Show AUSTRALIAN fl GOLD GOLDMAr MAT MAr BUILD THEIR HEIR CASTLE cis TILE IN VI WI S 8 Is Asked to Grub Stake a Search for Danes Rich Father in Australia 1 I I I hIp J 1 see egY Und round the we go south southDown southDown southDown Down the To Besser in Saree Hans the Bluee ed Dane And that will be the route of ot Carl John Bengtzen of ot Somerby avenue if it his glittering dreams come true Carl arl John who was Carl John in the south ern em Denmark province of or is Charle J in the Salt Lake directory and in Ely Nev Ne where he now is en engaged engaged engaged in developing the more material portion of ot his prospects That the others may be of the tuff stuff that dreams arc are made of or his family and friends admit and a leading banker of or Salt Balt Lake assumes assumes as assumes perhaps from previous hard ex experience experience Charles John Bengtzen has a missing father There Theres Js is a Charles John Bengtzen in Coolgardie Australia who is well equipped with all the requisites of ot ofa ota ofa a modern millionaire plenty of ot credit and acquaintance at the local banks and anda a shadowy past Whether Charles John of or etc will prove to be the father and kindly complete this romance of three continents in Harry K Blaney style by wiring Charles John Jr of Salt Lake etc to take the Pacific Mail Mall get off oft at Honolulu and take the first turn to the left and have some fatted calf calt appropriately appropriately appropriately and modernly stuffed with bonds bond of the Bank of England remains to be seen W V S McCornick a banker who has not sat In the peanut gallery for thirty or so years ears refuses to furnish the necessary railroad and steamship mo mobility mobility mobility just at present He lie is the kind of ot angel who wants to be shown Toward whatever conclusion the later acts may compel the action of ot the drama Mr McCornick has already alread fine scenario to develop for a very limited sum of mon money money money ey and his sporting and dramatic In Instinct Instinct may finally conquer a certain care careful careful careful ful reserve Mr McCornick can be put on record however as being willing to contribute to the trip to the Australian prospect If it the Ely prospects turn out outto outto outto to be worth the steamer fare tare from San Francisco to Australia An Unusual Proposition In his Interview with The Herald last night Mr McCornick was unable to re recall recall recall call much of ot his talk with Bengtzen be beyond beyond yond ond a certain coyness COyn of manner and garish color of ot touch to dif differentiate it from the others he be re rt received received that day da He has bas however in his mind the fact that it Is not every day that an conductor walks into his office to pledge prospects in Ely for fol forthe forthe the price of or an Investigating trip to or toward a supposed father rather In Australia He at onre started to Investigate both prospects The result is not yet et announced beyond the fact tact that an Individual of or orthe the right name seems really to be in and favorably known to the local banks there Mr Bengtzen of or Salt Lake Is now in Ely trying to pry some sufficiently convincing samples out of his more tangible prospects On his return he will try to convince Mr Yr McCornick to loosen for the necessary railroad and steamship fare The Bengtzen live lIe on Somerby ave avenue avenue avenue nue To get to Somerby avenue cross the Rio Grande tracks walk toward the River Jordan and turn to the left Dont ask anybody on the way or you ou will never get there As good a way as an another another another other would be to go up in a balloon to toa toa toa a point some few thousand feet teet above the thc city and drop out You would be as apt to light in Somerby avenue as anywhere else and th ts a better chance than you Jou would have by starting from the cen center center center ter of or the city and asking car conductors or passersby As to Somerby Avenue Somerby avenue is a trail of dust eight squares for anywhere either way wa The Thc nearest object of ot interest are the car shops of ot the D R G They are In Inthe inthe inthe the middle distance There are a dozen brick houses in dense groves of dusty sunflowers On one side of the street there is about fifty feet feat fe t tot of ot cement walk And nd there the recognition recognition recognition of or the street department seems to stop The cement walk has hal hoof prints human and dog embroidered In it in the early making common to the efforts in the outskirts of or Salt Lake It Itis Itis Itis is a most unsafe bas relief There were a couple of ot kids in blue denim overalls making pictures in the thick dust of ot the road There was smoke from the shops and Mrs Bengtzen sit sitting sitting sitting ting on her front porch weaving over it all the magic spell of ot maybe and shap shaping shaping shaping ing it into a shady hillside by the Cat looking down from the Burgess Burges home on the hill hm bought with Australian gold She was mentally removing the th little boys bos overalls and them from the best that could be bought in inthe Inthe inthe the strasse when brought painfully back to Salt Lake City by an interrupting reporter Carl and I did not want to get the news printed n the paper yet as we are not sure of ot the exact amount of or our in inheritance Inheritance inheritance or that the elder Mr Bengt Bengtzen zen will admit the justice of or the case We Ve are thoroughly assured however that there Is a large amount of ot money in involved Involved involved although not certain of or the amount We have papers from Denmark fully f lly proving we think every point In our case Mr McCornick has seen them themI I 1 rim am sure that if he wishes he will be beable beable beable able to make the necessary arrangements for us s to get In touch with Mr Bengtzen and to get the money If It we do get it itis it itIs itis Is possible that we may go back to Den Denmark Denmark Denmark mark markI I am not myself a Danish woman My husband was a Dane but is now a natu naturalized citizen of ot the United States I came to Utah from In Nor Norway Norway way wa about 12 L years ago and met my hus husband husband husband band here My husband has worked d for forthe forthe forthe the Utah Light Railway company and has been engaged in exploiting some min mining mIning mining ing prospects which he has in Nevada Most of ot them are near Ely Charles hard hardly hardly hardly ly remembers his mother moth r and his father left home when he was a II very young child He did not hear from him for forman many man years ears or of him After he came to the United States and grew up he began to wonder what had become of his father and to project some means for ascertain ascertaining ing his whereabouts If It alive Finally word came from Denmark that he had gone to Australia and was reputed to be wealthy wealth We Ve determined to use every means at our disposal to locate him We e wrote several sev ral letters and finally Charles began to question everyone whom he en encountered encountered encountered countered who had come from Australia Finally he was informed that such a per person person person son had recently been engaged In oper operations operations operations In the Perth Amboy mining district in West Australia It was at this time that he was final finally ly h advised and agreed to consult Mr Mc McCornick McCornick Ic Cornick We Ve are possessed of ot a certain amount of convertible property arid and of the th prospects which we have In Ely It was upon these latter that my husband de desired desired desired sired to borrow money as collateral to In Investigate Investigate investigate the Australian claim He took to Mr Ir McCornick the evidences of ot his claim locations and assays assas of ot the mineral mineraI which he had mined He has h s gone to Ely EI recently and will without doubt return at atan atan atan an early date with incontrovertible proof for the banker that his mines are well worth the small advance requested upon I them |