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Show MILLIONS OF Hj DELAM AR. H " In New York City there lives a young woman, the daughter of Captain LS Joseph R Dclamar Her name Is H brought to the attention of the public H because she has been called on to pay H transfer tax on $4,500,000 of hen H father's estate When Captain Dela I H mar died he willed half of his 120.-1 H 000,000 estate to his daughter But the I B property grew in value until there was H m excess o.f millions H This disclosure Is a reminder that H the west not only pays a big tribute H to eastern railroads in the form of B heavy freight charges on long hauls. I but yields up its substance to the In terest gatherers and to those who. get B i,ng rich in the west, move east, there B to spend their wealth. B Captain Dclamar was a poor man when ho struck a rich vein of ore in I southwestern Idaho. He accumulated B a fortune, and later added to his B wealth by mining in Delamar, Nevada B Premature deatn came to many a man B who fed ore into his batteries at Dela B mar The old stamp mills were death B traps which turned out sold and silver B to enrich ihoe who operated the B . mlDes, but left misery in the ruining camps Holes in the ground mark the sites of Delamara activities and coyotes ihowl in the deserted Btreets in Idaho and Nevada, while New York state's treasury' profits b the transfer of the wealth, and more than one palace In the gov city is brilliantly liu-hted by the dollars ot this mining man t There is no complaining because jthis is true, but the recital is a reminder re-minder that the east Is in manv ways indebted to the west . |