St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

but he had dumb faith that there was gold
in the earth near by, and he hung on. He
believed there was money in his claim, and
after a time he got others to believe the
same; and so there came day when he sold
out part of his interest to an English syn-
dictate for about So, 100000. He is wifeless,
childless old man, who does not know what
to do with his money"
eyes, joined in a third party, ':when old
Captain Suffer built his sawmill in the Sierra
foothills, he lad no dream of gold till one
day it was found in the mill-race, and Cali
ifornia within a year became an Ell dorado.
A year after the Custer massacre in the Big
Horn country, during noon halt cavalry
officer sat down to rest on knoll of soft
clay; near by was his orderly, holding the
brides of both horses. They were smoking
and admirfng the grand mountain peaks about
them. After bit the orderly's eyes came
down to earth; they were glued on the knoll
on which the captain sat. Suddenly he
leaped to his feet and shouted out. NV
God, Captain, you are sitting on gold
mine!' and such proved to be the case. and
these two men, who were out hunting INT
dians, stumbled into wealth. IA
This reminded another that In the sumo
mer OF ga prospector with the euphonious
name of Chris Reyes, who had been prospect
ing in Montana till everything but his faith
in his own luck was gone, came one day to
Fort Benton with. bag full of quartz, in
which gold was stuck like plums in pud-
ding, which he said he found in the Bear
Paw Mountains. party was made up to
go with him to what he described as a gulch
full of gold, but they were mastered by the
Indians, and Reyes and his secret were lost
to the world. Tens of thousands of dollars
and years Of time have been spent search
ing the Bear Paw Mountains for Reyes lost
mine, and some day it will be found, stum-
bled on, as it was by its original first dis.
coverer''
you've all heard of Alder Gulch Nine"
said a man who had been quietly smoking
up to this time. 'Well, you know it is the
richest find that has as yet been made in
Western Montana, and its discovery was an
accident, as much as the find Of the hero of
BOWS Flat that Bret Harte tells about,
Early in the sixties Bill Fairweather and
some friends started out to prospect the
Big Horn Range, but were driven out Of
ened and hungry, they were working their
way back to Bannock City, the nearest set
Element, when they went into camp on Alder
Creek. While the others were cooking about
the last of their grub, Fairweather, from
force OF habit, began panning out the dirt
in the creek. The very first dishful showed
about three dollars. That was the simple
beginning of it. camp was started;
town sprang up; and, as we all know, about
$S0,0OO0 900 in gold has been taken from the
mines of Alder Creek.
''Talk about brains and foresight; they
are all very well, and I believe in givina
them credit, but as a rule they don't deserve
1t. Take Helena; it's a second case of Alder
Gulch. The Last Chance Gulch was discovered
by chance, and the capital of Montana was
founded. Let ME see-yes, that was in '64.
Four miners, Cowan Crab, Miller and STAN
ley, stampeded from Alder Gulch and pushed
north. They met Jim Coleman coming from
the Kootenai country with bad news. The
four prospectors struck off in another direc-
ton, without any destination in view. and
after a weeks wandering they decided to
try their fortunes on stream which they
called Last Chance Creek They found
gold in encouraging quantities; the country
was full Of game; they stuck to it. and the
result was one of the richest finds in tho
world, and the founding Of the capital of a
great state. Luck? Well, should say ii
was luck
''Do you know" said yet another, ''thab
the famous Comstock Lode that made so
many men in Nevada and out of it immensely
wealthy, was originally gold miner? Some
knew this and others did not .sWell,'' he
continued, sit is a fact. There was gold on
the surface but as they went down the gold
petered out, and Comstock and his partners,
Peter O'Riley and Pat Mclaughlin, were
about to abandon it, when it struck them to
have an analysis made of the strange deposit
they had come on. This was DONE and the
silver was discovered-by chance, but all thN
same, $685., 600 was taken from that,
mine"
Talking about luck,'' said man from
Las Vegas, reminds me of the case of
Adams. 1 believe he was related to the
great New England family; at any rate, his
front name was John Quincy. One day while
prospecting, his magnifying glass was so
hung that it focused the suns rays on his
haversack and set it on fire. AS the haver-
sack held about dozen pounds of powder,
Adams dropped it mighty spry, and lit out
in a hurry. 1t fell into crevce-that was
down in the Sanda Mountains-and after
the explosion he went back from curiosity to
see the effect, and he found large masses
of rock scattered in every direction. He
found, to his delight, vein of white quartz
with iecks of gold in it, He sold a tenth
interest within month for $4,000, but it
worth a hundred times that. That, GENTLE