimtor from Utah and tho cahoots. Dave come hero hack in 'Hit , "uh -";" " "" ""'- '" one ot the interesting llgurcs in the mining world. from Nevada. He used to work in the old Comstook in Virginia City. It wau't many a man could work tho yi',,,H ' "K0 ,,,,, in tho Ontario. IL m.mnod l"" w',u" 10.000 gallons a minute. So Dave ' wm,, no ,0,1 'n)nchos on a cattle gets 60 a day. Ho goes in with Tom HOIFORST.LOUISANDTHEWORLD'SFAIR WILL YOU BE THERE? See Nature's Art Gallery of the Rockies in Addition to tlu-. Attr.ictions at St, Louis. This can only be done by going or returning via the "SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD." U NRIVALED SCENIC ATTRACTIONS NEQUALED DINING CAR SERVICE NSURPASSED IN EFFORTS TO PLEASE Write for Illustrated Booklet of Colorado's Famous Sights and Resorts W. C. McBRIDE, General Agent j 124 Third Street PORTLAND, OREGON Now ho is only -lil Horn in Canada, ho youth to Nebraska, Kearns". "And ye horse it was 'Waisol' thoy tho brute that. Tom used to ride over r. it .i i range, in ', going west, no came , to Utah. He was making his way to ... i I'nrlr (MK ivliinli In Mmnit ilnvn irnu n mustn't lorgot ttio nmoi " ' " " ..lu.l (I...,. ..f.lln.l I U1IHII IMIIJIIIK ;HIIII, lll!llll IIMIIIIIir ,. , who find trade among tho minors picked him up and curried him in his wagon, in order to get him as the hills when he wint around pick ... I.lu .. it. ...... I.. i 1.1 I .....1 .I..SII.I i '! "in Miiii. in llll; lli inn ijiiiiiuiui n it tin iiiinn, 'iii i nenriis a jiiii mi uurumieed 1 homes : than a up spoke up Pat. "No, hot your life," "They needed all thoy them days." "Well, sir," .vent "Kearns and Koith took tho old Mayllower claim. Thoy was to civo 10 cents a ton royalty to the owner for every ton of oio thoy got out. Nobody else could do nothing with the .Mayllower, but before Jong Tom, who was a big husky chap, works along with his paituors, and in a jilfy thoy tailed down 622."j,UU0 in tiio hank. Long come the Noith-i laud company what was digging tho1 other tide ot tho hill tho .Mayllower was ou and inn an injunction against I Koarns and Keith. Hut Tonihiiid:1 Tor hell v illi tho iujunioliun. Ho nut u n a bond, nud liim and his men ' kont digging awuy. Cil ty said Polo. nH n,ntl""' ,m(l '(M' two ("' Hueo could cot ! v,!,,,s "'" ,nl'""-s ',,l't- on calling Kearns "Tonunio Williams." This on Pete n"H Ul) 'H!en l,IOMI 'mm 'w,J'dy years, a lease on i K''an,H I,ow ni,H '" ','t' '-""I1" 'Hy mat bio palace, one of the liucHt in America. Semeely morel doen cm b ago ho bunked u t ih other ininois in a little one room shack, "baching it," in I ho' miners say, ami frying his o.mi hacoii. I C. N. Crowdson Hi Spokontuau- ' iieviow. The Sliitjlu Stnndurd. 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