The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-26

overt act the proper time to mine the
/ claims. But the Lord, moving in his
/ mysterious ways, was too slow. so death
dashed ahead and dragged poor old Enc
ersley through the gateway Of scurvy.
/ The recent organization of the Dos
/ Cabesas Consolidated Mining company
/ which filed its incorporation papers In
/ Tombstone, a T., last week, brings 10
/ light the tragic story of the misguided
! discoverer of this copper region. which
/ region, experts declare, has no equal In,
/ richness and eXtenSiveness Of deposit
/ Eighteen miles from Wilcox A T.. is
situated this mountain of conner He
whose mining skill led him TO the disCOv-
/ cry of these claims is now resting IN
nlakeShIt grave, scoopeQ OUT on tue
gravel of the mountain whose richness
1 will gladden. the hearts of others.
Mining men marvel when told Of the
/ character Of these claims.
/ 1t is not necessary to dig a discourage
/ ingly long distance to strike the paying
ore belt DelEing into the ground. 81 any
point in the Vicinity of the mountains,
! the prOspector is rewarded by encounter
ing the ore belt at a depth Of two or
/ three feet. The only real work which has
been dOEe on the cain is the sinking Of
a shaft some fifty feet
! This shaft reveals even better tndlca-
/ tons In addition to the large amount
! Of copper, the rich ore belt carries gold
] in paying quantities.
Around every mine of any consequence
! cluster bits OF romatic history and tra-
/ dition. Successes and failures, luck and
/ III luck, hold their places IN the ample
record of events. But this story from the
Dos Cabesas country OF the man VINO
/ might have been a copper king Is at
] once one of the saddest and most interest
/ ing of mining tales
! as early as 1850 Emersley appeared in
| the Dos CabesQs country, Staked out six
teen claims and built himself rude cabin
There ne IiVeo year after year, with SOLE
tude his only companion.
/ He simply waited and labored on.
His onIy visitors We're cowboys and IN
dams, who sometimes VentuTed to break
his solitary reign.
Once in d while a prOspectOr, in his ends
less search for a strike, would aDproacht
but seeing that the hermit miner had ap.
propriated everything, he stOlidly moved
! onward, leaving the mountain OF coppez
+ its eccentric claimant
Poor when he came into the country,
the refuses inactivity sunk him deeper
into squalor and want FOndly, expect
/ antly, he would walk about his claims
with their potential millions, his every
sense at its highest tension, waiting,
/ waiting Although his hopes were buOyed
I up with copper, his constitution was not.
Emersley died. a starved man.
About year ago party Of cowboys
passing near the cabin stopped for water.
Gaining no response to their knocks, the
door was forced Even these sturdy men
were shocked by the repulsive sight in the
old cabin.
There in the corner, on a pallet Of
straw, lay the distorted and dec0mposed
remains of old Emersey.
A hasty search of this lugubrious abode
revealed nothing save some papers yellow
with age. These papers had a historical.
If not a commercial, value In them was
found the reason of the hitherto mex
2licable conduct OF their erstwhile pos@
SCISSOR
1t seems that Emersley was a religiouS
zealOt. AS far back as 1869, burning with
pious fervor, he made a solemn compact
with God, stipulaung that all his earthly
treasures should be made over to tha
party of the second part
In one Of his almost illegible letters,
written in 1888, he says: 1T IS now four
teen years since dedicated all my world
= effects and income and whatever they
might subsequently prove TO be- TO the
service of God"
Having sEranged matters satisfactorily
to the demands of conscience, he roamed
about with Indifferent luck. till 1850, when
he discovered these vast copper deposits.
entirely in the Lords hands, this faithful
servant reasoned that God, in his own
time, would give him sign when 10 COM
mence work and would drop down so gold
pieces. even as he had provided mama
tor the children Of Israel
Years laosed. The heavens were as OF
copper, for no sign came to reward this
expectant devOtee. Jobs patience could
not excel that of the simple conhding
miner who waited so reS0lutely and faith
fully for the Master Workman to give the
si-nal to begin
After Emersleys demise. no one seemed
to have given the claims much thought.
To the few who had seen the place, Inc
claims appeared TO be little better than
worthless. so for a time they were not
/ relocated.
A shrewd German storekeeper at VIII
/ | cox, A T, heard from some source that
there were good copper deposits in the
/ neighbOThOod of Emersley's cabin. He
went Immediately to investigate
The rumOr was amply substantiated.
Copper. copper everywhere.
/ The lucky German was rapidly changed
into a flying Dutchman. so eager was
( he to form a company and appropriate
the rich copper beds.
| Informing his friend. Harry Laut OF
Los Angeles, of this new bonanza. this
latter gentleman, somewhat incredulOus
of the accounts given, made trip himself
to the copper fields. "GOpheTing' round
about the mountain he was astonished
: and delighted at the signs Of the abund-
ant copper.
Others were readily convinced of the
genuineness and richness of the disc0Y-
cry. so a company was hastily formed.
The fortunate shareholders. most Los
. Angeles men, are; H. Laut H J. WOolo-
Gait John SHREDDER, 7. Z. GibbOn, ". A.
/ Goff All Of these gentlemen say
Amen to the scripture, which saiths
l IAN evil generation seeketh after a sign