Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-06
A GIRL in TIE GOLD MINES.
California Teachers Strike in the Kondke Reglon-A
Practical Miner for Seven nd Now Capitalist
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Mis- Jennie Hilton, a school teacher
Of Rialto, Cal, has made fortune In
Klondike gold mine, says a San Fran
cisco letter 10 the Chicago Inter Ocean,
Last May she bought a claim for $1,000,
which has already yielded eighty
pounds Of gold at bedrock. A few days
ago she refused an offer Of $4,000 for
the claim. Ola miners say that there
are millions In 1t. Miss Hilton made
lucky strike in gold mine in the
Harqua Hala region, in the western
part Of Arizona, near the east bank OF
the Colorado river, several years ago.
Her fame as a successful prospector
and developer OF gold lodges went
abroad very fast. Last winter Miss
Hilton had abundant opportunities to
go 70 the Klondike backed by capital
to the amount OF thousands Of dol
lars. but she declined all the offers and
went up to Dawson City IN March and
April on her own hook, but accompan-
led BY a brother and an uncle from
Sacramento. When she went away she
wrote to several friends that she eX-
pected to be gone two. and perhaps
three. years in the Kiondike region.
She wrote to a cousin, James W. Need,
In this country. last August that she
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but gave no particulars Her friends,
Gho knew about her mining transac-
tons and investments, say that she has
made about $4,000 clear money In her
brief career as miner.
In 1891 Miss Jennie Hilton was teach
ing q district school at Spadra, In Los
Angeles county. She gave up teaching
In June, 1892, and became a prospector
for golden wealth among the noun
tains She was born IN GAINESVILLE, o.,
ana came with her parents TO stockton
when little child. She has practically
made her own way since she was six
teen years old.
Miss Hilton began her mining opera
tons seven years ago al Phoenix
Ariz. She arrived at Phoenix one night
and the next afternoon In a tempera-
ture OF over 10 degrees In the shade
vent forth with geological hammer
and bottle OF acid In hand TO learn
about the rock formations In the noun.
tains Of the ella valley.
Almost every day In the year parties
Of mining prospectors and miners start
with grub stake from Phoenix for the
mountains and foothills, but the sight
OF trim little Miss Hilton, dressed In
short wooden skirts, heavy shoes and
immense sunbonnet trudglng along at
the side OF her two donkeys, both laden
with the usual camp outfit Of blankets,
pickaxes, pans, skillets, gridirOns, bags
OF rations and carpet sacks OF clothing
and followed In procession by her big
brother and her uncle. each accom-
panied by laden donkey was a sight
that has remained distinct amid the
hundreds Of similar scenes In the MEM
DRY OF the spectator
When the cooler autumnal weather
came the young woman and her brother
and uncle prospected over the mount
aims The next winter the school teach-
er pr0spector and her companions went
70 Globe. Arlz. II was at that time the
most notorious community In the terri
tory. Hundreds Of hard characters
men who robbed, assasslnated. shot and
stabbed-han rushed there. But that
did not deter Miss Hilton. There were
but two other women In Globe that
winter. She says she was treated with
Kindness and on many occasions the
courtesy shown her in a rude way by
the queer old characters, who had lived
on the borders of civilization for gem
Grafton, was almost touching.
Next winter Miss Hilton opened an
Office for assaylng In Prescott and did
a fair business Her method Of maxi
Ing assays was liked and the miners
had confidence in her statements Of the
values Of ores.
She was 10 remain In Prescott, but
when spring opened her enthusiasm for
prospecting was renewed by the news
her brother sent her that he had found
over In the Harqua Hala region the
best looking aurlferous rock In the
whole territory. Miss Hilton closed her
assay Office and went across the coun-
try to Harqua Hala with her uncle and
accompanied by the usual complement
OF jackasses and camp outfit The
HarQua Hala mining region was the
most prosperous In the southwest az
that particular time. The mines lay In
dark red quartz twenty miles east Of
the Colorado river and seventy or more
miles north Of Yuma. A more Godfor-