Show W E COREY IS IN EUREKA DEAL for three years a syndicate of eastern millionaires bargained with hetty green before they could induce her to sell the old eureka gold mine at sutter creek amador county california which she caused to be closed down and flooded with gallons of water in 1877 in a fit of pique and suspicion that rivals were attempting to force her into a sale says the san francisco examiner the nature of the powerful syndicate which finally induced the eccentric millionaire to part with her pet kitten as colonel E H R green her son put it was yesterday disclosed for the first time by T walter beam mines expert of denver who arrived at the st francis yesterday from sutter creek to purchase worth of machinery to pump out the old shafts and tunnels and prepare the great mine which produced over in its brief history in the early for new operations W E corey of the united states steel corporation john D ryan and tom cole of the anaconda group ambros monell of the international nickel company and john joha B farrish the mining engineer now living at san mateo are among the leaders in a group of twenty or more who underwrote underwrite under wrote its purchase the usual story of options stock companies and the like do not figure in this amazing deal it was one check for a sum stretching high in six figures which finally achieved the transfer back in the early hetty green had turned down offer after offer then the supervisors raised her taxes and she swore she never would sell nothing happened until beam inspected the property three years ago he knew it was good property also that it was a huge gamble but lie he knew his crowd and put it up to them in new york for five months they tried to see hetty finally a note from her secretary said curtly when I 1 do business with anyone I 1 usually send for them the syndicate was rebuffed and felt in dined to stop trying beam suggested another course he saw colonel green her son who finally promised to bring the matter up with his mother some morning when ashes feeling particularly good after her coffee but im illa sure shell blow up about it he added and she did another year went by with occasional suggestions from the colonel finally last year she was shown the names of the men who were in the proposed syndicate she agreed to sell no option nor part interest arrangement however spot cash the proposed initial fund of one milli million orL dollars to buy the mine and pay for its cleanup clean up was oversubscribed over subscribed by per cent beam states each subscription had to be pared down the deal was consummated here in san francisco about three months ago the half million and more dollars that represented the sale price are now jingling around with the sixty or seventy millions that hetty green is said to hold in her capacious money bags up in sutter creek joyous over it last thursday night they had an open air celebration the sentiment of 0 the evening was expressed in a huge banner strung across the main street so long hetty were glad youve sold it read |