Show JOHN J I DALY QUITS MINING GAME jE jEV V V AFTER AFfER FORTY YEARS OF ACTIVITY V V L 1 DALY V VV V Who Is About to Retire R as of f the Mining Company Things are happening in the official household of or the Mining company The annual reports are now being V made ready for the mail mall and within a few tew days this t Is valuable docu document document ment meat will vill be In the hands of the share shareholders shareholders holders hol ers At the same time the call for forthe forthe forthe the annual meeting the time for hold holding holding ing which was changed last jast year from February to May is being sent out while John J Daly president and man manager manager manager ager of the company is preparing to surrender active acUe participation In the affairs and cease the busi bus business business busness ness of mining and mine management for good Mr Daly to ill III health wanted to retire a s year ago but he was finally persuaded to remain another year ear Now he says he wilt will insist on being relieved as he has hils promised himself and his family famIl that he lie will vili never again go into mines even for simple inspection pur purposes purposes purposes poses where physical al exertion is re required requIred required to make the trip He was through the Friday and he then bid final adieu to familiar haunts of or a lifetime It Is 11 forty years ears next month since John J T Daly first became becam connected with the mining Industry He has worked as miner mine superintendent mine manager promoter of mt ing en cn enterprises and mining operator for practically practically all of the time since He has been a familiar figure in nearly all of the th great western camps and has been prominently Identified with the big mines Of Nevada and Utah for the past or thirty years He lIe was with the Horn Silver company In its days and it was soon flo n after niter his leaving the southern romps camps that he I made mad his first footprint in Park City He went there In 1880 to round up the possessions and open the properties of ot the Daly Mining company A few years later he took upon himself the making malting of or another bonanza In the A few years ears ago he undertook the task of gathering together the immense ter territory territory territory that now constitutes the holdings of the company believing then as he believes now that the ground will prove immensely productive and rich V He is not retiring now from choice Less than two y ars ago he hi was com corn compelled to submit to the surgeons knife and the penetrating influence of or the X Xray xray Xray ray machine to obtain relief from a bodily bodil ent These operations have left him where it Is not advisable for him to undertake trips requiring mus inus muscular muscular cular energy That is why he has finally consented to the entreaties of his family and will hereafter devote his time to affairs less hazardous than climbing about and through the Work WorkIngs Ings lags of extensively developed mines That Is why he will insist at the ap approaching approachIng preaching annual meeting of ot the Daly Rab Judge company upon being relieved from active duty as of the tho company and manager of its proper properties properties properties ties Mr Daly made a big of the Daly he did likewise with the and he remained with the until that company also began the distribution of bread money and while nothing would please him better than to continue the direction ol of f fth the th affairs he realizes that his hi health will not permit p him doing as ashe as ashe ashe he would like to do so gO he will retire I an open tha tue way for others to carry carryon carryon on the work he has so splendidly gotten under way I I |