Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-12-14
SIX THOUSAND A MONTH
THE REGULAR INCOME OF A.,
ARIZONA MlNER.
His Good Fortune Did Not Turn Nv.
coils Head and He Lives
Like Poor
Workman.

Patrick Driscoll, who. owns four O,
the best paying silver and gold mines
in the Chloride valley of Moiaye conn.
ty, Ari, is commonly supposed To h.
worth from $500. 000 to 100000 Ujs
income from his mines is about SGmD
a month, and he has block of StocL
in the Santa Fe, Prescott 4 Phoenix
Railroad that pays him some $l5GO1
a year in dividends He is a bachelor
without kth or kin IN the world Thar
heknows of, and he spends on hims +
less than $50 a month altogether Ey.
erybody in and about kingman knows
Pat Driscoll and his ecceutricitie> ana
many a poor miner has been help i nv
generous gifts from the Driscoll hank
account Several times the bodies Of
Driscol's poor friends in the mines
have been coffined and sent to relatives
in the eastern states and even to Ire
land at his expense. He came from
County Antrim in 1858 and was pros.
pector and laborer in the Utah and
Nevada gold and silver mines for %
years. He experienced all the pros
pector's poverty and hardshipS until
he was past middle age when he drift
ed down to the Calico mines in San
Bernardino county. California, in 1881.
There he found a mine which he sold
for $4,000, and he had his first capital
to deal with in mining on his own
hook. From Calico he came over into
Arizona, and in two years he located a
base ore mine-a chloride proposition,
as miners say, of silver, gold, ana lead
in combination. When silver was val
liable his income used TO be over 81. 000
a month. The Diana and Antrim mines
We're his.
He invested his profits in the Mar
qua Hala mines, and doubled his
wealth in "A few years. From that time
he has been prospecting TO degree
undreamed of by him.
But he has never changed his man
ner of living. He is over SO aud in
fine health Every day he mas b. seen
walking about the little town Of King
man or over at Ash Fork, where he
has valuable real estate. No one
would believe from his appearance
that he had property. lie lives alone
in a cabin, cooks his own meals of flap
jacks, pork. bacon, and oatmeal over
"a stove. and sleeps in bunk of red
wood filed with straw with a covering
of blankets. Once in year or two he
may go to Phoenix or to Los Angeles
for a few days, but he always returns
to his cabin, saying that he will never
take so long journey again. His sole
amusement is playing pedro for Scent
cigars and if he can win a pocketful
in the course of an afternoon he is hap
by for few days. He has never been
known to stand the loss of more than
n half-doZen cigars in the course of
his pedro gambling in one day, for he
will quit when the tide of luck is run
ming so hard against him.
Among the many stories told Of
Driscoll in the northern part of the ter
ritory is one of the time he bet "a
half on an election and lost. When he
was told that he must pay he got a
penny somewhere in this region, where
coins less than nickel are never
used, and, splitting it in half with an
ak, presented il TO the winner of the
wager in full payment for his bet Of
"a half" The old man loves TO have
people marvel at his cheap. primitive
living while he is 50 wealthy, and he
always relates in the Kingman and
Ash Fork saloons what he hears stran-
gers say to him about the rich old
Irishman who lives in a cabin He
has a grain of generosity and Is not
miser, even if he does call himself one.
A year ago, when a miners eyes were
blown out in blasting operations at
Clifton, Driscoll made quiet inquiries
concerning the man. When he learned
that wife and six children were de-
pendent upon the blind mans wages
the old fellow sent a bank check for
$1,000 to the family, and the gift was
kept so secret that it did not leak out
till several months later. When the
worlds fair was opened in Chicago IN
1893 Duscoll made up his mind TO go
and see it. His friends urged him 20
enjoy part of his money in seeing
something of the world. The week be
fore he was TO start on the l0ng-dis-
cussed journey 10 Chicago President
Cleveland made his public declaration
against the free coinage Of silver DriS-
COILS income would be cut down sew
eral thousand dollars a month by an
anti-silyer coinage law. So he abaH-
doned his journey, feeling that he
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AT such a time.-New York sun.