The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30

| something in her dream. He and his
boys hunted for several days for a
manzanita bush such as the girl de-
scribed When they found it they got
| their picks and shOvels, uncovered the
| rock. pulVerized a chunk of it in a NOR
| tar, and found it worth SIS ton. !
| can prove this TO be a dead fact, for
l married the girl myself. and I'll be
hanged if she has ever had any dream
| like that since"
The man. Hank Raymond, who
found the Farewell mine, in the Globe
district of Arizona, in about 1889, was
the blamedest person for luck l ever
knew Of" remarked Major Phil Mason
Il knew Hank well, and was in the
ne1ghborhood when he located the
mine, SO ! am sure of my facts. Hank
and cOmrade came out of some scien-
titic engineering college back East
more than dozen years ago, with the
intention of doing mining engineering
They went down into New Mexico and
Arizona and got jobs with some silver
mining companies at Cerllos. Prescott
and Harqua Ha!a But when silver
became gradually cheaper, the mines
closed down and Hank was left to hus-
tie. He then turned prospect0r. and
went for four years all over the mount
aims in Southern Arizona. locating gold
mines that he never developed. In the
fall of 1889 he was clean plumb busted,
and couldn't find a thing in his pro-
fesson to do.
He went over to the Globe diggings
to say goodbye to his old college
chum, for Hank had made up his mind
to get back to Yankee land somehow,
where he might do something with
that fine education of his.
" It's no use fooling away my time
out here with Mines he said to me
Why. no one ever makes any money
in them now.
Hank loafed about Globe for
week. The afternoon before he was
going to start to work his way some
how or other back to New York he
went out for a walk with his chum
was farewell chat, The two men
sat down in a gulch and talked for
several hours. Hank was poking
among the thousands of stones and
boulders lying there. as all we fellows
do from force of habit. when we are
out in the mountains of a mining coun-
try. He picked up a small bit of live
rock which was lying there.
by heavens. said he, studying it,
that's got a heap of color in it
He took that float down to his tent,
looked it over carefully, postponed his
departure from Globe, and went to
work following up that float to the
it. He located the Farewell mine there,
and any one in the territories will tell
you that Hank Raymond made some
thing like $4,000 out of the Farewell
before it pinched out a year or so ago.
He's in Japan this winter having a
good time, and it all came from luck.
No foresight about that find"
ooh, it's all luck In 1858 our party
of boys were working sluices and long
toms at Gold Hill, near where Jim
Marshall found the first gold in Cali
fornia, We We're getting $l2 day
then. for thousands of gold hungry
young men had come and taken up the
best mining claims in California by
that time. Three men from Illinois
came up to our camr one day and
looked over our ground sluice
We've had awful luck. said one of
them, and can't you boys tell where
We can wash out few dollars?'
You bet answered Parson Dan, of
our party. You just buv few inches
of water and start in over there on
thai mesa Water rights We're worth
then 81 an inch. The Illinois men gave
US three ounces of dust for the water
and started in the next morning. To
make long story short, they worked
hard early and late, and in three
months they went down to Sacrament
to with $4,000 in gold dust and mug
gets, while we Jersey boys pegged
along at $40 a day Now, don't you call
that luck? If it isn't what is it?''
TO snow you how easy one could
get gold when | struck the Ell Dorado
country in 1857" said an old man to
me one day, TN tell you of an ex-
perience | had out there. | was a wild
and reckless young chap then, and
like nine-tenths of the men about me-
did not exert myself to get gold more
than was necessary to have an easy
time about camp, gamble and go down
to Frisco for an occasional frolc. Why,
now 1 wonder, when l re-
call those days. if it was not all a
dream, and whether | ever really did
see myself and others washing out $25
and $50 worth of tiny nuggets and dust
in day. had a brother who once
Planned out $3.50 between sunrise and
sunset You fellows, who almost kill |
yourselves nowadays to find gold |
mines, don't have any idea what rich |
fields we used to work in day after !
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