AGED MINER TO GET FORtUNE 91 OF OE After 30 Years of Hardships I He Hears Heirs From Forgotten Forgot Forgot- ten Investment TO Nov ev May Ja 25 2 M. M. M I 13 E Hill bull HIn the time veteran Colorado miner who discovered dis- dis covered recently that thal he wa was the tIme owner of or 2000 shares hares of Ka Eagle lo River Tunnel Tunnel Tun Tun- I nd nel Mining company of Red Hed Cliff Colo ole I Is some difficulty It In ins s his claim after over owr thirty years fars of ot suffering and anti hardship which might have hav been enjoyed In the time lap of luxury hart hail he known what wn to him Two fito months a ago o Mr 1 Hill went down shown downto to Oakland to TC reer er the time msS which had been picked packed away aWtY with a lot lol of or old elm furniture in Iii a warehouse without an any special value aluc attached to the tho contents According 4 to l loiters letters from Denver the time stock is worth to today a 16 a share and the owner la is entitled to receive dividends dl aggregating IS cents I a n share sharo which have been accumulating ever r since he left heft his old od home which would mal make e his fortune over IS IO 1 From Irom ro letters written old friends here It appears that the old mans man's road has hao not been smoothed out h by his visit to tho the coast for in a vague wa way he ht has notified associates that ho he cannot se secure secure se- se cure possession of oC time the certificates without Ith with out entering into a bond Humor has It that the stock i U made out In the name of one of ot his sons ons Joseph Hill Bill who Is now on time the French front In the United Slates States arm army and cannot be he reached without great rent dela delay especially since there is no way In which the certificates could coul be he for forwarded to him hini f for r his transfer signature If It the elder eider Hill cannot recover his property by filing a bond his Imis friends hero heto arc are perfectly willing willing- to tu hack back ack him I up UT for or nn any rea reasonable amount as the they I arc are convinced that he 1 Is the tho real owner I and therefore entitled to the comforts the securities would bring to his old age This confidence Is based on the circumstance cir dr that thai before leaving Tono- Tono pah pith Hill displayed letter from rosa some of tho best besl known capitalist and bankers bank hank ers era of oC Denver In which almich the they referred familiarly to their former acquaintance and time the rou roughing experience of or early days In the shadows sh of or the highest section section section sec sec- tion of or tho the Rock Rocky mountains where the mine was located locatell These men arc are alter Walter Cheesman David H H. Moffat an and l John Evans each one of whom has hns had carved for his name a niche In the hall hal of fame that decorates the Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado capitol at Denver How blow Hill Hi came cam to pass up this lila fortune fortune for for- tune is somewhat obscure and Is on only I explained on the time ground round that thal he hc thought tho thE stock was worthless and therefore not worth watching In his hiI prime ho was in time the same name Hare class with wih time the I millionaires whose whoso correspondence ho delighted in showing to his Intimates in intimates In- In Ho lie was well ivell In the tIme money when he left heft western Colorado Colordo and moved to tIme the Pacific coast coat where he became involved In several business transactions that stripped him of or his wealth and left leC him penniless Tn in a strange state Determined to make a afresh t fresh beginning ho imo placed his ru furniture fur fum- I In imm storage with wih an Oakland firm firmand firmand and transferred his family to Chicago I where he lie also encountered reverses reverse Eventual Eventually he l I bark to mining and d camo came to Nevada fourteen years ago JO I when the thc rush was on to the southern country Ho Ip succeeded In securing good locations but hut these Investments In failed to realize his imis hones hODes and the old man was reduced to the extremity o of hiring out mit as ns a In the local loca mines It I was while working In the tho o Belmont Telmont that he encountered red an old J Colorado minor miner who brought the tho news new 5 that he was is-as wanted and ane wanted badly In Denver where a fortune awaited his coming CoinIng Time The old ol I Eagle a lc River Tunnel outfit m made good and fortunately for Hill bull HI the company compan was isas In the hands of or men who sho were more Interested In mining than in market manipulation Tho The compan company com corn pan pany never was reorganized and there was no and any old ol Colorado man who isho knows the tho men mentioned as I associated with Hill bull Hi will wil realize the tho truth of or that statement Cheesman I Moffat and Evans climbed the ladder o of fortune to together ether and when lien they annexed annexed an nn- millions milons no one ono of oC the bl biggest three that ever trod the forgot the mon who were vere with wih them In the carl early labs days anti and 11 had not found round the going quite quie so easy I On th the tho deaths ef r f Cheesman am and andI 1 Moffat it developed that both men car car- led i-led a personal pension roll rol between I and a n year car In which the names of oC the thc old guard of or down clown out prospectors appeared prominently The fhe first loiter leUer received from flom tho the I headquarters of or the old company contained con con- hat had tamed notices of or dividends which been beon regularly returned by tho the postoffice postoffice post post- office oUke marked not not known n. n These letters had been sent to the Chicago a address rc s where all al trac traces s of ot the tho stockholder stockholder stock stock- holder were lost and not miot until time the chance meeting with wih another townie down doimi In the tho Jee deep workings of the Belmont DelI Del Bel mont was the company compan furnished with will wih I tho tho- thoad ad address ress Tho Time last letter leter ur urged Hll to gain possession of his certificates certificate I and bring them on to Denver where tho time accumulated dividends were read ready to be bc turned over o by the time First National I bank banle Incidentally It was mentioned if I ho wished to dispose of or his lila stock tack thorn there would not riot he hI an ny trouble in a buyer buer among the existing stockholders When hen the good news nests was si-as received hero a purse was waR made up for Cor Hill Hil with wih the idea of helping him hint realize on his Investment and the time old man who wh Is now In his seventies tc was too proud roud to accept a dollar that ho he was not entitled tied ted to so he ho preferred to remain ent with the mine until ho he had earned monc money to pro prosecute his h search for tin tit missing certificates without being beng obligation to anybody