Show IDAHOS MONTE CUISTO II I I The Eccentric Owner of the Most Profitable Mine in the State I Boise City Oct HOver in the mountains moun-tains are the great mines of Idaho and I ln 1 particular the famous Wilson mine In formerly belonged to Louis and Christian Wtahl of Chicago from whom it was obtained by J R De Lamar Itbe I Monte Crisfo of Idaho Lamar is a Dutchman from Holland with red hair He is of small stature with shrewd twinkling yes large features ana an energetic pushing manner talks inceSsantly on all subjects with equal fluency regardless of his company and telegraphs a full account of all his doing I do-ing each day to the Boise City States fman prepaid I He was a sailor n his youth and graduated as mate of a brig that sailed between Rotterdam and Java Some ihow he drifted to Chicago and worked a while in Luis Wahls glue factory Then he was bartender and butcher and there is a tradition that he managed i man-aged a sausage shop for a time at the stock yards Next he turned up in I the mines of Silver City Col 1 and had some good prospects in which he succeeded suc-ceeded in interesting the Wahl brothers his former employers Then he came to Idaho and got hold of a claim in I Owyhee county belonging to a man named Wilson which the Messrs Wahl 1 furnished the money to purchase and gave him 8 naif interest for his trouble They concluded to sell and let him have the property at his own valuation Some say it was 30000 some 60000 and some 100000 But whatever the price they accepted his notes with a mortgage on the mine and he dug out enough gold during the next month to pay them Within a year Lamar sold half the property o an old English 2000000 Now and for syndicate for ow for several years the net profits have I I averaged 60000 a month and from his rfhare Mr Lamar receives 3 steady income of 1000 a day I Three winters ago the Monte Cristo of Idaho appeared in Washington and it was announced Ithat having found a fortune he was seeking a wife He had sumptuous apartments at the Shore than sported a coach and fourinhand a t left a trail of gold wherever he traveled Russell Harrison introduced I him into society and his coming out party was a dinner given in honor of Mrs Harrison at 1 the Arlington hotel which was described in the greatest detail de-tail by all the newspapers There was noV l but one banquet in Washington i Chat surpassed it That was given by I I Andrew Carnegie to the members iof I I theY International American conference land cost SS5 a plate Mr Lamar had several members of the Cabinet and I some prominent social leaders as his guests who had never heard of him I until they received the invitations and I the affair was the sole topic of gossip for many a ray One of the novel Jfea I tures < was a gauzy net suspended from I the four corners of the ceiling and so j j arranged that when the host touched an electric button at the close of the dinner it separated in the center and covered the table with several wagon loads of flowers But even with th5s priceless debut and the rumors of his enormous wealth Mr Lamars social career in Washington was not a success He I rented the Tyler mansion for the next season but never occupied it and fin ally shaking the dust of Washington from his shoes went to New York and married a beautiful girl by the name of Sands S was only 17 and her mother moth-er was a widow who lived in Lexington avenue After his marriage he bought a house in the swellest part of Madison avenue lad yaoht and now spends most of I his time in New York Once or twice a year he returns to Owyhee county to I look at the hole his money comes from but the people out here keep posted tl concerning his movements through ten te-n npap rs The mine is the most profitable in the state and its riches I Star are said to foe inerhustibleMoscow |