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FORTUNE'S I'REAKS.
Romantic stories of 'men in
tub colo ha oo uuld mines.
Blanv Former Owner of raying
Properties Are Now Poor
t'pt And Down of ft
Miner's Idle.
THERE i
pie Cr
them
fortun
I are 12,000 men In Crip-
i Crock, and fully 10,000 of
i are mourning over the
fortune thev have lout, writes
Frank O. Carpenter in the Washington
Btar. Yon will meet every tiny miners
'Who will tell yon bow near they enme
to owning the Portland, the Independ
ents, the Viofor, or other big mines
which are now turning ont tens of
thousands of dollars a month. Some
Will whipper how they sold mines for
ft song which are now worth million,
and others willj-urno their luck as they
describe the fortunes which have
lipped through their lingers.
I saw a man hauling logs at the
town of Victor, near Cripple Creek,
the other day, who sold a half-million-dollar
mine to pay grooery bill of
940. He was earning S3 a day, and
he was working for the meii who
bought his mine. His name is Jerry
Wiuehell. Four years ago he owned
ft number of the best locations in the
Cripple Creek district, but now he U
is not worth a cent. The mine which
went for grnb is famous here. It is
known as "The Last Dollar." Win
obeli located it in 1891, and not long
fter that, when he found himself in
debt to the amount of 810 to H. II.
Mills, grooeryman, he gave him the
mine to square the bills. Mills was
not satisfied with the settlement. He
objected, but Winchell had no money
nd he had to take it. Three years
later, however, he sold the mine for
975,000, and the purchaser resold it
month or so after that to Senator Wol-
BRINGING ORE FROM A MINE.
" .
ott and others for 9100,000. Now it
is produoing quantities of gold, and
no one knows what it will bring in the
future.
1 sat at a dinner in Brown's Hotel,
in Denver, the other day, beside a
florid-faoed, long-beaded man from
Colorado Springe. We soon began to
talk of the mines of Cripple Creek.
The subjeet of the Isabella Company
came np, and I asked hint if he knew
Anything as to the Cripple Creek
mines owned by it.
"Yes," said he, "I should say I do.
Their best mine, yonr know, is the
Buena Vista. It pays almost all the
profits of the Isabella Company. Its
veins has been traoed for three thou
sand feet, and it has already produoed
more than 9400,000 worth of gold. I
bad ft chance to buy half of that mine
for 9100, and did not take it. A man
in my employ discovered it. He was
one of those fellows who are always
bard np, and one day he eame to me
nd told me that hia family were ont
of provisions, and that ho mnst have
money. ' He spoke of the Bnena Vista
prospect and offered me a half interest
in it tor 9100. i told hint that I wonld
give him the provisions, bnt I did not
want the mine. I sa.d I did not be
lieve there was any gold in the Cripple
Creek region. The result was that he
went away and sold the . interest to
other parti es. Within two week those
parties sold their half interest for 920,
000, and a month later my man got
910,000 tor his share. The Isabella
mining stock at its preseat selling
value is worth more than a million. It
baa paid 9100,000 within a month it
dividends, and I could have gotten
one-half of it for 9100. Oh, Lord I it
makes me sick when I think of it!"
The Independence gold mine is said
to be the richest in the world. It has,
it is said, lrom five to seven million
dollars' worth of gold in sight, and its
owner, who was working at his trade
- as a carpenter five years ago, would
not now sell it lor 910,000,000 cash.
And still the Independence has ev
oral times been offered for sale and the
offer refusod. This was in the first
days of ita history. One. of Dave
Moffat's experts told me the other
night how ueur he eame to bnying it.
Said he :
"It was several years ago, before the
Cripple Creek region was much devel
oped that 1 cauie there from Leadville
to see what 1 eonld find for Modat.
32 uen Smith was with me, and we
bought the Viator mine for 905,0oo,
nd nave, as you know, made about
million ont ot it. Well, one day I
was walking about Stratton's mine,
when I saw miner wtom I knew
hovelling out ore and rook. I avked
bim whether toe mine was worth any
thing, he said that be did not think
that it was worth much, and that
Stratton wonld never Ret anything
ont of it. I went into the building,
however, and ehijiped iff bit of tit
ore and pnt it in my pneket. That
night I had it assayed. It ran 9200 to
the ton. I sounded Stratton and found
I eonld get the mine for 910,000 cash
at an option of 970,000. I replied
that I could not make an offor until 1
eonld go through the mine and make
a number of assays, and that while
the first ore might run good, that
which I got later might not be, worth
mining. This Was agreed to, and I
was just about to wire Kben Smith
non woMAfK's cam, rovunxr on.cn.
that we had better buy the mine, when
I got a letter from bim, saying that
the panic hail struck Denver. He said
that everything wn flat, and that Mof
fat had written to him to go slow, and
not to buy anything for a time. He
told me to break off anv negotiations
I might have and go off fishing nntil
the trouble blew over, I thought the
matter would keep for a month, so I
went fishing. Thirty days latter I
earns back, only to find that Stratton
had struck good ore, and that he would
not sell at any price. He took ont
several thonsmd dollars that month,
and now well, now every one knows
that the Independence mine is worth
millions."
As I have said, Stratton offered to
sell out a number of times during the
earlier days of the Independence, but
at this time there were none who had
enough faith to buy. Now it is said
that he is making suoh improvements
that he will in time be able to take a
million dollars' worth of gold out of
the mine in a single dav, and that one
of his bouts is that he will soon ship
a onrload of ore which will be worth
at least 9100.000. He has already
shipped 850,000 worth of ore in a
day, and be is doing all he can to
keep from allowing the mine to pay
more than 8120,000 a month.
The Portland mine was once offered
to New York parties for 9200,000. But
the experts who were sent there re
ported that there was only 937,000
worth of ore in sight, and the New
Yorkers refused the oner. The next
month the owners of the Portland
took out 940,000, and sinoe then it has
produoed more than 92,000,000. It
now pavs 900,000 a month in divi
dends, and I am told that it will, not
withstanding its enormous expenses,
pay thirty-six per eent. this year. The
Victor mine, whioh was sold to Freuoh
parties for more than ft million dol
lars, brought, as I have told you, the
original ttuaers only SjO.ODO, and was
refused by Wall street brokers at
9270,000.,, This mine pays two per
cent a month dividends on ft eapitali
zation of a million.
Similar stories might be told as to
other mines, and all abont me I see the
funeral processions ol those who are
mourning the "gold they did not get."
During my ride to Cripple Creek I
traveled with very intelligent dootor
named McDonald, who is getting fat
off the "one lung brigade who are
marohing through different parts of
Utah in searoh of health. He told me
how be was otlered only two years ago
a one-eighth interest in the Anohoria
Leland mine for 9500, bnt bad not the
nerve to buy. This is the mine ont of
whioh Irving Howbart and others have
made a fortune. Its stook is very val
uable, and there is praotically none of
it on the market. It was leased a little
over year ago to T. J. Maloney, but
the lease ha now expired. Maloney
struck "pay dirt" as soon as he began
working. Ho found one bodv of ore
of 1900 pounds which yielded bim
bjb.OUO, and he has taken out, 1 am
told, more than $300,000 worth of
gold. Had Dr. Mo Donald invested in
the mine his 9300 would have made
him independent of drug stores and
patients for the rest of his life.
Nearly every man who gets a mine
at Cripble Creek has to fight for it
Stratton has bad a number of law
suits. The Portland mine was for ft
long time in the courts, and nearly
every good olaim is contested. One of
the queerest stories I hear is toot of
the Deer Horn mine, whioh now be
longs to Stratton and others. It was
located by an old carpenter named
sterritt Sterritt had beard of Strat
son's suooesp, and he knew that Strat
ton was carpenter, so be thought if
tbelnok was running with the cur pen
ter trade be wonld drop bis saw and
plane and go to mining. He was
about sixty years of age, and he knew
nothing about ore or prospecting, lie
simply wandered about the hills in an
aimless manner, breaking up ft piece
of st jne hers and obipping off a bit of
rook there. At last one day on Qlobe
Hill, baok of Cripple Creek, be saw
lying on the ground a deer's horn. He
was a rather superstitious fellow, and
he thought that this was an omen that
he was to dig there for gold. He at
oooe named his claim "The Deer
Horn," and set ont tue sta ea whioh
made it bis own. He bad no money,
nd be was compelled to do all the
work himself. He dug ten foot bole.
' and then making rale ladder, be
1 tul down with una sua labor
ionsly carried the rook to the top.
After time he rigged np a windlass
and thus hauled it ont. After some
week he sent some of the rock to
Pueblo to be assayed, friend advanc
ing him the cash to pay for the assay.
The report was that the best ore con
tained eighty cents' worth of gold to
the ton. In reading it, however, old
Sterritt mistook the figure for 98 in
stead of eighty cents. "Thst isn't at
all Dad," said be, and be went on min
ing. At last, however, he oamo to the
end of bis "grub," and be walked off
to hi home, thirty miles away,
to work at hi trade as carpenter for
ft week or so in order to save enough
money to go on with hia mine. While
be was away the owner of one of the
stamp mills examined the mine, and
when he came back they offered him
dollar a ton for all the rock on the sur
face of bis claim for a distauoe of 100
feet in longtb, twenty-five feet in
width and six feet in dopth. This
Sterritt aooepted, and he was soon
making fromflO to 815 day. In the
meantime speculator jumped his
mine, and he had to fight for it iu the
courts.
The other miners, however, saw the
injustice of the jumper's olaim and
they burned him in effigy and Reared
him so that be did not dare to appear
at the trial. While the suit was pend
ing Sterritt shipped more than 812,000
worth of preoious rock, and when he
was offered 810,000 for his mine he
took it and left for his old home in
Indiana. During the same year that
he sold it the Deer Horn shipped
9128,000 worth of ore. Within the
past few month it ha been resold
and it is now to be operated in con
nection with the Summit mine, which
adjoins it on the north. Its new own
ers intend to pnt in the finest of ma
chinery and they claim that the mine
contains a fortune in its immense
bodies of low grade ore.
It is sad to know that those who do
the most for the world often reap the
least reward. Marshall, who discov
ered gold in California, died a pau
per. The mail who laid bare the riches
of the oil field of Pennsylvania was
in his last days dependent on charity,
and Bob Womack, the proepeotor who
first showed np the riches of this
Cripple Creek gold camp, is now liv
ing in little log cabin in sight of
mines worth millions and straggling
bard to got more than living. His
story is that of many miners. For
twenty years he haa been prospeoting,
and now, at forty-three, having found
millions, he is worth nothing. He
came to this region ten years in ad-
vanoe of any one else and staked out
number of alaims, among others what
is now known as the El Paso mine,
which is said to be worth half mill
ion. He owned this prospeot for
some time, bat oould not get oth
ers to believe in its riches. He
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A BKTORT OF CRIPPLB CRUBK OOLD.
hsd no money to develop it and he
finally sold it for 8300. A few months
after he made the sale, one-third of
the El Paso was sold for 935,000, and
it is now considered a very valuable
property. It was Womaok who first
had faith in the Cripple Creek gold
region. He held the El Paso for
long time before he sold it nnd he
worked on the lattle farm ot Bennett
& Meyers npon which have since been
looated some of the best Cripple Creek
mines, in order to get the money to
oontinne his prospeoting. He dug
holes all over thia farm in hia searoh
for gold. The owners ot the farm
laughed at him and told him that be
mnst cover np hia holes, as their oat'
tie fell into them. He did this and
went on. From time to time he took
rook down to Denver to be assayed
and he found that it ran as high as
youu per ton. After the miners be
gan to eome to Cripple Creek he gave
away s number of claims whioh he had
on Gold Hill, and some of these olaims
within year afterward sold for 940.-
uoo. By the time the camp was in
fall blast he found himself worth
nothing, and now he says of himself
that hia old friends pass him by with
sneer and those who have the most
of the wealth whioh be has discovered
do not even say "Have oigar, Bob I"
Coal Deteriorates From Exposure.
The result of reoent analyses show
that the loss of weight suffered by coal
ironi exposure to the weather is con
siderable. In some oases it readies
33.08 por cent, while the deteriora
tion in quality for purposes of fuel or
gas making reached still higher .fig
ure. Boston Jiudget.
1 Taken at His Word.
He "How would yon like to own ft
er little puppi f "
She-"On, Mr, ttotly, this it so
saddtuP
FASHION OLIO.
SOME OF THE NEWEST FEAT
'RES OF WOMAN'S WIJAR.
A Handsome and Serviceable Cape
Blade ot English Covert Cloth
A Stylish and Fanrlrul Waist
With llodlce Effect.
Sy ENUINE English covert cloth
I in an exquisite shade of dove
VT 'or ith velvet in a darker
shade, is efleclivoly combined
in the deoidedly'correct garment shown
in the first large picture and described
by May Manton. It is suitable alike
for comploting a visiting, catling or
churoh toilet The cape of becoming
length is mounted over short yoke
lining of circular shape, thus insuring
perfect adjustment ihe shaping is
accomplished by eight gores, and may,
therefore, be out economically. No
better design can be suggested in re-
CAfE OP ENGLISH
modeling one of last season's modes.
The npper portion of the cape fits
closely to the depth of the shallow
yoke. From this point the additional
material is laid in deep underlying
plaits, providing the fashionable flare
at the lower edge. The olosing is ef
fected through the center front by
coat books and loop. An interlining
of lightweight orinoline gives body to
the wrap, while pretty lining of two
toned ailk is pleasing addition. Fur
ther decoration is afforded by the or
namental atrapa that extend from the
collar to the shoulder, and are decor
ated with bijou buttons. A distinc
tive feature is the high flaring collar,
faoed with velvet, that will prove both
protective and beooming. All regula
tion oloakings are adapted to the mode,
such as Melton, covert, whipcord, bill
iard olotb, broadolotb, etc., while
peau de soie, rich brooade, aatin or
heavy cloaking silk will make np pret
tily in conjunction with velvet or fur.
The quantity of material 41 ioohes
wide required to make this oape for
lady having 86-inoh bust measure is
two yards.
A STYLISH WAIST.
The newest feature is the bodice ef
feot introduced in the stylish and fan
ciful waist depicted in the seoond large
engraving, and Also described by May
Manton. In the present instanoe the
material chosen is plaid ailk, the
ground of deep indigo bine being de
lightfully blended in colors of dahlia,
green and gold. The bodice, fanciful
STYLISH WAIST
oolor and lower portion ot sleeves are
of dahlia-colored velvet, outliuud with
galloon bands, studded with jewels of
irridesoent hue. The full waist is ar
ranged over glove-fitted linings that
close iu the center front Tue back
fits smoothly serosa the shoulders, the
fullness beiug drawn to the center by
gathers st tho lower edge. The point
ed bodioe closes at the left under arm
seam. A stylish aooessory is the hand
some collar oat in deep pointed tabs,
flaring at the lower edge, falling deep
ly at front, back nnd well over thetnll
Ended sleeves. The neck is finished
y a stan ling collar, beneath ft tie and
oravat bow of white tulle. The sleeves
are close fitting to above the elbow,
being one of the newest models, with
deep ganntlet cuff facings of velvet
The design affords ample opportunity
for stylish decorations and combina
tions of material. To the observant
woman its possibilities are apparent.
Fine French plaid, melanges, feather
mixtures, Scotch plaids in rich tones,
with velvet or silk trimmings, may be
employed, or figured and striped ma
terials combined with plain goods.
TIIR LATEST I BATS.
The fashion of wearing the large
hats low over the forehead, nntil they
seem ready to tumble Aff, milliners
say is going otit, though there are
some widely-trimmed shapes, turned
np at the back, that will need to be
adjusted in pretty much the old way.
But other large hats are runuing to ft
COVERT CLOTH.
slight lifting of tne left brim, whiob
gives them ft cooky side tilt when
posed ; and even when not turned np
there is a tendenoy to mass the trim
ming of the back more toward the left
than evenly in the middle, as formerly,
Most of ths small, round hats, and
espeoially those on the raffled order,
will be worn squarely on the head, or
else little back, to show an elaborate
arrangement of the hair in front. But
this arrangement will be the despair
of women with high foreheads and
straight hair; pompadour, with
short, soft ourls escaping at the
templos, is the proper style, and this
style, though very charming, is unfor
tunately beooming only to low tore
heada and crisp, wavy looks.
THK "NEW 8LEKVB."
There can no longer be any donbl
that the balloon sleeve is qnile passe.
as the fashion scribes say. But how it
is passing we will let onr reader
gather from this dainty analysis of the
Washington Star s New York fashion
correspondent: "It is one thing to
tell of the new sleeve, its shape and
form, bnt quite another to see how the
transition is managed; by doubled
shoulder capes of satin in self colors ;
by wreaths of tulle or veiling hanging
abont the arm ; by little ahouldor puffs
whiob mark the vanishing mode as the
proieotious above the. horses hoofs
retain the memory of hia prehistorio
toes." We should say it is simply A
small sleeve with little bulge At the
shoulder.
WIlH BODICE EFFECT.
wirjj mtnoMS popular.
Corded siiks and ribbed woolen
and veiVets will be exiretnelv DOpuUi
for handsome gown-", entire street
ootu uds, and elegant wraps this
winter.
The Congressional Library at Wash
inaiton haa received valuable ftddi
tion to itsoolleotion in the shape of
tue letter oi Washington ooueoied VJ
i i. ....... 1A T ..I.I "
tue Mie vr, tfosepn, igunerftj
THE TURKISH POKIER.
The Hercules Whose Place of Busi
ness Is on the Street.
The Turkish porter is one of the
most interesting object seen in ft tour
of the Orient. Of Heronlean atreegth
and power of enduranoo, he is usually
prompt ana obliging, also honest so
A TURKISH PORTER. '
far a in bim lies. He oannot speak
the truth, and would not respect him
self it he oould for that is virtue of
the Frank.
Hia place of business is on the streets
of his native town, where he ean be
fonnd at all hoars of the day, clad in
loose soiled jacket usually gray, with
gray gaiter, Turkish shoes or sandals,
the inevitable fez and neokerohiet
that makes bim look as if he were
strangling. -
All the burden of oonveying large
or small articles falls upon bim and be
will for gratuity carry piano as
easily as trunk. He is the most oon
tented of the working fraternity one
meets abroad, whether be is fonnd in
the street of Constantinople or in
those of Stamboul, and the tourists
make much ot him because he is inter
esting. His occasional smoke under
the shade of a mulberry tree, or his
lazy sips of sherbert, being treats that
renew hia strength for the hard work
by whioh be mnst live if he is net
able to sell merchandise. Being sturdy
and industrious, the traits of the
Turkish porter commend him to the
public benoe A picturesque descrip
tion of him by one traveler who
named him the "Quaker ot the Ori-
ent."
BALLOONS FOR HAKUOR DEFENCE.
A Frenchman's Plan to Hitch Them
to Submarine Boats.
Muoh more ha been done in Franoe
than in any other country to perfect
balloon which oan be propelled
horizontally and oan be steered. Ex
periments in that line have long been
conduoted under the auspioes of the
Frenoh Army, and with suoh snocess
that an airship of this class oan be
made to travel at a rate ot fifteen or
twenty miles an hour for a short time.
A new ose of the balloon is now sug
gested in the oountry where it had its
origin and has reached its greatest
development M. Pesoe thinks that it
might be employed for harbor defenoe
in co-operation with a submarine boat.
The latter oould tow the balloon about
easily, be thinks, if no attempts were
BALLOO AND 8CBMABIHB BOAT.
made to secure speed, and, oonre
qnently, there wonld be no- kecessity
ior equipping the airship with pro
pelling machinery or with rudder.
Moreover, the oooupanta of the two
vessels oould be plaoed in teleDhonio
oommnnioation with eaoh other. The
Frenchman proposes to ase the bal
loon as an observatory, whenoe the
position and strength of the enemy
oould be more readily peroeived (he
imagines) than from the oonning tower
ot a submarine boat, and he wonld
have the operationa of the other twin
direoted from his aerial post Only
enough men to manage the boat and
its torpedoes would be pnt inside ot
the submerged oraf t If the balloon
kept At a sullloiont elevation to, pre
vent its being hit by any ol the guns
of the enemy's fleet, and did not oouie
within range of the marines' rifles, it
might prove a useful adjunot of ita
marine oonsort in oll'ensive as well as
defensive warfare.
Build Up tho Svslem.
Dr. S. Weir Mitohell has just pub
lished a pamphlet, in whiob he takee
the ground that not only the use ot
glasses, but the general building np
of the system is necessary in most oases
where the oculist is called in. A
prominent dentist follows in the same -lines,
and says that the best way to .
onre constitutional and regular tooth
ache is to strengthen the entire sys
tem and increase the bodily strength. '
In all the treatment ot such cases
great advance has been made ot late
in the skill 'of the ophthalmologists
uud ooulist. Philadelphia Times.
Paprika is Ked Pepper. ,
"Paprika," so often referred to in
ruo.ieru eookiog reoipes, is Hungarian
pepper, a red pepper that ia more
pleasant to the tasie of many persona
than cavenne, whote place itia taking.
It is quite as pungent, but not reall
o bank sad strong.