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

Angeles Correspondents Of the
81 York Sun. There are some newly
ial nlllirnaltes out here In the south
WHO are nowadays the tax Of ev-
MINING camp Of the territories and
aelic COAST and whose achieve
fi 0e riches Ia the last few years
Illustrations Of the wonderful
rprngeS thnt the whiTllgiF OF fortune
N q men here wealth Is dug h'om
e1flh The recent extraordinary
II' ~ the Vallle o. copper Is matlrgi
H.Il DOZEN men In California milllon1
H|I and twice as many more men who
giiHt With m0ftgag8 debts
ond llow demand for copper at low
nl q 4sW years ago are getting into
IA efetal- hun dted- thousand dollar
c1|tflh There has never been such nc.
ilI|iy IN mining operations III Che west
darling the past year, and never be-
o has EleGe been anything Ike tho
number o. men prowlinE over moun-
I11 searching across desert wastes,
lonely gtilches, through deBolate cam
od and among remote foothills for
IrIafo and deposits OF valuable ore.
Me way some men have leaped from
t1ldn9ratlye poverty 70 large wealth In
I'VE Of 9tS years 10 one OF the wonders
llen h q land Of quickly made fortunes.
Instance, there Is Jacob Kllner,
Is q copper and gold king Of Ari-
% and Sonora, Mexico. After TWEEN
four years Of all manner OF adver-
patient ploddlng search for luck in
piobpect8, and after tremendous
6nnt Of endurance in heat and cold.
q enjoying an income of about 5000
q month and owns property that he can
Do almost any day for 81, 100000. He
horn 10 L6ban, Prussia, forty-slX
Etdfs Ggo. and came TO America with
ia II Ms pocket He was employed In
Eegelty cents q day. Having 9 friend
Is TUCSON. Ark, he came west IN 1870
70 dO anything he could to keep alive.
has been q hostleP for the Arizona
Company q guard Tor Wells, Far
CO., and RAILROAD brakeman. In
mining region one naturally takes an
inleresE IN mines. The fact that the
6dhtdtns contain millions upon mill
lions ot mineral wealth that Is vet TO be
claimed ana developed for any one who
stddft enough 70 make the right loca-
fldM q as great an allurement as the
capital prize N q lottery. So along with
t6itsdfds Of other meh Jake Kliner be-
came q mining pfoSpeetof.
nc Be mining inspector IN the Strict
sanse Of the word one must have SUI
IRENE patience, abnormal hope and con-
deh6e, ut1agEing zeal and wealth Of
edthuSiasIn Ninety-tive per cent OF the
mon who Try prospecting for minerals
1te lacking Ii one or two OF these quail
ti6sI and abandon the effort In q few
weeks. only, to renew II for time when
news comes Of someone who has struck
rich. Jake Kliner stuck TO prospect
ing year in aud year out. II was three
wears before ever knew what sort OF
rock 4 had to look for, said he, recent
~ he tr1mped over every mountain
II the territory seeking for any indlca-
hon OF the presence OF profitable ledge
II ore, across mountains. through God
fcrsaken valleys and gulches, all the
wayfFom 81 PaBu to Colorado, from RAJ
tor, N. Nj, back to Albuquerque. from
Tombstone to Yuma, from Mexico to
Chloride. The wild, hard life he led
for fourteen years would I'LL a book Of
thrilling Narratives. He located dozens
df5mfficG and worked on SOME OF them
III months, only TO find that the ore
Waa too poor or too small In quantity
he worked at a profit. Jake Kllner
aud his half-Atarved tackass were
known ell over ATlz0na, and lSliners
snnidl belief that he was soon going
"a strike It rich became one Of the jests
81 mlnera' camps.
All last Jake KlIner found copper
prospect IN ella county that looked well.
had about $40 that he had made by
doing day labor in the copper mines ut
HiSbee, and settled down in a 50 tent
With all OF his earthly possessions, con-
eiotins Of q frying pan, a kettle. a cOf-
ne pot. Two blankets and a few mining
t0ols, haven't towork to open his copper
claim. He worked At It for eleven weeks.
"a lBo3. when copper was at It's lowest
market value, and capital was scarce
article N the territories After months
81 vain seeking for some one to come
ind look at his copper ledge KlIner
tfudged over the mountains and alknli
desert, across the Superstition and San
Rita mountains, down into Sonora, Mex
10. where he GOT work at day wages in
silver mine He still owned the c0p-
per property and had done enough work
% Il to hold the claim for a year. At
tef be had saved 800 he went prospect
ing again. He travelled along with his
16chaSS some 400 milBS altogether sleep
inf out Of doora. eating vile food and
Watching out for hostile YaQul Indians.
And now his luck was due. He found
claims in five months one was q
hoe ore mine-l combination OF lead
and sIlVaf-and the other was gold orc
fhat ran about Si4 TO the ton. He met
- FgsrroonilIO Mexico a man who