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Turbulent, exciting has been the history of speculation in mining. Few men now alive can recall the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, but many remember the phases of speculation which received their impetus then and burned long like fever throughout the country. In San Francisco this speculation was especially great. Around 1875 the San Francisco Mining Exchange was at its height. Police guarded its doors while the public clamored to buy Bell Isle, whirled by the "Tuscarora Ring" from obscurity to $5.25, then dropped to $1.25, or to buy Bodie, which caused the eastern public the greatest losses...
...husband, who sinks it in a wildcat gold mine. There is a murder, a bank robbery, Ann's husband deserts her, her father is arrested. The scene shifts to a Western desert: Pierre is hotfoot on the missing husband's trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain!) is discovered . . . there is not enough water for two . . . another murder. In the sheriff's office at Red Butte, Pierre, given up for dead (no man could get through Skeleton Sink alive) stumbles in to confront the sheriff, Ann and old Tony. He dies with a nobly...
...where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings with a sound of pure silver because it was there that the late John William Mackay, Irish pioneer, struck the Comstock Lode in 1873, earning $1,850 for every 15? he had invested. And it is there that Clarence Hungerford Mackay has been endowing the State University in his father's memory ever since 1908. He gave a School of Mines that year, followed by a series of gifts whose total...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
...early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless...