The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08
A DOLLAR A DAY
ARIZONA MILLIONAIRE ONE OF THE MOST ECoNMICAL
 OF MEN.
Patrick Driscoll Has a Large For tune But He Fancied He Could Not Afford to See Worlds
 Fair at Chicago.

Eleven years ago. when the Colum- bian Exposition was about to be open ed. Chicago was promised a visit from the worlds most economical mill lionaire. Patrick DriscoI, of Arizona. but he was not seen in the crowds at Jackson Park. MT. Driscoll had fully decided upon coming here for the pur- pose of seeing some parts of the world, but before he had completed his arr engagements for the trip, President Cleveland made his public declaration against the free coinage of silver. Dris- cous income was cut down several thousand dollars a month by an anti silver coinage law. So he abandoned his journey, feeling that he could not afford so expensive tour at such a time. says The Chicago Chronicle.
 Mr. Driscol1 owns four of the best paying silver and gold mines in the Chloride valley, of Mojave county. Ari- zona, and has an income of over $S0,- 900 year, yet he spends no more than $3p month for his personal comfort. Many generous gifts. however, have come from the Driscoll bank account to. poor miners and their suffering fam flies.
 Driscoll is supposed to be worth be- tween S1,20o.000 and $1,600, 900. His in- come from his mines Is $6.000 month and he draws about s15.00o a year divi- dends on railroad stock in which he Invested in the early days. He has no relatives as far as he knows.
 The old miner had experienced all the brospector's poverty and hardships until he was past middle age, when he drifted down to the Calico mines, in San Bernardino county, California. in hne rx,hs oh he, sold for s15,000. This gave him his first capital to deal with in mining on his own account. From Calico he went to Arizona, and in two years located a base ore mine of silver, gold and lead In combinations. The Diana and Antrim mines became his. He invested his profits in the HarGua Hala mines and doubled his wealth in a few years. From that time he has been prosper ing to a degree undreamed of by him.
 He has never changed his manner of living. He is over sixty and in fine health. Every day he, may be seen walking about the little town of King man or over to Williams. where he has lumber interests. No one would be- 1ieve from his appearance that he had property.
 DriscolI lives alone in a cabin, cooks his own meals--of fapjacks. pork, ba- con and oatmeal-and sleeps in a bunk of redwood fflled with straw and cov- cred with blankets. Once a year he goes to Phoenix or Los Angeles for few days, but he always returns to his cabin, saying that he will never take so long a journey again. His sole amusement is playing pedro for scent cigars. and if he can win pocketful in the course of an afternoon he is happy He has never been known to stand the loss of more than half a dog en cigars in the course of his pedro gambling in one day, for he will quit when the tide of luck is running so hard against him.
 Among the many stories told of Dris- coll in the northern part of the terri tory is one of the time he bet "a hair on an election and lost. When he was told that he must pay up he got a penny somewhere in that region. where coins less than a nickel are never used, and. splitting ii in half with an ax. and, splitting 1t in half with an ak. presented it to the winner of the wag- CT in full payment of his bet of "a half"
 The old man loves to have people marvel at his cheap, primitive way of living while he is so wealthy, and he always relates in the Kingman and Ash Fork saloons what he hears strangers say to him about the rich old Irishman who lives tn cabin" He has a grain of generosity and Is not a nsiser, 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 a wife and six children were de- pendent upon the blinded mans wages the old fellow sent a bank check for $5.000 to the family, and the gift was kept so secret that it did not become known until several months later Sev- eral times the bodies of Driscolps poor friends in the mines have been sent to relatives in the Eastern States and even to Ireland at his expense.
 What Driscoll will do with his wealth when he comes to die is natter of speculation. It is not known that he has any near relatives. although some kindred rather remote will doubtless appear when his estate gets into the courts for administration. At any rate there is a prospect for a rich harvest for the lawyers. a,