Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-09
SEEKS MEN WHO
BEFRIENDEO HIM
MINER WILL REWARD HIS
BENEFACTORS
Gold and Gratitude Awaits Southern
Pacific Brakeman and San Fran
cisco Butcher Who Were
Liberal

Probably one of the happiest men in
Los Angeles is G. Branos, little old
German. Branos does not take so much
pleasure in the fact that a few days
ago he sold a mine for $375,000 and
now has the money in the banks as in
the fact that he is now in position to
help friends who have helped him
and give his aged father and mother q
comfortable home in which to live DUR
ing the remainder of their lives.
The easiest way to tell the story of
the man who has sought fortune all
his life and found it is in his own
words, but not in his dialect. His
story was slowly drawn out at the Hol-
lenbeck hotel yesterday.
When l was small l came to this
country from my birthplace, Wurtem-
berg, Germany, with my parents We
lived in a number of places until twen-
ty-siX years ago we came west, being
attracted by the stories of the wealth
to be found here.
''Since that time 1 have been on the
desert prospecting and have had a
happy time of it. Often have 1 had no
money, but l never complained. l have
located hundreds of claims, but none
of them was much good until located
the Surprise mine in the Bullfrog dis
trict. Some of the claims | have sold
for a thousand or two dollars because
1 had no money to work them. This
money has been spent in prospecting.
Seeks Southern Pacific Brakeman
81 have found most of the people in
this world kind to me, and often have
been helped when l needed 1t. l put
a good deal of work in on the Surprise
and had some very promising pros
poets. When 1 sold it for $375,000 L
knew that it was worth two or three
times that amount, but l had not
enough money to develop 1t.
II received cash for the mine, and it
is now deposited in nine Los Angeles
banks. The reason l am now in Los
Angeles is to find a Southern Pacific
brakeman who befriended me when 1
was in need. / met bad luck in a dis
trict which proved to be no good and
wanted to go to another to seek better
luck. l had no money and tried my
chances on a freight train.
when the brakeman came to put me
off l told him my story, to which he
listened. He not only let me ride on
the train, but took me into the ca
boose and gave me a good meal and
money enough to buy food for two or
three days. l want to find him now
and will give him enough money to
allow him to take a vacation and have
a good time for year.
Goes Back to Desert
when l have found him am going
to San Francisco to find my parents.
Their house was burned in the fire and
they lost almost everything they had.
1 am going to build them nice home
and fix them so that they will be COM
Portable during the remainder of their
lives.
"There is one other person for whom
1 want to do something. He is
butcher in San Francisco that gave
my people meat and groceries when
they had no money. His shop was
burned and he lost almost everything
he had | am going to build him the
best shop in San Francisco"
"I suppose that you will buy you
a place and settle down somewhere
then, will you not?" queried one OF
his listeners.
"Donner und blitzen. nein," he an
swered. mo city life for me. don't
like it. l will be out on the desert
within a month I like the free, open
spirit of the miners and the pure air.
1 can do more good for my fellows out
there than | can here, for l know them
and they will not take advantage OF
my ignorance of city ways as someone
might here
The barber had finished giving him a
massage, hair cut, shave, tonic and al
most everything on the price list. Ii
his free. open way he handed the ton
sorial artist dollar tip and treated
| the bootblack with equal liberality be-
fore leaving the shop.