Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-11
MAR vtsTAl's LUCK.
Once Sold a Gold Mine for $500, 900 ani
Went Bfoke-Sinck Il Again.

"somc mems luck never deserts
!hcm.' said a. J. Hilton at an uptown
hoicl last night. There's old Mas,
VrHill. who went broke after maklur
enough o. keep him la whisky aud
cigars = thousand years. and who has
lust struck 10 rich again.
WHEN | lived out In Montana We
poiniri out old NeHihl ~ shining
example Of the ups and downs ~ NE lu
the mines. with NcHial 20 had been
pretty much all down untlt he struck
rich lead near Helena. which Dr.
named the prnuhHcut. Up 20 thAt tlwH
ne had had little but hardship Cot
Ncatal, FOR he was a proprietor, ana
lived Principally on hope and the mon"
too generous grub skies h. could
squeeze out on speculative Helena mrr-
chants, The ol man occasionally
would ma rich pocket, either Ia pll.
Ger rtuund Or quartz. and while BE
money laHted h. would have a good
time. lu thusc days the only han,
Neaial know about was the one kept
by old King Faro, and when h. made
a deposit there % was Tor an time O.
come. with no Interest
put EN- on the high cara Nestal
would say when the dealer had raked In
an but hs last stack ~ b.ueuaud u h.
won hia last bet d. would begin anew
on this System. and u he lost Do would
pack M his caypsc and start Tor the
mouriaint.
"Vsstal was hard worker. and he
knew tho hills That makes Nttlc ar
ference. however flr q pr1apector'H
success depends they all say, ON his
luck. Ncsml worked Tor years about
the Belt mountains nolr Helena, and To-
the main range Itself before he struck
u. Seventeen miles away from Helena
and almost on the top ~ The main a.
vide he found u promising lead, which
he foilowed down few feet. The vein
wldened out, and there was pay ore al
most from graFs root.
"Ves,li had been chasing ralnbows
all his lie before, nui hc bound the pot
81 gold sur enough when he opened up
the PenGhscli. 40 was a free mullins
gold proposition, and 80 rlrh shtt n.
put up little lrristra hud pounded
out enough gol in a week or iW9 70
buy H small stamp mill,
After h. put she stamp MIL NO
things cime easy Tor NUs'll lie hui
money 10 burn. and d. hlrna1 u. one
night he came Into Helena on thr Stage
with $4,000 wOyh uf umalgam irum a
couple ~ clean-ups NJ his mill, Ihe
nmalgam was 20 a sack, and whom me
stage drew up 20 paine's hotel Nos,.al
dumped Il on Into the road beside she
fipped w and a drink "a the u.drntt
bar VAS the natural insult uihgr
drinks followed. and when Nrs'al rud-
denly remembered his suck " amAlEAm
" was 4 o'clock No. the morning The
sod was Just whore q had b'en
thrown early IN tho evening before, as
no one who had seen the sack suspect.
~ iis value. Il was put In tho hotel
.Ilte-ihere weren't any safes IN 10
lega ihen-and Ncsial continued bis
celebration.
When Veshl had aken on, several
hundred thousand dollars from the
ienohscot he sold the mine 10 an Eng
~ syndicate Tor 100000 cash. With
100000 IN his Possession he was sud
lrnly seized with desire 10 see a lit
" on the world. llr came 20 New
wan street % him, uud "a week later
hr had dmpped 100000 on the stock
Hafkvt His plung.ug attracted some
attention and he was not lacking In
NHNh"rs, In trying 90 recover his
money NeE,al lost 500 900 more. Then
ne became Interested ln a patent street
e,r which was 10 be- tried first IN Syrn-
,lst' That experiment, in the course
Few months, cost him $4,000.
H,ine one sold him stuck IN ilnseed
''i mn, and that, too, clst him money.
a. ltatAl was disappointed In New
York lie went "a Philadelphia. whore
hia eAtrnvaEant mode OF living brought
utn more notice In the newspapers.
many he landed iu Washington,
mnere, fhrough the influence N the
money he displayed, ne was admitted
pretty fast set. He undertook 90
,n,N the congressman how 20 play
+'hpr and for a short time ne made
money, Then HIS luck changed, aud
"leF a Few weeks OF rare sport he