Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-20


others have married Into Mexican fami-
lies and live IN shantics and mud houses
along the border.ju like the sons ana
daughters OF the poorest cOwpunchcfH
and sheep herderr In the region. The
adobe homestead would be dear ut $3.50.
The noorr are Of hard-packed adobe.
the windows ard doors nrc 81 the cheap
est. cnidcat pattern. and drop Of
paint was never applied either exterior
~ or interioriy. The children IN this
rich cattleman'a family have always
slept IN hunks: the ,ghics and chairs
have been made Of pine Ny Indians and
dozens OF articles In III line OF furni-
ture that the eastern fjuschold deems
absolute necessities hPvc never been 30
much as dreamed Of IN Jim Roblnson's
home at ORC Biancl
while wealth has been plllng up for
the ltoblnsons. their mode OF life has
never been altered from the days when
they braved living In the Indian coun-
try and were content 70 exist. The old
couple dress In the same coarse. rude
Rarb an Of old. The old man wears
overaiia and a rlngham shirt all the
time. except nccasionaily. when buyer
for chicago or Kansas city packing
house comes from Noralca railroad sta
tiOn. thirty miles across the hot, dusty
plain. 60 talk over q 10000 or 10000
cattle Transaction In the Kitchen Of the
put on a hrcadbaro and faded coat
that he bought fiily twenty years arc
In Tucson. Its library consists Of a
CRttlcman'a Guide and a volume % re-
cclpts for curing horse and cattle
diseases. Ills family never takes a
newspaper. buys no furniture. knows
nothing Of bric-a-brac or many OF the
ordinary home comforts; never tastes
such things ns Ice cream. candy, nsh or
fancy groceries. Itohinaon saw a
banana for the first tlnir when he was
In NoHaiea year ago. His only luxury
II plug tobacco. lie and his wife have
not been over 100 miles away from orc
liianco In many years. When the time
comes 20 yet his pay for his cattle and
10 receive his dividends from his copper
properties and Interest on his mortRag-
-. he rides behind n faded mule to n
NoEnies bank. where he has bank
clerk hired 10 do all his figuring and
letter writing. lie IL as ignorant ~ the
affairs ~ the world a. " he lived IN the
South Pole. Two Of his boys cannot
read or write, 40 closely confined have
they been with the herds among the
foothills and canyons all their lives.
Patrick DriscoI. who owns four Of
the best paying silver and gold mines
In the chloride valley Of Mohavc cpun-
~. a. T.. IL rcputed TO be- worth about
sc00,ooO. His income from mines T.
NWNuA NNf' " ulWtlAUf hlH Nv NAH
cstn In the lumber companies at VIII
Hams. besides a block Of stock In the
Santa Fc. Prescott and Phoenix Rail-
road that pays him handsome dividends
every six months. lie II n bachelor
without kith or Kin In the world that he
knows Of and he spcndA on himself
less than 500 a month. Everybody In
aud about clifton and KinEman knows
Pat Drisc0li and his cccentricitler. and
many poor miner has been helped by
generous Gifts from the DriHcoll bank
account. and several times the bodies
OF poor and old time friends of Patrick
In the mines have been cofiincd and
sent 60 relatives In the Eastern States
aud Ireland at his expense. lie came
from County Antrim. Ireland. In 1864.
He was n prospcctor and laborcr In the
Utah and Nevada gold and silver mines
for twenty years. and shared all the
prospcctor'H poverty aud hardshlps un-
III he was past middle axe. when he
driftei 20 the Calico mines In kan Her
nardino county. California. In 1881.
There he found a mine which he sold
for $1,000. which was his first capital
for dealing In mining properties. From
Calico he went over TO Arizona. and In
two years he located has orr mine-a
chloride proposition. aH miners nay-of
When silver was moro valuable than II
II at present his income was over tii,o0)
a month. lie invested hln profits In the
Clifton and iinrqua Iiaia mines. ana
doubled his wealth In a fcy Year,.
From that time he has been prosperlng
rapidly. nut he has never changed his
manner Of living. lie u over % years
Of are and II In me health. Every day
he may be seen either at kinEman. at
Ash Fork. or at tho lumber camps at
Williams.
No one would ever believe from his
appearance that he had more property
than the frnycd-out flannel shirt on his
back. lie wears the cheapest o. trour-
err, heavy cowhlde boots and very
often overalls, held IN BY a ioathcfn
bolt. lie lives alone In a cabin. cooks
his own meals ~ napjacka. pork, bacon
and oatmeal over n ~ stove. aud sleeps
in bunk of redwood nlled with straw.
with q covering of blankets. once In a
year or two he may SO 20 Phoenix ana
Tucson or TO Los Angeles Tor few
days. but he always returns to hiA
cabin saying that he never VIII 10 on
such long journeys again. His nnusc-
ment II confined 10 playing pedro for
fvc-cent cigars, ana II he can win
pockctfui In tho course OF an afternoon
he Is Joyful for several days; lie has
never been known 10 stand the loss %
more than half-doxen cigars IN the
course OF his pedro gaming,
ffst. m