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Show JOHN -B. M'GEE. X I) ' fjH It is said that John B. McGee has struck nine mW Wm feet wide of 10,000 ounce ore in his mine near L ' )1Jm Patterson in Eastern Nevada. Thousands of peo- R JH pie will hope that it is true. No more chequered 11 $ JH career has fallen to the lot of any man on the II If , i-H coast than has that of J. B. McGee. He was an WW ," lH Argonaut. He served, we believe. In the first Leg- Ma Wm islature in California He, was tho most proml- SB Wm nent mining man In Plumas county forty years Hi'' IIS ago. He took charge of the Richmond furnace In h, ffH Eureka, Nev., when It was but a little old-fash- Bk UH loned stack, but made such a success that when Hi.1 tHH he asked permission to build a 250-ton furnace H the company backed him, though plenty of scien- mU , 91 tists proved to a demonstration that it must nee- B raH essary be a failure. It was a triumphant success, Hi' iB the first great lead furnace built on the coast. He SI l8fl ' opened the mines of Tybo, built a furnace there jHil ' and cleaned up for himself $300,000. Bff fflBH In connection with San Francisco parties he HSgi opened a great mine in Oregon, but at the critical IHkJJHHH time, in The panic of 1893, when he needed a large HllHH sum of money the San Francisco partners failed BjBH him and he lost his fortune. H9ffli He then went to Arizona or New Mexico, took flil hold of a furnace that no one else was able to BHH run, made It a perfect success, and was on the Ml -----! high road to fortune when a lawsuit was instl- ImBHH II tuted, and by a trick the court gave the possession I 1 of the property to the other claimants. He then H went to Nevada and tried to catch on, hut want m of means baffled every effort save one, and then m, sickness came upon him and ho was prostrated m until after his bond expired. Anyone but him 91 J would have died under the repeated blows. n (w But twenty-five years ago he bought the claim l-p northwest of Bristol, near Patterson, Nev., and has i I held it ever since. I v. He was here two months ago and tried to sell H I ' this claim for a trifle that he might go on and com- R I t plete what he believes will prove (he most effective HjK j smelter ever invented. Failing in that he went fijgf f away with a few dollars only and began work on HS ,( ' his claim. Ho is close upon eighty years of age lit ', t and has buffeted with fortune on this coast for I j 1 fifty years. We hope that he has really made a II ft stake that will free him for the remainder of his I ill St lifo of the lienrtDreakinS cares an(1 anxieties that li Hi ml have Deen llis for the nns: ten yars V n IK i in A |