Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-14
ANOTHER PIONEER PASSES
 AWAY IN PRESCOTT
tFrom Thursdays DaIly)

OWenS. The end came a1Jer months
 of illness, the fatal affliction being
 dropsy. For many weeks while he
 was an inmate of the hospital, it was
 early recognized that his days were
 numbered, of which he too, was cog
 nizant, informing his many friends
 to this effect. His mind being set
 on this gloomy fact, he was free to
 converse on the past, and he made
 requests of friends for the future that
 showed his apparent uneoncern for
 the life beyond the range.
 "Chloride Jack" as he was famil-
 iarly known, was in many respects a
 notable person. In the early days,
 his magnificent physique, combined
 with his genial fellowship and gen
 erous manner, gave him a wide range
 of friends. Wherever he went his
 traits followed him, and whether on
 the mountain side as a prospeetor, or
 in the lobby of a metropolitan hotel,
 his characteristics never wavered
 from his open and good-natured per
 sonality. He came into prominence in this section through hi. associa- ton with Jackson MeCracken, when they discovered the famous Me Craeken mine on the Sandy in Mo have county in 1875. Attending the strike they made on that property there are many still remaining here who will remember the stampede that took place to it from Prescott, and the wild elation that seized everyone to get in on the ground floor. Jack Owens, who was on the ground at that time, welcomed all, and he as- sisted many who were stranded, in an endeavor to get hold of ground adjacent to the bonanza.
 In the latter end of 1875 he and McCraeken sold out the location, Owens receiving about $7O,OOO in cash and McCracken over $1OO,OOO, with stock of a combined value of over s5O,OOO.
 In 1876 they both went to San Francisco, and it was in that city he was married to Miss Gillie. From that union there were two sons. Al fred and Eugene, both residents of that city today. His wife also sur wives him, residing near Oakland. | Mrs. Owens visited him several times | while he was living no the Bill Will | ame river, but it has been many years since she has been in the terri l tory.
 In the civil war he came into | prominence as an intrepid man. He vas appointed a captain in the Con army of his native state, Georgia. In a short time thereafter l ne was breveted major, and at the md of the conflict had arisen to a .olonelcy, being one of the youngest officers in age to hold that position Il the Confederaey. At the close of he war he went to the Pacific coast, adopting mining as a profession. The White Pine excitement attracted him o that Nevada boom town, and it vas while there that his knowledge if chloride ores rapidly won for him he sobriquet of "Chloride Jack" which has followed him to the day of lis death.
 MT. Owens had been to every ex- .itement on the Pacifs coast up to 1869, when he came to this section, Prescott being his objective. This ,ity was always his base of opera ions, and the McCracken excitement vas first mentioned by him while he vas living here, and for which point le outftted from this city. It seems l sad coincidence that it was here he anne to end his earthly career.
 A few days before his death sev ,ral old pioneers were to see him. To Major Doran, a lifelong friend, put member of the Union army in he days of the terrific strife, he made a farewell request of a brother soldier, saying to him: "When I nm laid away, major, please have that id Confederate uniform wrapped lround me, as l want to go with it ,n." This request will be followed ,ut, and the old gray suit will be put on the body. It bears the symbol If a colonel's rank, and at many grand army parades in this city in ,ears gone, Mir. Owens wore it while n the ranks of the old, old soldiers ,n the other side of the "fenee," as le tersely puts it. Another farewell -equest was that an old and worn pocket album, containing the photos If his wife, taken on the day of his marriage, together with that of his