The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-09
D,shwasner Gets ss, ,ooo, 900.

Clara Wilson, whose home is in Den yer, Col, and who went to n little mining camp south of Circle City, Alaska, year and a half ago to serve as cook for number of miners, passed through the city yesterday en route for her old home.
 Miss W ilson does not have to wash dishes for n living, no neither is she one of the deserted ones in the pres ence If other women. She IS not ;l handsome young woman as personal appearance goes, but she is now the possessor of that which makes lirr the loadstone where eligible yotilg men are present and would afford her an opportunity If taking her pick in or dinary company. ln other worls, thc dishwasher, Clara Wilson. resurns to the United States ihe multi-milliou- ai. ess. Miss Wilson, and all through her own efforts.
 Miss Wilson was educated ID the public schools at Scranton, Pa.. but her parents :n"vei to the western country before she had an opportunity to get above the grammar grades. At that time her father had considerable means, but he exhausted it m an en- deavor to locate gold in Colorado and California. Miss Wilson was sixteen years old when her father died and at once determined to make her own way in the world. Sbe went To Seattle and found employment as . domestic on a steamer bound for Alaska. She found her way 10 Circle City and became the cook and general housemaid for a number of miners.
 Miss Wilson was not satisfied with this kind of life. She had had some experience in minug while ac- companying her father on his pill grimages and she .'crossed lots" in Alaska on her own acconnt. The re- suit was that she located copper mine which is now being worked and which is said to be banning out as prolifically as any of the gold mines that are making the Klondyke fields famous. Miss Wilson had no sooner staked her claim than her possession was disputed by number of men, but besides mining she had learned from her father how to use rifle and revolver and for days. she sat the sole guardian of her claim.
 Her possession was finally recog- nized and several of the men who disputed her right of occupancy are now working with or for her, and it is estimated that she is not worth less than $2,oO0,Oo0. The young woman said:
 Fl was in Chicago five years ago after my father died. Then I was n commonplace restaurant waiter or dishwasher and no one cared for me. Now l am worth perhaps $2,0OO. 900 in money, and am being constantly followed by young men of good fami lies who would be glad to take wife, I might as well say now that l am not marrying at this time. 1 do not know when shall go back to Alaska. I may never go back, for don't mind saying that have had an abundance of the kind of living they have ID that country. My mother and I can live now wherever we see fit, and l want to tell you that we shall not have our rooms facing in alleys. as we have beer compelled to since father died.
 1.-The copper mine in which l am the principal owner was all my own find. The funniest part is that 1 found it less than quarter of a mile from " here we were making our headquar- ters. There were indications that others mad discovered the presence of copper ahead of me, but the gold fever m ust have had full possession of them because they passed it over se- cretely prospected my find for month before anyone else found it out. and then three men claimed prior owner ship. Then had to make personal