San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-02
SHE MINES FOR GOLD.

Duchshtu NhO MADE a Fortune.
To look at her one would not suppose
that Mrs. Emily Knight, of Tacoma,
was the kind of a woman who would
face and has experienced all the hard
ships of miners life, going far beyond
the pale of civilization, away from all
refining influences, among mountain
Businesses and previously untraveled
regions, where many men would fear to
go, and it would appear impossible for a
woman to venture and push forward
with indomitable courage until she at
last reached the goal and the Ell Dorado
of her hopes Yet such is what this
lady has accomplished.
For over year Mrs. Knight has been
aware of the existence of extensive min
eral deposits in the Gold Hill district,
but it was not until recently that she
finally decided to bond the seventeen
claims in the district, comparatively
close to each other, for $4,000. She has
now returned from her properties and
decided to take up the bond and make
the necessary improvements for taking
out ORE Even during her absence Mrs.
Knight declares she cannot afford to
lose any time in the work Of develop
ment, and has cook and three shifts of
men engaged steadily in improving the
Blue Bell, her most promising prospect
The different prospects owned by Mrs.
Knight on the Gold Hill district are sit
uated in broad, deep gulch, and there
is separate vein to nearly every claim
and in some cases these veins can be
traced 1000 feet. The ore carries both
gold and silver and runs from S170 to
1921 to the ton. The veins lie southeast
and northwest in solid formation, and
are fissure veins. The Blue Bell, Emma
and Union seem to be the most promis-
ing prospects. The Blue Bell is the only
one being developed at present.
When questioned about her experience
and prospects, Mrs. Knight said:
"Why do follow this kind of life?
Because | like it. There is a certain
amount of fascination in mining and
dealing in mines that particularly ap-
peals to me. Think, one engaged in such
pursuit may be rich tomorrow, al
though comparatively poor today! But
due experience and hardship is necessary
in most cases to make such vocation a
success. This is not my first venture in
mining. am familiar with the mineral
deposits of Nova Scotia, as well as both
those of New and Old Mexico. have
visited other mineral localities and been
more or less successful"
Mrs. Knight was born in Lancashire,
England. but has lived in this country
some years, principally during her resi-
dence in the east, at. Boston, where her
daughter now resides. She has travelled
all over the United States; was in the
San Diego real estate boom and made
considerable money. She has resided
until this last mining venture for two
years in Seattle, making more money in
real estate and business enterprises. She
seems to be in perfect health.
Mrs. Knight shares the honor with
Mrs. James Hensley, known among the
miners of Castle, Mon, as Little Dot"
of being the only female miners in the
world. "Little Dot" is about thirty
years old, and until her marriage with
James Hensley year ago had been a
miner or rather mineress, for the last
ten years, doing all the work herself
She was shut off from civilization in all
that time, wearing mems clothes and
working in her mines with pick and
shovel, not seeing the face of a woman
for many years, and very seldom meet
ing even a man. She accumulated prop
erty rapidly. and when she took to her
self husband this plucky little woman
was worth at least $4,000. In Montana
Little Dot" is as well known and re-
spected as Mrs. Knight. of Tacoma, and
Gold Hill will be known before long
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