Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-04
SON SEEKS TRACE
 0F FATHER AFTER
 LONG SEPARATION
Tragic Franks of Fate Told in Letters Received
 by Postmaster
LOST MINE IS IN IT

IOCi bhtANh lO lAN Oltentimes John Doe and Richard Roe, who were boys together back in the old home town, meet in the metropolii of this wide, long land after years of separation and over d cold bottle, VOW that this is a little old world, after all" Times not 50 often, a story comes to light that proves that with all of the improved methods of transportation and com munication, that this world is so big that a circumstance of infinitesimal unimDortance sways lives apart, ney- CT to be reunited again ever after wards, and that the world is big or little as Fate decrees.
 The most tragic prank of Fate that history records was the separa- ton of brother from brother and father from son by the civil war. Like leaves of autumn they were picked up, carried along in it's Lethean vor tex. and scattered to the four cor ners of the world They live out the separate cycles of their lives, and each never again hears of the oth- CT. Sometimes their cycles almost touch in passing, but circumstance stays contact. and the story is never told. Like ships that pass in tbo night, they sense the familiar pres ence. and regret the saddest words Of tongue or gen, it might have been
 Harks Back to War Time
 This regret is the regret of w. E. Hall, of San Marcos, Texas, who has written Postmaster Cassidy for information about his father, who, when last heard oI, was in Bisbe-. That was in 1903, nine years ago. ! In the letter he tells a story that weayes itself through the years of half a century, story with warp of scarlet thread.
 Fifty-two years ago, at the begin ming of the civil war, Henry Hall left his young wife at the cal! of s-a ty to his country, and was never again heard from. He was woundsl at Atlanta, and was sent to Vera Cruz, Mexico, according 10 the let ter, and then found his way into the interior of Mexico, where dur ing all the years since the war he has worked as a prOspectOr. When he had found fortune in the hills Oi Sonora, be came to Bisbee, where he fell i'll. Without money, he haz arded a chance at locating his wife, the young wife of his youth, Or his progeny, the children he had never seen His wife had then been dead more than a score of years. Twelve years later. lacking a few months l the letter came into the possession . of the son, w. l.. Hall, to whom l, 1 was as if Fate, tardy Fate, had | thrust back the curtain of his fath ! CTS life. revealing the youth going off to war with martial ardOr, witt ! the hope of triumphant return iI l his heart, the great battle of Allan ! ia, in which the youth was wounded 1 Of the journey to Vera Cruz, of wan : derings over Mexican savannas, if the wilds of Sonora hills, the dazzling ! picture of golden ore secluded iron the walks of men, of the battle witt ! hunger and thirst, and his arriya finally at the copper camp, Bisbee the youth now become grizzleC prospector of sixty years.
 The next film of the picture is th' old man writing a letter to all bu
 forgotten loved ones. It was lik the sending Of the dove from the arl in search of a place to land, bu there was no Ararat for the grizzle' old veteran. Fates pranks are to
 well laid, and they never gang ai agley." The picture, revealed t
 the son, himself now past the hal
 century mile post, becomes dim an
 blurred, and the next one may b
 the end
 Cannot Recall Man
 Postmaster Cassidy has been her
 eleven years, but he cannot reca Henry Hall, nor does he remembe , any physician by the name of Ware
 If any of the readers of The R
 view remember Henry Hall, an . know his present whereabouts, q whether he is still living, the pape . will communicate the information , the son, W. E. Hall
 According to the letter of the Ol
 prospector. somewhere down in th hills Of Sonora is a gold mine
 fabulous richness. It is five mile - southwest Of a certain mine that
 April. 1903. sold for $lj0.000 am according 10 the letter, is nine mil' | from Bocadehuachic. The value ( , the gold ore obtained from the iia l. six blastings was nearly $4,O00, [ it assayed S6f7 to the ton. This
 wealth beyond the dreams of ava 2 ice.
 Letter from the Son The following letter, received a the postmaster from the son, W. '- Hall, tells the story:
 n Hugo, Hays county, TeXa
 March 29, 19i It Postmaster, Bisbee, Ariz.;
 q | am very anxious to learn as nut $ as possible about my father, vi II | learned was in your town in q
 year of 1903 His name is Hen
 Hall. and l think he is past seven 2 years Of age at present. He was | miner. It is stated in a letter th
 have in my possession. that he VI
 sick. and a Dr. Ward attended hi in The letter | refer to was directed
 my mother. or the postmaster tiGrayson, Texas, but my mother q not move to Grayson. as imy tath - supposed. My uncle. Jim Yates. "