The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-08-23
CA. Garfield DIES SUDDENLY
Old-Time Western Prospector and
Former Eurekan Leaves $751;
100000 Fortune

The Los Angeles, California, Ex-
miner of August 16 has the follow
ing sketch of a former Eurekan who
worked in the mines on Ruby Hill in
the late '70's:
Charles A. Garfield died yesterday
afternoon at his residence, SOB South
Avarado. 3
His passing away came as any
brave man would wish, quickly and
saenely.
Mr.. Garfield was talking with
members of his family; he suddenly
sank back in his chair, and that was
the end.
The day before he had taken a
long motor a drive to and from his
ranch of 16, 900 acres in the San Luis
Rey Valley, and previously had been
touring for long stretches.
For some hours previously he had
felt uncomfortable, and Doctors M.
L. and Clarence Moore had attended
him, and were with him when he died.
The cause of death was determined
to be angina pectoris.
As a prominent resident of Los
Angeles since 1886; as a man of very
large fortune, which he used in the
most beneficient manner; as a con-
stantly active factor in many of the
enterprises, particularly in oil, which
have served to enrich and develop
this entire region, and as one whose
purse was always open, wide open to
all well-based opportunities for. sane,
charitable, helpful endeavor for his
fellows, the death of Mr.. Garfield is
a bereavementnot only to those near
to him by kinship, and participating
in his activities, but to the community
as a whole.
Fortune Held At $15,000,000
After an eventful, often most ar
duous, career as a miner and pros
pector, Mr.. Garfield accumulated a
fortune which those who should know
estimate at approximately $751;
900, 900.
This, from the same source of in
formation it is learned, as their
belief based on most intimate knowl-
edge of the man, has been left to his
six children, Charles Garfield, Mrs.
Caspar Whitney of New York, Mrs.
j. M. Danziger, Mrs. Silsbee Spald-
ing, and the Misses Aileen and
Dorothy Garfield.
From 1868 when he began his min
ing career in Colorado until a decade
ago, Mr.. Garfield lived the exciting,
varied life of a prospector; he made
many fortunes and lost many until
in his association with Mr.. E. l..
Doheny of this city his financial re-
sources in the oil development bust
ness became solidly based, and
thenceforth he was kept busy caring
for and investing his tremendous in
come.
While having passed all of his
active life in the West, which at that
time was the real old-time wild
West. Mr.. Garfield never deviated
from his serious and studied purpose
of being a successful prospector f;
there was nothing about him of the
western man of fiction tradition; he
was businesslike, sincere, and of
high personal traits.
Credit Always High
AS his longtime associates, Mr.. E.
L. Doheny yesterday said of him:
Even when Charlie Garfield was
broke, his credit and his standing
was just as high as when he had
plenty of money!"
He was born May Is, 1S4S, near
Oswego, N. Y. In the late fifties the
family removed to Minnesota, where
the young man learned the elements
of western existence, and probably
acquired the adventurous turn which
developed him into an Argonaut; for
in 1868 he struck out for himself and
landed in his first mining camp at
Blackhawk, in Colorado.
From there he went to Nevada
and secured a contract on the Rich
mond mine, near Eureka.
At his suggestion he was employed
to do a piece of development work