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Accidents That Made
Bonanza Kings
True Romances of the
Great West
by Frankj.J.Arkins
© B/ fflDCH/Ar CO.
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CCIDENTS have contributed
billions to the wealth of the
world. They have made the
history of the great minlng
-1 camps. The merest chances
| have resulted In the discov
ery of the great lodes of
gold and silver bearing ore.
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The accidental finding of a small nug
get in the crop of a chicken was mo
mentous. It was the beginning of a
series of explorations that unlocked a
chnin of treasure vaults in the Rocky
Mountains. The remark of a hunter,
the subsequent sinking of a well and
the accidental meeting of four men,
constituted a chain of events that re
vealed the greatest single deposit of
ore ever known. The kick of a donkey
uncovered a ledge from which millions
have been taken. v
The man who Becks wealth in the
mines, knowing what he is hunting
for. stumbles across it at the most
unexpected moment. If he recognizes
what he is looking for he is in a fair
way to become rich.
Bawmill That Opened Up the West.
In January, 1848, near Sacramento.
California, James Marshall of New
Jersey constructed for James Sutter
most famous Bawmill in history. It
quickened the pulse of the world. It
revived the sluggish streams of com
merce. It made men fighting mad. It
resulted in wiping the buffalomnd the
Indian from the great plains. It filled
the Pacific ocean with ships where
previously but few sails had been
seen. It caused the building of rail
roads, and laid the way for future
millionaires.
The mill was built of logs. Marshall
carefully selected a point for the tail
race, and because he decided that
time could be saved In completing the
mill by permitting a flow of water to
clear the mill-race of the soft dirt,
his name became linked with the ad
vance of the western states. The wa
ter was turned in and, after running
for several days, the head-gate was
closed, to complete other necessary
work. Then Marshall noticed a few
shining specks in the banks of the
race. He took a step forward, gasped,
halted, flushed and laughed at Jilmself
uncertainly. The next morning. Jan
uary 19, 1848, he stepped into the tail
race and picked up a few pieces of
brassy-colored metal. He showed
them to the men at the mill. They all
laughed. He pounded one piece yun
der a hammer. He placed them in his
pocket.
“Throw them away, Marshall." said
one of the men, "and let's get the
mill turning.”
The next day Marshall rode into
Sacramento and reining his foam
flecked horse in front of Sutter’s
store. Sutter to a rear room, the door
of which he locked.
“Do you know gold when you see
It?"
“No. Why?”
Then Marshall produced the brassy
bits. They hammered out a piece
the size of a half-dollar, and weighed
It in scales against a silver 50-cent
piece. It was heavier. They tested it
with acids. They decided it was gold.
Together they returned to the mill,
and before night had gathered a pan
full of coarse gold nuggets.
When they did that they tapped the
top of the treasure-vault of the West
ern States. The news of that find
populated the Pacific Coast. A flame
of excitement ran up and down the
Sacramento Valley. It reached the
four corners of the earth. People
came from everywhere. Those few
specks of gold found in the mill-race
at Columa, in Eldorado county, were
the first of a production of $1,750,000,-
000 that California was to yield! Then
followed the hordes that traveled to
the new gold coast by sea. around the
Horn, and across the plains, lighting
Indians and wild beast, and uncover
ing other mining camps that made the
western states famouß. Between 1848
and 1869 California produced more
gold than had been gained in all of
North and South America In the pre
vious two centuries.
Finding of the Comstock Lode.
The chance remark of a hunter, fol
lowed by the accidental meeting of
four men, 1b responsible for the un
covering of the most sensational body
of-ore in the history of mining. Pros
pectors swarmed all over the stato of
Nevada in 1859. They were men who
had failed to find wealth in California,
reinforced by Immigrants who lncked
the money to go farther. A hunter,
whose name is not known, told Pat
McLaughlin that there were mineral
lndlctalons on Gold Hill. They found
the place—and an outcrop, but no
mineral. The ground had been pros
pected before and deserted.
It was discouraging. They worked
without result They decided to sink
a well in a depression. At a depth of
four feet they ran across some black
looking stuff that puzzled them. They
washed some of It in a "rocker” and
were amazed to find the bottom of the
rocker “alive” with gold. In a few
moments the men were making fifty
dollars an hour. In the midst of this
golden dream, H. T. P. Comstock
camo upon them. He declared him
self "in on it.” He had prospected
the ground before. He was determin
ed he would not give an inch. They
conceded him a half interest, which
he divided with his partner. That
claim afterward became the Ophlr
ground.
Its gold-bearing days were short
lived. when an assayer named Mel
ville Atwood came along. Struck by
the appearance of the black residue
from the ore, he essayed it and found
that it ran three thousand ounces in
silver to the ton. Prior to that the
search had been for gold. Now there
was a stampede. Within two years
Virginia City, Nevada, had a popula
tion of thirty thousand, and the fam
ous lode named after Comstock has
produced in gold and silver $850,000,-
000. The mines burrowed down to a
depth of more than three thousand
feet, and for years fought through a
rain of scalding hot water under
ground.
In the early 70’s it began to "play
out.” The people were panic-stricken.
Thousands faced starvation. Then ap
peared a man who seemed to "see
through the moutnaln.” The great
lode had only been scratched, he de
clared. John Mackay. with James Fair
and Messrs. Flood and O’Brien, start
ed to sink the Consolidated California
and Virginia shaft. Dark days were
on the camp when that shaft went
deeper and deeper without revealing
an Indication of ore. Just as the night
w r as blackest, and the people filled
with despair, the bottom of the Con
solidated shaft punctured the top of
the greatest bonanza ever recorded
In his»ory. Stocks soared. The hopes
of the people revived Virginia City
was a bedlam of excitement. Millions
came out of that hole. In the next
two years the Consolidated paid divi
dends at the rate of $2,000,000 a
month.
The Chicken and the Professor.
A chicken was the accidental means
of halting a party of gold hunters, at
a point which afterward became a
great city, and the center of the most
remarkable mining discoveries ever
known.
A group of Georgia miners stopped
on the banks of a sandy creek in west
ern Kansas. New' Year’s day, 1859.
They had some poultry with them
which they turned loose for a few
days. They killed one. and in clean
ing it a small gold nugget was found
in the crop.
Instantly town was born. The
men were from Auraria, Georgia, and
they gave that name to the new place.
The stream was called Cherry Creek.
They panned up and down and w'ithln
a few weeks so many trains of prairie
schooners had stopped there that
quite a community had tyjen estab
lished. The Pike’s Peak boom was on.
From Leavenworth the world had
been notified. There were saloons,
gambling houses, dance halls, all the
Indulgences of a mining town, when
the placer began to wane. The rush
crowded the village. But the supply
of gold was scant. Wagons labeled
"Pike’s Peak or Bust” came ir. dailv
Some ascended the peak—seventy-fivo
miles to the south —and if they could
have found the man who started the
rumor there would have been a hang
ing.
Then John Gregory panned down
the creek to the Platte, and followed
it to its confluence with Clear Creek.
Here he obtained better "colors." He
ascended this stream thirty miles to
the point where it forked. He panned
the gravel on each side, and selected
the North Fork. The next day he
lifted a panful of gravel from a gulch
that will forever bear his name. The
rush that followed changed the name
of Auraria to Denver, and divorced
from Kansas and Utah enough terM
tority to create Colorado. The people
were gold mad.
W. Green Russell, another Georgian,
went into the next gulch, and almost
the same day that Gregory "struck
it.” George Jackson, who had reached
the South Fork of the same creek by
crossing the mountains, added another
district.
The gold came so faßt that the gov
ernment ordered a mint erected at
Denver in 1861. Then evil days fell on
the new camp. The “free" gold dis
appeared. It was now held in the
clasp of iron and. sulphur and would
not yield. Thousands faced ruin.
Not one, but several cities had beer
built In the mountains. Denver had
grow'n by leaps and bounds. The
people were in a panic. A masß meet
ing was called. It was a gloomy crowd
♦hat assembled. All agreed that
thing should be done. But what?
“Send for Professor Hill!” shouted
a man in the rear of the room.
“Who 13 Professor Hill?" asked the
chairman.
“He Is professor of metallurgy at
Brown University,” came the answer.
“How do you know?"
"Because I am a Brown man.”
"College fellow, eh?”
The man from Brown pressed his
claim, and an appealing message was
sent to the university. Professor Hill
responded. He examined the ore and
agreed to erect a smelter. The min
eral wealth of Colorado was first un
covered by a chicken, and the state
was saved by a professor, afterwards
United States senator.
The Last Chance.
In the spring of 1864 there was a
stampede from Alder Gulch to the
Kootenai. In British Columbia. Four
men. named Cowan. Stanley, Miller
and Crab, started north, and while
crossing the Prickly Pear Valley in
Montana, learned there was no use in
going to the new diggings. Thiß In
formation was given to them by Jim
Coleman and his party, who were re
turning They debated together and
concluded to go back to the states.
They could not agree on the route
they should follow. The Cowan par
ty wanted to try a new trail over the
mountains. Coleman insisted that it
was but a game trail. The other
thought not. So they parted.
Finding It impossible to get over
the mountains, the Cowan party re
turned to the valley.
“Let’s pan this gulch,’ said Cowan.
“It’s the last chance before w'e leave.”
It was about sundown when Cowan
made that remark. He filled his pan
with gravel In the gathering dusk
his partners watched him. Idly smok
ing.
The light was fading fast, and Cow
an was hurrying the work. He had
removed the coarse gravel and was
well down to the bottom of the pan.
As he began to shake It to rid it of
superfluous dirt, and take in fresh wa
ter. he shouted:
“We’ve struck it blgger’n all out
doors! We can own all of Montana!”
In an Instant his partners were at
hla side. Four breathless men watch
ed the final operation. In the bottom
of the pan were several flat pieces
of gold. As the dirt was thrown out.
more and more of the yellow stuff
appeared. Altogether there was about
eighteen dollars’ worth in that pan.
They worked by camp Are. They were
wild with joy.
They were rich beyond their wildest
dreams. They fired tbelr revolvers
and talked half the night, as they
planned thier future. They had made
history In washing that pan. for Last
Chance Gulch was to have a popula
tion of more than ten thousand before
the snows of Christmas fell, and the
nuggets found in that pan were the
first of $140,000,000 that it was to
yield to the gold hunters. Helena,
Montana, now stands on the place
where that discovery was made.
A Murderer's Legacy.
A great mining camp was discover
ed because a murderer escaped from
Jail. While evading arrest he stum
bled on gold in the sands of a range
of black mountains. Pursued by offi
cers of the law and hunted by warlike
Indians, hungry and w'eary. he gave
himself up. To the warden of the
prison where he died he gave two
quills of gold, and made a rough map
showing where he found the yellow
stuff. They began an invasion of the
country, which was an Indian reser
vation. Men died in the search for
those mines. Wild Bill organized nn
expedition in 1872. and spent the win
ter in the Black Hills, fighting red
skins. He was forced out in .1873 by
the military. In spite of a cordon of
soldiers and hostile Indians, prospec
tors risked their lives, for they found
ore worth S9OO a ton! The Indians
ceded their lands to the government
and the rush commenced in 1876.
Within a year there were forty thous
and people in the gulches. Deadwood
is located on the spot where the flee
ing murderer found his little nuggets.
If the keepers of the jail had not
been lax. the half-breed Renseler
would not have escaped. And if he
had not escaped and been pursued,
the wealth of the Black Hills would
have been unknown.
Finding a Pleasant Tombstone.
A prospector left Fort Huachuca.
in Arizona
“I am going out to find a million.”
he remarked
"You will find your tombstone! The
country is alive with Indians.”
"Better a tombstone than poverty."
A few weeks later he uncovered one
of the greatest silver mines ever open
ed in the southwest, which he named
the Toughnut. He called it tho Tomb
stone District. Several millions of
dollars were taken out Just under the
grass roots A town sprang up. A
newspaper called the Epitaph was
published dally It was the accidental
turning to the left, forced on him by
the presence of the Indians, rather
than to the right, where there were
better mineral indications, that ca*»ed
him to stumble on the great silver
deposit
Where the Indians Got Their Paint.
A piece of rock left on a hot stove
by accident unlocked a treasure house.
Tho Indians about Prescott, Arizona,
had an abundance of paint. Where
they obtained it was a mystery. The
fact that they had it excited a party
of prospectors, who followed them.
They tracked the redmen up Jerome
Canyon, and saw bright red and green
stains on the side of the canyon walls.
They went above these, and located
a silver mine, which they worked out.
Then they sought a purchaser. They
did not want to risk their money in
searching for greater wealth.
They interested Senator W. A. Clark
of Montana. He investigated. When
and sank a shaft and gave up in dis
he saw the red and green stains he
knew that back in the hills there was
a deposit of copper. He bought the
mine and commenced the sinking of
a shaft that has made famous the
United Verde.
The Cripple Creek* Enigma.
Pike’s Peak has always been associ
ated with gold. In 1859 a camp was
located in one of the many natural
parks on the side of it. Several thou
sand people were there. There was a
town, district rules were adopted, and
location monuments established. The
prospects were promising. There was
everything to make a good town —ex-
cept gold.
It flattened out and the place got a
hard name. Then a man went over to
Mount Pißgah. salted some claims, and
started a rush. He left, the country
about twenty-five hundred feet ahead
of a thirty-foot rope and several hun
dred angry men.
Some hardy prospectors went
around on the south side of the peak
gust. For years expedition after ex
pedition wasted time and money on
th? sides of the great peak.
Finally a man decided that the way
to get gold out of that section was to
feed cattle on the sides of the peak
He acquired a ranch. Later he bor
rowed some money on it and could i
not pay the mortgage. The holders
of the notes offered to give him more
time. He would rather they would
take the ranch. Bob Womack dug a
prospect hole in one of the gulches. A
cow fell in it and was crippled. Thf
owner of the ranch threatened to eject
him. Womack sought aid to develop
a mine. In response to his request
eminent mining men Investigated his
property and tried hard not to laugh
in his presence. Dignified mining en
gineers shook their heads knowingly
and warned capitalists not to risk
their money.
Then some one bought Womack’s
claim for a song, and commenced tc
work it. A little gold was found, but
there stood Mount Pisgah. that had
been salted, and all around it aban
doned prospect holes that told o1
blasted hopes of bygone years. It had
the curses of thousands of men upor
it. A little gold came from the sur
face of the ground. But specialists
sat up nights advising friends and
clients to keep as far away from Crip
pie Creek as they could.
Then silver was demonetized. Thou
sands were thrown out of employment
They heeded not the adviec of the ex
perts. They rushed into Cripple Creek
by the thousand and accidentally dis
covered It. They crowded the trails
and tramped in over the snow. Thf
first winter was terrible. They work
ed a placed on Mineral Hill—Wa
mack’s mine, the El Paso, began tc
ship ore. Then, like a flash, came the
news of the finding of Bonanza on
Gold Hill. Battle Mountain and Bull
Hill.
The secret was revealed. The bright,
silver-looking ore. that disappeared
before the flame of the blowpipe, was
gold disguised by tellurium. It -was
so simple. It all happened because a
man left a piece of it on a stove by
accident. The slow' heat drove off the
tellurium and left the gold in shining
specks, peeking through the rock.
The Opening of the Yukon.
When the Telegraph Expedition
forced Its way through the northwest
in the middle of the nineteenth cen
tury. it found evidences of gold along
the Yukon river.
The party was locating a telegraph
line that wras never built. All that
is necessary to start a prospector over
the trail Is word of rich diggings at
another place, the farther away the
better. Every year after that miners
sought the north.
In 1896 the world was electrified by
the discovery of George Carmack,
who forced his w’ay up the Yukon.
1860 miles from the sea. He pros
pected the various rivers In search of
the gold which the Telegraph Expedi
tion had reported.
He stumbled into Klondike Creek.
Two miles above that he turned into
a little stream, where he washed from
forty to eighty dollars gold to the
pan. His fortune was assured, and
his discovery started the rush into the
frozen north, for he had turned the
key that opened the door to millions,
away up in the Arctic Circle.
Thanks to tho Reindeer.
Nome was discovered because some
reindeer strayed away in 1898 and a
Lapland reindeer herder at Nome,
stumbling along after them, accident
ally kicked a nugget from the sands.
The beach was worked right down to
the edge of the Behring Sea.
Then a second zone was discovered
thirty-seven feet higher, /but farther
back. When it was worked out. a
third beach, one hundred and seventy
five feet above sea level, and a mile
or more back from it. was found. A
town sprang up and millions were ta
ken from the beaches.
International
Sunday School
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Eve
ning Department The Moody Bible In
stitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR MARCH 2
GOD’S COVENANT WITH ABRAM
LESSON TEXT—Gen. 15:6-18.
GOLDEN TEXT—“He is faithful that
promised.”—Heb. 10:23.
Until within recent years It was fre
quently asserted that Abram's battle,
as recorded in Gen. 14. “had not one
whit of proof,” yet the archaeologists
have not only* reconciled the apparent
discrepancies but have proven beyond
a .question the accuracy of the rec
ord. Abram’s victory over the four
confederate kings is a story rich with
typical suggestions.
I. “After These Thing*-” vv. 1-7.
God's word (v. 1) came to Abram not
only as a counsel but for assurance
as well. So, too, our assurance is his
word, I John 6:13. In the midst of
the uncertainty and the strife, for we
must remember Abram never pos
sessed the land, God appeared to him
in a vision and said. "Fear not.” See
Isa. 41:10. There in the midst of
foes (Jas. 2:23) God promised to be
to Abram a shield and an exceeding
great reward. A “shield” for there is
to the Christian life a militant side.
Eph. 6:13, 14. I Tim. 6:12. A “re
ward” which was far more rich than
nny given by man. See 14:21, Prov.
10:22.
Abram Was Human.
But Abram was, after all, human,
and we read in verse 2 his question
about descendants, he being as yet
childless. Even so. however. Abram
was willing to count the child of his
steward as fulfilling the promise of
God. Not so with God for the prom
ise (12:3) was to include Sarah also.
God very clearly makes this plain in
verse 4. the heir was to be Abram’s
indeed and not the child of another.
But not only is Abram to have an
heir but the land in which he was so
journing as a pilgrim was to be his
and his seed to be as the stars for
multitude.
“And he believed.” The great test
to this faith came later. Heb. 11:19,
but here in this first distinct scrip
tural history of faith we find set forth
those principles that have governed
through all time. (1) The acceptance
of the word of God, e. g., to have our
trust built upon or supported by the
word of Jehovah, see Isa. 30:21; (2)
to act upon that faith so that our
course in life manifests the belief of
the heart.
God’s covenant, 12:1-4, is confirmed
In seven ways, 1, Posterity, (a) nat
ural. “earth.” (b) spiritual, “heaven,”
(c) also through Ishmael, Gen. 17:18-
20: 2. Blessing, both temporal and
spiritual; 3, great name; 4. Be a bless
ing, Gal. 3:13, 14; 6. “I will bless
them that bless thee;” 6, “and curse
them that curse thee; 7, the families
of the earth blessed through Abram,
e. g., through Christ, Gal. 3:16.
“And he believed In the Lord” (v.
6). Abram built upon the naked word
of God. he simply looked at that and
that alone. Rom. 4:20, R. V. All God
asks of us is for us to take him at his
word. So it is that as we take his
word about Jesus, he reckons that
faith to us as righteousness; no mat
ter how unrighteous we may have
been, see Rom. 4:3-6; Gal. 3:6-7. The
one think that God demands is that
we believe him and his word.
TT. “Whereby Shall I Know.” vv.
8-18. The weakness of human faith in
dicated by Abram’s question (v 8) is
answered by God giving to him direc
tions for the preparation of a sacri
fice. Abram did not really doubt
God’s word (v. 6), but ho did desire a
confirming sign. Many today are.
looking for assuring signs from God
when his bare word should be enough.
Asking for signs is not always safe,
Luke 1:18-20, but as in Abram’s case
God does give us a pledge a sign of
our inheritance, 2 Cor. 1:22, Eph. 1:14.
God gave Abram, after he had explic
itly followed his directions, a sym
bolic vision of himself. Someone has
suggested that the vile birds of prey
(v. 11) are symbolic of Satan, and
Abram, driving them away, a symbol
of one victory over evil, Jas. 4:7.
God is always nearer to man and best
reveals himself when we are in the
midst of sacrifice. God tells Abram
of those days of servitude on the part
of his descendants while they are to
be in Egypt, of God’s judgment to be
brought upon that land and of their
ultimate deliverance.
Symbols of God.
Every detail of these predictions
and promises was fulfilled. In verse
15 there is presented the great
thought of the need of preparation in
youth for the future days of “good
old age”—also in this verse a sugges
tion of the life beyond the grave.
The smoking furnace and the flam
ing torch were symbols of God him
self. Four centuries of opportunity
were to be allowed the powerful Arao
rites who now possessed the land be
fore the land came into bona-fide pos
session in accordance with the prom
ise, for God’s judgment was Condition
ed upon the “measure of their iniquity
being full.” In the midst of this hor
ror of darkness came God’s final as
surance to Abram In the symbolic
“flaming torch” which passed be
tween the pieces of the slain animals
typical of the two parties to the con
tract
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Its Merit.
"Why Is a mirror considered one of
the best of critics?”
“Because it always faces the truth.”
Its Style.
"The child actress in that piece has
a part which fits her like a glove.”
“Yes, so to speak, a kid glove.”
He Knew the Kind.
The guide. In referring to the Egyp
tian pyramids, remarked:
“It took hundreds of years to build
them.”
“Then It was a government job—
eh?” replied the wealthy contractor.
—Youth’s Companion.
Nolle Prossed.
Rastus had caught Sambo red-hand
ed.
“Ah’m gwlne hab yo’ arrested foh
stealin’ mall chickens, yo’ Sambo
Washin’ton —dat’s jess what ah’m
gwine to do.” said Rastus.,
“Go ahead, niggah,” retorted Sambo.
"Go ahead and hab me arrested. Ah’ll
mek yo’ prove whar yo’ got dem chick
ens yo’self!”—Harper's Weekly.
Automobile Aroma.
Farmer Hiram was mending the
front fence when an automobile
whizzed past, emitting a trail of blue
smoke from its oil-choked engine.
Farmer Hiram’s hand went to his
nose. When the car had disappeared
far down the lane and the smell had
died away he ventured to address the
hired man.
“Sam,” he said, "they may be swell
city fellers an’ all that; but they cer
tainly was smokin' some vile see
gars.”
GOOD NATURED AGAIN
Good Humor Returns With Change to
Proper Food.
"For many years I was a constant
sufferer from indigestion and nervous
ness, amounting almost to prostra
tion,” writes a Montana man.
"My blood was Impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This was
a steady daily condition. I grew ill
tempered, and eventually got so nerv
ous I could not keep my books post
ed, nor handle accounts satisfactorily.
I can’t describe my sufferings.
"Nothing I ate agreed with me, till
one day I happened to notice Grape-
Nuts in a grocery store, and bought
a package out of curiosity to know
what it was.
"I liked tho food from the very
first, eating It with cream, and now I
buy it by the case and use it daily.
I soon found that Grape-Nuts food was
supplying brain and nerve force aa
nothing in the drug line ever had
done or could do.
“It wasn’t long before I was re
stored to health, comfort and happi
ness.
“Through the use of Grape-Nuts food
my digestion has been restored, my
nerves are steady once more, my eye
sight is good again, my mental faculties
are clear and acute, and I have become
bo good-natured that my friends are
truly astonished at the change. I feel
younger and better than I have for 20
years. No amount of money would
Induce me to surrender what I have
gained through the use of Grape-Nuts
food." Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. “There’s a rea
son.” Read the little book, “The Road
to Wellville,” In pkgs.”
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