Mohave County miner., 1884-05-18
Ill-fated Finders.

Ill-fated Finders.
 i The Superstitious belief is an ole ore with the early inhabitants ot Pacific coast mining towns, that un less the discoverer of a camp meets an untimely or bloody end, the place of his creation will not descend into the future as one of the excite ments," This idea seems to be noI without foundation, wherever it or Iginated. Of thirty eight blooming towrs in early days, the locators oi twelve were killed by the bullet, one caved into a deep shaft, and major ity of the others drifted with the tide of emigration into oblivion, or died and were buried in paupers' graves. Old Virginia" who donated an ever lasting name to that queen of min ing camps, Virginia City, came to h1s death by an lover" dose from a bucking mule, near Dayton, Nevada, and the no less noted Comstock died by a bullet self administered m Montana, and like his predecessor. he dled financially broke. Colonel Storey, whose name that county ad opted, was killed in battle by the Pyramid Lake Indians. Billy Far rel, who struck" Meadow Lake, died victim to remorse in one of the leading hospitals of San Fran cisco, haunted by the spirits of 1000 deluded pioneers passing at the f9ot of his bed. He made no confession, Ills name is household word. His grave lies side by side with that of Doughuut Bill in the Lone Noun tain cemetery, where he was planted in 1868.
 The locator of the first find m Pioche is said to have stopped stage load of shotgun messengers early in the Black Hills excitement, and rumor says he was buried along side a boulder not far from the lIrlS of mn H1ads Kelse Austin, whe E
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 eastern EsksC County, aud is H ly no nearer the EQ den goal than the legion of"stAFly settlers who surround him. Of those who first uncovered ''the lead in the White Pine mines," the world knows little. A lone grave under a white pine tree. tells chapter in the tale. Of Eureka's first inhabitant, nothing also is told us, but It is safe to sur mise that few nuggets weighed down his blankets as he walked out over the grade. Tusearora was the work of an insane emigrant1 from Massa- chusetts. Legend locates his tomb stone near the adobe stacks of the old townsite, but those posted infer that he atoned for his misdeeds by sinking himself to the bottom of the hesdwaters of the Owyhee, if, indeed, he did not fall into the hands of d vigilance committee. Aurora started a goodly sized graveyard with her oldest inhabItant." Bill Boyd slept himself away" in a snowstorm few miles from the present place of writ ing. When his memory had reached the age of twenty years, his bones were resurrected and after being paraded at the head of a procession of tenderfeet through the town after his own name they were identified by his comrades and buried with i'm posing ceremony among the "bad men from Bodie" A monument Was raised to his memory, and 1t still stands unpaid tor in the stone cut ter's yard. Homer, of Homer dis trict, followed in the suicidal tracks of Comstock, and after squandering small fortune shot hls brains out in the streets of San Francisco. These are but few of many instances, but the fates that have befallen the many who have yentured 1n the discovery of new lodes, and succeeded, bear the old timers out in the belief that still has existence in not few minds. Rocky Mountain Mining Review.
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