Show t and d Honest Mining S a. a Jesse Knight an f ft Study of or a n Utah Ulah tan Man Who ho Made Ten Millions In Inn Word to Got God maid and Man Inn n Few v Year Jr a la Who ho in Keeps I Ilk His and nul Finds It II Pa Pl s Who Ha Done none Much Hoch for Utah y Mining and mul l N hI Like to 0 Do More fr It There are two ways to prosecute the mining business Kt K t t One Is to locate a claim make malte people believe It ft will rf h S yield plenty plent of rich are organize a 1 company and set sell eIl t shaf shares shares and and let it go at that that thai Jesse Knight does it The other Is la the theay wa way ay K Men olen who confine themselves to lo the former Cormer method c of business do a n great deal of harm rm to a n Ie legitimate Jiji- Jiji l j Industry try The They fasten a bad name on a n whole section Sr and de genuine mining They may secure a little f transient advantage for themselves but not a great deal n f And the they cannot permanently benefit an any one They e tt must scatter scalier sorrows s and lo losses c wherever their rt tifT r i and while men have memories the have ha reached t r S bad name does dots not pass S awa away ft There are two other objections to the dishonest method meth meth- od of mining One is that It doesn't pay enough The Theother other Is that it Is not necessary f. f f Over O In Goldfield a man rose and flourished a year ear f.- f. ago ngo by the bad method He probably got more money for less value than nn any promoter since the days of Dickens's Dickens's Dick Dick- enss ens's fabled tabled manager of or the great greal East Easl Indian swindle 1 1 In Martin ul And wherever where he Is today he cant can't have over o a n few thousand dollars dollars If if so much Besides he Is done He Ire Is through He cannot come o ga It ItI I x Jesse JeRge Knight has been following mining on the square and he must be worth at least ten millions of dollars dollar He ire Is II modest about it and poInted out that while his wealth might reach rench that figure at the market quotations a of stocks on the da day he talked to me an any falling marketa market marlet r 10 would make a hole In lit the tho pile And yet et that was 1 i legitimate e for for his holdings of or toek simply represent his r- r c thc Df o ut frol companies He l b do buy and He Ho never nevel speculates lie He never unloads I U If ono one o of the mines goes to pieces said Mr Knight In talking the matter mailer over with me I wouldn't like fico to have hn a lot of oC some people people some of or them poor maybe maybe stand stand the loss Joss I would keep the stock I could better beller afford affords s lo tri to lose It Jl than to lo have havo them lose it H. I character A who tried to describe dev de- de f t n He Is 1 a t curious man v- v scribe e him to me so I could n recognize him on a train Iraln f f which wn we both hoth Intended ll taking said Bald h he had curious r A t Y fY v t f eyes ti ye How curious Ilow curious T I asked el 4 HP Ho studied a t minute Then he ho replied I 1 cant can't tellY tell vl 4 f i Y you nu Itow tow how r but they are arc curious j 5 They y The are aTC You dont don't often ort f see e Into Inlo them They are 7 5 not big hig and wide open And yet ot there i is not the thc suggestion sug sug- J lon of avoiding a you u. u Study them awhile as ho he talks lalk to o you and you OU will find lh they are ate simply e curious I Ifancy Ifancy 1 fancy the alert mind Is watching behind that that pair of windows lIW e gau gauging ln his interlocutor classifying him him him- maybe thinking a good gond deal lal about somo omo of or the big things thing ahead planning calculating The Tho portrait accompanying this article I Is not a t good goodone on one Jesse JCsse Knight does docs not rare ran back as tho the artist has made him appear to lo do 10 The Tho pose In ht the picture Is had bad He Ile is a bodied big man weighing probably two iwo hundred pounds stocky stock s solid and tilted forward if anyS any any- S as thing as men who have worked much are likely to lo beTho be Tho high cheek check bones do not Impress you as you ou look at the man The eyes are bj by b no means those of the portrait I wish I had u better picture of or him All that however howe would be Ic trivial to Jesse Jesso Knight Tho The man i Is above little things He lie has two tuo big events In life UCe On One o of them Is that he has made half a dozen en 1 successful mines mines himself The other I may tell you yo about later It touches the side of or life where a n man keeps keep his sacred things his thoughts his reverences hi his beliefs his religion And so starting where Adam at started started at the begin begin- sing Je Jesse e Knight Inight was born of oC Mormon paren parents and a af at f III Ill He lie was only a baby when his people were driven out of or Illinois and was still too young oung when h he cro crossed the plains in 1850 to recall a single Incident o of that strange migration He JIe worked as other boys bos dl did did 0 F In In Utah studying a little when he had time and getting i ik L- L T from frolic his mother what education he has hus received II He t never did lid write very read readily II arid and long disuse has no not improved cd facility He doesn't like Jike to read writing an and he frankl frankly confesses that he never tried to keep books book And yet t I fancy he I h 19 about tho the last man In Utah It would be he good to attack with a set of doctored accounts If i I were er a tailor I shouldn't try to sell a suit on time I t to the theman man who would tr try to rob Jesse Knight t 4 i. i He worked by tho the month when he grew grevi big enough v jand and saved his money mone He owned a a. yoke yo of or oxen and a aV sr V v. wagon wagon Some ome one told him there was money for Cor freight freight- ers era rs up In Montana of on tan a and he bought another yoke oe and andt t wagon wagon on time and drove to the north country There he ho logged for a time and frel freighted Ho He took up with S 5 him load of but he Isn't and und a potatoes a good peddler r w though the they were paying a n dollar a n pound for potatoes i s 1 In the Montana camps he tra traded ed his hll load for another j 4 W yoke of or oxen and left the splendid difference between f t Utah and Montana fontana prices go Into the till UlI of or a bettor better Y t 1 retailer IIo lie Ie prospected a good deal on his own account while logging and one time lime he Into a n hole that his 5 5 employer the sawmill man had salted for any chance prospector When hen he found the free gold he wanted to quit quiL teaming H He Ile IW visions of fortune In Montana The employer had to tell him the truth for Cor he lie needed the logs But J Jesse Jesie esse made sure Thal That seems to be bo one I of the mans man's traits Ho He makes sure euro He took another of or the earth and panned It out There wasn't a abit abit bit of or gold In In It So he k kept pt on with his oxen and wagons ons And he came back In the fall falI with money enough to pay all ail his debts and have ha over four tour hundred dollars He lie has hns made it a practice to pa pay his debts and have vo something left len ever since That Is another of or his traits trails He IIo t teamed amed a a goon good deal freighting down In the Tintie co country prospecting a little as he went along alons an and then married and settled down on a n. farm Up to the limo he W was wag I forty there was nothing In his life different from the lives of or hundreds of other square men In Utah 10 Ho bought and sold od cattle handled sheep sheel some ome farmed his land and was prosperous But he heas was as always alwn's looking j for ore He Ire never r took tooka a course in a school of oC mineralogy and wouldn't know what to do with a Q class cluss In geology But one da day not I long ago he took up n a piece of ore that lay hay In tho the window win win- window win dow ow of oC Taylor Bros Bros' anise here In Salt SaH a lake Lake a piece that was supposed to promise fairly well in copper copper- and said ho he ell believed there was gold In In It There wasn't an any gold Jold o on It That Is certain Hut he ho got a a. hammerand hammer hammor an and busted the lump And there va vaa fr free e geld old hidden away In the middle of It How JIow did ho he know lenow I give It up One man says sar he Is Isn a a wizard Yon Ton cant can't tell Ills his first mining property was the old Humbug That I name bo ho a fl handicap with any one ont else But It I wasn't with him He Ire owned it himself worked 11 It himself ot at first and then thon with the h help lp of or hired men It never was Incorporated lIe He went out to the tho mines tines at nt the end of the tho month and the superintendent gave him the pa pay payroll payroll roll an and ho he signed the tho checks Tho rho banker and the superintendent su- su su superintendent did the bookkeeping He tool took out of or It fL ten thousand dollars a n month for Cor years and then sold sod a half Interest for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars It Jt may be worth while white to state slate that no one ever over made tho thio Humbug pa pay before he ho took II it nn and no ono one has hns ever er since made It come anywhere near neal hl his record The other half Interest he put Into bite the Uw Uncle Sam un And he took ten thousand a 0 month out of or that for two years ear or so and then sold ft tt for half haIr a million It rw never r had been Leen Incorporated before There was no stock It 1 was all aU his And the Uncle Sam has failed to 10 equal its record under his management This brings us up to the early seventies sQ He lie had an eye on the land about fleck Beck Tunnel Phe They called caBe It Le Iye Heine Refine then And he began buying buy nl land there thero He Tie bought more and had men working Then rhen he lie wont up Into nto Canada a and acquired a lar largo large e tract in what Is now Alberta And they founded a colon colony there You know what It Is Edmonton Is ts the Hie town tin It was once a station sta sta- station tion of the Hudson Ba Bay company It Is almost the tho capitol cap cap- capital ital itol of an empire now All the time he was watching that land about Beck Beek Tunnel and Colorado and La getting a little more moreland land studying the surface and getting gelling ready He Tie had an Idea there thero was good ore there and that all lie he had to do was build broad an and safe lre lie would mako make a abig abig big fortune some day Word ord came to him up lip In Canada one time lime that they had found Cound color of copper In tho the diggings lI and he In Instantly instantly In- In dispatched work to slop stop digging lIgginS He Ho came down I S S r 0 a r rt Y a r S x S 1 r V Il r. X S F i r 6 tr ri L Ir IrS Irk k S 4 a a r T Tt t J I JESSE lESSE C. C 1 01 1 and got more land He lIe wall walked e over the ground a good deal or rodo rode over it on his pon pony lIe He rarely went Into the earth himself He lie studied so much of the book as was open to all men the men the surface of ot the hills the character character char char- acter aster of the rocks tho the sand saml and sagebrush of or time the plains Some Somo places that looked good to other people he fie let other people ha have ha Some Somo that th they y didn't want Suited stilted him And he ho bought These mines were Incorporated Incorporate He Ire paid about four cents for the control of Deck Beck Tunnel runnel I see sec by the pap paper I It has been between a dollar seventy five and two rivo dollars for a week Earlier In tho the season it went clo close e to three dollars In much tho same samo wa way way beginning beginning long ions ago and working always as to a definite objective he objective he secured control control control con con- of or the tho Colorado That cost him about three cents a share for the control and It Is anywhere from seven to to ten dollars now In June 1907 the Colorado pal paid 10 In dividends Beck Tunnel funnel has been earning a month for years Understand this man Is not a n. miner He lIo i is a n farmer and stock 1 man Ho lie Is no scholar lIe lie He has not not been brought up on flowery b beds ds of or ease easo as ns the old hymn has it it He has had to work ork all his life Jie When hen tho the battle bottlo was iron and won won won-an and It was won when Beck Tunnel and Colorado established themselves themselves themselves-he he pushed his work farther He thought there w was J a a. prospect prospect prospect pros pros- I of ot good pa pay In the Iron Blossom and In Mountain Lake the Lake the biggest property he owns owns anti and In Crown CrownPoint CrownPoint I Point and away over In Nevada he has thought well of or Seven Troughs And wherever r he Ito goes success at attends attends attends at- at tends him Ho lie owns tho the control of a dozen en other prop prop- The They are not all shippers but men of or experience and judgment think the they are good and their stocks find finda I Ia a read ready tale sale They are active It Is a u. peculiarity of the I Jesso Jesse Knight I mines that every one wants in People believe In the man The They have faith In his mines And Ancl they are aro willing to Invest on what looks to them thom like liko a reasonable probability that their holdings will increase In la value Of or one thing you you you- OU may be he assured They are not buying any of Jesse Jesso Knights Knight's stock And he Is not buying buyIng buyIng buy- buy Ing on the market to boost it ft He has the control and amid he lie holds It Ho Ito sn says s 's plainly that for tor every dollar the public puts in his mines he will put In a no dollar dollar at least And he does Furthermore these mines mimics are not organized cl for stock stock- selling purposes purposes not not ono one of them Tho They are heln being de lie- I He Tie puts In his mone money stoney because he ho believes tho the values are ate and he Is Ig spending plenty more money to find It When I h he lie fin finds s It he will become richer And Anti so sn will the men who whit have bought shar shares s with him In his til mines nUnes lues If r rhe the mines minds fall utterly Jesse 1 Knight will lose lase 10 e more than all the rest real of the owners put together He will willI I not unload on th them m. m lIe He will stand the loss with them Most lost of or hl his mines mines nIl all but Seven Troughs I think think think- are arc in in Utah lIe He has hM done a CL good deal for tho the state slate And ho he has done a u. good heal deal for tor or the business of or mining Which brings me to what I think I Is the most Important Important Important tant phase HO of or this story Jesse Knights Knight's style stylo of or mining Is Ig the tIlt representative the time typical style of Utah and Nevada mines Utah mines Utah ps- ps es p There ore are men ieee as was said nl at nt tho the beginning who organize mining companies for the Iho purpose of oC gullIng gullIng gullIng gull- gull Ing the public of ot selling stock for more than It Is fa worth stock tock In mines or prospects that never ne can bo hI worth anything It H Is J not fair Jo in judge the business of or tho the state by that th standard Jesse Jcsse Knights Knight's manner of doing this business Is the holler better an and truer type of work In Utah There are a few na flashy hy scoundrels in the business s and the they hurt It The rhe gl give a ha bad name to the state stale But Bui the genuine work Is the HIP work worl The mines are arc here TI The ore Is hero here J It pays Men who go into the business of or mining as ns the they would go Into Inlo the business busi husi- ness of handling hardware Ot or ol or anything el else else else- e- e have something to show for it They The stull study They master master mas mas- ter the details of tho the business They apply good common common com coin mon mon men sense lots of diligence some som patience patience and and th the |