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Show JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN SAYS JOHN MACKAY WAS TAIIl, BRAVE, LOVABLE. "John W. Maekay was the most lovable, lov-able, the most generous, the fairest and th bravest man I over knew. Of all the mining men of tho West who be-camo be-camo millionaires he was the king" ln the above words ludge C. C. Goodwin Good-win last evening ptofaced an Interesting Interest-ing talk concerning his loyal friend of the old Honanza dajs In Nevada. I first knew of Macka," Ju lge Goodwill said "as n placer miner ln Cillfornla. When he first came to Ne-ada, Ne-ada, about li60, In the great Comstock lush he was employed as a tlmberm in, he was an expert workman and was paid Jl pel diy moie than the other men. He had known Flood and O Hilen In California and eventuallj these thrco and Filr nnd Walker organled the Honanza company and aiquhcd the ptoperty that made them nil Immensely rich Mnckas made I-0OO0O In n few jeais nnd lost It In a venture In Idaho In the development of tho great prop-erts prop-erts at Virginia City they went down 1200 feet nnd then dilfted In nil directions direc-tions If they had drifted 100 feet higher up they would not have struck the Ilomnza. As it was thes took out J119 000 00O and paid J6T00O0OO In dividends divi-dends Mackas had bourht out Walker and owned two. tilths of tho property. "After Vliglnla City was destiosed by (lie and everything swept awas In 7fi or '77, Maekay vent to rather Monoguc who nfteiwnrd became bishop, and said to him Fathei, there aro many In need of help but If I undertake to help them I will bo defrauded de-frauded bs grafters and then I will get mnd and Insult some worthy man, I wash ms hands of tho work of distribution, dis-tribution, but ou may draw upon mn fn- nhnl cti neel for the relief nf tho people ' Pither Monoguc drew upon him to tho extent of 1150 000." said Judge Goodwin, "an! he honored evers draft And It was only through an accident that we heard of this This was before he had become) rich "At ono time Ilarrctt and McCullough came to Virginia City. They had had a bad season nnd were stinnded and dlscouriged Mac'cay suggested that tho people get up a benefit for them, and promised to take his share ot tickets W hen they enme nround to sell him tickets for the benefit he took three nnd pnld J1000 for them, Maekay would fight anything on earth and bo was dead straight In all his business relations Ills associates In New York say they never saw him elated but once It was vvlth reference to tho Postnl and tho Gould telegraph lines Mnckay decided to unload $5 000,. COO worth of the Postal stock Biid gave Instructions to put It on the market in Tarls for ono houi. In less than thirty minutes It was ubscrlbcd for five times over ben le John W, Markav said It was all right "Ho began without a dollai and died worth J5O.O0O0O0 He built nn Independent Independ-ent cable across the Atlantic and then doublet IU He put the figures for mes. sages at half what they had been, and ho refused to put the prices back to the old standard when he had the power to do It. He was a man of perfect Integrity, In-tegrity, a man within great head and a great hart, a man who would have been a power Jn unj business." |