The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-29
A WOMAN GOLD Miner
She Has the Distinction of Being
the Only One in The Field.
A Syndicate of Men Spectators
Have Paid Her Handsome sum
to Locnte the Precious Metal for
Them Mt Cape Nome-Whnt She
Has to Say of Her Unique work.

The only pettieoatei gold miner In the
world who has been an unqualified success
in that field of industry is Miss Jennie Hill
ton, OF California She has just been sent
BY syndicate of gold-nin- SPECTATORS to
the new gold fields on Cape Nome to pass
upon the value OF certain placer mines
there. No less an authority concerning
copper mine properties than United States
Senator W. A. Clark, Of Butte, Mont, re-
Gently said that the best geological miner
in Arizona and the most practical copper
| expert he ever knew is Miss Hilton" She
is so much of success at mining that she
is given $500 and all her expenses paid
for professional trip of six weeks to
Nome and return.
Miss Hilton was a school teacher who
gave up pedagogy and went out in the
mountains to learn practical mining. She
made $4,000 in the sale OF the Alexis
quartz mine on the Colorado River and ex-
ported the Yellow Aster at Randsburg
Cal, for the Delamar Company, OF Utah,
for sixteen days at $50 day. Seven years
ago Miss Hilton taught a country school
in Los Angeles County, California. Today
she is worth oyer SIS. O00-all made in min
ing. She Is about ,...Vtv-three years old,
u
Miss Hilton is a native of Fulton, Mo.
She set type in a little printing Office there
before she was ten years old. A year later
her parents and she moved to St. Joseph,
Mo-, and from there to Stockton, Cal. She
attended school al Stockton and was grad
uated from the normal school at Chico,
Cal. She began to teach when nineteen
years old. Her parents died when she was
sixteen.
The uncommon measure OF success which
has come to Miss Jennie Hilton as a pro-
fessional gold hunter has bsen a general
topic of discussion about many a campfire
in the mining localities OF the West for
several years. Her career is at once an in
spiration and guide in a thorough unique
path of feminine pursuit. The old-time
gold hunters are not whit jealous at the
way this young woman miner has worked
her way to the front of active gold mining.
On the contrary they are all proud that
the new woman has seen fit to invade their
ranks, says the Chicago Chronicle"
In the summer vacation of 1890 Miss Hill
ton went from her country school 10 visit
her brother in Phoenix, Ariz She says that
she arrived there one night, and the next
afternoon in temperature of over Ito in The
shade went forth, with a geological ham
mer and bottle of acid in hand, to learn
about the rock formations in the mountains
OF the ella Valley. Before moEth had
passed she teased her brother and an uncle
into going out with her on geological and
prospecting tour across the towering noun
tains.
She spent much Of her time among the
miners Of Arizona, and testiies that she
was always treated with consideration and
even in chivelrous manner. She and her
uncle took up claim and worked 1t indus
triously- Old miners declared there was
nothing in it, but after mining a shaft
some twenty feet gold-bearing ore was
found. She went to San Francisco to sell
the claim, but failed. Then she visited
Salt Lake City and found a purchaser at
$4,000. Then Miss Hilton sought other
fields in Arizona, where she located several
claims and sold them at a profit.
Il don't see why a woman can't tell
good mining property as well as a man."
said Miss Hilton, the other day, but of
course, mining mas been exclusively mems
work for so many ages that it will be long
before women sai see the practical side
OF the business. But women are quick
observers, and have naturally a clearer in
tuftive knowledge than their brothers.
These are prime requisites in finding or
locating new mines. 1t takes quick judg-
ment, comprehensive sense of the min
eralogicaI conditions. to decide whethen
rock is worth looking at or one must go
on. Thousands Of old miners have passed
over lodges that afterward brought for
tunes. because the old fellows did not
have the proper perception and lacked the
Judgment necessary AT the moment they
came upon the outcropping auriferous
rock"