The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-01
MILLIONAIRE CREEDE.
HOW HE UNCOVERED HIS LUCK
IN A DAY,
A Colorado Millionaire With an In
come of $1,000 per Day Tells the
Story Of His Strike.
CREEDE.

dividends from mining discoveries
in recent years. His story has been
told before in a certain sense He is |
Colorado mining prospector, has been
dead broke" several times, is now
worth half a million of dollars, and
has come out to the Pacific coast in
search of health not of wealth.
To 4 reporter of the San Francisco
Examiner he gave the following inter
esting account of his life
81 was born in Indiana in 1912 and
left the State when | was four years
old. My parents took me along to
Iowa. When the civil war broke out L
went to Nebraska and enlisted in the
United States scouts. 1t was virtually
an Indian border command, with about
SIX white men to every company, of
Pawnee Indians. | was first lieutenant
of a company. 1t cost me just seven
years of my life did this service as IA
frontier scout, had plenty of expert
enceS and encountered plenty of perls.
Once, for instance, we had quite a
series of battles on the Yellowstone
river. This was in 1904. In one of
these battles we captured and burned
the Indian villages, drove off 100 head
OF cattle and killed about sixty Indians
General Connor was in command at
the time. He was a regular army Of
hcer, stationed at Fort Douglas, Salt
Lake. He died only a few years ago.
"Do believe in California; Why,
yes, certainly Look at this pin"
Here Mr. Creede handed an oblong
mass of granite or quartz, with gold
streaks running through it. 1t was
decidedly large for pin, and the stone
was an inch and half in length, bur
Mr.. Creole seemed to think nothing
of it.
"This pin, said Creole, "was SEM
me by California woman as a sample
of the wealth of California soil. Ii
may have had something to do with
deciding me TO come out and lay my
bones here"
Creole does not look even a middle.
aged man and yet he admits he is over
fifty.
FROM THE BIG HORN TO COLORADO.
''After the close of the civil war,
said he, "our command was called tc
the Big Horn mountains. 1t was hare
work, but thought | would like to be
mountaineer, and incidentally caugh
the mining fever. This led me to Colo
RADIO, and began prospecting. 1t wa!
bitterly cold in the winter and quite too
hot in the summer. In Colorado min
ing means mostly silver and lead com
bined in the same ore, with a littl
native silver among the galena anC
silver sulphurets.
81 was lucky from the start. On,
of the mines prospected and located
is now turning out $50 tons of rich or
every day.
"Troubles2 Yes, have had lots o
them, but | have made a number o
good Strikes. | found Camp Mon
arch. 1t is about 100 miles south O
Leadville | owned everything Their
for just twenty days There wer
millions in it but | did not know it.
sold that mine for a trhe and sine
then $1,000, 900 have been offered 70
It, The ore was mostly argentiferou
galena. | was looking for silver, 0
which the ore carried very little, anC
that was what beat me. 1t seemed t
me that if it did not carry consdera
bic portion of silver 1t was of M
value. That is big mistake for a mar
to make in Colorado. There are Ger
tain ores rich in lead which are very
valuable in fluXing
"The trouble with me at this time
was the same that worries many pool
men and makes them mad afterwards
with sense of opportunities lost. The
Rio Grande Railroad was being bull
but couldn't wait for results. sole
cut for trif1e and somebody else 60
the $4,000, 900. The prospectur ha'
to take what he can get, That wa
about my first experience in mining
and it taught me heap.
LEADvILLE AND PNEUMONIA.
"Why did come out here2 Well
perhaps you never lived in Leadvile
The people are all right, but there is {
little too much pneumonia to suit me
"Pneumonia is quite common ir
Leadvlle. | don't know whether it is
the high altitude or the exposure tc
which the miners are subject, but Ger
tain it is that most everybody gets a
dose of it, and pneumonia, let me tel
you, is dangerous disease. You have
got to think Of place SO dry thai
rains, fogs and clouds are unknown
and then add the rarity Of the air at ar
altitude of 1900 feet; no frost, nc
dews.
"The town of Creole founded II
is only year old but it has over 6ooc
inhabitants. The first strike was called
Holy Moses. | bonded that tc
Mofitt, Campbell & Co. for $4,000
and subsequently went in with them
Then ! struck the Amethyst while
prospecting for the firm. We still hold
on to the Amethyst, which at the
present time is paying dividends Of
$780, 900 a month. There are three Of
us directly concerned, and for two
r,oa,be ,,oet tho Jiyi1anJ uac 9IoS ooo