Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-05-10
Unparalleled Energy.

and lndomitable energy will always achieve
success. no matter in what capacity or what
field they are displayed Some men acquire
wealth and independence in a single day,
while others spend years of patient toll and
suffering to reach the same coveted position.
The difference in the two, however, is that
the one acquires it by the aid of Preacher
Gus, scheming inanipulatioDs in which 9th
ers are often ruined, while the other. by en-
}ergy and industry, succeeds in digging it
out of the ground, or acquires it by close
application to manufacturing, trade or COM
mercc. By the success of the one, he alone
is benefited, but by the success of the other
mankind in general are benefited AS a
proof of this fact we will cite case in point
Mr. John R. Hite, of Mariposa County
Cal. MIR. Hite came from, Virginia to Cal
fornla over twenty years ago. then mere
boy, without friends and without money
For many years he worked in the mines as
a common laborer, where his generosity and
Roman integrity made him host of friends
| To-day be is millionaire, and to all gener-
al appearances he holds his immense fortune
without apparently knowing it. The histo.
ry of his success is as follows; In 1863 he
left the settled portion of Mariposa County
for summers prospecting tour in the Ne
vada Mountains. in the Eastern portion of
that County With his tools and provisions
strapped upon his back, he wandered for
some time among the rocky cliffs of the
mountain gorges with but little appearance
OF the ''y,llow stuff" to cheer him. until be
reached the top of the mountain between
the main MERGED River and the South Fork
of that stream. Here. some 1000 feet
above the bed of the river, on the West side
OF the mountain, he struck large vein of
very rich bearing gold quartz. As soon as
found 1t he found it was likely to be of per-
manent value, he set to work with his owl
hands to make a trail through the mountains
to Mariposa, 10 order to get provisions.
proper tools, etc., to enable him to prospect
the vein. These be carried in on mules
and Immediately set to work getting out
quartz. which, fortunately for hin, was very
rich on the surface. He got out sixty tons
Of this rock and carried it on pack mules
several miles down the mountain to a lit lie
arasta Oh the MERGED River where it yield
ed him about $4,000 He then made a
new trail to the top of the mountain, which,
at his place, is about $500 feet high, and
in many places almost perpendicular for
hundreds of feet. Down this trail, which
traverses over precipice and under cliff
distance of some four miles, he carried
down, by the help of Chinese, all the heavy
shaitlngs, stamps. pans, ETC., of a frst-class
tWenty-stamp mill, together with thousands
of feet of lumber to build fumes and houses,
&c. To-day he has in his cove some TWEEN
ty or more houses, a large barn, store house,
mill house, &C., and strong and durable
suspension bridge spans tie river at his
mill, all the result of energy and human
strength.
For some years he has been constantly
employed in developing and working his
mine. during which time he has added to
the gold circulation of the world about
81, 100000. After sinking upon the vein
some two hundred feet, he ran tunnel
about two hundred and twenty feet and tap.
ped it at that point. He has worked the
vein now to the depth Of about two hundred
and forty feet below this tunnel, or total
depth of near four hundred and fifty feet be.
low the surface. The thickness of the vein
varies from four to twelve feet, making an
average of about nine feet throughout the
entire length of the vein as far as prospected,
being distance of some six hundred feet.
for several years past the rock has paid
about $50 to the ton. From 1869 to 1871
the monthly yield rarely ever varied over
twenty-five ounces; recently, however, in
the lower level he struck vein Of about
eleven feet in thickness, which pays from
500 to $50 per ton. This vein is now we'll
developed, and is one of vast proportions
and immense richness
For more than five years past Mr. Hite
has been engaged in running lower tunnel,
which is row in about 1850 feet. Accor
ding to survey, he will reach the vein again
in distance of some 70 or 80 feet, at
depth of something over four hundred feet
below the lower level There is scarcely
d ubt but that he will find the vein at this
depth equally as rich and as extensive as he
now has it above, and if so, it will then be.
without doubt, the most valuable quartz
mine on the Pacific Slope. This is no ex
aggeratlon when we recollect that he will
e-oA A"'o :" VIII iooi uuuufGU let't Q6ep DV,
perhaps, enc thousand feet long and eight
Or ten feet in thickness untouched, with,
perhaps, millions below him still; besides,
he has today rock enough in sight to keep
his mill running for ten years or more above
the lower level IF he strikes the vein with
his lower tunnel, and strike it he will to an
almost absolute certainty, at least one -third
of the present expense of working the mine
will be curtailed then with his fine
water-power, his milling facilities can be in
creased to three times its present capacity,
and the mine can be made to yield millions
of dollars annually.
Notwithstanding the great disadvantages
against which Mr.. Hite has had to contend
from the very first discovery of his mine,
the immense expense attending the trans.
portation of material and provision to it,
and the miles of roadway he has built, still
he has made it yield sufficient to pay every
expense and leave handsome fortune be-
sides, and to-day his prospects are brig liter
than ever before. and under his judicious
management it will be made to yield millions
Of dollars more He is the architect of his
own fortune, and he deserves his success =
Such men not only enrich themselves, but
they enrich others also. They are pro-
ducers, and therefore the benefactors of
mapkind.-San Francisco Coast Reuieao.
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