Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-02-28


They Va tked the redmen up jerome
Canyon, and saw bright red and green
stains on the side OF the canyon walls.
They went above these, and loca.eu
"a silver mine, which they WORKED oue
Then they sought a purchaser lhey
did not want to risk their money III
searching for greater wealth.
They interested Senator W. A. Clark
of Montana He investigated. Wnen
and sank shaft and gave up IN as
he saw the red and green STAINS ne
knew that back in the hills there was
a deposit of copper. He bought the
mine and commenced the sinking OF
a shaft that has made famous the
United Verde
The Cripple Creek Enigma.
Pixies Peak has always been associ-
ated with gold In 1859 camp was
located in one of the many natural
parks on the side Of it. Several thou
sand people were there. There was
town, district rules were adopted, and
location monuments established. Inc
prospects were promising. There was
everything to make good town-ex-
cept gold
1t fiattened out and the place got a
hard name. Then a man went over TO
Mount Pisgah. sailed some claims, and
started a rush. He left the country
about twenty-five hundred feet ahead
of thirty-foot rope and several hun
dred angry men.
Some hardy prospectors went
around on the south side of the peak
gust For years expedition after ex-
petition wasted time and money on
the sides of the great peak.
Finally man decided that the way
to get gold out of that section was to
feed cattle on the sides Of the peak.
He acquired a ranch. Later he bor-
rowed some money on 1t and coulo
not pay the mortgage. The holders
| of the notes offered to give him more
| time He would rather they would
take the ranch. Bob Womack dug
prospect hole in one of the gulches. A
COW fell in it and was crippled The
owner of the ranch threatened to eject
him. Womack sought aid to develop
a mine. In response to his request
eminent mining men investigated his
property and tried hard not to laugh
In his presence Dignified mining en-
gineers shook their heads knowingly,
and warned capitalists not to risk
their money.
Then some one bought Womack's
claim for song, and commenced to
work it. little gold was found, but
there stood Mount Pisgah, that had
been sailed, and all around it aban-
doned prospect holes that told OF
blasted hopes of bygone years. 1t had
the curses Of thousands Of men upon
it, A little gold came from the sur
face of the ground. But specialists
sat up nights advising friends and
clients to keep as far away from Grip
pie Creek as they could.
4 Then silver was demonetiZed. Thou
sands were thrown out of employment
They needed not the advice Of the ex
perts. They rushed into Cripple Greek
by the thousand and accidentally dis
covered it They crowded the trails
4 and tramped in over the snow. The
\ first winter was terrible. They work
ia a placed on Mineral Hill-Wo
masks mine, the Ell Paso, began tc
/ shin ore. Then, like flash, came the
news Nof the finding of Bonanza or
Gold Aill. Battle Mountain and Bull
Hill
The secret was revealed. The bright
/ silver-lool3ing ore, that disappeared
before tho flame of the blowpipe, was
gold disguised by tellurium. 1t was
so simple. 1t all happened because
man left lpiece of it on a stove by
accident. The slow heat drove off the
tellurium and left the gold in shining
specks, peekihg through the rock.
The Opening of the Yukon.
When the Telegraph Expedition
forced it's way Through the northwes
in the middle of the nineteenth cen
tury, it found wilderness of gold alont
the Yukon river.
The party was locating a telegraph
line that was neveE built. All tina
is necessary 10 start d pioopoS'oi W.
the trail is word of rich diggings a
another place, the farther away the
better, Every year afteS that miners
sought the north.
In 1896 the world was electrified by
the discovery of George CarmacK
who forced his way up the YUKON
1860 miles from the sea. re pros
nected the various rivers in searcn o.
the gold which the Telegraph Ex1pedi
ton had reported.
He stumbled into Klondike Creeth
Two miles above that he turned INTO
a little stream, where he washed from
forty to eighty dollars gold TO tne
nan. His fortune was assured, ana
his discovery started the rush into ~
frozen north, for he had turned tn
kew that opened the door to miiiions'
awav I'D in the Arctic Circle
Thanks to the Reindeer.
Nome was discovered because some
reindeer strayed away in 1898 and
Ianland reindeer herder at Nome
stumbling along after them, accident
aIlv kicked nugget from the SANDS.
THO beach was worked right down TO