The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1904-01-28
WOMAN WINS SUCCESS
Wisconsin Girl Who Has Made a
Fortune in Mining.
Her Career In the southwest Has neen
one OF HardHhips, B0t Reward
Finally C0naen--xiine-Hunt-
lag Her Life work.

One of the most successful mine op-
orators on the Pacific coast Is Miss
Mary West formerly OF Janeayille.
Wis. She has become famous H. IL
mining communities OF the southwest
because OF the sale OF the MADEIRA gold
mine in northern Mexico. and is un-
doubtedly the only woman In all the
world who makes mine-hunting and
practical mining operations a life pur-
suit What's more. she is success.
Some OF the old-time soldiers OF for
tune who for long years have fol-
lowed the delusive beckonings of the
goddess Luck from camp to camp oil
over the west-from Chlhauhau ON the
south to Klondike on the north--and
have nothing but tatters and bent
backs aud Wrinkled faces to show for
II, say that she Is simply creature OF
fortune. Others shake their heads and
assert that hers is only the reward OF
ability to know how and the never
wearying grit 10 seek until she flnds.
Miss Vests career In the mining re-
gions is a long chapter, fun of grlm.
everyday herolsm, gnawing privatlons
and everlasting grit--how Mary West
and her brother Joe searched during
some four years among the Margarita
and Apache maintains, sulien, Cod
forsaken, fierce, uninhabited region,
for ledges Of golden ore; how she and
her brother, footsore and weary. traY-
eled over hundreds Of square miles OF
mountain and desert, always seeking
evidence Of buried mineral wealth be-
aeath the Gun-baked soil on the ho'
randy wastes It Is a chapter that tell3
now Mary West endured hunger and
thirst beneath a lurid sky for weeks
at time; how she and her brother
braved terrific, binding and suffocai-
ng sandstorms that killed their burro;
how they nearly died with cold while
hey camped on lofty mountain tops
n midwinter; how many time and
1ft, night after night. they slept amid
cactus and whitened powders. with no
human being tnot even Indians) near.
er than 80 or more miles. and with
only the vault OF heaven as a roof
above them.
Miss West endured many hardshlps.
She often went hungry. and at oae
time was exceedingly III for several
weeks. her only abiding place being an
Indian hut. and the only attention she
received was that which a kind-hearted
squaw could bestow She finally
struck erich mine. which she partially
developed and sold for handsome sum.
Other good finds followed. and she now
has some $4,000 TO her credit in bank
and interests that bring her in a hand
some and constantly increasing In
come.
Miss West dresses for her work. She
wears heavy blouse, short skirts.
long leather-laced. heavy-soled boots.
and a sloueh hat Half a dozen times
day she travels up and down the
deep mine shaft in an ore bucket
which Is operated by a wire cable on
wlndlass. She keeps posted on the
latest Improvements In mining, and the
library on metallurgy and geology Of
American mines that she has aceu-
mula.ed At her home is up 10 dase.
From dawn TIL dark she Is always
busy-in the assaying room. down In
the mine. in the Office. Her evenings
are spent IN the homo. where she finds
delight In the current literature.