The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-17
PROSECUTORS MAKE LUCKY FINDS

siders scoffed. The Virginia Consoli-
dated, as the mining venture was
called, tottered on the verge of bank
ruptcy. and, to make matters worse,
Mr.. Fair, the leading spirit, fell Ill.
During his absence the other three
partners DETECTED the line of search,
but when he returned he persisted in
following the original course.
In October. 1871. the miners struck
their picks INTO the Big Bonanza, n
veritable Aladdin's palace OF riches,
For three years silver was extracted al
the rate Of So. 600 900 month that in
Virginia City there still stands q build
ing which witnessed the smelling of
Sl25,O00 OF bullion daily for 1000 days,
and that the big bonanza had by 1893
yielded ore valued at 1892. SOC. coo ster-
ling. one-half OF which sum passed as
profit into the pockets of the share
holders
Turn to Mexico. a Veritable land of
silver. just as England Is land of iron
and coal. Its wealth attracted the
Spaniards under Cortes nearly 400 years
ago. At that time the silver deposits
had scarcely been touched, and it was
not until the Spanish conquerors
brought European meteorological
knowledge II bear on the great silver
lodes of Sonora, Fac iteCas, Guanajua-
of the country were understood. AT
Arazuma, I'm Sonora, a mine owner dis
covered in the middle of the eighteenth
century a solid silver mass weighing
Zoo pounds. which was Cniy one of a
number of similar finds.
The Flores mine of San Luis Potosi
was struck by a poor priest, who for 8
mere trifie bought up a claim which
had been abandoned as barren. His
| va farreo III,
worth of silver. In the same region q
negro fiddler found among the ashes OF
his campfire-a curious parallel to the
Carmack episode-a button OF silver
which led to his becoming a million
aire. More recently, in 1926, two Indian
peasants. so poor that they could not
raise money to buy n meal. stumbled
on the outcrop of a vein which yielded
$260,00
Returning a moment TO the eight
zenith century, we encounter the stir
ring history of a muleteer, one Peter
Tereros, who struck the Real del Monte
deposits in Hildalgo, and at the enc
of twelve years had amassed S15.000,0 0C
sterling. besides being ennobled by the
king of Spain for pecuniary services
rendered.
Lucky Hunter.
In Chile the name of Godoy is as
ISOLATED with great riches. A hunter OF
| this name was chasing guanacos, and
being tired, sat down under the shelter
of large rock, one part of which haC
a bright color. He cut off pieces with
his knife-the substance of the rock al
this point was quite soft-recognized as
silver lead. Godoy had discovered. {
vein containing an extraordinary
amount of silver. His good fortune was
afterward eclipsed by that OF the broth
ers Bolados, fuel carriers by trade, who
/ found in a crevice opened by an earth.
quake an enormous block of silver ore
worth nearly S1,250,G00 sterling.
The coal fields of the United States
/ to which our transatlantic cousins are
so largely indebted for their industrial.
! success. were in several cases discov-
cred accidentally.
| In 1850 a boy was fishing in Vir-
ginia stream, when he ran short of bait
and while hunting for more he saw in
! the bank of the stream a streak of hard
| black stone, which proved to be ricl
| bituminous coal. Thus was started the
soft coal industry of the eastern
states, which today has reached sucl
vast proportions.
| The ever more valuable anthracite
or hard coal, deposits of Pennsylvania
were also discovered by sportsmen
]
signs of anthracite in the southern Goa
! field This was how il happened: Be
/ ing short of food, he went out into thu
woods with his gun to look for deer
A days hard walking brought him M
/ luck. and he was returning home a
nightfall very dispirited when III
kicked something hard, which ROLLED
away before him. He stopped anC
picked it up and wondered IL this wa
the coal that he had heard people speal
of as likely to exist in that region. Sucl
1t proved TO be.
Another coal field in the same stat
was found by a hunter who happened
to light his camp fire on the "outcrop'
of seam and was awakened by TIL
| resulting blaze. Once again the camp
fire played an important part in min
eral discoveries. A third seam wa
tapped by man digging In pursuit o
ground hog that had gone to earth.
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