The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-09


900 annually. which he regarded as
| sufficient for any man. He found
himself ncariy pcnniless and he de-
cidcd to 20 into the hills again and
| try his luck. Walsh went down into
| the san Juan region IN southwest
/ crn Cot RADIO. After "A few months
/ OF prospecting he located a prop
erty which he christcnod the Camp
Bird Ii was with the greatest dif-
| ficuity thar walsh raised sufficient
Irapital To drive a cross-Cut tunnel
/ Ia the first mine. This tunnel cut
number OF veins but none Of them
| contained pay ore. A lftlo further
on he opened large fissurc shoV-
I ing excellent gold values. These
values were in the form OF free
god. IN other words, gold In its ma
| tive state. This was unlike the
! Cripple Creek ore which was known
as telluride OF gold. a combination
| OF gold and tellurlum, Agents OF
| the Venture Corporation who were
| literally combining the west for an
] opportunity to retrieve their lnde-
+ pcndcnce losses. Ike tho appearance
| Of the Camp BIRD. They contract
| ed for the purchase Of this mine on
basis OF t4,00O,0OO In money and
q l!5aTs! percentage of ;hc shares
| OF capital stock OF tho corporation
which they formed Walsh was to
| have all OF the gold produced until
the mine was paid tor In fun IT is
| stated that Walsh took out more
than sl0,000,000 IN profits before
| he Venture Corporation could pay
| him the 100000 which Waa In
| addition 10 stock interests valued
at many millions.
All OF those who aided In tho dis
covery of mining camps did not
| prosper. Cripple Creek discovered
| by a man whose name was Bob
| Womack At that time the hills
\ which comprise that once famous
! gold region were uscd as grazing
| land for dairy herd Bob Wo-
| mack worked FOR that dairy com
| pany and during all of his spare
| time he was trenchlng for free gold
values No-i ~ the gold mining
| up 60 that time had been placer
! mining. which means securing the
| rOld values from old river beds.
| These deposits were LETT either by
| glaciers or were carried down
! through the eroslve action OF
| streams that somewhere I'm the
mountains had cut their way
through valuable deposits of gold
ore Tn" prospect holes and
! trenches which Rob Womack dug
served as premature graves for the
| unfortunate cattle that fell into
them during the night The dairy
| company made an effort to dis
| suadc WOmack from his prac. ice Of
prospecting, but he was persistent.
| Finally, they compromised with
him on the basis OF having him
! build fences around the prospect
| holes. This did not disCourage him.
! Eventually Wumaek found in his
sluice box a heavy metallic sub
stance that refused To he washed on
the rifles An assay OF this proved
II to he very rich grade OF tellu-
ride OF gold The place whore this
/ discovery was made was named
| Poverty Gulch and the first mine
was named the El Paso Gold King.
Cripple Creek was then In FL Paso
county. Womack did not partici-
pate I'm any Of the winnings. He
died pauper.
Some Of the best English mining
| engineers pronounced the ontlrc
southern end Of Cripple Creek as
barren and worthless, and yet Il
produced such mines as the indie
/ pendence. the Portland, the Vindi-
Gator the Golden Cycle and many
others.
Tonopah, Nevada. remarkably
rich and highly mlneralized silver
| camp that became known about
1906 was discovered by Jim Butler.
II was said that Jim Buffers mule
did the discovering The mule had
beer te,hering in the hot sun and
becoming restless, aud started to
paw the ground, and in doing SO
broke loose small projection OF
rock Butler had this rock analysed
and found Il TO contain a high per-
Centage OF silver.
Hays and Monette, who long be-
fore had lost their money In min
Ing took "a lease on the Mohawk
property In GoTdfield Nevada. After
nearly cKhausting their capital. they
broke into the big pay lode and
took out about 100000 In gold In
90 days
The oil fields are filled with even
| more Interesting stories and I'm Pc
trolrum, fortunes are made much
| more quickly than I'm metal mining.
OIL however. Is simply one branch
| OF mining. IL Is mining Just as much
as The operations at Virginia City
! or at Cripple Creek or at Leadville
! II is easier, quicked and less expen-
siye TO drill well than Il is 20 sink
a shaft the same distance. SO long
! ns people live who are willing to
accept the adventure Of wooing ma
ture, thnt long will there be stories
| 10 tell Of sudden wealth Of poor
| persons mado rich and OF despair
| turned into hope SO long as the
| chance is an honest ono. 40 long as
| the game is played above-board.
| there will be thousands and per-
haps millions OF persons who will
! continue TO believe IN cooperating
| with nature.
There have been men who have
spent years and thousands Of dol
lars searching FOR the loot OF Cap
tain Kidd anl the Pieces OF Eight
! hid by Morgan. the buccnneer. The
wealth that has been taken from
| beneath the surface OF the earth In
| mining camps and oil fields sur
| passes In value thousand times the
| gold and silver OF the pirates Some
| body must drill oil wells and sink
| mine shafts II We are TO have pc
| troleum and metals. and the ten
| dency Of big business IL to systema-
tie this development.
Whenever you are reprimanded
for taking chance, remind your
! critics that uDOu that ba siq ~ hon