Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-09-09
TO FIND GOLD.
Story of Chance Discoveries
In the Clutches.
METAL MOST IN DEMAND.
Stumbling on Rich Deposits
Similar Experiments in Cal
ifornia and Australia.

No romance ever written equals ths
history of the thousands of gulches il
the world where gold has been discov
cred. Each has its story of richness
murder, development or perhaps
ultimate abar Comment. Few people
realize what it has cost the world to
mine the precious metal, nor the
hardships, toll and untold misery men
have undergone in their search for
gold.
gulch anu lode has been q chance find,
some lucky fellow stumbling upon a
fortune when less expecting it. A few of
the richest gold mines, however, have
been the result of careful, diligent and
systematic labor, when the prospectors
knew from indications and Outcroppings
they we're on the right trail, and We're
finally richly rewarded for years of
unremitung application.
Notably was this the case with the
famous Drum Lummond mine near
Butte City, Mont, which Thomas
Cruise (now a leading millionaire Of
Montana) discovered after twenty years
Of unceasing toll and hardship.
Cruise came to Montana IN the early
days, as far back as 1868, when the
country was practically unexplored and
the " mole Northwest was in the hands
of hostile Indians. He labored for
twenty odd years in lonely gulch near
the spot where Butte City nov stands,
following faithfully an indicat on which
be knew would lead him to a bonanza
sooner or later, could he but keep the
trail and follow it closely aad correctly.
Times went hard with him for awhile;
so hard were they that be couldn't get
trust for sack of flour at the nearest
An ordinary man would
man would have kept on
for dozen; bur Cruise was more than
tx raordinary. Through winter and
summer, through difficulties thick,
heavy and almost overpowering, he
stuck to bis work, never faltering in his
object nor losing heart, until finally he
was rewarded with a mother lode of
almost pure virgin gold, which made
him millionaire IN a day.
Cruise was a bachelor of over 30
years of age, with not relative in the
world. The NINE was rich, for In it's
crude, uudeveloped state, part interest
was sold to an English syndicate for
Cruise had more wealth than
be could possibly spend himself, and
sc be did the sensible thing by getting
On his wedding day he presented HE
young wife with a check for $4,000,
4 d the city of Helena went on sp ee
At his expense.
But misfortune followed him as
closely as fortune, for within a year biz
wife died, and Cruise, once more alone
IN he world, is yet in Helena, where he
has started bank to aid worthy and
Industrious mlEes with the means of
obtaining grub stake without cost of
interest.
California and Australia have been
he two greatest gold producers the
world has ever seen, and the discovery
If tie metal in both lands savors more
81 the romantic than of cold facts. Ia
New South Wales a shepherd BOY
tending his masters sheep found In a
field a large mass of gold weighing 100
pounds. He was unable to carry it, but
eft the lump where he saw it AMI ran
home as fast HIS his legs could carry him
and told his master. That gentlemen
hurrisdly repaired to the spot and saw
a sight that almost made his eyes start
from his head
The master and boy set to work and
IL a5opt sixty minutes had taken out
more than 100 ounces of gold. The
|. ok broke into three parts, ard out of
the largest section was taken 60 hounds
Of pure gold, the metal being ehcased
in thick veins and easily separated from
the quartz. 1t bore the appearance of q
sponge, honeycombed throughout, AID
presented most dazzling sight to the
eyes. OF course, great numbers hocked
to the new district. AID New South
Wales, from penal colony, became one
Of The most attractive places Oh the
globe. The Australian colonies from
1851 tn 1890 yielded about 5l.700, 100000
in gold alone.
Every body knows the story of the
California gold discovery. Capt. Suffer,
the proprietor of a saw-ni:l then Q8iS)
being erected on the south fork o. the
American River 10 Ell Dorado County,
was. one afternoon sitting In his Office
writing when suddenly his foreman.
James W. Marshall, rushed ID with
such excitement IN his face that his
friend cast an anxious eye at his rifle
standing In the corner OF the room.
Capt. Suffer thought the man was mad
or else that indians were at hand.
Mar hall, however, was not exactly
crazy, although he was nearly SO. He
had been digging in the mill race so
that the waters might course through
the same more freely, when be noticed
some gil tering stuff in the sand. Upon
examining futher be found the whole
earth there about filled VITA fine parti-
Giles of gold. Grasping up a double
handful of the dirt be rushed into the
Office and flung it on the table, shouting,
"Gold, gold" Suffer jumped to his feet
and, if anything, became even more
excited than Marshall. 1t was gold sure
enough, and caused the greatest
stampede ever known 10 the history of
like excitement in the world. Marshall
was the only man interested who reaped
little or no benefit from his discovery.
He died about seven years ago al bis
home 10 California, aged IA yeers
a poverty stricken, disappointed man,
but his find Of that little bit of mineral
nearly fortv-sIX years ago has added t.
the gold Of the world value OF nearly q
billion and thr e-quarters.
The identical nugget picked up by
Marshall, which almost drove both him
and Sulter crazy, belongs to toe
collection of gems in the Smithsonian
Institution, at Washington, aud is now
among the Government exhibits at the
Columbian Worlds Fair IN Chicago
THE LOST CABIN.
The story Of the famous Lost Cabin
lead which was once discovered, after,
ward lost and never again found, il
more than comm My romantic.
THESE mines We're and are located
so newhere among the Big Horn
Mountains, in Southern Montana OF
Northern Wyoming, and the story run.
scmss hat as follows:
Many years ago three white mer
went prospecting for god up the b.
Horn Valley. Tue country was allv.
with Indians hut the marty mazda III OF