Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22

dations will be such that one can live
there very comfortably"
A NINE WHICH PAYS $500, 900 A
YEAR.
what mining interests have YOU ia
Alaska, senator2' ! asked.
II have nothing in the Klundke," re-
piled Senator Jones, but l am one Of
the owners Of the TreadNille mine This
is, you knuw,near Juneau, where the
ships stop ON their way to Stlta. 1t
IS on Douglas island and Is In many
respects one Of the most wonderful gold
mines OF the world. The ore is of Il
very low grade. 1t does not average
more than 80 per ton, and the mine has
never paid less than half Il million
dollars IL year
Glow did you come to get 1t, sena-
tori"
"'rho mine was originally discovered
by "A French Canadian who came down
from Sitlta to prospect for gold. He
learned of this mine through his
brother-in-law, who was an Indian
and after locating II he sold 1t to man
numed Treadwell for n few hundred
dollars. Trendwell organized a CONF
pany to deevop the mine. and 1t was
In this way that I became Interested
In II. We first put up five-stamp
mill to test the ore, and when we found
1t would pay We put in other stamp
mills, so that we have now some of the
best mining machinery in the wCV 4
right there. The ore Is so close to the
sea that 1t can be handled very cheap
ly." .
HOW SENATOR JONES MADE
$4,000, 900
you were interested in the famous
r...a .aa1N sos
Jonss?" / asked.
Yes" replied the millionaire miner.
81 was considerably interested in the
Comstock. | took about $4,000 900
worth Of ~old and silver out of those
mines, and ] got 100000 out in one
mines. indeed They are working some
of them still. l personally superin-
tended my works there up until my
election to the United States Senate"
Senator, you have made an enor-
nous amount of money in mines. How
do you do It, and what do you do with
all the money
CHOSE are rather leading questions"
replied Senator Jones. "Still l can tell
you one thing. l have never boarded
money. j have given away great
deal. and have made and lost half
dozen fortunes. ] believe that money
was made to use, and think the man
until he has two dollars security for
every one he puts out Is nothing more
than n pawnbroker on II big scale. AS
to how to succeed in mining. | don't
think any one can tell. The judging of
mine Is to large extent n matter
of intuition and experience. You learn
after a time to know good thing when
you see it, and still there is a great deal
of guess work about 1t, after all. As
for me. ] have never been afraid to
back my Judgment, and though I have
made some mistakes. have been. on
the whole right successful. believe.
you know, in plenty Of money. ] be-
lieve that larrn circulating medium
brings good times. and that the more
you restrict the currency the greater
the distress among both capitalists and
laborers.
STRATTON AND TABOR.
1T am told here that stratton. the
carpenter of Colorado Springs, who
struck It rich at Cripple Creek, is MAX
ing other good hits right along. For
twenty-five years luck went against
him. Now he don't seem able to make
n mistake. His big mine THE Inde-
pendence:" continues to grow richer.
No one but Stratton knows what its
output is, but the general belief is that
the mine produces somewhere between
one and two hundred thousand dollars
worth of gold year. For time he
took out thousand dollars a day, and
l am told that the mine is growing
better as It goes further down. STRAIT
ton has refused seven million dollars
for the property. and he sticke to the
old idea that the gold Is better where II
Is than In his pockets, He says that
mother earth ls the best banker; that
he knows the gold Is there, and that
he can get 1t out when he wants IT..
la.. a,.I hat
Gently gave Tabor fifteen thousand
dollars, and told him to go out into
the mountains and see II he could not
strike another fortune. Well, that
statement seems to be true. Tabor has
left Denver. and is now prospecting In
sum vas a straight out gift from STRAIT
ton, and 1t was coupled with no pro-
vision that II Tabor struck 1t rich he
was to divide with Stratton.
WILL TABoR'S LUCK TURN?
1t may be that the day will come
when Tabor will again be rich and
runs in streaks, the first part of his
life was unsuccessful. Then Dame
Fortune smiled. and pure luck made
him rich beyond the dreams of avar-
ice. Tabor did not get much gray
matter by Inheritance. His brains are
>
and when he first came to Colorado
and opened his little store near the
present site of Leadville his wife had
to wash for the miners and take
boarders to frighten the wolf from the
door. Then some miners whom he
had gruh-staked struck the Little
Pittsburg. which soon yielded $1,000 u
day. Tabor and others got possession
OF the mine. The stock soon sold so
that the mine was worth $1,000, 600
and Tabor in four months jumped
from a cracker peddler to n million
aire. He made big fortune out of
the Matchless. which he got for
song. The Erin gave him more money
and for a time 1t seemed as II he
could touch nothing without finding
It turn to silver or gold under his
fingers.
HOW TABOR TOOK WASHINGTON
CITY.
Almost every one has read the ups
and down of Tabor's romance. The
story Is fuller OF adventures than one
the old yellow-back novels. You
know how, when he became a multi
millionaire, he was not suited with
new clothes alone, but wanted new
wife as well He divorced the good
and made his fortune and picked up
a dashing young widow. with checks
like a peach and with eyes which had
a brighter sparkle than any OF his
gold when 1t flowed from the shelters.
will not tell the disgraceful story of
that divorce suit as 1t was brought
out in the courts of Colorado. l saw
Tabor after IL was over, when he
brought the dashing young widow to