Show I 1 A Noted Salt iSalt LakerT Laker T tSi t A A. W. W McCune McCure of Salt Lake City iA was Vas born in Calcutta in 1849 but at 8 S Ii lit i. i years of age ag's removed to Utah with witha hIs Ills parent His father was a farmer c. c a and ranch ranchman man at Nephi a small town C In the southern part of the State anda and it H was here that young McCune grew a up p. p As a b boy y he herded cattle and andin in sheep and did such other similar S work as falls to the lot of a farm- farm po PG and 1 He was 14 years of age when the Blackhawk Indian war broke Ia t but he shouldered a gun and arid did 1 Pant ant service In protecting the f. f V I es of the ne settlers until peace was r Stored ored Later he sold a little bunch cattle which he had acquired and U LW contracting C embarked in the railway He worked on the Union Pacific in Wyoming and also secured I Similar contracts on other roads in Utah Colorado Montana Idaho Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore- Ore gon on and Nevada Ne He was successful 1 from the first but it was on a timber t contract ICon tract for the famous Anaconda Mining MiA MiI Mi Mi- A I ning ming company of Montana out of which he made his first big stake On this contract alone lie he is said to have haveS S cleared over and that too after after after af- af other contractors had declared dered he heI I I I ter would QuId lose money Mr McCun McCune's s next I was the purchase of a a two- two I fifths fifths Interest in In iii the Payne mine In inI I British Columbia For two years he received dividends in the sum of 35 from the property andS and r WO a month for His S then then sold his interest 1 Ionly only failure was when he attempted nOO be ele elected ted to the United States SenH Sen- Sen I to Ko i H I ate from Utah in 18 For days he t was within from one to three votes of 5 U tS S election but a few members of df his y own wn party fought him so per persistently Legislature adjourned adjourned ad ad- that h he lost and the without the selection of a Senator Mr Ma McCune is now one of the largest holders of the famous old two hunared hun- hun mine Pascoe silver lOUver Sierra Ierra del miles mites from Lima Peru which ared Ired J Sal has been worked fc r over two hundred visited the property last ars He r years summer and was so well pleased with option on a cont con- con I. I it It that he secured an t I Strolling f trolling interest and returning home 7 organIzed a stock company to work It New New York Tribune |