Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Mode Reh by a Blat. [ARTICLE]

Mode Reh by a Blat.

The papers have lately mentioned how many prominent mines of the county were discovered by chance. There is a scrap to be added to the history of the Cortez mines. Simeon Wenbam had run the Garrison Tunnel at great expense and was left a poor man, owing his creditors $150,000. There was not a pound of ore in sight whereby the debt might be paid. As a last resort, with a forlorn hope, after the mine had been closed, Simeon Wenban drilled a hole in the hanging wall and blasted out a huge piece of rock, which he found to be almost a solid block of metal and part of an immense vein which had been paralleled hundreds of feet. This fortunate last effort marked a sudden change that seldom falls to the lot of man. It was Weuben, the poor man, the laborer, before that blast was fired; it was Simeon Wenban, the millionaire, but a second thereafter. The first month’s run of his little mill gave him $30,000, and ever since he has gibwn more wealthy. Ths mine is the best paying property in the State at the present time— Central Nevadan.