The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-12

bought the base ore property az $1,000.
THAT was joke Kllner's first real cap.
ital,after his years OF poverty and hards
8fiir With that sum he Began the de-
/ velopment Of his gold mine, and IN q
year he got out and shipped. ore that
brought $500 clear profit. Then the
Mexicans who owned the reduction
mill where he sent his ore became inter
ested, and offered $4,000 for g half-in-
terest In the gold mine. Kliner vas
tempted 20. take the OReE but be says
he knew he had a good thing and that
| q was worth more money. A week later
| he sold half the mine for $4,000. That
was In March, 1885
K5llhOr's fortune has grown rapidly
from that time The AfmRdi3a mine
has paid. some $4,000 Ia prOdtp since
then, ana Il ls' still yielding from $1,000
to $1,000 a month. -Four years ago klit
ncr returned with ample means TO his
copper mine In ella county He put
in the best machinery he could buy,
sunk shafts and drifted and cr0ss-cut
Into, the ledge, Copper was not protlta-
BILE then, and many copper mines were
idle It took much hopO and confidence
to put $4,000 Into machinery to get out
copper that had no buyers at living
prices. In 1897 however, copper rose
| from cents TO IL cents, The Kllnep
mine began to make more money Elk.
trn laboreFs were hired. and the mine
was depend and explored the more, ~
1893 the price OF copper advanced to ~,
| Is and even II cents q pound Last Win
ter Il touched 10 cents, and the copper
mines all over the west have prospe,red
more than ever before Kliner has
steadily declined to sell his mlnc IN
ella county. he had an oiter Of Sl0V-
600 for Il IN May, 1893. Last December
he declined six offers Of 100000 and
within thirty days he could have sold It
for $3.50, goo
He lives well nowadays, but he clingB
to his old clothes and his clay pipe. he
smiles when he speaks Of the fact that
he sleeps in 800 brass bed now. Instead
OF bl0nket on the ground. but he stu
lives m a cabin, and seldom goes away
from home. a few months ago he gave
an old man In YaVapal county, who was
crippled and diseased from living on
poor food In the mountains, 5000 with
which to 90 to Sau Francisco and I'VE
| in hospital The old man had nursed
Jacob Kitnef through typhoid fever in
Yuma, dozen years ago. and had never
expected a dime for HIS Kindness.
The recent requirement OF fortunes OF
millions Of dollars by the three miners
who discovered the gold-bearing Lodges
at Randabufg. Cab, are narrated again
and again by hopeful miners who
| gather In the saloons in the mining
camps In this part Of California. In
| deed, there are no parallels. in Southern
| California, al least, to the grent fortune
/ that Frederick A. Moore, Chester A.
| Rurchem and John Singleton simply
went out and claimed az theirs in APRIL
| 1895. Last year Utah mining COM
pany offered A600,0O0 >for these mines.
They have paid monthly dividends vary
/ Ing from $4,000 TO $4,000 for nearly
| three years. and 1t Is an undisputed
statement among miners in and about
Los Angeles that the Rand group has
now over S15.000,0OO worth Of ore
blocked out in them.
FIVE years ago Frederick NJ. Moore
| was a reporter on the Los Angeles Ex-
press. He had heen connected with
the Brooklyn Eagle. and he came west
to md a gold or silver mine. He had
/ all the ups and downs OF n reporter and
/ his several attempts at gold mining
were so decidedly down that he returned
periodically to Los Angeles to take up
/ newspaper work at small salary. Five
years ago John Singleton was a clerk In
\ q. little store at the railroad station OF
| Mojavc, on the Motave desert, In south
ert California, and Chester A. Burchem
| was working In butcher shop IN san
Francisco. Cal. The three met in ths
| little desert mining camp at Goler.
whore dry washing for golden particles
! in the sand was carried on For weeks
| the trio, IN company with thirty or for
~ other men. cked out living at Goler.
! MIR. Moore who had been n student OF
geology. and had read much about the
! formation " lodges and deposits OF pre-
| ciOus ores beghn to wonder where the
| ledge YVES from which the tiny pieces
| In the sand had come. Day after day
while he worked at the dry wnAher he
pOndered over the subject. He told his
! theory 10 Singleton, and finally they
| agreed to go and prospect. Days were
spent in the search across the desert,
under burning sun, whore nothing
grows, and not even birds were found.
| Singleton soon secuted Moore'H theory,
| and returned 10 hin dry washing. Sud-
\ denly Moore saw evidences that the Go.
Ter camp was IN the centre Of an onot-
NOUS extinct volcano, and he evolved
| the theory that II the outer rim of the
volcano might he found there might be
located the lodges from which the gold
Il had been washed ages ago. Singleton
was appealed TO again. and al last ne
| agreed to make another trip out on the
/ iesert to hunt for the rim OF the vol
cano. 1t was about seventy niilef to
| the region where Moore had decided TO
search. Walking that distance in the
burning waste under a fierce sun was
| oul Of the question There were only
| three horses In the camp. and hay and
/ water were expensive articles G. q,
| Tiurchem. who had como over from san
| TraNtlsc6 With his butcher wagon ana
| horse, was asked TO furnish his riE, a
i bnle ar hay and barrel of water 10
the prospectOrs and he was to snare
/ equally IN the result Of the prospecting
trip. He finally agreed to the specula-
Two days later. April %, 1895, Moore.
| Singleton and Burchem reached the
! place where Moore had expected 70 md
/ tho rim 81 the volcano He had been
| looking ahead for hours, studying the
situation from every side. The horse
/ was slowly driven up what lB now
known 40 FIddler's Gulch, and Moore
I said when 10 stop.
"Boya, I'm sure we have II" said ne,
/ as the wagon and it's occupants moved
IN the barren cash In the mountain.
Then. while Singleton and BuTch en-
attended to the embarrassing OF the
horse, and to getting out the camp OUT
/ Mt. Moore seized n prospector'a hammer
/ and said. Nov. I'll introduce you 70
your fortune" He went about halt q
milo un the mountain side. He broke
thirty or forty bits Of the exposed rock
| and Examined each bit under q maEnls
\ fyIng glass. Suddenly ne called back
| Ia his comrades at the camp.
Come on. boys. Here we are. I've
| got It. I've got ~"
In few minutes Burchem and Sim
gleton came scrambllnE over the Do1l-