The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-17
A FAMOUS OLD MINER.
EDWARD SCHlEFFELlN ONE OF TOMB
STONES DISCOVERIES.

True Stories of Most Typical Western
Prospector-How the Sohieffelin BROTH
ers and Dick Grid Struck IT Rich In
Tombstone Gulch.
Tho Pacific coast newspapers have
been full of stories about Edward
Schieffelin, ono of the discoyerers of
che Tombstone mines, who was found
dead in q cabin in eastern Oregon. His
remains, according to his wish, now
rest upon tho top of granite peak two
miles west of Tombstone, A. T. He de-
sired, he said, "to be buried in the garb
Of prospector, my old pick and can
toen with mo, and monument such us
prospectors build when locating min
ing claim built over my grave and nc
other monument or slab erected"
1t seems to DO generally felt through
out the Pacific coast that this plain,
ignorant, kind hearted old pioneer and
prospector, who had travelled many
thousands of miles i'll search of new
mines, has thus unconsciously made his
mark upon our romance and history.
That lonely granite cairn in the desert,
rising upon the extreme point of tree
less promontory, will long be pointed
out as the grave of one of the most IA
nous of American prospectors.
Ed Schietfelin's one great strike
yielded him fully third of 81, 900, 00O
AT various times i'll his adventurous
career he plodded painstal1ingly over
tho widest portions of the Rocky noun
tains and Sierras, he visited Alaska.
Mexico, South America and South
Africa, but never again found such d
mine. When he died, his fortune, at
one time said to BIO over $500, 900, hud
greatly decreased by reason of bad i'll
vestments and costly expeditions.
Tho story of tho finding of Tomb
stone, that briefly famous Arizonian
mining city, has been told in many
different ways, until it is fast becon-
ing one of the most attractive of Pacific
coast myths. Tho simple facts are that
late i'll the seventies the two Schieffelin
brothers and Dick Gird were prospect
ing, sometimes together, sometimes
separately, in various districts of Ari-
iona and New Mexico. 1t was time
Of terrible Indian outbreaks, and the
Apaches were on the warpath, killing
lonely miners and prospectors, attack
ing the stage coaches and running Of:
cattle. Ed Schieffclin finally wandered
into the neighborhood of dispute,:
claim, the Bronco, where eight men
had been shot i'll various attempts to dc.
eide its ownership, and was hired Mt s..
day to sit OH hilltop and look GU:
for Indians. One day, while hunting
up Il stray horse, the hitherto unsuccess-
full prospector stumbled into what was
afterward called Tombstone Gulch and
found some copper stained rock on what
became the Tough Nut mine. This no
sent to Grid for an assay, and soon after
sent orc from the Lucky Cuss. When
development was begun, q thin vein III
granite widened, and promised immense
riches The claims were sold for very
large sums, and when the Apaches were
driven out capitalists poured money in
to the district. But the mines did not
justify expectations. Tombstone was
very far from being second Comstock
The unlucky Broncho never paid dol
lar. The Schictfclin and Grid claims
yielded for Il time but soon ran out,
and the camp sank into decay
Tho first timo met Schieffelin, that
most typical of western prospectors,
was about six years ago. After hearing
some of his picturesque prospector