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Show ECCENTRIC PAT DEISCOLL. j Income $6,000 a Month and Only Spends S30. j (Virginia Enterprise.) Patrick Driscoll, who owns four of the best paying silver and gold mines in the Chloride valley of Mohave county, coun-ty, Ariz., is commonly supposed to be worth from 5S00.000 to $903,000. His income in-come from his mines is about $6,000 a month, and he has a block of stock in the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix railroad rail-road that pays him some $15,000 a year in dividends. He is a bachelor without with-out kith or kin in the world that he knows of, and he spends on himself jess than jmu a month, altogether. Everybody in and about Kingman knows Pat Driscoll and his eccentricities, eccentrici-ties, and many a poor miner has been helped by generous gifts from the Driscoll bank account. Several times the bodies of Driscoll's poor friends in the mines have been coffined and sent to relatives in the eastern states, and even to Ireland, at his expense. He came from County Antrim in IS53, and was a prospector and laborer in the Utah & Nevada gold and silver mines for twenty years. He experienced experi-enced all the prospector's poverty and hardships until he was- past middle age, when he drifted down to the Calico mines in San Bernardino county, Cal., in 1881. There he found a mine which he sold for $13,000, and he had his first capital to deal with in mining on his own hook. From Calico he came over inter Arizona, and in two years he located a base ore mine a chloride proposition. When silver was valuable his income used to be over $2,000 a month. The Diana and Antrim mines were his. He invested his profits in the Harqua Hala mines, and doubled his wealth in a few years. From that time he has been prospering to a degree undreamed of by him. But he has nevpr chanrrprl his manner of living. He is over 60 and in fine health. Every day he may be seen walking about the little town of Kingman King-man or over at Ash Fork, where he has valuable real estate. No one would believe from his appearance that " he had property. He lives alone in a cabin, cooks his own flapjacks, pork, bacon and oatmeal over a $4 stove and sleeps in a bunk of red blankets. Once in a year pr two he may go to Phoenix or to Los Angeles for a few days, but he always returns to his cabin, saying that he will never take so long a journey again. His sole amusement is playing pedro for 5-cent cigars, and if he can win a pocketful in the course of an. afternoon . he is happy for a few-days. few-days. He has never been known, to stand the loss of more than a half-dozen half-dozen cigars in the course of his pedro gambling in one day. for he will quit when the tide of luck is running so hard against him. |