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At the end of Sharon told broker George Mayre Jr. 47 Sharon, Ralston, and the Bank Ring were poised to develop a fortified monopoly. Sam Davis later observed: “There is a vast difference between ownership without a pull and ownership with a dead sure one. And there is where the iniquity began. ”49 That aptly describes enterprise in the Far West, which was dramatized by vigilantism and land disputes until the early s, when disorder evolved into oligarchy. Entrepreneurs, elbowing their way to the fore, imitated the Yankee traders and monopolists of the East.
At the end of Sharon told broker George Mayre Jr. 47 Sharon, Ralston, and the Bank Ring were poised to develop a fortified monopoly. Sam Davis later observed: “There is a vast difference between ownership without a pull and ownership with a dead sure one. And there is where the iniquity began. ”49 That aptly describes enterprise in the Far West, which was dramatized by vigilantism and land disputes until the early s, when disorder evolved into oligarchy. Entrepreneurs, elbowing their way to the fore, imitated the Yankee traders and monopolists of the East.
40 Sharon began developing a strategy of controlling the Yellow Jacket that he later applied to other mines. ” At the meeting the treasurer resigned, and J. A. (James) Ralston was elected in his place. Three weeks later Sharon was elected a trustee. At the April meeting, held at the Bank of California office in Virginia City, Winters and two trustees formed a committee to examine mills for purchase. 41 Later in the Yellow Jacket struck the Crown Point mine’s west dip- ping vein.