THOMAS F. WALSH WAS
GENUINE PROSPECTOR
A mere announcement of the fact is
all that has been received here regard
ing; the death of Thomas F. Walsh, the
Colorado millionaire mining man. With
liis passing the old school of mining
kings who rose from the ranks of the
the rdinary prospectors may be said
to close. There are and will continue
to be others who reach fame and for
tune through prospecting and mining,
but the field for such activities has
changed and much of the old-time
poetry has gone from the situation.
The true prospector’s instinct was
born in Walsh. In the early days he
prospected around Leadville, and be
tween times kept a tavern. He cleaned
up one or two little fortunes out of the
placers, and lust them again hunting
for mote. His system was to have
every curious or unfamiliar rock as
sayed. It was, of course!, the best way
to find out what was in the rock.
In 1880, near Leadville, one day he
was out, with his gun in case of game
and his prospecting pick in caee of a
mine. He was ready to bag one or the
other. Trudging along he came onto
a cabin, built and abandoned by miners,
and the shade there tempted him to
sit down for a smoke. As be leaned
hit gun against the wall his eyes came
on a level with the low, slanting roof.
' The roof was dirt covered and panicles
of quartz made him all prospector.
Fifty feet away he discovered a shaft.
It had been sunk in barren granite.
There had never been any chance to
find values in thatehafl. Walsh quite
understood then why shaft and cabin
bad been abandoned. Yet the miners
had left quartz on the roof of their
cabin. He entered the cabin and found
that the earthen floor was uneven be
cause of partly exposed rock. Hedrore
his pick into the rock and found that it
was quartz. The former occupants in
leveling the ground for their cabin
floor had used the same dirt for cover
ing the roof. The quartz found on the
roof had come from the floor of the
cabin.
While the miners had been sinking
their shaft in barren ground fifty feet
away, they were sleeping at night on
the very apex of a silver mine. The
roof over their heads was covered with
rich ore. Walsh, better prospector
than they, because of his system cf
interrogating every suspected piece of
rock, picked samples from the roof, hod
them assayed, and they showed a value
of 100 ounces of silver to the ton. In
two weeks he uncovered the vein; in
two months he took out $75,000 net.
That mine is still producing.
There is a rancher in Colorado who
likes to relate with a sort of gloomy
pleasure that he used to throw the out
cropping fragments of the great Camp
Bird mine at chipmunks. The frag
ments meant nothing to him. In the
early '80's the silver mining near
Ouray, Col., was on the decline—the
big concentrating plants bad failed,
the mills had shut down, and by 1896,
when Walsh happened along, the dis
trict was practically abandoned. Walsh
thought he might rejuvenate the camp,
and began buying up prospects and
mines, which, as a rule, the owners
were glad to sell. In going to look at
one piece of property near the crest of
a ridge, Walsh was attracted by a slide
of reddish porphyry, and to his mind
this was an indication of gold. Every
one assured hi") that there was no gold
in the region, but no one had ever been
able to keep Tom Walsh from having
everything in sight assayed, and it ran
$2 iD gold. He shrewdly guessed that
there was a lode somewhere beneath,
and directed that a tunnel be driven
into the side of the hilL In course cl
time Walsh returned and an associate
showed him samples running $8 to the
ton and assured him they were from
the paystreak of the mine. Looking
over the waste dump, Walsh detected
•little specks and threadlike circles of
glistening black mineral, and knew lie
bad struck telluride gold. Part of the
dump was worth $3,000 a too. Tom
Walsh uaturaliy reclaimed that dump.
The Camp Bird was one of the richest
gold mines in the world. Hundreds of
of people had had the same opportunity
to uncover the treasure that Walsh
did, but they were deficient in that in
stinctive knowledge of the business
that caused him to succeed where so
many failed^_■_
Railway to Tesiin
Victoria, B. C., April 4 —The
preliminary survey of the British
Columbia & Alaska railway will be
commenced by two field parties
early in May. The road will ex
tend from Lytton to Tesiin lake via
Fort George.
The largest mass of native copper
ever mined was found in the Minnesota
mine, Michigan, in 1805. It weighed
420 tons and its dimensions were:
Length, 46 feet; maximum breadth,
18.5 feet; maximum-thickness, 8.5 feet;
mean width, 12.5 feet; mean thickness,
4 feet. Twenty men labored fifteen
months to remove it from the rock,
and the cutting of it yielded 27 tons of
copper chips.
CAMP 6IB60N NO. 25, Arctic Brother
hood, meets every Monday night
in A. B. Hall, corner Second st.
and Campbell ave. at 8:30 o'clock.
Visiting Arctics cordially invited to at
tend the meetings of the Camp.
F. L. FULLTHOKP. Arctic Chief.
Jas. P. Mulligan, Arctic Rec.
Estate of Charles J. Smith, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, Oscar Livndin, administrator of
the estate of Charles J. Smith, de
ceased. to the creditors of, and al! per
sons having claims against said de
ceased, to exhibit them, with the nec
essary vouchers, within six months
after the fit st publication of this notice,
at hia office and residence on Third
avenue, in the town of Tanana. Fort
Gibbon precinct, territory of Alaska,
the same being the place for the trans
action of the business of the said estate,
in the said town of Tanana, Alaska,
OSCAR LUNDIN, Administrator.
First publication April 11, 1010.
Last publication May 10, 1910.
Additional Entry
Under Section 2306 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
APPLICATION,
United States Land Office,
Fairbanks, Alaska. March 30, 3910,
Northern Commercial Company, a
corporation incorjtorated under the
laws of the State of New Jersey, as
signee of John R. Allen, William B.
Hess, Zachariah Johnston Jr,, Joseph
B. Deaton and Morris P. Jolley, being
entitled to the benefits of Section 2306
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, granting additional lands to sol
diers anti sailors who served in the Re
bellion. does hereby apply to eater l".
S. Survey No. 739, situate on the north
side of the Yukon river, near the town
of Tanana, about one-half mile east of
Weare (Tanana) postotfice. Alaska,
more particularly described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning at corner No. 1 on the
north hank of the Yukon river, whence
witness corner No. I a stone 20x12x7
inches, set Bush with the ground,
marked '‘S^Sy.-’ bears north 40 links,
from which witness corner United
States location monument No. 739,
bears south 80 deg. 27 min. east 32 18
chains distant: thence north 74 deg. 53
min. west 10.09 chains to corner No. 2,
whence corner No. 2 of survey No. 250
bears north 79 deg, 19 min* west 20
chains distant, and witness corner No.
2 bears north 40 links: thence north
3-92 chains to corner No. 3 whence wit
ness corner No. 3 bears east 65 links:
thence east 10.35 chains to corner No. 4;
thence south 6.71 chains to corner No.
1, the place of beginning, containing
5.49 acres. Magnetic variation 23 deg.
30 min. east.—
as additional to their original home
steads, respectively:
John R. Allen, a.s additional to orig
inal homestead entry No. 6963, at
Booneville, Mo., dated October 21,1869,
containing 38.10 acres.
Wm. R. Hess, as additional to original
homestead entry on the west one-half
of the southwest quarter of section 1, in
township 26 north, range 5 west, en
tered April 3. 1872, per homestead No.
4028, and final proof No. 1157. at the
Ironton, Mo.. United States land office.
Zachariah Johnston, Jr., a.s additional
to original homestead entry No. 43 at
North Platte, Nebraska, dated July 7,
1873, containing 139.90 acres.
Joseph B. Deaton, as additional to
original homestead entry No. 368, at
Ironton, Mo., dated June 16, 1866, con
taining 135.38 acres.
Morris P. Jolley, as additional to
original homestead No. 541!, at Junc
tion City, Kansas, dated February IP,
1870. •
Notice is hereby given that any and
all persons claiming any portion of the
above-described land are required to
file a protest during the period of pub
lication or thirty days thereafter, in ac
cordance with law, with the Register
and Receiver of the l". S. land office at
Juneau. Alaska.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COM
PANY, by Geo. J. Miller.
Attorney-in-fact.
Notice of the above will he published
in the Tanana l eader, printed at Tan
ana, Alaska, which I hereby designate
as the newspaper published nearest the
land described in said application.
E. H. MACK,
Register IT. S. Land Office, Fairbanks.
Date of first publication, April 7,1910.
Date of last publication, June 2,1910.
Notice of Forfeiture
To T. J. Wilson. Roy R. Henderson,
Alfred Place, J. C. Junkie, Chris S.
Hillsle&d, O. A. Luvuioa and C. II.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended the sum of I
one hundred (100) dollars in labor and
improvement, for each year, for the ■
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the!
following placer mining claim, to wit:!
The First Chance Association Placer!
claim, situated and being on Golden j
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in'
the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording 1
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Said work and improvement was done j
under the provisions of section 2324 of!
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required by
said section 2324 to hold said claim for
the years 1908 and 1909: also that proof
of the annual assessment work v.-as
tiled under chapter 2559, entitled “An
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska."’ approved March 2, 1907:
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure, for said
years, as co-owner in said placer min
ing qjaim, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed under said section 2324.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, March 10, 1910.
S. F. McDILL.
Date of 1st publication, March 10, 1910.
Date of last publication, June 1C, 1910.
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