Show DIDN'T BUY OUT OT STANDARD Oil Gold Was Not So Easy to Find Fin as the Grocer Expected BACK TO THE SUGAR BINS Storekeeper From c York Sa State Stat Give lill Account of Ills His Wealth Seeking iI in ill C Lured by the tales tulls of or Nevadas Nevada's wonderful wonderful won won- riches and the ease with which fabulous fortunes had hall been picked 1 up UI there G G. II Fairbanks a n grocer of or Arcade Wyoming county New NewYork York gathered together a 3 part of or his earnings and boarded a train for forthe forthe or orthe the West test a few weeks weel s ago intending to return in III two years ears and buy buyout out the Stan Standard md Oil company compan On Oi his wa way ay home MI Mr Fairbanks said Mid lo to Th The Republican yesterday 1 had heard hear many reports of the gold mines that were itching to be discovered in Nevada and I thought that hat 1 t should like to have haw ono one of ot h m Of Or clur course I doubted the truth of many of th the stories I J heard and for a n long lone longtime time I dio ditl not think s y at t bavIng leaving leav Ia ing In my little shop to go I hit r tin thi min mn- Ing business hut but when I 1 heard authentically au an- as I thought of or a ii young man who in Ic less s than a n year hail picked pick ed up from a claim that h he had found I determined to help m lf to lo a share shares of this over growing I was wise enough not to MII m my place for fOl fear that I might change hanse m my mind and want to KO go o beck back lt to the grocery business I left the stor-j stor II In iii Inthe Inthe the charge of a friend and came caine West WestOn On the he thea a way out I J had the wildest dreams over ever imagined of ira th the things I would do with tho money monel J I felt sure of oC making nicking I 1 dont don't recall them all but lUt I rem remember mbel that I made madi up tip my mind to buy a large block of or Standard Stand Stand- ard aid OH Oil stock and a private metis stable I passed through h Salt Lake Iak about a month ago and went out to l iy i-iy I uy Everybody seemed busy there hut I when huen I found that it was only a Co copper copper cop cop- per camp I gave ga It the go go-by I tvs out for gold I worl worked e 1 my way around 1 and finally filially got Into inlo Tonopah Thore I found all the restaurants restaurant closed iulI I was afraid I might starve star to death So I drilled on toward Goldfield feelIng feeling feel feel- 1 Ing that there I would find my seventh soy sev heaven hea but when T J arrived I Iran Iran Iran ran into the strike and I got dis dl- My mone money was pretty near all g gone ne arid and I 1 had lost a great big blK bunch of or my enthusiasm 10 KO so I didn't fire up much when hen the they told me a about out Greenwater I 1 had wandered over several se square miles of ot mountains and ami andI amiI I had come to lo tho the conclusion that hat I didn't know linow gold sold when lien I aw i-aw It It and that the wisest t thing for tor me to do would be to hike back to my grocery counter Pro Prospecting and mining may maybe maybe maybe be all tight for tor sonic some but me for Cor the cracker box and aud the sugar ugar bin I feel Ceel more inure at home with a bacon knife than an Ol ore oLe shovel anyway S Co |