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Show Mr. MacKay's Statue. The Nevada Legislature, determined to place a statue of some Nevada miner in the School of Mines Hall in the University of Nevada at Reno, the statue of John W. Mackay was agreed upon nnd a small appropriation set aside for it. Mr. Clarence Mackay was consulted. He approved of the matter, but requested that in furnishing the statue the men of Nevada should not trouble themsolvco, - that he would see to tho getting get-ting up of the statue himself. It will bo unfiled un-filed on the 10th proximo next Wednesday. Mr. Clarence Mackny is expected to be .present and with him ono or moio distinguished guests fiom New York City. Mr. Harvey, editor of B Harper's Weekly, is ono gentleman that has been $9 . named. The men of Nevada ought to make the 'tfffli ceremony an imposing one. Mr. Macliay per- US formed a great work in Nevada. He was the 118 ruling spirit that from the depths of the Com- mm stock took $150,000,000 and paid out in dividends ifB more than $90,000,000. When his fortune was B made he did not, as he might have done, invest hB it and live a life of ease on its income. Rather vfaBI he built great structures, stretched a three-fold rjB cable under the Atlantic, gridironed the Republic Jjtt with telegraph wires, reducing the cost 50 per Hm! cent to patrons, and was assembling the material JIB to cable the Pacific when his summons came that 9 he had done work enough, and he fell asleep in flB the dreamless sleep. He was an industrial king, Wm but he was very much more; he was a perfect H citizen and a born gentleman. Great wealth did iflB not in the least change him, except that it made rmm him more genial and generous. There is an old 'UK legend of a man who suddenly sickened and died fiB in the deep woods far from his home, but that jB when he died there was a great roaring in the wR forest and soon all the lions of the woods gath- &B ored near, and that a few, the most majestic of JpB them all .took up their watch around the remains SMB and held that watch until the friends of the jJB .dead man camia, when tho lions silently retired. !B The legend was written to illustrate the charac- BB ter of the dead chieftain. The dumb, fierce lords UK of the wood recognized the heroism and great- HE heartedness of the chieftain that had died, and liB so stood guard around his body. Had Mr. Mac- IB kay died alone in a forest, and had those same j9 lions been in that forest, in tho same way they B would have taken up their watch around his ,i He was a great miner. He believed that a '1B clear brain and a pair of strong arms were cap- JfjBi, ital enough for a man, and that the thing to do ffi when tho skies were dark was to work out. Hi Aside from being a great miner ho was a great 'ififit man. He would have made a great soldier. Had llil he never seen a mine he would have made his mm mark somewhere in the industrial world. 'His $$& statue ought to be an inspiration to the young Wm men of Nevada. 'Wm |