Arizona republican., 1898-04-18

came her brother and uncle prospected over the mountains. The next winter the school teacher prospector and her companions went to Globe. It was at that time the most notorious com munity in the territory. Hundreds of hard characters-men who robbed, assassinated, shot and stabbed-had rushed there. But that did not deter Miss Hilton. There were but two other women in Globe that winter. She says she was treated with kindness, and on many occasions the courtesy shown her in a rude way by the queer old characters, who had lived on the borders for a generation, was almost touching. No paths were uttered in tentionally in her presence; no man ever raised a glass of whiskey to his lips if he knew she was present.
 When the warm months of spring and summer returned, Miss Hilton and her brother and uncle started out again They travelled through the San Rita mountains, and found little or nothing in the way of ores that were considered worth locating as claims. They went northward to Prescott, and for several months searched through Georgonia canyon. In the winter Miss Hilton opened an office for assaying in Prescott, and did fair business. Her method of mak- ing assays was liked, and the miners had confidence in her statements of the values of ores.
 She was asked to remain in Pres colt, but when spring opened her en- thusiasm for prospecting was renewed by the news her brother sent her that i he had found over in Harqua Hala re- 1 zion the best looking auriferous rock in the whole territory. Miss Hilton 1 had closed her assay office, and was on her way across the country to Harqua Hala with her uncle and accompanied by the usual complement of jackasses and camp outfit The Harqua Hala mining region was the most prosper ous in the southwest at that particu- lar time. The mines lay in dark red quartz twenty miles east of the Colo rado river and seventy or more miles north of Yuma. Once there, Miss Hil- ton set about studying the lay of the land. It was a strange condition of affairs in rock. Only a few pros 1 pectors would get the secret of the gold deposits from surface indications. For weeks the young woman miner i and her brother tramped from morn ! ing till evening over the Harqua Hala rocks and desert wastes. Several min ing claims were located, and then fol- | lowed weeks of labor, patient watch l fitness and consideration as to what claim was worth opening. Nearly all the old and experienced miners quit the torrid and dry region, believing there could never be another profitable mine found there. Miss Hilton was convinced, however, that the ledge in which she had located a claim was neither a shallow pocket nor vein, which would soon pinch out. Her brother disagreed with her and went with a small army of discouraged min CTS to a cooler climate.
 It is long story how the young wo- man miner and her uncle stayed with their location, how both drilled and
 blasted in the rock, how they suffered sun, how they pounded gold bearing rock to dust in an iron mortar, and got the gold out by tricks with quick silver, so as to have something to sell
 while they developed their property.
 At last shaft was down twenty feet
 and several other small openings were made. Then, while the uncle remain ed at the mine, Miss Hilton went forth to sell the property. She carried a gripsack we'll filled with specimens
 and a head full of practical facts about
 her mine. She went all over San Francisco with a miners directory in her hand, seeking out possible buyers and showing specimens from her mine
 A score Of times she thought she had a prospective buyer but there was nc sale She was told on every side thai It was useless for any one to attempt to sell a mine so little developed
 Among the mining people she was known as the girl miner. From San Francisco Miss Hilton went to Salt
 Lake. There, with the knowledge
 porn Of experience in San Francisco
 the young woman began a siege on g
 oozen of the more likely buyers of g
 solo mine. Her knowledge of the in.
 trlcacles of mining was surprising. IT
 week she had interested two miners
 rom St Louis in her property. They
 went down to Los Angeles and thence
 Io the Harqua Hala region, along tht colorado river. After few days the, agreed to buy the property for s6O. 900
 II the property appeared so well aftel they had worked in it for two week,
 as they saw fit. Before the end of :, week Graham and Fav were Saticfa,