Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-25
ARiZONA's GIRL EXPERT.

Queer Border Interpretations Among
the Miners About Her
"Arizona has the only girl mining ex-
pert in the world" said Col. John Hull, of
| Tuscon, to a San Francisco Examiner
representative at the Baldwin. "For
years she has followed up ali the new
camps and passed judgment on mines,
ard usually engaged in some kind of bus
mess IN them, as we'll as staked out and
! developed claims for herself.
"Her name is Nellie eastman, and she
i. known throughout all the mining towns
of Arizona. just now she is making a
phil for the Harqua Hala mines She has
just been here and bought restaurant
outfit for the new camp, and while her
employees set out bacon and beans TO the
flannel shirted miners for 81 apiece she
will make her locations and begin min
! ing as usual Miss eastman went south
on the Southern Pacific ye-terday.
"She is a wonderfully pIuoky girl. 1t is
about nine years now since she first came
/ to TuscoE. She was from Dodge City,
Kan, and could not have been more than
| II years old. She got 80 examining the
ore as it came out of the Tucson mines,
and was soon as good judge of b. value
as her brother Jim, who worked in one OF
them.
"The boys pretty soon 3egan betting
on her Judgment, more in fun than any
/ thing else, but what was their surprise
! to find that she was wonderfully
| good guesser and hit il close about every
time.
"Her fame spread, aud miners, always
superstitious, got an idea that TO have her
around and get her good opinion some
way brought good luck.
she knew where TO dig for ore, too,
and some of the ore in the Contention
was found by following her advice in run
nipg a drift. Over IL Graham county
! she made a hit one day on copper, aud
when she went 10 Tombstone afterward
she passed her judgment on some mines
there.
"Biu Virgins sold the Excelsior and
Grand View mines on her advice, aud tae
only dividends they ever yielded was the
$4,000 he got fer them.
Other mines were bought after
she had examined and reported favorably
on them. They are good paying proper
ties now.
an Tucson, Bisbee, Tombstone and
other camps Miss eastman mas conducted
general stores and big lodging houses for
the miners. She was also in business at
Castle Dome. She is as adventurous in
pushing forward TO a new region as any
nomRdic miner.
"No sooner does she hear OF a new
camp than she starts for it. She has had
so much experience that she invariably
turns Is 10 good account, getting town
lots, placer sites and lode claims next 70
nothing and unloading at a big profit.
AT first she did not get ont OF tine
camps soon enough. Consequently she
has been many times rich and poor. She
has indomitsble pluck, though, and If she
goes broke in one place she soon makes a
turn and gets up again.
1T Is phenomenal now nOnchalanty
she takes reverse. She is just as level
headed, self-contained and serene as if
she had made fortune. L. makes no
difference, so far as appearances &c.
Miss eastman is q rather tall. dark
eyed girl. She is somewhat angular in
appearance, and has brown hair. Going
about among the mines or climbing the
hills for but-croppings she wears heavy
shoes and strong clothes. usually covered
by ,oak, worn uegligee. She Is 3 rapid
" ser and quick, lucisive talker, Her
language Is good. She Is considerable of
reader, and on most all subjects is very
well Informed.
she will be tha drst woman Ic the new
camp OF HarquR Hsla, where there a.e
probably now 1900 men