The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1899, Page 23

g THE SUNDAY CALL. 23 1znomenal Success of a California &Joman as a Gold Finder 1 ¥ o First a School Teacher, Then Became ientifie - ' xpert SG D f a Prospector and Now Has Struck E P Miner. It Rich in Alaska. Pssayer. When the warm months of spring and bearing rock to dust in an fron mortar summer returned Miss Hilton and her and ot the gold out by tricks with ;l;fither and uncle out again. quicksilver, so as to have something to ey trave! ¥ ed through the Santa Rita sell while the leveloped the prop- Mountains, and d little or nothing erty, X ped thelr prop ers and prospectors universall polite. Some of their 3 t — in th, of ores t ere Tdired paper. the «33 o 'wr!: ‘I\‘ "?mxfmras f-h?-(v hodid o) 1 At l1ast & shaft was down twenty OVer the : DENNIE [LTON northward to Prescott. feet and several other small openings 2 </ months searched the n They passed a through Gorgonia were made. Then while the uncle re. T in searching Mained at the mine Miss Hilton went Student out on a I anyon. In the win- [OTth to sell the property. She carried UuD trying to conv ter Miss Hilton opened an office for as- 2 Eripsack well fllled with specimens. pose of my tram saying in Prescott and did a fair busi- 80d & head full of pract tical facts about nita cha ness. Her method of making assays her mine. She went all over San Fran. bowlders. HE M05T FAMOUS WOMAN T GIZ\LD HUNTER oF THECOAST. pas liked, and the miners had con. CISCO With a miners' directory in her Do you think the mew we fidence {n'her statements ~f the values band, seeking possible buyers, and 3 P Bkl e of ore find a fleld for herself in min r bave done?" showing specimens from her mine. A perous business, and have turned their first day Miss H score of times she thought she had a backs 12 n was zealous in het She was to remain in Prescott, but 3 vhe 5 Fan ve buyer, but there wa. “1 don’t see why tessions for work. " She waited some weeks to try When spring opened her enthusiasm for ProsPective : s no : . " eldes fascina E secrel treasures the life and to be sure she Was not Drospecting was renewed by the news Sa1e. She was told on every side that it fi”:fi("n’-"z‘:“ffi kot that nature has locked in the he h; then wrote to the School her brother sent her that he had found 29 useless for any one to attempt to > 2 gold g the ru mountaing, but 3 oyl been exclusively men's w stees at Spadra, resigning her place, over in the Harqua Hala reglon the 9¢!l & mine so little developed. Among D€ o drew some of her avings from.a bank best-looking aurrerors® oocrElor the the miaing people she was known as [AnY ages that It will Los Angeles, and became & full-, whole Territory. Miss Hilton closed the Eirl miner. From San Franciseq broadising sy oloe edged prosoector. her assay office and went across the Miss Hilton went to Salt Lake. Thers, thebusiness. But wom qua Hala with her uncle With the knowledge born of experience #€I¥ers and have and accompanied by the usual comple- N San Francisco, the young woman be. $uitive knowledge than ment of Jackasses and camp outfit. The £aN @ slege on a dozen of the more Theme are prime requisite Harqua Hala mining region was the likely buyers of a gold mine. Her l0cating new mines most prosperous in the Southwest at Knowledge of the Intricacies of min 1 have bad what see that particular time. The mines lay in W2S Surprising. In a week she had Pretty tough times. dark red quartz twenty east of Interested two miners from St. Lov's the majority of people became a mining prospector with enthusiasm than Jennie Hi it from the first ¢ be we went r donkeys and camp out- When the coolor autumnal weather country to Ha came, the young woman and her brother vear parti miners start for the ind uncle prospected over the The next winter the acher-prospec and her com- be, Ar It was notorious com- y. Hundreds of to me some at probably woolen sk ver the Colorado River, P nty or in her property. They went down to !lved outdoors an s mense sunb ; wh robbed, ore north of Yuma. A more LoOS Angeles and thence to the Harqua Much less dwel nds for 3 side of I \ assina m”? : r.rhg(ldlm'l god-forsaken hot, desert reglon one can Hala region along the Colorado River. Weeks at & time in a ters ) § ¥ rushed th at did not de! e of el T scarcely Imagine. Once the There were but two othe Y [mag e, Once (h ! e Miss Hil. After a few days they agreed to buy Over 115 degrees in Miss Hilton be th Pty ' ton set about studying the “lay” of the the property for $40,000 if the property consider awful. B : : . 23 With * Kindness ana s 1and. It was a_strange condition of APbeared so well after they had wackey Scores of men wh l : : 5 ‘1 P \n‘|" ':T“'\‘\"' h':: 8 rs in rock. Only a few prospectors in it for two weeks as they saw fit. Be- mined for twenty . k 1 & 2 ‘V‘j,‘.);.‘ "l v xm '""”' 1 get the secret of the gold deposits fore the end of the week Graham & how they have 5 cea her br dan w that has ned 3 cte > had llved on the borde of from the surface indications, For weelks / were satisfled. The deeds were roasted in summer e t sh g ) ar a generation, was al- the young woman miner and her Passed at Yum on lonely mou ex; 1 Do brother tramped from morning until “No: I can’t say that I have had a SNt O, three years ke n her g evening over the Harqua Hala rocks ctably thrilling experfence since 1 bi8; and ha X o Bty sed a glass and desert Btew : - Sevaral miy o SXperience since 1 ¢ : ¢n this co! st that she had of } claims w weeks of and cons rth op m the lips If he knew she wa located, and then followed g 1t watchfulness hat claim was we were prosy n asked to tell of her Stc3k®. and tramp - midsummer, 1 . 1 forgot. Once, when Tyos! rivatic cting down in the moun- 4o all the old and tains between Sonora Strange | 5y L 1 Arizona, we P2J 8 sC A g experienced miners quit the torrid and came to shanty of a sheep rancher, [3 Ll 'ifi ('v‘l e“l ?] l‘\l f‘L L \if’ D\ | dry region. believing that there could e we found the bodies of two Mex iy | Wt ‘ l (6, \ another profitable mine found s rotting and drying in the torria 20d they ey st 4 S0 SN AL 5 < Miss Hilton was convinced, We learned that Apache Kia's Suffered that I might be more oc that the ledge in which she gang of cutthroats hed been that way ®P!® ” had opened a claim was neither a shal- several weeks before. It is hardly nec. A year ago Miss Hilton was Invited to low pocket nor a vein which would soon essary to say that we got out of the 8ddress the mos us woran's club i pinch out. Her brother disagreed with locality just as soon as possible, I was In the United States of her and went with a small army of dis- so fr 1 for fear the Kid and his NeW York—on the subject of women in courzged miners to a cooler climate. were lurking behind every Kold and silver It is 'a story how °r along the trail in those moun- and her that 1 was almost down with ition, nervous prostration for a fortnight the after. Once, poor T rge T ce. but we ed the usual an lich we always go nd the old-time min- fearful Faithful and Sturdy § Trim Little Rib ~ - L 5 Pl Carabao of ihe ) Decked Ponies . pines, ) of Japan, ugh to be fished friend, for ntaliy things new Phil and H ntervals the caraba break from bis slow me ¢ the shod, ribbor » @ trot, Lut the s - .1(,” h < unbounded ~ ip frafa s t an occasion for . shed buffalo. al ok in vain for a suggestior ggy head. m is in & hurry, ever The u for Lao will divide kles v v those wh. es- 1 His * tigate this em numt selv Alrea n- gayly | o sideration for h se he has been P L introduced as the plodding servant. who i - s trudged out Into the battlefield with am- expectations. and now the Gove swift and servicea i . munition, with water, with everything that bulletin boards are pasted with orders to endurance in - *“our boys" needed when In action or-when DUy £0od horses and sturdy mules. dle. Burde wit > The buffalo spends some hours each ¢ wallowing In mud holes or rivule Iving away dull days in the trenches, Apart from war and its unusual needs. quently they can be seen entir : the carabao is a part of the landscape of merged, with the """'""}5‘ 0t thelt Bog. - Th {lippines. In the streets of Manlla trils, in water or mud or this rea. ?}‘:iymtlo imboring along during all the they cannot be driven long at a stretch, white h: working hours of every day. In fact, to and woe unto the man who, knowing not with his a native one of the most familiar of all the habitsof this singular creature, should Side b #ights is to see this huge rrentgre,""whh ‘tle{np( (nr !.( nr;‘“ ‘Jnlntr&rnrvlrd day's animals 2 Ting in the end of his nose,” drawing a work out of him. His would be a watery The Burden-Bearing Pony of Japan and the Carabao of the Philippine Islands. KA St it o thoughts of '.h.e!r respective cou cart 50 beavily Azaye unless ha mucceeded in mastess pony n all the marks