The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-18
Rich Colorado Mine Without an Owner
The Man Who Found Was Determined That None Of His Relatives
Should Share His Wealth and He Seems TO Have Had His Wish

DENVER, June 1.-THE story of the Pom
peii claim was told by promoter from
Gunnison county. His name is not impor-
taut.
I'm the Slopes Of the Pomreii claim in
Gunnison county he began, wealth that
none may touch lies uncovered. From the
whim, creaking idly over the shaft hangs
an empty bucket. and heap of carefully
sorted ore near by represents the last labors
of life that was tragic thou Oh petty"
In speaking the promoter ANONYMOUSLY
uses terms of expression he purposely en-
ploys when writing prospectus. lie
finds them effective in selling stocks and
his listeners do not object to occasional
phrases that>smack of rhetoric.
George Adams" he continued, tipping
his glass and watching the play Of light
enmeshed in the lucent topaz Of the liquor,
was welded to the hills A prospector,
his solitary life made more bitter hatred
implanted in his heart when a child He
never EXPRESSED desire to infict a in Jury
upon those 10y whom ne had suffered, but
he was fixed in his determination that none
of them should share the wealth he sought
In placer and lode.
adams was born in Yorkshire Enela nd e..
Left an orphan when barely more than a
baby, his first recollection was of relatives
by whom he was shamefully mistreated.
AS soon as he was old oh he was
put to work in a collery. There both Of
bis legs were broken by falling timbers.
His relatives, expecting that his injuries
would soon prove fatal. refused to call in a
surgeon, and for days he suffered extreme
physical agony.
eat last some neghbors interfered and the
lads bones we're set. He had been neg
lected 80 long, however, that his legs we're
permanently bent out Of shape, and he was
always afterward lame. As soon az DOS
gible after his recovery he ran away, and
eventually became prospector in Colo
RADIO.
For Adams the finding of the Pompeii
claim spelled success. What suggested the
name don't know, Perhaps In the mind
OF the disGoverer there were hazy visions of
treasure beneath the lava and ashes that
buried the old Italian city. Perhaps the
evidences Of volcanic action in the sur
rounding region, the intrusions and over
flows Of the Gunnison country. recalled the
work Of Vesuvius.
From the time he. located the claim
his faith that IL contained the treasure
Tor winch he had been searching so long
did not weaken. His con f,ienoe was
finally justified by the ore he unlocked
from the rocks.
"A few months ago Adams was on the
highway TO fortune. All the latter part
Of his life, and he was we'll past 90, he had
painfully strugged along hard trails that
promised glittering rewards but led only
10 disappointment The Pompeii claim was
the last venture Of many
'The other claims he located we're scat
tered singly and in groups over the noun
tains in which he wandered Most of
them were merely the graves of great ex-
pectations. On few he was able to make
a showing good enough to sell them to
people with money for development.
did they make mines, you ask?
Not yet Some of them are still promis-
ing prospects to which my own hopes are
hitehed. But Adams is the only one who
up to the present date has cleaned up any
cash from them.