Show THOS J LYNCH by will 0 higgins the writer knew thos J lynch when the latter was a mere s sip ip of a boy he was a quiet and unassuming lad then just as he is a quiet and unassuming man now the first meeting was at his fathers ranch and stage station in iron county utah where the subject of this sketch under the instruction of a tutor was taking lessons in mathematics english history and geography and learning the underlying principles of mining assaying and engineering the last meeting was at tonopah To a short time ago where the boy of twenty years ago now a man of standing and influence and ripe in mining experience in every word and action accio n proved the truth of the assertion that early training and right bringing up will always leave an indelible and distinguishing mark on the character of a man between the first and last meeting conditions have changed with mr lynch but he has not changed saving in growth and strength and knowledge the changed condition consisting in his rise from poverty to a position of comfortable circumstances and herein lies a most interesting story at the time of the discovery of tono pah nevada in 1901 mr lynch then a young man with willing hands and persil ct ent energy first heard of the new eldorado through the columns of the mining alining review quick to act he got an outfit together and started on the long overland trip by wagon to this field of promise to show how fortunes are often quickly made in mining it is only necessary to say that on a certain easter sunday night mr lynch was sleeping out on the desert an almost penniless man and that on oil another eastern sunday night only a year later he was walking down bothams Go thams broadway clothed in a prince albert a silk hat on his head a diamond flashing and sparkling in his tie and with a roll of thousand do dollar bills in his pocket upon his first advent into tonopah mr lynch secured a lease on a block of ground on the tonopah vein the lease prospered and it was not long before he could count up his ready cash in five or six figures and more he secured for himself valuable claims which have since developed into producing and paying mines and with his future assured with a happy family by his fireside he is enjoying life as only a successful man can who by his own endeavor and by honorable means has achieved the height li of his ambition and at the same time added materially to the imperishable wealth of the world |