The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-07-19
REAL PIONEER OF WEST
VISITING IN WALLACE
HAS VALUABLE INTERESTS IN
cOEUR D'ALENE MINES
IN coLFAX SINCE 1876.

H. w. Livingston. of ColfaX Wash
5 spending a few days in the city. a
guest of Mayor Hugh Toole Mr.. Liv-
ingston has the distinction OF being
the pioneer of all pioneers in the Pa
louise country, distinction. however,
which he ood-naturedly resents, for
he says he dislikes for people to know
that he has been such blank fool
to stay there so long" But those who
know Mr.. Livingston and his success
ful career in the metropolis of the Pa
louise will hardly class him among the
foolish. He located in Colfax i'm 1876
and soon thereafter established
hardware store which grew and pros
pered along with the settlement Of the
rich farming land of eastern Wash
ington. In the meantime he acquired
much property in the growing town.
erected business blocks, and in 1905
he retired from the hardware business.
his other interests being sufficient to
keep him active while freeing him
from the confinement necessary for
mercantile business. Mr.. Livingston's
sound business sagacity is Indicated
by his investments in the Occur
d'Alene district. Many years ago
through a horse trade with John c. /
Davenport, well known in the early
days of the Occur d'Alenes, he acquir- /
ed 1000 shares of Sierra Nevada stock /
which he filed away with other papers |
and gave little thought to it's value /
Having occasion to visit the Occur /
d'Alenes he made inquiry regarding .
Sierra Nevada and found that there
was an accumulation of ten dividends
on his stock. He became interested
and concluded to take on other Occur
d'Alene mine shares. His good judg-
louise did not fail him here, for he
bought Bunker Hill & Sullivan Hecla
and Tamarack.
An Eventfu Career.
Unpretentiously and with a distinct
strain of humor, Mr.. Livingston gives
an interesting narrative of his life in
the far west. A native of Ohio. as a !
mere boy he enlisted in the Union
army and served the last six months
of the Civil war; and with pride re- 5
calls his vote for Abraham Lincoln for {
President, although not of voting age,
no questions being asked regarding
voting qualifications in the army Up {
on receiving his discharge he headed 9
for the far west The Union Pacific q
had been completed from Omaha to ,
Cheyenne and he never stopped till he {
reached the end of track. There he
was employed by a surveying party
and worked his way to Ogden. There {
he accepted the Mormon faith as
matter of safety first" and spent sew ;
eral months in Utah. finally taking up
with a wandering road show which led
him to San Bernardino. Cal. His next
move was up the coast to San Fran
cisco and after working there awhile
continued his course north to Puget {
Sound, where Port Townsend was the
most important settlement while Sc
little was an insignificant village 4
IN Elliott bay Returning to Califor $
lia, he was attracted to the mining II
excitement at Virginia City. Thence j
he proceeded up the Carson river to n
Carson City and finally landed at a
Turning north he
crossed the Nevada desert with Silver ,
city. Idaho, his destination at that 7
.ime a booming silver camp. Still his L
unsatisfied, he continued /
o Boise, then to Walla Walla and +
inally to Colfax, where he still re F
tides. i