The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1889-04-06
A GIRL MINING EXPERT.
She Seldom Trrs in Her Judgment OH
Claim and Makes Lots of Money.

She Seldom Errs in Her Judgment on q
Claim and Makes Lots of Money.
"Arizona has tho only girl mining expert
i'll the world, said Col. John Hull of Tucson
to an Examiner representative last night at
the Baldwin. For years she has followed
up all tho now camps and passed judgment
ou mines and usually engaged in some kind
of business in them, as well us staked out and
developed claims for herself Her namo Is
Nellie eastman, and she is known throughout
all the mining towns of Arizona Just now
she is making pull for tho Harqua llula
mines. She has just been hero and bought n
restaurant outfit for tho new camp and
while her employees set out bacon and beans
to the flannel shirted miners for dollar
apiece she will mako her locations and begin
mining as usual
"Shc is n wonderfully plucky girl. 1t is
about nine years now since shc first came To
Tucson. Sho was from Dodge City, Kan
and could not have been moro than II years
| old Shc got to examining tho ore as it came
| out OF the Tucson mines, and was soon as
good Il judge of its value as her brother Jim,
who worked in one of them. The boys pretty
soon began betting on her judgment, more
i'll fun than anything else but what was
their surprise to find that she was IL wonder
fully good gucsscr and hit it close about
every time. Her fame spread, and miners,
always supcrstitous, got an idea that to
have her around md get her good opinion
some way brought luck. She knew where to
dig for ore, too, and some of tho orc in the
Contention was found by following her ad
vice III running drift.
"Over in Graham county she made hit one
day OH copper, and when she went to Tomb.
stone afterwards sho passed her judgment On
some mines there. Bill Virgins sold tho Ex
relsior and Grand View mines on her advice,
and The only dividend they ever yielded was
the $l50DO no got for them Other mines
were bought nfter she had examined and re.
ported favoratly Oh them They nro ,od
paying properties no In Tue
,-Ipnsksk enc and othsy at+'' ..mau
5nAs sasfa;,o,g gf :, Id. 4 .tores an oig lodging
aoisea fori ia nr,t s Shc va .lso In busi.
p4sat 9 sis Ddnae. She is as adventurous
sHafa n + :5sSss : nv :ssIea e. :. .qs y
aneM than she starts Tor IL Ehs ~
ft,iAd vi tch experience that sbs almost a.
-~ariiatbffy turns 1t to good. account, gettane
next to nothing and unloading at a big profit.
fhI III 81 hlNl iloI e,;l vi
enough. Consequently she has been many
times rich and poor. She has indomitablo
pluck, though, and if sho goes broke in one
place she soon makes a turn and gets W
| again. 1t is phenomenal how nonchalantly
| sho takes a reverse. Sho is just as lcvc
headed, self contained and serene us if she
had made II fortune. 1t makes no difference
so far us appearances 90. Miss eastman is Il
angular in appearance and has brown hair
Going about among tho mines, or climbing
the hills for outcroppings, sho wears heavy
shoes and strong clothes usually covered
with a cloak, worn neglige. She is rapid
walker and quick, ncsive talkcr. Her
language is good. Sho is considerable Of q
reader, and on most all subjects is very well
informed She will be the first woman in the
new camp of llarlua IIala, where there arc
probably now fifteen hundred men. n."-Sail
Francisco Examiner.