Show I I I LOST CHANCE TO MARE MILLIONS Lack of Capital Prevented Early Prospectors From Making Large Fortunes nh oll Nov April Apri 1 14 The Thie The re- re 1 CMil nt sale ale of ur the Ihu I Hayseed au and J JUITO Buno properties for fOl to h ays eed com company pan which Is composed of f men calls to tu mind mimi the fact act that not than more a year ago t he 10 whole whole- Lot Lot- district went bc begging for fOl or less than OOOO Jack Jacl Harshaw lashaw who represents the tho rillis Wils and amid Harshaw Interests in the Bullfrog North Star and the Lee Lec Nevada Nc- Nc c- c ada vada companies attempted to tie tc up ho tho Lee dl dIstrict an and failed Caled for lack of f capital In speaking of oC the early days of the Bul Bullfrog frog t district 1st Inha Harshaw W said id There were times In here when w we weere weere ere lucky to have ha c three square meals meal a do day I can remember the time when Wc le e lived on oum Oi beans and bacon when we liar lad the bacon and alid beans timid and when that lint now are arc worth thousands ands would have ha been sold fold uJ for the thC lie price irico of or a months month's board hoard and anti lodging lodging- Willis and I made a u. tour tOUl of the thelow now low famous Lee district nut not so o u man many month u ago o and were struck with with- wih the offered We Ve found that there here was no 10 ono one In Iii the tho district with wih the he exception of the rhe licks Hicks M and Leavitt Lea Lea- vitt It people and the Lee Leo boys an and amid at that hat time iliac have tied up tho the whole hoIe wenty miles Ii of oC property properly for Cor 10 10 lO- lO JOO J I 0 We e led ti-led It I and amid aut failed u sent out ten Len en thousand letters letters' trying to Int interest interest inter inter- est cst brokers brokers' and after n a while to the tho smalL hits In estors eltOs eltO's In lit 11 the dl district but could not nut raise rise a dollar dolar to Lo the time company compan We Ve wanted tg tV buy hUr all the propel properties lies Had lad we suc succeeded in lii get get- thug Ing the 1000 1 our backers would lave have ha e received a n thousand IH per iier cent on theIr heir Investment within a little while for CO with the coming oming of the railroad oad an and the development of oC water systems the th values alues of the ties properties have ha c in increased Iii In- creased wonderfully Iy The hardest titi I ha ha e e to re remember no- no lC- lC member about the loio ole Lee district is iM the tho fact that when we n-c floated the thc Nevada Lee evad company we did it by mailing letters to the s same le 1 people who h had d turn turned d down our liz st proposition ilon and who came in Iii for of or stock In a single ln lc company when hen less than tJan a year eal before the they refused to put up Ui ul the mone money to lo lie tie tc up the tho entire eltre district |