The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-09

roma, a. far east ~ PRESCOTT and Phoenix,
were stirred as they had, not been fof several
Esss5s D. taS nsEs m riGh placer TiRss hhd
q the pay dirt we're sent 70 Ban BBteso % 81
fsosSsSSsse fi Il V would SiHh SuS US g TIE sop. sons so%s:
how, the secret got out and was t~siegraphed
NJ Sam sae D SsSen sps SSsf he neHst tS %od days and 3tf nisRts
n y sS SlS9iSs az hs ssSSsS 4RSr @Ssyf @orn aSSS S.SSSSS !
a., Sisgc ePd Lower SallioynLs,. {RSs hsrdSaES
every village for 100 miles, around soEd every
End MN v ma I SES8$ RI SS sssS sSS S Ri Sf SISes e
For P5PiS 3 xs s9S li fsfIs' s.. q Ihs 5 d fs . 81 ~ 3 9 %lSi Il
Of oH1 In T : good SSEP part IT OF q faosnfS, TEs5. when
s ssScS wSS he T MINES Svs scitu the a e ss RSF pIsso S snG
TShoSsapSs 4 people IN q 9SSI Aver forget M M
spring Of 1891. The mines were found in The
northwestern part Of ARIZONA, close to the
tSsen Rrl R ] s SaIird shS oS aa q ssya lsRss Fer Fer
several months In the winter OF lSeO3YL there
S Ss0fs 1 tRsa eVSs s, T Sele6 ne %Ip 81 shf hs eds p ppESS
across at Harqua Hala.. Along in March and
April quantities Of gold dust and nuggets from
San BernardiPo and Los Angeles, The news-
papers published reports as to. the prospects
vt %as HSr SSSner aHl Pas Sns toW W 9 T vSe di Gr fM1 'H TSs
weeks In. carrying men as far ,as the Colorado
HRSlA packed dt thsmSel E.s on lit,IS river g steam %In.
% SSS %aS had LIS sSra shd q 2 SSll Miles fTs% e. tSs oT Sin SaS
Some men. In their anxiety. to get to Harqu9
H Bsi6nS With their asdEeS SA tPDm oG IT sSrT S1s ap DSST r 2
ersl persons starved to death in the. STAN
RRH Sls grew IN f0 iro@ d'E Is s e a. 0SSBa'aSsi s e q so asFSHs
tss ease ,hs the ns,T few " SEQ 20 ami MINES vent w SSso ssEen T Se
the mining population at Haraus Hala dwin;,
large number Of these miners are now search
Ing among the mountains, through the, cam
SPsi se te e t assfr sT and ( n eo ssf a IsGsSll m,a sSF
will locate half q dozen mining claims in a
year. but less than 10 per cent of these are
pa aRSasS? storl sa'e e Ssas s. s d sI %oiS.hspn e 5H men q
CAMPS aSx Of Sif Baaasook. La Last sp Ghanc !. Silver III Bow,
the. sHfferinGs Of miners. One Of the, most
was that to Billings Ledge In March.
to s., below zero that spring Tor weeks NJ
one In the camps, about Helena and Butte
knew what ore had really been d1ScOVeGeQ AZ
passed from mouth to mouth. In four or
five, days every man who cold rustic 2 small
try,to tho north was not inhabited and the suf-
ferings, endured by the stampeders were ter
rible. Many were frozen In the pltiless storm.
It turned out. also. that there had been no
discovery. Of gold made. which added disap-
and. II the man who started the story OF rioh
gold discoveries had been found then his days
But no one seemed to know then nor does
any one now know exactly how the stamped
started. 1t is supposed to have been caused
north from Butte in the fall. This man. no
doubt, believed he had met with fattering
fdlSSSfs; In Indians hsn 's and SECURED Mrsd s q sau sIRs9 who
With wild wild e EonssS Of FAN al fi EeSs' He thought t i
a wf fsie snf IN He felne that So D Re Sad struck ns x L rieS 10
and was well satisfied with his find. To the
IN %i bis Iet Ese SIX TSe II n Seers w stop SSs o9 Pe %saaideRE
that the letter writer meant anything else than
that he had a paradise in gold mining.
od SSn @i ten years in tb lste Ss sam s' ths 5spSSF aS6 q Tish
became known from the Atlantic to the Pa
cilc; A great stampede set in and many
be first on the ground. and the result. was that
the country was soon overrun. notwithstand-
e t1s tafs tSe d fnS% T e. r stsa ffs rltoh SnS & 6re wfs
forty miles over a rough and heavily timbered
ToT q aSimai S0q tn q Ss ts TEse s IN St T sSst t fin ses so
the, forty miles were made on snowshoes.
And many men made the trip, who knew less
about snowshoes than they did about trlgo-
~toboeeans, hauled By hand. at the rate OF Is
cents q pound.