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Show jVTAY BE SENATCS FHOLI UTAH. , Career of Alexander H. Tarbet, the Millionaire Mining Operator. (From the New York Time?. Jan. -J. Alexander Hamilton Tarhet of Salt j Lake City, who is talked cf for United State;.' ue-na.tor from Utah, is at. the j Gerad House. Though only years j old. ho has had a remarkable career. When only 19 years old Mr. Tarbet had been in the employ of the Montana, j Copper company for two years. Them j the ground in the Colusa mine began i to run, and four days later the property was about to ta abandoned. Mr. Tar- j bet took up the task of holding the ground solid, scceding in twenty-four hours. For this work he was mads su- , perintendent of the prcpoity. He began be-gan to accumulate money and purchased pur-chased the Wake-Up-Jim claim, which soon showed immense- wealth. His Vir.lHin.-roi wc.ro vnlnprl nt rr.r.rp than $1,000,000, hut when he got up one j mornin.g he found that the whole prop- j erty. had been attached, and not only . had! his- millions vanished irto thin j air. but he owed practically $13,000 and had nothing with which to pay it. j But he had plenty of credit. Hs pur- chased teams and wagons ard obtained some ore contracts. In two years he wr-i out cf debt and had built the Sum- I mit Valley raHroad. connecting tha Parrott mine with the Parrott vrieUer. Since its construction, in IS. this railway rail-way has annually paid 100 per cent on the investment.. Mr. Tarbet next suc-ctrrsively suc-ctrrsively entraged in mining operations in Montana. Britii'a Columbia and the Copur d'Alene district cf Idaho. He re- cently sold nr mu'i'r f,r S2.000.000. nr.d owns another for which he has refused $1,000,000. Mr. Tarbet has rHtled in Salt Like City, where, he at the head of the j syndicate which bears his name. His I company owns many valuable interft? j in Utah. Arizona and California. He is row ma.'rirkT hi annual winter rn.kurn in New Yo;k. To a reporter who asked j him whether he was a candidate for j the Utah serator.-hip, he nid: ; "No. I can't say I am a candidate. A I number of my friends, however, persif that I shall et'trr the field. Of courr a seat in the higher t legislative body of the nation is an honor of which any man may wd'.l be proud. But I am not ambitious in a political sense. Still, if the pecole of Utah want a Democrat to represent them in the United States srnate, I will be pleased to do so." |