Arizona republican., 1898-04-18
A WOMAN GOLD MINER.
She Has Prospe1ted in Arizona and is
 Going to Klondyke.

 Miss Jennie Hilton, who has achieV- ed fame and rare success in gold niln- ing alongside of experienced miners, , will be on one of the first steamers that will start for the Yukon river re- zion, says the Los Angeles correspon- dent of the Boston Transcript. She has contracted to go in the employ oi a syndicate of men and women, VII have subscribed to the common stocK in a Klondyke mining association ana who will share in whatever profits that may come firm the mine. She will seek placer mining claims, ano' when she has located them, will dlg and delve and pan and siulce out golo inst as the multitude of men all aDouI her will have to do to make fortunes in the frozen north. Her lot will be different from that of thousands or gold-hungry miners up and down the banks and creeks in the Klondyke re- zion. only that she will be backed by ample financial means and Will have signed agreements to remain at least two years in their feminine su- perintendent's service. Miss Hilton herself has contracted to stay 1n the Klondyke region for three years AS an extra inducement for vigilance ln hunting placer claims, she will have as her own 20 per cent Of the net yleia of the mine she expects to locate, ouf- ing the first two years Of Its worK- ing.
 Seven years ago Miss Hilton taught A country school in Los Angeles coun- ty. Cal. Today she is worth over S43'- OOO-aH made in mining. She IS apout 30 years old, brunette, and i've feet six inches in height She was born Tn southern Ohio and went to Cai1Iorn1a when little girl. She graduated from the normal school at Chico. Cal, and began to teach when 19 years old. Her parents died when she was 16, and hay ing spent on her education the few hundred dollars they left her, she was early made independent in spirit when she had to seek her livelihood at a time in life when most girls are mak- ing their bows in polite society.
 When her father used to bring to his home in Stockton, Cal, specimens of gold and silver quartz and would sit by the window as he slowly turned the ore over and over, all the time study ing the bits of rock little Jennie took an uncommon interest in the var1e- gated chunks When she became old CT she became a diligent student CT mineralogy She passed her vacations in San Francisco and Chico, in reading geology and mineralogy. She took money needed for other things to buy expensive treatises on precious ores and their reduction. She grew to know every mineral in the academy or sciences in San Francisco Her glrl friends set Jennie Hilton down for an old maid crank.
 In 1890 Miss Hilton came to visit her brother in Phoenix. Before a montn had passed she leased her brother and an uncle into going out with her on a geological and prospecting tour across the towering mountains. Thou sands of men have abandoned cheer fully the allurements of home and civilization, have left prosperous Dus1- ness and have turned their backs on honored professions for the fasclna- tion of seeking secret treasures that nature has locked in the heart of the rugged mountain, but none ever be- come a mining prospector with more enthusiasm Iudu J0uul0 I1llLOn. loved it from the day we first went out with our donkeys and camp out fit," she says.
 Not only did the young woman min CT decide that she could find gold and silver mines as well as any one, but she induced her brother and an old bachelor uncle to join her in her long continued seeking of gold in Arizona.
 Almost every day in the year parties of mining prospectors and miners start with a grubstake from Phoenix for the mountains and foothills, but the sight of trim little Miss Hilton, dressed in shor, woolen skirts, heavy shoes and an immense sun bonnet, trudging along at the side of her two donkeye, and followed in procession by her big brother and uncle, each ac- companied by a laden jackass, was sight that remained distinct amid the hundreds of similar scenes in the memory of spectators.
 When the cooler autumnal weather