The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-09-21
PROVIDENCE
man HAS
RICH MINE

After over Is years prosperity In Death
Valley where the recent gold strike has
drawn flood of prospectors. Provi-
dence man, Frank Harris, known to the
miners as shorty Harris the Death Val
lev Terra pin" for his size and ability to
find water in the desert place, made a
rich strike that is said TO equal that OF
"Scotty' whose meteoric career blowing
in his dust in New York recently made
him notorious.
Shorty. II is said. has wandered since
ISIS throughout the mining states OF the
western half OF the United States and
has made many rich strikes from which
other men have generally reaped the ben
eft, as in the case of the Bullfrog mine.
Now he has found a mine which he
says is better than anything he has
struck yet and he is going TO hold on TO
It and live the last part OF his life In
comfort
This mine is on the western slope Of
the Panamint range I'm Inyo county di-
rectly across Death Valley from Bull
frog and five years ago Shorty saw the
rock and marked IL In his mind as n
spot 10 return 10 some day when he was
prepared.
Last June he was grubstaked by Will
liam O'Brien and William Corcoran OF
HnNODte. lnt pTlDClpdl NoNn VI the bult-
frog group, and started out across the
valley. In a few days hes found the
place collected samples OF rock and took
A. in 20 be assayed. The assay showed IL
TO be OF such richness that 1900 claims
have since been located in that vicinity
The group is known as the Cashier.
Shorty is called the Death Valley Ter
rapin because he can find water In that
arid region when no one else can. I've
been in and out OF Death Valley, he said.
for 13 years and I've never suffered for
water yet / know every waterhole and
spring from one end 10 the other, but the
principal thing is not 10 get ratified when
the water supply begins TO get low. Keep
your head and you are dead safe.
This summer 10 people perished OF
thirst and heat in the valley. but they
didn't keep their heads. nor take enough
water in the first place. Prospecting Is
easy now for those who know anything.
as IL Is so easy 10 get supplies In old
times Il was 100 miles from the valley TO
Daggett 10 get a sack OF -four, but now
there are towns everywhere
l will give up prospecting ~ this strike
turns out as well as I expect: that IS.
think will guess no matter how much
i have. I'll have 10 go back 10 the valley
about once a year or so Just 20 take a
run through 81, just for exercise I am
going back now 20 find another mine. I
know where there is a good one. about
rs miles south OF this mine I've got. and
81 II going TO be just as rich.
lie must have had a lingering regard
for the town that gave him birth half a
century ago for Harris has named hts
new mine "The Providence
Shorty Is said 90 be 90 years old last
July. His real name Is Frank Harris
but Shorty r. the name he has gone by
for many years. and he merits IL. being
decidedly under the average height
lie ~ tanned and weather beaten. but
does not look his age by many years
and Il IL said that he can display endur.
ance far beyond that OF men OF half his
age. lie knows "scotty" well and has
the greatest faith In the man and in his
mine