Arizona state miner., 1925-04-11
IN THE DISCOVERY OF RICH MINES
BY DAN ROSE

W0D6u WIN KIM OF metal that
DOry had never seen before. This did
not excite his interest any, and while
he was contemplating it's character
and peculiar formation, Mcmillan
aroused from his torpid sleep, groan-
ing with all the pains that the i'm
bibers of red liquor are heir to.
"Hey, Charlie, don't you think we
had better be pulling out?"
yes, in minute, soon as l get
this kink out of my CUTS" Mcmillan
replied with an unearthly groan.
Dory with the chunk in his hand
walked over to where his pal was
suffering the tortures of the damned
and without any seeming reason for
it held out the metal and asked
careIessly:
"Say, Mac, what is this durn stuff?'
"Oh, don't bother me-" cried the
sufferer
All right" retorted the other as he
made a move to throw the chunk
away.
Then Mcmillan managed to ask:
what you got?"
"This," answered Dory, as he held
the piece before his eyes.
Mcmillan took it and then, in a
voice of mingled incredulity and as
tonishment, he yelled:
"Where in the hell did you get
this?"
Harris, taken aback by the mans
change of manner, hesitated for a
second, then said:
"Over there" pointing to the place
he had found it.
"What is it, Charlie, what is it?"
cried Harris, excitedly.
''Why, damn it, man, this is native
silver!" Mcmillan was now thorough
ly aroused from his stupor, and to-
gether they hastened to the spot.
Yes, it was native silver They
were rich; for this proved to be one
of the WealthieSt silver mines ever
discovered 1t was known as the
StOnewall Jackson the world owe"
Just fool for luck; for if Char
ley Mcmillan had not insisted on
sleeping off his drunk under the
shade of the juniper tree they would
have gone down to the spring and the
chances are that the silver would
have been there till this day.
After the partners had taken out
some sixty thousand dollars they sold
the mine to Santa Rosa, California
capitalist for $160,0O0 The mine
yielded some two million dollars to
it's purchasers. In honor of the old
prOspectors, the new camp was named
McMillanville.
In two years the prospectors were
both broke. Dory Harris bought
seat in the exchange in San Fran
cisco, paying $4,000 for the same
He was scarcely warmed to it when
the wolves cleaned him to a fare
you-well.
Bob Dickey and the McMorris
1t was the same luck that ranked
Bob Dickey in the same fool-for-
luck class as Charlie Mcmillan and
Dory Harris. Dickey, like the others,
simply had fortune handed to him
Bob Dickey. like Charlie Mcmillan,
was an old prOspectOr and had made
several small stakes in the mining
game, but to him, as to Mcmillan,
had come the lure of Frisco with it's
Dupont street and Barbary coast.
This kept him broke and looking for
another grubstake. And he found it.
A man named McMorris outfitted
him and sent him to Globe. About
the time Harris found the StonewaIl
Jackson mine, on the east side of
the Apache range, Dickey left Globe
to prospect on the west side of the
range, about nine miles from McMil-
1anVille and the now famous mine.
After prospecting around bit, Dick
ey decided that the formation, gran
ite with diOrite and small seams Of
quartz, did not suit him so he would
pull out for some pOrphyry district,
formation he was accustomed to
and recognized as the mother of min
erals.
The evening before the morning
he intended to leave, he went down
into a gulch to gather some dry
cedar for the nights fire
"You see," the lucky cuss told it
afterwards, thar was plenty dry
wood closer than the gulch; but hit
seemed l sorter passed hit by, cause
that cedar was what | wanted. Once
or twice I stopped to pick up some
pinion limbs, but throwed 'em down
again. Finally I come to the bottom
of the gulch I laid a rope 1 had to
tie the bundle of wood with down
on the ground, and as l was assort-
ing the best pieces, I noticed chunk
of quartz lying close by. 1t had
what looked like small tiny wires all
through it. | picked the durn thing
up and then / saw it was native sill
YER Well, sir, the durn fool notion
of going down into the gulch for