Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-17
HOW FAMOUS MINES
 GOT ODD NAMES
Black Hills Properties Were Named According to Feeling
 or Whim of Owner

DEADWOUD, D. D., oct. Io.-benInu the names of many of the mining claims and mines of every mining dis trict in the West there lies a wealth of romance and history, both pathetic and ludricrous. The Black Hills fur nish as many and as good examples of the peculiar circumstances under which many claims are named as any locality in the country.
 One of the best known mines in the Southern Hills is the Holy Terror, Back in the early days this claim was located by an old miner who had worked some years without success. The claim was hard one to work. When the man went home in the even sng after locating his claim his wife asked him what he named it. He smiled and told her, For you, my dear. and her further inquiry drew forth the fact that he had called it Holy Terror. Another man once named his claim Gentle Annie for his wife. while still a third perpetuated the memory of hts wife, who was a noted club woman, by naming his claim Silent Julia.
 The Hills are dotted with the names of claims recalling romances of by gone days. Many a young, ambitious man came here when the mining boom of the eighties was at its height, Iured with hope of a fortune, and all that re- mains to tell the tale is the name of Katie w, or Mabel E., or Lula J. Many a sweetheart or wife i'll the far. away East was honOred in the naming of claim that its owner hoped would prove a bonanza. Some few made good. Witness the Annie Fraction and the Josie. both of which were named for the Eastern wives of their owners. They are in the Bald Mount. ain district. and have produced thou sands of dollars for the locatoTs. In the Galena district there is a small abandoned claim known as the Widow with which there goes a story Years ago a youth named Hanley ap, peared from somewhere with a few thousand. and with zeal commenced to sink his money in hole in the ground in the hope Of a vast fortune. Back
 in the old home a little widow waited in vain for the golden wealth he said
 was sure to come and the wedding day that would celebrate it. It took but a SAlol IAAAAt AOl lhS NOulu 5llidli SdN ings to dwindle away with his ineX
 perience, and chagrined and disheart ened he put a bullet through his brain | on the site of his blasted hopes. One prospector who worked diligent ly On a claim, which was staked by an outsider. and had difficulty in even getting his living expenses, secured his revenge by naming his claim Old PersimmOn
 Men of patriotic turn of mind have chosen names of those famous in his. tory as Washington, Lincoln, etc Each of the Presidents has been remem. bered, famous Generals, all of the | States, seafaring heroes and heroes of the Philippines. as Dewey and Funs i ton; Indian names by the score are i found, as Hiawatha. Minnekahta, and ] Nanoma Those of sporting procl;vities ] chose race horses, as Nancy Hanks
 Salvador. Maud S. Red Wilkes. Joe | Patchen. FavOrite authors have been l remembered, as Longfellow, Burns and | Dickens. One student named his
 group Militiades, Mark Anthony. Attila
 and Cleopatra.
 | One man of pesSimistic vein chose
 Whats Left and Some Left. The aver i age business man n naming claims | will choose a simple name and use { l series of numbers. as, for instance | Thomas No. 1. Thomas No. 2, etc. Ont
 man favored his wife by calling his
 claim Red-Headed Woman. Two ad i joining claims are known as On Timt
 and Late
 An odd case was known in the namt | of the Hoodlebug claim. which was To
 cated by a German and an IrishmaI
 and intended by the former to bt i called Heidelberg When the IrishmaI 1 Ezached town to record the location .Iha- had fnrgcttall- -nartner,S- Selac l tion of a name and said it was some thing like Hoodlebug. which, for con ven:ence, was the name recorded. The Prodigal Son lived up to it
 name by bankrupting its locator, wht ! returned to Iowa at the behest of tn father who had put up the funds fo
 the venture. Along the names tha Il doubtless conceal stories never know | are Old Whiskers. She Devil, Cracl
 Brain and Crank.
 II Some of the gulches have name
 that refer to incidents. Two Bits Wa
 named because a placer miner de
 clared his first painful would yielt about two bits, while one gulch eS
 pressed the idea of its locator's min when he named it Go to Hell. Thel
 there ar Poorman's Gulch, Sheptai
 Blacktail, Whitehall. Crooked Arm l poyarfy and prOsDeTfty