The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-10
SOME NEW BONANZA TALES.
FORTUNES RECENTLY MADE M room
WESTERN MINERS.

Jake Klincr Successful After Twenty-Four
Yesrs-A Reporters Golden Idoa-How
Horse aud Wagon Made Their Owner
Rlch-Finiran. the Nowsboy Millionaire.
Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec b.-Tbere arc some
newly made mionaires out hero In tho South
west who are nowadays the talk Of every mining
camp Of the territories and the Pacific coast and
whose achievement, Of riches In tho last few years
arc illustrations OF the wonderful changes that
the whirligig Of fortune brings to men where
wealth Is dug from the earth The recent ex-
traordinary rise In tho value Of copper In making
half dozen men in Arizona millionaires, and
twice az many more men who were struggling
with mortgage debts and a slow demand for cop
per at low prices few years ago are getting into
tho several hundred thousand-dollar column.
There has never been such activity In mining
operations In tho West as during tho past year,
and never before has there been anything like
the number OF men providing over mountains,
searching across desert wastes, In lonely gulches,
through desolnto canyons and among remote
foothills for lodges and deposits OF wealth In
Tho way some men have lcapcd from comparative
poverty 10 large wealth in Ave or six years Is
of the wonders even in q land Of quickly made
fortunes.
For instance, there Is Jacob Klincr, who Is
copper and gold king Of Arizona and Sonora,
Mexico After twenty-four years Of all manner
OF adversely, patient ploddng search for luck
in prospects and after tremendous amount Of
endurance In heat and cold he Is enjoying an
income of about So, 900 month and owns property
that he can sell almost any day for about ST. ZOO.
600 lie Was born In IAban, Prussia, forty six
years ago, and came 70 America with SIT In his
pocket lie was employed in New York brewery
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friend In Tucson, Arir., he came west In 1875
to do anything he could to keep alive. lie has
been hos,ler for the Arizona Stage Company,
a guard for Wells, Fargo a Co, and a railroad
brakeman. In a mining region one naturally
takes an interest in mines The fact that the
mountains contain millions upon Millions Of min
era wealth that IL yet TO be claimed and developed
by any one smart enough 10 make the right loca-
ton IL al great an aurcment IS the capital prize
In a lottery So along with thousands Of other
men Jake Klincr became mining prospector.
To be mining prospcctor in tho st riot sense
Of the words ono must have supreme patience,
abnormal hops and confidence, unhagging real
and wealth Of enthusiasm. Ninety Ave per cent
Of the men who try prospecting for minerals are
lacking in ono or all Of these qualities and abandon
the effort In a few weeks OF months only 10 rene W
II for q time when news comes Of someone who has
struck II rich Jake Kliner stuck TO prospecting
year in and year out 1t was three years before
l even knew what sort Of rock had TO look for. :
said he recently. lie rampcd over every noun
tain In the Territory seeking for any indication
Of the presence Of a profitable ledge Of ore across
mountains through God.iorsaken valleys and
gulches all the way from II Paso 10 Colorado
from Ration. y. NJ. back 70 Albuquerque from
Tombstone TO Yuma from Mexico TO Chloride.
The Wild, hard NE he I'D for fourteen years would
hoo viii hill IA He .t.N
dozens II mines and worked on some Of them
for months al rrle, only Ia find that the orc
was poor tou small in quantity To BE- worked
at profit Jake kliner and MS half -starved Jack.
ass were known all over Arizona, and klneT' s
perennial belief that he was soon going u strike
II rich became one ni the ieNIts Of miners CAMPS,
At last Jake klinrr found a copper prospect
in CHA county that locked well. Hc had about
$40 that he had made By doing day labor in the
copper mines At Bisbcc and. settling down in a
So tent with all his earthly Possessions. cousi ting
OF frying ren, kettle, coffee pot. two blankets
| and a few mining tools he went TO work TO open
his copper claim. lie worked alone on IL for eleven
weeks in 1898 when copp"r was at It's lowest mar
Trrrtorics After months nf vain seeking for some
one To como and look AZ his copper ledge klincr
trudsed over the mountains and alkali desert
across the Superstition and San Rita mountainS
| down into Sonora Mexico where he got work
! at day wages in silver mine. He still owned
| ON IL 10 hold the claim for a year After he had
saved 500 he went prospecting again. lilo
travelled along with his inckass some 800 miles
! and watching out for hostile Naquis And now
| his luck was due Ho found two claims in Ave
nation Of lead and silyrr-and tho other was
| gold that ran about Sii to the ton. lie met at
fIermosillo Mexico man who bought ,he base
first real capital after his years Of poverty and
! hardship Win than sum he bryan the develop
ment o. his gold mine, and n y.aT he got ou'
| Then tho McNicans who owned the reduction mill
where he sent his ore became interested and
kliner was tempted 10 tax" the offer but he SAYS
he knew he had good thing and that i was
worth more mo onEG Teek ls'rr b. sold ssli
Khnrr's fortune hAS grown rapidly from that
time Tn" Armadiio mine has paid some Sl20 900
IS. 600 to 81 900 a month -Four years ago hiiner
returned with ample means 10 his copper mine
In ella county; AriA lie put In the best machin:
crosscut into the ledge. Copper was not profit.
| able then and many copprI mines were idle. II
took much hope and confidence to put sls, 600
no buyers at living prices Ia 1897. hoWe" "f'
| copper rGsn from cents 10 IL cents. The
kl!n"r mine bryan TO make more money. Eek;
ira labpr"rs were hired and the mine was drcpencd
| and explored the more n 1898 the price Of cop.
cents II has since varied from IL To
10, and tho copper miners all over tho
! Eliner had steadily declined TO sell his mine in
CHA county l io had an offer Of sioS 600 for 4
IN May, lbDh. Inst December he declined
six offers Of 500. 600 and within thirty days he
| could have sold out for $3.50 900
| lie lives well nowadays but he clings 10 his old
| clothes and his clay pipe lie smiles when hC
speaks Of the fact that he sleeps in n 800 bras
| bed now instead Of a bankct on the ground, hut
h. still lives In cabin AMI rldom goes away from
| home. A few months ago hc gave an old man IN
| Yavapgi county, who War crippled and disease
| from living nlUnc on poor food In the mountains
So 600 with which 10 go 10 San Francisco and liv,
| In q hospital. The old man nursrd Jacob klincl
| through typhoid fever in Yuma a dozen years Agt
| and had never expected a dime for his kindn, 81
| Tho recent requirement Of fortunes Of millOni
| Of dollars by the three miners who discovered
| the gold bearing lodges at RNndsburg, Cal
| are narrated again and again by hopeful miners
| who gather In the saloons in the mining camp,
| In this part ~ California Indeed, there are M
| parallels in Southern California at least To Thu
| great fortune that Frederick N. Moocrs CheStc
| A. Burchem and John Singleton simply wen
out and claimed as theirs in April, 1913, Las
summer L tab mining company offered 81, 500 O0l
| for these mines, They have paid monthly divi
dends varying from SIS 900 to $50 900 for nearly
| three years and II h. an undisputcd statement
among miners in and about Los Angeles tina
| the Rand group has now over 13, 600. 900 worth
OF orc blocked out in them
Five years ago Frederick NJ Moocrs was
| reporter on the Los Angles Express He hat
been connected with the BROOKLYN EAGLE nnt
| he came West TO find n gold or silver mine. II,