Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-24
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 TO MAKE DISCOVERY.

COLORADO SPRINGS, April 23.-- Robert Womack, "the Father of Grip pie Creek,'' is helpless with paralysis and penniless in cottage at 906 Grant avenue, this city.
 But there, tossing feverishly under the restraint of his afflict on, Bob Wo- mack lies day in and day out, praying for the day that he shall De made whole | when he shall be able to shoulder miner s pick again and go forth into the rock-ribbed hills to discover an other Cripple Creek.
 Womack confidently expects the day to come when he will be able to tap another stream of gold that will give to the world millions. He declares, and his friends believe him, that he knows where there is an enormous deposit of gold ore in the Pike s Peak reg on that will rival the great Cripple Creek dis trict.
 Robert Womack s father, now almost ninety years old, came to Colorado in the early sixties and engaged in inning in small way with varying success. In the early seventies he came to Col. orado Springs and homesteaded tract of government land south of the city l in the Fountain valley. There the fath- CT and sons, William and Robert, em- parked in the cattleraising business. After time they transferred their small herd to the hills and valleys of the Cripple Creek district, but ten years
 ater disposed of their stock. Bob, be- l.eving that that region possessed min | ing possibilities, remained and did some prospecting for mineral on his own ac- count. His brother and father mean while returned to their old home south of Colorado Springs.
 One day, after few years of unre- warded search, Bob found traces of gold in & piece of float rock which he picked up while riding the range with his brother-in-law, Theodore Lowe. Sending Lowe to an assayer at Denver on six-day horseback trip to have the -iece of rock tested, Bob went on about his work, little dreaming of what was in store for him when his companion returned.
 A few days later Lowe came gallop- ing back into camp and watching his opportunity handed Womack a small slip-an assayer's certificate-which bore the tidings that he had expected for years. The piece of float gave re- turns of $250 to the ton.
 Bright and early the next morning, Lowe and Womack set out from camp ostensibly to round up bunch of cat tie, but in reality to revisit the scene of their scovery in what is now known as Poverty Gulch, just outside of the limits of the present town of Cripple Creek. Once on the ground again Lowe expressed the opinion that they were on a wild goose chase and went on about his ranch work. But Bob was persistent and stayed with it, exercising the same patience that had characterized his early search for the elusive gold. This was in the winter of l900-01. In January Womack dug a prospect hole on what is now known. as the Fl Paso lode of the Gold King prop erty, which soon after developedinto one of the biggest mines of the great gold camp. A few days later he fired blast into bonanza vein which glis- tened with sylvanite.
 | But he could not stand prosperity in those days. When sober, he was mod esty personiied, but while in Colorado Springs one day to interest friends in his new discovery he ''tanked up" and disposed of his bonanza for $500 cash. His mind fairly crazed with drink and success, Bob jumped on his broncho and rode through the streets, waving his six-shooter in the air and proclaim ing his secret. The next few days wit messed one of the biggest rushes to the scene of his discovery that the west has ever seen.
 It is said to Womack' s credit that he has never touched drop of liquor since. One day, three years ago, just as success seemed for the second time to be within his grasp he was returning | from the hills. Sitting alone in the seat of Colorado Midland passenger coach, he raised window, leaned against the sill and dropped off to sleep. | When he awoke he tried to lift his arm, but there was no sign of life in it. He had been stricken with paraly- l eli