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Show ROY RIDGE HAPPY Has Acquired Fortune and Is Now After Af-ter More Nevada Gold. Mr and Mrs. Roy Ridge are guests at the Knutsford on their return from a two months' visit cast. Rov is well-known well-known In Salt Lake, where" he was a familiar figure a few years ago. before he acquired a fortune at Gold field. Referring Refer-ring to his Eastern trip. Mr. Ridge said; "I visited Kansas City, Chicago. Milwaukee Mil-waukee and Philadelphia. In ach of these cities. I found that Western mining min-ing stocks were In great demand. Many parties In each one of the cities I visited have made good money by their Investments Invest-ments in Nevada and Utah mining stocks. In nearly every Instance, they claimed that the mines had proved up better by development that they had been represented. Some people mav talk as they plense about wildcat stocks and their flotation, but when the number of mining stocks thai have been floated all over the country Is taken into consideration, considera-tion, the real wildcats are mighty few and far between. Nothing has occurred to shake confidence In mining Blocks In the cities I have visited. The coming year will see more Eastern money Invested Invest-ed In Western mining than ever before. "I am hurrying home In response to a telegram from my brother, that a rich strike has been made In the Dromedary Hump ground at. Falrview, the ore In which assays 32000 to the ton. and that Ir was being sacked for shipment. This mine lies over the hill on the other side of the porphyry dyke which Interevenes between us nnd the Nevada Hills mine I am anxious lo gel there, as I believe this strike Is In the nature of 'whale.' I shall first go to Reno, my home, then hump It to the Hump, quick as possible." |
