Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30
KINDNESS WINS FORTUNE.
How Louis Chiatovich Secured
Rich Rattlesnake Mine.

Louis E. C~hiatovich, for twenty
years a prospector and miner in this
part Of the state, is perhaps today
one Of the most talked Of men in the
couutry circumscribed by Touopah
on the north and Bullfrog on the
south.
1t is said that some are born
great, some achieve greatness, and
others have greatness thrust upon
them" The same expression may
be used in regard to riches, A few
in Nevada's gold fields have become
millionaires ID mining by fortunate
d%iscoyerins OF the rich mineral, but
it remained for Louis e. Chiatoyich
to find a fortune through kindness.
One day twenty years ago an old
Frenchman found a ledge of ore-a
reddish, rose-tinted rock, lifting it.
SELF like a ''Mastadon rib" out of the
mountain side. He pounded some of
the ore in his mortar and found that
it carried large quantities Of free
gold. He staked out a claim and
called it the "Rattlesnake. He
went further up the mountain and
took an extension. Each mining
claim is 600x1500 feet in size. He ran
clear over the ledge. Finally he had
265 acres staked out-now owned by
the Bonnie Clare Bullfrog Mining and
Milling company, He was 162 miles
from civilization, if a railroad station
may be so considered. This was in
the early Nevada days, days when
the Comstock lode in Virginia City
was booming, when $500, 000, 900 Of
gold ore was taken out in round nun.
bers from the Comstock mines ant
perhaps $500, 600, 900 made and lost
on the San Francisco mining eX
change, where men became frenzieC
with greed and avarice, where riot
Gus living followed great winnings Oh
the one hand, and where the suicid.
. gave up his life in despair when bank
ruptcy stared him in the face.
Louis f. Chiatovich, a young Aus
trian, was then Is years old; toda
. he is 80 years old. The Frenchma
j died twelve years ago, and becaus
the Austrian was kind to him i
nursing him during the six month:
illness preceding his death, he CAV
the Rattlesnake NINE to the faithfu
!. Chiatovich.
81 1t IS said that Chaitoyich rode
ID bronco 300 miles across Death Vale
Of to do the old Frenchman a seryiC
st and both he and MS horse BEGAN
TO almost famished on the trip. TIL
and many other acts of kindne
ee pleased the aged Frenchman in b
es last days aud as a result. Louis
ly Chaitovich became the owner Of {
be Rattlesnake mine.
he During the last twelve years Chi
IN toyich set up a little five stamp mi
* took the ore out Of the Rattlesna
n. that he encountered IN driving tt
uels, sinking wines, making uprais
ed and driving %crosscuts. Now, he b
ID. $4, 600, 900 Of ore blocked out and
m sight. He has another tunl
Of started and is in good ore.
err Lone handed, without a penny,
ale foreign birth, he has opened up {
.ol- of the greatestmines in Nevada wi
yer out the assistance Of any man o
A single dollar OF outside capital.
the 1t is said that Mr.. Chaitoyic
ear aalt interest Which he has retained
to the Bonnie Claire Bullfrog Min
led and Milling company will proba
God bring him in gold shekels over
and 900, 900 He feels well paid for
md 300 mile ride across death Valley
the serve a friend, and his twenty ye
servitude in the hills as a prospect
~It-IIn-tl n-.sor