The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-10-28

q carload of ore which will be worth
at least 800. 900. He has already
shipped $4,000 worth of ore in
day, and he is doing all he can to
keep from allowing the mine to pay
more than Sl20, 900 a month.
The Portland mine was once offered
to New York parties for $500, 900. But
the experts who we're sent there re-
ported that there was only $37, 900
worth OF ore in sight, and the New
Yorkers refused the offer. The next
month the owners Of the Portland
took out $40, 900, and since then it has
produced more than S2,000,000. 1t
now pays 100000 a month in divi-
dends, and am told that it will, not
withstanding it's enormous expenses,
pay thirty-six per cent. this year. The
Victor mine, which was sold to French
parties for more than a million dol
lars, brought, as have told you, the
original finders only $50, 900, and was
refused by Wall street brokers at
S270, 900. This mine pays two per
cent. month dividends on capitali-
cation of million.
Similar stories might be told as to
other mines, and all about me 1 see the
funeral professions of those who are
mourning the "gold they did not get."
During my ride to Cripple Creek ]
travelled with very intelligent doctor
named Mcdonald, who is getting fat
off the zone lung" brigade who are
marching through different parts of
Utah in search OF health. He told me
how he was offered only two years ago
o one-eighth interest in the Anchoria
Leland mine for $500, but had not the
nerve to buy. This is the mine out OF
which Irving Howbart and others have
made fortune. It's stock is very val
liable, and there is practically none OF
it on the market. 1t was leased little
over year ago to T. j. Maloney, but
the lease has now expired. Maloney
struck "pay dirt" as soon as he began
working. Ho found one body OF ore
of 1900 pounds which yielded him
$36, 900, and he has taken out, am
told, more than $4,000 900 worth of
gold. Had DR.. Mcdonald invested in
the mine his $500 would have made
him independent of drug stores and
patients for the rest OF his life.
Nearly every man who gets mine
at CRIPPLE Creek has to fight for it.
Stratton has had number OF law
suits. The Portland mine was for u
long time IN the courts, and nearly
every good claim is contested. One OF
the queerest stories i hear is that of
| the naer Horn nina which now he.
longs to Stratton and others. 1t was
located by an old carpenter named
Sterritt. Sterritt had heard OF STRAIT
sons success, and he knew that STRAIT
ton was a carpenter, 30 he thought If
the luck was running with the carpen-
ter trade he would drop his saw and
plane and 60 to mining. He was
about sixty years OF age, and he knew
nothing about ore or prospecting. He
simply wandered about the hills in an
aimless manner, breaking up piece
of stone here and chipping off bit of
rock there. At last one day on Globe
Hill, back OF Cripple Greek, he saw
lying on the ground a deer's horn. He
was rather superstitious fellow, and
he thought that this was an omen that
he was to dig there for gold. He at
once named HIS claim "rhe Deer
Horn" and set out the sta ses which
made il his own. He mad no money,
and he was compelled to do all the
work himself. He dug ten foot hole,
and then making . rude ladder. be
went down With bucket and labor.