To judge from the extent to which the Shanghai Champions is, Browing, one can imaging that to win the "Champions means great fortune to mo: t of the foreign relents. The sad part about it is that there are only. two occasions during the yea have a shot at i are like this writer who, for nea Ty 20 years, has bought tickets regularly, and never drawn @ bean. Fortunes do not usually come that way. But there isa man in San Francisco, 58 years old, who has lived for many" years in the cheapest style of hoarying Tiouse neat the waterfront, an old and apparently unsuccessful. veteran mic nor of the type now almost extinct, who woke up one morning recently and found that he had tered a fairyland where he became possessed of many millions of dollars. This miner, Georze Campbell Carson, as a result of a court battle of many years, recently won a $20,000,000 victory in the U. S. Supreme Court against the American Smelting and Refining Company over copper smelting patent rights.
An itinerant worker for many years, facing hardships and priations that would have bowled over the average man in despair, Garson perfected his smelting pro: cess while working in Denver years ago. He secured patents on it in 1015 and 1919. The device consists of hopper and chute wher by ore is fed into the furnace from above, thereby eliminating the. slow, tedious ard exhausting work of shovelling by hard.
Nearly four years ago Drought his suit against the American Smelting and Refining Ca. in the district court of Seatile. The ion was "dimissed The old evidently sure cision in his favour in San Fran cisco, ordering the defendant company' to give an accounting of yalties due Carson, and the cult Tater went into the Supreme Coast witha victory for the od man. 'The 20,000,000 dollar fortune com ing to him is based on the smelting of 3,000,000 tons a year, a saving to the operators of 40 cents per ton, six years past use of the patent and 12 more' years for it to run, Tt is a commentary on human na. ture that since this unknown old miner has become wealthy he has received from all over the world hundreds of leiters—at the rate of 50 per day, it is said—instructing him in the best ways he should tuse his money. The letters are ti ped unopened to his lawyers, however, foF old Carson says that he cannot devise plans for spending his fortune, Apart from a good la. oratory in which he can satisfy the demands of his experimental d, he has no need of the day is life he climbed to the top of a pole and there succeeded making tact ith neighbouring places, ¢stabbs an emergency connexion from top of this cable pole. sages going to other cities on the coast, for it was.all in the day's work to Jeffs. But for his bravery, however, the fate of San Francisco's population might have been infinit2- ly worse than it was, for Jeffs emergency wire called succour from far and near. Such men are the salt of the earth. Ie had been, at the time of his death, for 31 years a loyal worker in that great telegraph system,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.