The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-17

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T west Broad and Liberty streets
pest paying silver and gold mines in the
Chloride valley of Mohaye county, is com
monty supposed to be worth from SsOOOOO
70 SSV0VOV His income from his mines is
ABOUT $1,000 a month, and he has a block
OF stock IN the Santa Fe Prescott and
Fhoenx Railroad that pays him some s15,-
wv year in dividends. He is a bache-
LOT without hth or kin in the world thar
ne Knows of, and he spends on himself
less than $50 a month altogether. Everv-
pody an and about Kingman knows Pat
Drlseol and his eecentricities, and many
poor miner has been helped by generous
glfts from the Drisooll bank account Sew
| eral times the bodies of DriscolFs moor
FRIENDS in the mines have been cofined
ana sent TO relatives in the Eastern states
ana even to Ireland at his expense. He
came from County Antrim in 1858 and
was prospector and laborer in the Utah
and Nevada gold and silver mines for
twenty years, He experienced all the
prospector's poverty and hardships until
ne was past middle age, when he drlfted
down TO the Calico Mines in San Bernar-
dino county California, in 1881. There he
found a mine which he sold for $l5.e00
ana he had his first capital to deal with
In mining on his own hook From Calico
~ NSAAAr ONCA itllO Arizona ana IN TWO
years he located base ore mine-a chic
ride proposition, as miners say of silver.
gold and lead in combination When sill
yer was valuable his income used to be
over $4,000 a month. The Diana and An
trim mines were his. He invested his prof
its in the Harqua Hala mines, and dou-
bled his wealth in a few years From
that time he has been prospering to a de-
gree undreamed of by him.
But he has naUar phapoed ,,a..o.,
of living He is over 50 and in fine
health. Every day he may be seen walk
ing about the little town of Kingman or
over at Ash Fork, where he has valuehta
real estate. No one would believe from
his appearance that he had property. He
lives alone in a cabin, cooks his own meals
of fap1acks, pork, bacon and oatmeal
over 81 stove and sleeps in a bunk Of
redwood filled wItr straw with a GOVERNS
Of blankets. Once in a year or two he
may go TO Phoenix or Los Angeles for a
few days, but he always returns to his
CABIN, saying that he will never take 81,
long journey again. His sole amus.-
ment is playing pedro for scent cigars
ana II ne can win pocketful In the
course or an afternoon he is happy for y
few days. He has never been known to
stand the loss of more than a balf-dozan
cigars IN the course of his pedro gambling
IN one day, for he will quit when the tida
OF luck is running so hard against him.
among the many stories told of Dris-
coll in the northern part of the terri
tory Is one of the time he bet a half.
on an election and lost. When he was
told he must pay up he got a penny Some
where in this region, where coins. less than
a nickel are never used and splittine n
~ half with an ak presented it to the win
ner OF the wager In fun payment foe
his bet of "a ha.f.n The old man loves
% nave people marvel at his cheap. print
tive living while he is so wealthy ana
ne always relates N the Kingman and Ash
Fork saloons when he hears strangere
say to him about the rich old Irishman
who lives in a cabin" He has grain
OF generosity and is not mlser. even If
ne does call himself one. A wear a,,o
When a miners eyes were blown o,t in
blasting operations at Clifton DriscoII
mace quiet Inquiries concerning the mar
When he learned that a wife and sly cbi,-
uteh were dependent upon the blinded
mans wages. the old fellow sent n ham,
check for 5000 to the family, and the sir,
was kept so secret that il did NOT te,le
our III several months later. When ms
world fair was opened in Chicago IL
1871 Driscoll made up his mind TO 20 10
see It. His friends urged him Ia aniav
part OF his money in seeing sotnetbiny
ol the WoFid. The week before he was
70 start on the ng-aiscussed journey 10
Cnlcaso' President Cleveland made his
public declaration against the free coinas..
OF SILVER Driscolfs income would na 81,
dewn several thousand dollars a month ~,
an anti-silver coinage law. So he aban.
ooned bis journey feeling that he coula
not arord so expensive tour at such
time ~ suOh &
me peculiar mark that Texan papoe1
Wiiiiam soggs makes on a bank check
Will DC honored al any time by two ha,lrs
~ freseott and one in Williams for thou
sands of dollars. A few months 90 =
check 50 marked BY Soggs was paid to
the amount OF $4,000 He is tal1 raw
puneu man OF about so, and is cattle king
q isVdpal county. The Soggs cattle
praho IS known al over Northern ArIzo-
ha' ana since the rise in cattle two years
ago ne mas once more become worth sew
eral hundred thousand dollars He rao
uot Ieau or write; indeed, he can nor do
any sum IN arithmetic that involves more
imam plain addition or subtraction Hs
success as an Illustration of what cease
less devotion TO one purpose may accom-
push There Is probably no one who
knows cattle ranging IN Arizona better
than Soges. He has wonderful memory
an IRON constitution and quick comprehen-
sion OF business propositions ia the line of
cattle growing and profitable ranges. Since
he became cowboy on the Texas Pauhan-
die, when less ehan Is years Old. he has
given every day of his life to cattle rails |
ing. Il is said he knows az sight more |
than 400 cattle brands, and there are |
some he does not see once in five or six |
years.
lie was reared on the border of civiliza- |
ton and his mother was Creek squaw. |