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TIIIRTY-ONE years ago this com
ing spring, a miner of the name
of Mose Manuel, and his broth
er Fred, found some rich float
near what is now Lead, South
Dakota. The brothers and their partner,
Henry Harney, searched diligently for
the lode, but, the snow being on the
ground, they were baffled in their efforts
to locate the wealth. When the snow
had disappeared, Mose was for renew
ing the search. His partners, with their
old hopes cooled, laughed and scoffed
at him.
Mpse was dogged. He kept at his
partners until Harney agreed to accom
pany him on a search. They looked
over the ground, as only miners can, for
many days—and at last, up 011 the hill
side, Mose Manuel located the lode.
"Hank," he cried, boyishly, in the joy
of his success and the light of his ex
perience, 'this is surely a liomestake!'"
Calmer inspection proved to them that
the mine was, beyond the shadow of a
doubt, a liomestake—the term, in miners'
parlance, meaning enough money to take
them all "back to the States." So they
called it the Homestake mine.
For a year the Manuel boys and their
partner worked the property; then they
sold out to the late United States Sen
ator George Hearst, and he developed
the Homestake into one of the rickest
gold mines the world has ever known.
Last year the discoverer of the lode
met his death, as a common miner, in
the bottom of a deep shaft in a mine in
Montana, his lamp starting an explo
sion.
The history of American mining, since
the days of the argonauts, is full to the
bursting point with stories every whit
as romantic as that woven about the
name of Mose Manuel.
When W. A.'Clark, Senator from
Montana, first set foot in the copper
state, he was so shy of this world's
goods that he had to peddle the few
wares that his limited capi
tal enabled him to buy. By
getting corners on provis
ions and tobacco, he was
able to reap enormous
prices, and after a few years
of such business found him
sels in a position to invest
in mines. One of the first
purchases was a mine that
was represented to him as
being rich in silver and gold,
lie got it at a bargain, and
he was repenting at leisure, when a
stranger walked up to him and asked if
he was the owner of "Clark's Colusa,"
the name the future Senator's chaffing
companions had given his worthless hole
in the ground. Clark started to order
up drinks for the stranger as he had
been in the habit of doing for his friends
whenever they mentioned his mine, but
the stranger would have none of the
liquor.
"You have the richest thing in all
Montana," lie exclaimed, in all serious
ness. "Let me congratulate you."
This was too much for Clarks good
nature.
"There is not an ounce of gold or
silver in the old hole," he replied, with
that piercing sharpness of voice for
which he is noted.
"No," said the stranger, ignoring the
owner's rising anger, "there is neither
gold nor silver in the Colusa. But there
is copper—and enough of it to put you
among the richest men of your day."
And so W. A. Clark came into his
millions and the title of "Copper King,"
simply because he had bought a "salt
ed hole in the ground and nobody was
fool enough to take it off his hands.
The Cameron County Press.
The man who located the United
Verde Mine, in Arizona, the richest
copper mine ever discovered, is now a
pensioner of Senator Clark's, the latter
owning the property.
The year before Mose Manuel dis
covered the Homestake lode, John Boyd
and two partners, hearing, in Nevada,
of gold discoveries in the Tonta basin
of Arizona, headed thither. Penetrat
ing to the top of the Bradshaw moun
tains after many hardships and close
calls from the Indians, they found
ground rich in both gold and silver, took
out rock that carried SIOO in silver and
$35 in gold, and staked out seven claims.
They held the property for a half
dozen years, when they sold, Boyd, the
leader of the venturous trio getting ten
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thousand dollars as his share of the pur
chase price.
Years later, Boyd, an old, old man,
drifted back to the site of his discovery,
now known as Jerome, to find more
wealth, in the shape of copper ore, being
taken from the mine in a day than he
and his partners took from it during the
entire period that they owned it.
'I he three men who bought the mine
of Boyd and his partners worked out
the pocket of gold and silver ore in a
few years. They were endeavoring to
locate the permanent vein, when \V. A.
Clark appeared 011 the scene, having
been attracted to Jerome by viewing, at
an exposition in the late eighties, speci
mens of the mine's copper ore. In the
first years of his experience as a mine
owner, Mr. Clark's practical knowledge
of mining had been nil. But he had at
tended the Columbia School of Mines,
New York, in order to overcome this
handicap. He went down into the
bowels of the United Verde, with his
own hands, took out numerous speci
mens of the ore, assayed them himself,
and before he had bought the property
knew for a certainty that it was the
richest copper mine yet uncovered. The
property adjoining the United Verde is
now being developed, and before John
Boyd, now beyond the middle eighties,
passes from his comfortable chair, in
the office of his hotel-home, across the
great divide, he will doubtless learn of
another rich copper mine onened up in
the mineral country that he discovered.
The late Marcus Daly became a cop
per king quite as accidentally as did his
bitterest enemy, Senator Clark.
Having gained rich mining experience
011 the Comstock lode under the Bo-
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brothers to Butte to explore and report
on the Alice mine, a silver property of
uncertain extent and value.
"As a working miner, he went to a
cheap hotel, stayed a week, and then
told the landlord he could not pay hi-,
bill unless he got a job. The landlord
secured work for him in two or three
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