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The JACKSONVILLE MINER
be mistaken for anything but just found anything worth while, his I the high slopes and cliffs of the
exactly what it is.
backers were to furnish a stamp rough mountainsides.
in California, I found a quarts *nill. or any machinery needed for
I used to have my best luck
lead once in just that way. A handling the ore And at the end selling claims to club members in
;
of
the
aeaaon,
or
termination
of
quartz lead was known to cross a
the cities Prosperous merchants
certain mountainside, but the top the grub-stake, all the camp outfit, ami other city dwellers have their
soil was deep and though 60 pros I guns, pack animala. etc., were to clubs at which they get together
pect holes of from six to 20 feet be the property of the prospector. and discuss affairs of all kinds
deep had been sunk on the ground Of course many grub-stakes were Those days they all had the mining
through which it was supposed to made in different ways. I am only fever T^tke a mining claim that
run .it had never been encountered. outlining the method mostly used would assay an ounce of gold, or
Poet Reynolds Proses Pio For two weeks I crossed this For myself I generally had a first- better, per ton on the surface, in
outfit of my own. animals, a not too remote locality, if they
neering of Rock-Knocker mountain daily to get to a place class
higher up where I was prospecting guns and everything needed and could purchase such a property
Who Dug Up Original at the time One afternoon as 1 only used the grub-stake as a mat for say »1200 or »1500 cash, they
ter of policy and convenience. I would be* only too glad to take ad
Worth of the Great West was returning to camp I happened didn't
always have good partners, vantage of such a bargain They
to stop for a look around and at
once noticed a tree like I speak though, and in time became op would put four or five men to
By J. C. REYNOLDS
of whose ixxits had been poisoned posed to having any {»artners at all work developing the ground and
It is owing almost altogether by the copper and iron and arsenic and became convinced I would do at their dubs they could saunter
to the prospector that the vast in the mineral deposit below it. far better to go it alone. That way around with their thumbs in their
to suit myself, had no vest holes and an expensive cigar
territory west of, and including About 200 yards beyond it I saw I could work
to make to anybody, and between their teeth and discuss
the Rocky mountains, was settled another, and following along in the apologies
no one to contrary me in regard their mining property out in the
in such short order. The prospector same direction I discovered others as
with his burros would adventure all in a line, while the rest of the how. to where I should prospect, or hills and the progress that was
being made on It. They got a great
far ahead of the settlements, find forest on each side wits just the
With partners I generally kick out of that And though none
gold or some other valuable min- plain, ordinary stand of various worked
too
hard
in
my
efforts
to
erals, spill the information and kinds of trees like one sees any make a suitable showing to them of the claims I sold ever made a
great mine, some indeed paid for
then would come the rush of per- where. So I knew well enough that
In early days it was no trick at a while before being worked out
haps thousands of hardy men who a mineralized ledge ran in that
wished to share in quickly gotten direction as indicated by the half all to sell a hole in the ground and if I had had more claims to
riches. Not all were lucky and not dead. green-topped firs. Next that showed any amount of min sell in that vicinity. I could have
all could prospect or mine, but morning I brought my tools and eral value The country was full of sold them to the same parties
once on the ground they soon be started digging right at the base people who wanted to take a easily enough.
came aware of the possibilities of of the tree I had noticed first, and chance on mining, enthused by
You may think that in selling
the country, and while some es two feet under the surface I found the numbers of really fine mines all these claims I took a chance of
tablished a mining camp and the ledge that proved to be three being discovered and the immense
started in business of one sort or feet wide and which brought us fortunes many of them produced. parting with some rich bonanza
another, others found openings for »6000 three months afterward. I Pretty near all of the prospectors that might have made me rich I
their various trades and still oth neglected to say that there were had claims around in the hills to will not only say that If I bail a
ers settled on the surrounding three of us, which made »2000 sell and any time they were in claim that I was certain, after
town they would have no trouble thorough examination of the for
lands and took to ranching or cat apiece.
A prospector should never get m meeting someone who wanted mation surrounding it. would turn
tle raising. Then the average pros
to be a big mine, 1 wouldn't
pector, feeling that the country to believing he knows it all. as to get into the mining game if out
have sold It. I knew my stuff too
was too full of people and his toes every mining district has its own they could buy in reasonably. A well
anything like that. I never
were in danger of being tramped peculiar characteristics. which great many of the prospectors sold for
but one claim in my lif<* that
on. would pack his burros and may be altogether different from held their claims far too high, but amounts
anything an<l that
strike out for some new spot anything he has ever encountered, I found that by putting the price barely paid to expenses
and a little
and
must
be
learned
carefully
be
right,
I
would
have
no
trouble
in
where he felt there was not so
much danger of being crowded. Go fore he can consider himself at all selling any of my claims for cash. better for about 10 years.
where you will in all this western familiar with conditions in that lo I made it a point to tell the exact
land and inquire as to when and cality. The first California miners truth in regard to any claim I
how it was first settled and you that came to Leadville said it was sold and also in every instance
will always find that the pros impossible that big gold values underestimated its assay value, so
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pector was the guy who found could be found in sandstone. Yet it that the purchaser would find it a
little bit better than what I had
something good in the mineral was so.
In Nevada, where there was no represented. I also found it paid
Saturday Only
line to begin with, and that was
what attracted the first settlers, quartz to be found. I inquired of me to take pains to put a good
though naturally in time people the prospectors where they were front on any tunnel 1 wished to
KEN MAYNARD In
branched out to considerable dis getting the gold that showed up sell. A purchaser cannot help but
be
influenced
by
the
first
Im
tances away, but stayed with the in long strings in the pans. And
when they told me they were get pression he gets of a claim. If he
country just the same.
sees only any ugly hole in the
Prospecting in early days while ting it from the crystallized lime ground
that causes him to stoop to
so abundant in that vicinity, I
“PIRATE TREASURE
the west was still wild was an oc certainly
thought they were try crawl inside, he gets a bad impres
cupation that would furnish a man
of the layout right there, un
Sunday and .Monday
with about all the thrills he need ing to kid me. But it was so sion
less he is either a thorough mining
ed. And it is a fine, clean business Throughout the west Jasper quartz man
who
knows
his
stuff,
or
can
is
supposed
to
be
barren.
Yet
I
hunting for the hidden riches of
be shown something inside that is
old Mother Earth and constantly found a dike of Jasper quartz in really
rich. Whereas, if when he
adding to the wealth of the world. Colorado, some of which assayed approaches
a tunnel he finds it
as
high
as
»60
a
ton
in
gold
alone.
Almost all other occupations con
and roomy, with stout, hewed
sist in simply transferring wealth My partner and I found a chunk high
in front and perhaps a
from some other person’s pockets of Jasper that had a round gold timbers
with which the tools can be
into your own. There is something nugget in it as large as a pea We door
wiiii RUDY VALLEE
up inside, and everything
very fascinating to the prospector had this sawed in halves and each locked
looking shipshape, he thinks to
JIMMY DURANTE
in this game of hide and go seek. one of us had his half set into a himself.
"Now here is something
To live close to Mother Nature, gold ring which we wore just to worth while,
why would this
Tuenda.v and Wednesday
to commune with her. learn to show to fellows who would argue trouble have else
been taken to make
read her most carefully guarded that no gold was ever found in everything secure?
” That is sim
Jasper quartz I have even seen
secrets, is an ideal existence.
gold in marble in California and I ply human nature, or perhaps you
That is the reason why forest can assure you if I hadn't seen it. might call it psychology. Anyway,
rangers are so devoted to their I would never have believed it. So it always worked fine for me. In
with FRANCES DEE
jobs and prefer that kind of life it don’t pay a fellow to know too those days the law only required
to anything else that may be of- much about a lot of these things, one to expose 10 feet of his vein,
ALISON SKIPWORTH
fered, although many of them because oftentimes he has to back and as there were hundreds of
could make far more money in up and acknowledge he is wrong. veins exposed for 50 or 100 feet,
Thursday and Friday
some other line of industry. To a And that seems to hurt a lot of al) one had to do for the first
gold hunter who t^as learned to wise guys that I have met in my year's assessment was to stake it
read the surface signs. Mother Na ramblings.
out and. of course, get it recorded
ture speaks in guarded whispers
Probably half of my prospecting in 90 days afterward. It was pol
that he can understand. Grass, or has been done on a grub-stake, icy though to build a good trail to
The Im|>oHNÌbl<* ('omen
the color of the grass, bushes, or which works out all right if you the claim, so a city man could get
to the Screen!
the color of the bushes, or the kind happen to connect in with the up to it without becoming dizzy on
of bushes, will tell him something. right parties. If you are unlucky
Even an insignificant badger hole enough to have as partners the
or a tiny stream of water some wrong kind of people, it is not so
times speaks volumes. I have good. Any man being grub-staked
talked with hundreds of people is supposed to be broke, whether
who are forest-bred and with log he is or not ,the same as any man
gers who spend their whole time applying for a job at a tie-camp
in the woods and make their living is supposed to be without means
from the forests, who didn't know to purchase tools, provisions or a
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there are five kinds of dead trees camp outfit, and these are fur
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The usual method in grub-stak
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by fire, trees that are killed by parties of the first part agreed to Finger Wave ................ ..... 25c
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the ravages of bugs, trees that die part, the prospector, with a com
25c
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whose roots are poisoned by the needed during the term of the con Haircut ..........................
25c
minerals in quartz ledges or in tract. A camp outfit, cooking uten Marcel ............................ ...... 25c
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.................... ....... 25c
ices they have found lodgment, ing, guns, ammunition and pack Manicure
and such trees generally are dead animals if necessary, half wages Eyebrow Arch ............ ....... 25c
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50c
are still green. To the close ob If miner’s wages were »3.50 per
50c
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server there are distinctive signs day, the prospector received »1.75 | Facaila
50c
.
about such a tree that can never per day for spending money. If he
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PIONEER WAS
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PROSPECTOR
ROXY 20c Æ
Friday, Auguat 17, 1934
III speaking of scllliig claims, of
course It was understood that I
could not give a title to the
ground But the government allows
anyone to sell their Improvements,
which Is generally refsrrtd to ax
selling a claim. One must <1« »100
worth of work on a claim each
year for five consecutive years be
fore he can get a deed for It
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