The Bonanza Kings.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 33, 7 July 1885, Page 2

The Bonanza Kings.

= ' There never was a more ; improvident .set of 'mea;,than, ."the ,Colprado bonanza kings. Inaptitude f br business life' was .also a striking charateristic. i I <^a^iHtte'fed away the bulk 6f ii)Qmense v 'ib'rtufae oh railroWd- stock of ,whidfi[»i he .knew/ .nothing— absolutely •* -nbthing.^ For years his life had •been; mainly spent m the neighborhood of the •'■ticker^ ,:-\'-\ ';.-.■ „,, V-,.",.., ?_, r^-yj>,V. . Bob, Grreer^: once a wealthy placer-miner,, is a miserable pauper, wandering about th|e^s.treets r of.penver. y ;.■;■<■.-•; ■{ r j Colonel Denver, the possessor' of hundreds of thousands not many years since, is ! enjoying the life of the gentleman on the collection of supposedly bad loans made -when he was affluent. : Biche, the discovered "<of the Little Pittsburg, is m a fair way to soon return s t 6 his shoemaker bench. He.it was that paid^l i D,OoOj2fdr- : W. wife, and} \lyhty (Whetfv he shot Pat Dillon m a saloon brawl, said: " Iv I haf ,kUt,him, send arbunt the, pill in] the mdniin?* 1;-*:' * - ';-*:' . , George Daly was killed by the Apaches. . His^ debts,, which ■. were cancelled ,^y. his » tragic^eath- aresaid'to be^enbrmGalMie led a life that for fastness was never surpassed in s the :W/est. rrr:-! iv. ; ■:- -/ ; .». *'*• [NelsoHalleck, discoverer of thfr Cat. bonate^mioej and William , Yankee, of the Yankee ' Consolidated-,' have' a 4here *pitftance left between them. jJim Williams, one of the discoverers of ,th|e Grand View, did not have enough money to buy a coffin when he was shot .ddwn m a SilveriCity. dance-hall. 'Bill West, his partner, is a destitute drankj^-at,Leadyille,.depen;dent upon a chaiiMn^om'eV'friebdly drinking resbiffbri a sleeping-place. : ;; (George .Houston, pf the Big Pittsbiirg, : died penniles's.ih'an'Ohio insane asylum." ;Generalj(?raig, of ,th^ Jiittle^ G,iijnt; died,, of; paralysis of the heart, after' a nights" (iebauncb.; , And -so^ ended jthe liyes .of twenty 'others, who turaed up fortunes at the point of a miner's pick m California. 1 5'The i case of George Grver was perhaps the saddest. . la 1872 he cleaned up £4O;6Ci6 ): frW'tiie sale 'Wth^PionSer ( C|o;nsolidated afeA|ma. His. aged mother was m poor circumstances ! at Philadelphja,"iand the first expenditure he made vria that of £6000 ior a home m thesuburbs of the cjty. b^Banking £4000, "to her credit, he launched out into a life of diaaipation and profligacy that made him notorious. Ghartering,a he peopled #witli tKe mbsl beautifnl' women t8 b,e' had from among the southern demimonde, and loaded it with wines and table luxuries. After cruising about for two weeks at a total expense, of £6000, he returned to Jarid to c*ontihiSe his mad revelling. wA .year ; later^he'was traversing the. mountains again, : an impecunious pfps- ; pectoral H^ heveK^puld take as tauShlas. a dime^frpmhis mother, and '^putiiihecl! Himself^orhis folly by exposure to eyery^ privation andsliardship^^ known'; ijtd^Blonp/ tain life. ; Four years later hel struek;3t_ rich a second time m the New Discovery claim at Leadvillei. H& ; endeavored to take advantage of the opportunity which 'the sudden apguisition yof £20^00} 'ga'^e£, hira, T ■ but through Business ■ incapacity failed. .