The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-30
QUICK TURNS OF FORTUNE.
vIyERs VINO HAVE WOW AND LOST
GREAT RICHES sUDDENLE.

.,,,e Wlnes Aner EnktmG \ Ntllfon Fly
u.,ry Vuiier,s Crnei vle,ssttsaes-sanay
u,uer,-. short-ltvsa sp,esssr IN Neynaa-
o,uoxA Cal. May 2a-The death OF Edward
s,ate1elin in . cabin away up in the mountains
"a, canyonTfle. Ore. lass week has started =
90, of "reminiscences among the old-time resi-
I.,.. o, California and the Southwest about the
,,r.nze vicfssitudes that most gold and silver
miners experience II they live long enough The
-h,,s-ix OF fortune ~revoives In holder view In .
s,Id mining country than In cities. The ups and
lawns Of miners are proverbisl- and come in
,,,-,e- contrast with one another than ups and
dorrs do In commercial or professional pursuits.
m, Is largely attributable to the fact that gold
miner. are apt TO Be entirely out Of touch with
mankind In general. So. when they become
,psd.u,- Possessed Of wealth they are easy prey
to designing people. The typical gold prospector
b, phi,osophic optimist. He believes in luck,
and discounts what merchants call sagacity and
business ability. He has little care for the
future. believing that for unes come and go By
chance in spite OF whatever he may do
The life OF Edward Schieffelin Il q case IN
min. That Is why all the miners Of the West
are nov talking about him. Sixteen years ago
Etuari Schieffelin was the best known miner
m California. outside OF the four Comstock
bonaars kings. He leaped from poverty to q
ulace AmouS millionaires In seven months. He
uls he Under OF the 1OmOSLOn0 mines, WHICH
in 1873 and 1850 were thought to be the richest
rlver producers in the world. The discovery
forms one OF the most fascinating stories OF
Western gold mines. Schieffelin was the son OF
p.or German emigrants, who died on their way
with OK cams across the plains in 1883. He
WAS / laborer IN placers in Eldorado county
when s Young man. and in time became . pros
ps,tor on his own account. For eleven
years he prospected over mountains. through
es.ons. and across deserts in California and
Arizona. He lived among Indians and subsisted
on he rneAnest and poorest food. In 1878 he
was searching through the mountains in South
sra Arizona for indications Of mineral wealth.
The .Apaches under the lead Of Cochise and
Geronimo were raidins that region. In the
winter OF 1s7T-7s some forty settlers had been
killed in their homes, and women and children
htt been tortured and cut TO pieces by the
Apaches. There was a general exodus OF whites
from the region in consequence. Schiefelin was
warned by The United States Army officers that
he would De slain by the Indians If he went into
.hs mountains in Southern Arizona. that he
would ind \ tombstone there instead OF i mine
Nothing daunted. Schie1elin went prospecting in
the mountains A few weeks later he found
wat seemed TO be peculiarly rich silver ore.
He raued the mine the Tombstone. and. 20
escape capture by the Indians. went by night 10
Tucson with specimens of the ore. There he
met his brother Robert and q young asssyer
almet Richard Grid
When the assay was finished Grid told him
Inst there was no richer silver ore, but there
was a grave question as to how big a body OF
ok had been found scniefelin was too poor
:, pay for the assay. He let Grid have q third
interest in the mine for the assay and for a
promise to get capital interested In the property.
There were 90 many discouraSements In mining
q, A-;,n,a q, Shnaa davu NJ Dario1iral raf1a and
sla1shrers By Apaehes that Grid and SchieSelin
worked I've months before they could get any
one 20 invest % much - . few hundred dollars
IL Developing the prospect For weeks AL the
the Tombstone mines might have, been
WHO at times became disheartened. At last Gov.
saford Of Arizona invested $1,000 and received
a q SssFs Gid 1 ana sehi II Ell P put ap !. little Ms' ess sha5
mill az tho mine. Scores OF men. who had been
@ @ere .hs ,H ss 3 ssh foois IN t the co onEn .a and hat ,hss
it was . pity, to waste Gov. sa1ords money in
Almost num tho drst the Tombstone mines
paid veil AFTER the drst two months that the
ssatt had been sunk, ore was taken out that ran
$500 10 the ton The st1mp mill was Increased
Stone ninesNseven in su-pa,d about sso.oooa
Wes!sh rraV.ted last and far. In the spring and
summer OF 1872 one OF the most excited PUSHES
f T mEss6s ss &c ,h ha0 oSs. ct see p Gss' G ies oe;o Slsn
1879. there were more than 1000 people in
is05s' fs .1a es ~ ef fFam every ,A STATE ss and ah Fen:
ttiorT. Even Leadvtlie ana Cripple Greek never
htt sgcs a lid. ressIess SopqIssien;
were bought By a syndicate. in which the late
!ni5et, states senator George Hearst Of Cali;
statetrelin brought to Los ANGELES drafts and
checks TO the amount OF q. 1sc.O coo Is his share
q the sales OF ore from the mines and Of the
final sale Of the mines themselves. His great
ed suddenly acquired wealth made him prey
sss every desiZnins person in California- He
He houzht stock in worthless Mexican railroads:
be lent his money By tens Of thousands without
E:uricy 10 miners who had been his friends in
his days Of poverty, and he invested thousands
h steamships and manufacturing enterprises
practicable. He put $4,000 into an opera
house in a hamlet in Texas; because: as he said
sausly. and he wished to show his appreciation.
F.. ne toox : fancy TO newspaper men. and many a
,ar,st in business By schieHelfn's money. He
kMt 10000 in ous summer in a cable car rail
.oad in Valparaiso, Chilli. because he had not OBJ
:he ownership Of property in Chill By aliens. In
fur years he parted with a good part Of his
years a.tst, Sc had made hi. money yS from M the
nines. he had but a small remnant OF it. This
he soon lost in investments in unproductive
mines in Oregon. He was = poor nan for the
AT few Years Of his life: and resumed prospect.
s.s gain in the vain hope OF finding another
REhaTd Strt: who came from HeEkimsr
AAsA'A ny y'aI5 A&D.
rseeivsd 81 $40, 600 as his share OF the proceeds
Stae Tom bstone mines. He had been more ola
business man than bis partner. and had had sew
Mexico. and California before he made his great
wealth at Tombstone in two years. Bur, never
Aesess, he has lost about al Of his million OF
collars in sixteen years. His hobby il ranch
Me and stock raising. He bought and i'm
proved the big Chino ranch OF $4,000
sres: went into breeding horses; paid 10000
or one mare alone: laid out a race track
nine midst OF what had been \ waste OF cactus
ad saSe brush; built a gauge railroad
SSsTaTh bis property at an expense Of more than
eDo,OOp: embarked in the dairy business on a
mammoth scale, and finally established the beet
@sar industry in southern California He has
nTeiE been a wonderful help to southern
tAAtoruia- and he has done more than any dozen
aAn 70 demonstrate what the Pomona Valley
an Do IN the way Of agriculture and hortfcui-
Safs but he has lost his money and property bit
T4t Last winter the Last mortgage on his
sntnn ranch was foreclosed, and Mr.. Grid was
sSs more poor. He has been In Mexico for
Sdas, and there arc now reports that he is
San 90 The road TO another fortune through
sma mines acquired In Chihuahua by grubstak-
u prospector.
Very few men have experteuced the yicisst-