Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-03-08
A GIRL MINING EXPERT.
SHE NEVER MISSES IN HER GUESS
Es AND THE MINERS LOOK UPON
HER AS A MAsCOTT.

SHE NEVER MISSES IN HER GUESS
Es AND THE MINERS LOOK UPON
HER AS A MAsCOTT.
"Arizona has the only mining
expert in the world" said Col.
John Hull, of Tucson, to an Err.
dmiaer representative last night at
the Baldwin. "FOr years she has
followed up all the new camps and
passed judgment on mines, and
usually engaged in some kind of
business IN them, as we'll as staked
out and developed claims for her
sell. Her name is Nellie eastman
and sh' Is known rhTOnohOut Al!
the mining towns IN Ariz,na.-
just now she Is making "a phil for
the Hhrqna Hala mines. She has
jnst been here and bought a res
taurant outfit for the new camp,
and while her employees set out
bacon and beans to the flannel.
shirted miners for a dollar apiece,
she Will make her locations and be.
gin mining as usual. Miss Cash
man went south on the Southern
Pacific yesterday. She is a won.
derfully plucky girl. lt is about
nine years now since she first came
to Tucson. She was from Dodge
City, Kan, and could not have
been more than II years old. She
got TO examining the ore as 1t came
out of the Tucson mines, and was
soon as good judge of its value
as her brother jim, who worked in
one of them. The boys pretty soon
began betting on her judgment,
more in fun than anything else,
but what was their surprise to find
that she was wonderfully good
guesser. and hit it close about every
time. Her fame spread, and miners,
always superstitiOus, got an idea
that to have her around and get
her good opinion someway brought
luck. She knew where to dig for
ore, 100, and some OF the ore in the
Contention was found by following
her advice In running drift. Over
in Graham county she made bit
one day on copper, and when she
went to Tombstone afterwards she
passed her judgment on some mines
there. Bill Virgins sold the Ex-
celsior and Grand View mines on
her advice, and the only dividend
they ever yielded was the Sl5, 900
he got from them. Other mines
we're bought after she had exam.
iued aud reported favorably on
them. They are good paying prop.
critics now. In Tucson, Bisbee,
Tombstone and other camps Miss
eastman has conducted general
stores and big lodging houses for
the miners. She was also in busl.
ness at Castle Dome. She is as adj
yenturous in pushing forward to a
new region as any nomadic miner.
No sooner does she hear of a new
camp than she starts for it. She
has had so much experience that
she almost invariably turns it to
good account, getting town lots,
placer sites and lode claims for
next to nothing and unloading at a
big profit. At first she did not get
out of the camps soon enongh.-
Consequently she has been often
rich aud poor. She has iOdomlta.
BILE pluck, though, and If she goes
broke in one place she soon makes
a turn aud gets up again. 1t is
, phenomenal how nonchalantly she
takes a reverse. She is just as
level.headed, selfcOntained and Sc
rene as if she had made fortune
! 1t makes no difference, so tar as
appearances 60. Miss eastman is
f a 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 outcroppIngs, she wears
heavy shoes and strong clothes,
usually covered with a cloak, worn
neglige. She Is a rapid walker,
and quick, incisive talker. Her
language is good. She is consider
able of a reader, aud on most all
f SUBJECTS rs very we'll lnfOrmed.-
, She will be the first woman in the
new camp of Harqua Hala, where
there are probably now fifteen hun
dred men.-SdR Francisco Erd0''
iner.