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  • Title: Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
  • Date: May 4, 1902
  • Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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The New Hoffman House, Madison Square, J. P. Caddagan, Manager. Absolutely Fire Proof.
New York,

May 4th 1902 [1] My Dear Beck—

Yours received Am glad you can keep the water coming. What have you done with Alger Salsbury says for you as Manager to demand a settlement. tell him to send in his bill for salary— & you refer it to the company. if he wont do it make him do it by law.

Bleistein will remit I guess at once. Wrote Martin [2] to pay my water rights assessment. Mrs Wetmore [3] will send her payment on land  

The New Hoffman House, Madison Square, J. P. Caddagan, Manager. Absolutely Fire Proof.
New York, ____________ 190__

soon. Kelsey [4] writes me he has sent maps & report of survey— I presume you have let Wiley [5] use them as agreed.

The Wild West closed big engagement here open Brooklyn tomorrow sent route—

The Gold Mine [6] is a winner I guess beyond doubt its being kept quiet just now as we want some property Adjoining it and a water right from a stream near by. We are getting out ore and the vein proove a true fissure

Yours truly W. F. Cody

Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in New York City, New York, from April 21 through May 3, 1902; no performance given on Sunday, May 4, 1902. [back]

Note 2: John Henry Martin (d.1910), a Wyoming land agent who helped Cody. Martin was at one time manager of William F. Cody's interests in Cody, Wyoming. [back]

Note 3: Helen Cody Wetmore (1850-1911), William F. Cody's sister. [back]

Note 4: Frank C. Kelsey (c.1863-1933), a civil engineer. In 1901, William F. Cody hired Kelsey (who was then city engineer for Salt Lake City) to make a preliminary survey for the Cody-Salsbury Canal. [back]

Note 5: Solon Lysander Wiley (1840-1926), a hydraulic engineer and contractor. [back]

Note 6: "Gold Mine" may be a reference to Campo Bonito, a gold mine near Oracle, Arizona, leased by Cody-Dyer Mining and Milling Company. [back]

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