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TheMojave Desert is rich in many metals and minerals, including silver and goldand this was proved when a huge number of mining claims were filed in the late1800s. San Bernardino County is scattered with remnants of the once-boomingmining towns. Today, the area has becomeone of the most well-known ghost towns in Southern California.
Offering2 TLSs from CHARLES T. TRYON of Bakersfield, CA, encouraging support from M.M.Small of Cooperstown, PA, an investor in Mojave mining claims. Tryon was born in Batavia, Genesee County,NY. A number of his ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of1812. Tyron was a real estate attorneyand an investor.
Tryonwrites of J.P. Morgan’s investment in the mine, the development of the mine andlocating new large veins and securing the title to their claims. In his second letter, he promises greatprosperity for investors as they mine an “inexhaustible quantity of gold,silver and ore.”
3pp, 8 ½ x 11, June 21st, 1902, Tyron writes, “I received your letterof the 10th, inst. With its clear straight to the point ideas. Iwish there were more people who could think clearly like you...It would not beso hard to get an idea into their head.
“J.P.Morgan has come into the deal for the big mine that I have been put after by anEnglish syndicate. Now the whole thing will swing on which party the ownerswill have the most confidence in. I believe that we have the inside track thisfar as the owners are old prospectors who are more in sympathy with and havemore confidence in such a man as McRae, my man here, who is also a mining manwith them, than in those New Yorkers.
“TheBrokerage business is going beyond my expectations. Such men as Morgan andothers have given the business and added dignity that has given me the chance formaking the company here a powerful factor in this state. It will be a national factor. For I amconvinced that this is to be one of the greatest investing centers in thecountry. Although we will always be more of a direct representative in bringingmoney in touch with the raw material than in handling the developedinstitutions we will for that reason hold a position of usefulness to the worldof capital unique in itself. It will take years of work to accomplish this, butit is being accomplished each day by doing our work faithfully,conscientiously, honorably...
“Themen whom we have in charge of the property at Mojave went per our instructionsand searched for extensions to our claims, making locations where they thoughtthere would be values. They have just sent in thirteen more locations that theyclaim have values, a few having splendid veins adjoining our original claims.
“Theyare getting ore from every variety found on the property to be used in thetests (final). We have found the iron necessary for fluxing...Things are comingour way in every sense. Did I tell you that a big electric company has let thecontract for sending power to Randsburg for operating plants there and they goright across our property...It is an immense big proposition...The further wego the more it impresses me with the wonderful opportunities that it presents...”
2pp, 8 ½ x 11, August 26th, 1902, “...While at the Copper Basin,where our claims are located, I was with the surveyors who were tying one claimto another and getting everything in ship shape...We also went further ininvestigating the last large ledge, discovered and it now seems certain that wehave a good gold bearing ledge there and that it in a sense the mother lodealong with what is marked on the map as the Mammoth which is the furtheroutcropping of this same ledge. Do you notice that on the map this makes a bigbackbone running right through the middle of the Mill site a group of claimswhich are richer than the Peck group...
“Youhit the nail on the head exactly when you said that the thing we want is tohave the title perfect to the Majave Copper property and then to keep itunencumbered so that we may not be handicapped when the right opening presentsitself to go on and get the money to doour work in getting on a dividend basis without compromising our position asholders in it in the least. We have our title perfect now...All the powers thatexist cannot get us to make a deal that is going to go in the least jeopardizeour holding...
“YesM.M. we have got a sure solid thing in the Mojave copper and it gets biggerevery move we make...It will be the foundation for the fortunes of all of usand also for generations to come as it is practically an inexhaustible quantityof gold, silver and copper ore that it will take hundreds of years to mineout...Ease yourself about the future...The men in control are true as a die andthe worth is in the property so that we are solid.”
Folds,toning. First letter has a missing three-inch piece at the top, not affectingthe typed words. A fine set of early 20th century letters dealingwith gold, silver and copper mining.
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