Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-09
WELL KNOWN MAN RETURNS FROM
 ALASKA
Chas, P. Mason, After Making His Pile in North, Joins Sister Whom He Had Not Seen for Twenty-Five Years,

TUCSON, Aug. S.-The following story from q recent issue of the Los Angeles Examiner will be interesting reading to c great many old-timers in Arizona The subect of tho skeEch is Chas. P. Mason, who was formerly resident of Florence and other Pinal county points and who once repre- sented that county in the legislature. MT. Mason has been mourned as dead for a number of years by his old Ari- zona friends, who will be glad to hear that he has got all the money he needs. The item is in the Pasadena correspondence of the Examiner.
 After a separation of more thln a quarter of a century, brother and sister have just been reunited iu this city. Charles Perigreen Mason and his sister, who is now Mir. Harry Painter of 190 North Chester avenue, had not seen each other for more than twenty-five years until the bronzed and stalwart man who has been during all these years of separa- tion engaged in miniug pretty much all over the world, pre- seate1 himself at the door of Mrs. Paint 9r's; home q few days ago.
 Recognition was instantaneous and mutual between the brotia- and sister
 whC are the only living II"mbers Ds the family, their parents having died
 within the last few years. Charles Perigreen Mason Is
 cousin of John Mason, the owner of
 the opera house in Los Angeles that
 bears the family patrOnynic. It was the father of the latter Uno located the famous Silver King rlire I in the early days of the minins tsyer in Arizona, and it was this discover | that made a prospector and miner of
 Charles Perigreen Mason who was at the time of the discovery a student at the University of IdYa.
 The father of Charles Mason was
 Freeborn Mason and the latter and
 two brothers, Charles and Aaron, were the owners of the Silver King.
 They sent to Monona, Claytoin county Iowa. for their brother, and he joined | them at Phoenix.
 Later FreeborR Mason returned to Iowa and his son Charles joined him and returned with him to the mining | fields of Arizona.
 Mrs. Mason and their daughter re- mained in Iowa and it was destined 1 that separation should be final for the son never returned home again and his father died and is buried Ill | the territory where he long sought | for mineral wealth.
 Mrs, Mason died about seven years ago at her old hime and is buried at l Monona.
 Charles Mason quickly caught the 1 mining fever. and il has kept him on the move from the day that he left the Iowa university in the early sum- mer of the year 1882. He has wan
 dered up and down the Pacific slope | has interests in the Hawaiian Islands
 and in Alaska, as well as in other sec tfons of the country.
 For the last few years Mason has 1 been located about f"-:" miles easi of Dawson, where he has been sue | cessfuI in his mining ventures. Dur ing all his years of wandering he has
 kept in regular correspondence with 1 his sister. and a short time ago ne
 wrote to her that he had about made up his mind to quit roaming ana set tie down, as he had made his pile.
 According to Mason the winters around Dawson are growing more SC were. and he finds keeping warm witf the thermometer registering 90 below | zero is a little more trying than tht
 salubrious climate of Pasadena. h'
 will remain there with his sister anC
 brother-in-law for the present.