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
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]
Title: Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
Source: University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Buffalo Bill: Letters to George T. Beck, 1895-1910 (Acc. #9972), ah031457-58
Date: May 4, 1902
Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wyoming
People: Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943
Sponsor: Supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.
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