Show Eccentric Owner Of Rich Mmes Mines is Dead 1 1 I E Mike ONel O Neill pioneer I prospector and ner mIneo of the SummIt can cans on district east of Lis b n Valley alley died at a hospital in Phoenix Ariz on APril 6 according to information received by Frank Silvey of Moab FrankI I O Neill owned ned a group of report report- reportedly edly extremely rich vanadium uran uranium rum ium claims In the Bull Pen dis district located about eight mlles miles southeast of the lower end of Lis Lisbon Lisbon bon valley in San Miguel county For many years according to Mr Silvey ONeill lived alone in a cave lIke cabIn and stone cellar on his property largely shunning all civil civil- civilization civilization and with ith the exception of occasional six mlle mile walks to a mail mailbox mailbox box on the Summit Point Utah mail route hE largely lost contact with the outsIde world In time he became obsessed with the Idea of hoardIng hIgh grade uranium ore and he was suspicious of all human beIngs He would not lease or sell his claims to anyone although he was twice offered 50 and once 75 for them He consistently refused to set a price for his prop property property erty Mr Silvey states During the past few years O 0 Nelll Neill had sold several thousand dollars worth Orth of high grade uranium and vanadium ores |