The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-18
AGED MINER TO
CLAIM FORTUNE
FORGOTTEN INVESTMENT Is
SAID TO HAVE GREAT
VALUE

that he was the owner of 100000
shares OF Eagle River Tunnel and
Mining company, of Red Cliff,
Colo, is having some difficulty in
establishing his claim after over
80 years of suffering and hard
ship which might have been en-
joyed in the lap of luxury had he
known what was coming to him,
says a communication from To-
nopah.
Two months ago Mr.. Hill went
down to Oakland to recover the
certificates, which had been pack
ed away with a lot of old furni-
ture in a warehouse without any
special value attached to the con-
tents. According to letters from
Denver the stock is worth today
$1.25 a share and the owner is
entitled to receive dividends aggre-
eating As cents a share which have
been accumulating ever since he
left his old home, which would
make his fortune over $32S,500.
From letters written old friends
here it appears that the old mans
road has not been smoothed out
by his visit to the coast for, in a
vague way. he has notified asso-
ciates that he cannot secure pos
session of the certificates without
entering into a bond. Rumor has
it that the stock is made out in
the name of one of his sons,
Joseph Hill, who is now on the
French front in the United States
army and connot be reached with
out great delay, especially since
there is no way in which the GER
tificates could be forward to him
for his transfer signature.
If elder Hill cannot recover his
property by filing a bond his
friends here are perfectly willing
to back him up for any reason
able amount as they are convinced
that he is the real owner and
therefore entitled to the comforts
the securities would bring to his
old age.
This confidence is based on the
circumstance that, before leaving
Tonopah, Hill displayed letters
from some of the best known CAPT
talists and bankers of Denver in
which they referred Familiarity to
their former acquaintance and the
roughing experience of early days
in the shadows of the highest Sec
tion Of the Rocky Mountains where
the mine was located. These men
are Walter Cheesman, David H.
Moffat and John Evans, each one
of whom has had carved for his
name a niche in the Hall of Fame
that decOrates the Colorado CAPT.
toll at Denver.
How Hill came to pass up this
fortune is somewhat obscure and
is only explained on the ground
that he thought the stock was
worthless and therefore not worth
watching. In his prime he was in
the same class with the million
aires whose correspondence he de-
lighted in showing to his init
mates. He was well in the money
when he left western Colorado ana
moved to the Pacific coast where
he became involved in sewers
business transactions hat stripped
him of his wealth and left him
penniless in a strange state. De-
termined to make a fresh begin
ming be placed his furniture in
storage with an Oakland firm and
transferred his family to Chicago,
where he also encountered re-
verses.
Eventually he drifted back to
mining and came to Nevada IA
to the southern country. He sue
ceeded in securing some good To-
cations, but these Investments
failed to realize his hopes and the
old man was reduced to the ex-
tremity of hiring out as a timber
man in the local mines. 1t vas
while working in the Belmont that
he encountered an old Colorado
miner who brought the news that
he was wanted and wanted badly
in Denver where a fortune await
ed his coming.
The old Eagle River Tunnel out
fit made good and, fortunately for
Hill, the company was in the
hands of men who were more in
terested in mining than in market
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