| Show A FAMOUS OLD NEn EDWARD SCHIFELIN ONE OF TOM STONES DISCOVERERS Ten Steel ot so 311tat Typical Wr lroalow the hlt 11All r isnat 1 latest Old brk 1 lob II Tombstone Oatrh Tire Puclflo cot nowpipern hara been nil cf dories about Edward SdiicHelln ono of the discoverers of tho Tombstone rallies who was found dead lu n cntilu In eastern Oregon Ills rcmaliiK according to Ills wish now rest niou tho top of a granite leak two inllca wept oC lotuttono A T Ile ilo I Ire lie ail I to be buried tn the starts of a prop Vector my old 1 pick and canteen can-teen livith toe and a monument much us prospectors bull when locating a wining win-ing claim built oer toy gravo and 110 other monument O hob erected tIt t-It scams to bo generally felt throughout through-out tile Pacific coat Unit tills plain Ignorant kiud hearted 1 old pioneer nual 1 tospector 1 r who hal traveled many thooiiuudu of miles fu Search of now mines lion Ihlo inicouuclonfly uiiiilu Ills truirk upon our rOIOllOO aud If 10 sell Upl in tknett That lonely graffito cairn the rising upou that extreme oint of n tree IMI I promontory will long be jiolntci out raq the Rue 01 ono or tile mot j luoaa of American prospectors UI hcbleffeliiiil one great Strikes yielded him fully third of 1000 000 At various tluica in liii udvcntiirom career ho plodded painstakingly over Ibo wildest portions of the Hooky uiouu lain and Merrai lie > ltlt < d MUBI Mexico South America ami South Africa but never again found such u mile Mion lie die I his fortune atone at-one time wild to bo over 5500 000 liarl greatly rleereaied by reoiou of bad investments in-vestments end costly expeditions Tim story of the finding of Tomb mono that Irhlly famous Arizoiiian mining city ham been told In many different ways until It 1 fait becom lug Ono of the mOt attractive Iaclllc coast myths Tho simple facts are that Into iu tho HMentles the two BchtclTellii brotUera bull Dick Gird wore pro pect lOR sometimes together omethl supinitel In various dletrlcts of Art ratio and Now Mexico I was 0 time of tcrrlblo Indian outbreaLu and tile Apucluia wcro oil the warpath killing lonely miners and prospectors attacking attack-ing tho stage coached and running flU cattle Id 1 bchletloliu finally wundoreil into Ibo neighborhood of a digputeil claim tbo Bronco where eight men bat been plant Ili various attempts to doc do-c o its ownership and was hired at t3 n day to lit oil a hilltop and look out for Indinus ala day while hunting homo tile hitherto nusncccfcs tip itHtray horo hiherto ful prospector stumbled into what was afterward called Tombutnna Gulch and found BOIUO copper tnined rock on what became the Tough Not mine This ho tent to Gird for an SY land Noon after ont starts from the Lucky CUM When development was began I thin 011 granite Widened and promised Imoicntti rlchoa 11 o claims wero ild for > ery laige Burns au 1 when the Apaches Were driven out capitalists panned money iu to the district Hut tho mines did not justify expectations Tombtono was very far from being n second Comstock The unlucky Ilroneho never paid n dollar dol-lar This BollclTelhi and Gird claims yielded fern time lot Fool ran outLand out-Land tile camp caul into decay Tilt first tluiii I Suet Schiollclln that most typical of wistorn prospectors wan ubout Fix care Ago After hearing some of Ins picturesqno prospector yarns I told him about the various trctaaro cxpcdltlond to Coos island find the le endd which hall caused these ex eitemeutH Ho seized upon the litterIng litter-Ing tnlo of llamou fitted swords hags of tlonblooim aud bars of gold with the faith of n I child and ut one Offered to lit out n Bchooncr for the islands and to pay toy expcnhca as well as ghoroen third of the treasure if I would go along to repeat the legend aa often us desired lio hud prospected for almost everything every-thing bo said except pirate treasures and he wanted theta diamond hilled gnonla to put lu Jilts parlor I did not Lnow at that time the Story about his puller Ilaving bought n 7000 IIOHM iu the town of Alamcda ho kept eercinl tonic of quartz in one corner on top of which liis old pros pcctiug tools lourroa t Paddle anti o imp outfit tepo4ed 1 when not iu into I never hoard what his wlfo thought cf this unique furniture but them In mi doubt that tile diamond filled swords would Into Scanted peacefully on tile quartz late I and It was with sincere regrets that I tick Siowledged l to him my entire luck ot faith In tile picttuecquo brinish legend of Coos Island 1 Sohictreliu Alaska exp rioncc have long eleierved u chronicler He fitted out Ru expedition years ao and pros junted over Tilsit ufcam of ttftt region Jill liltl i tteauiboi attended dm broad Yukon anti lira party wintered In the luteiior Ono iun Platicis dealt Charles IVrciot remained behind wluu tile stonier returned In prospect further When bo dcrircd to return ho built I one of the most remarkable little mjin en hints over Reef ill tile coast It was Scandal from u few pieces of pipe and some old coos picked tip about the elp started rjchlcflelln camp and his only tools were u fllo nut a iracLet knife with it > Stories for a hummer He put Ibis rude little engine in tile stern of a small rowboat left behind for bin um and ileauied 2000 miles without all accident acci-dent Tile outfit was afterward on cxhi bitiou in bin 1 r incisen fault excited tile iistouliliracnt wall indeed the profound admiration of the boat machinists who agreed In FulTrug tll t I iliciats Lilt 1141f leal geishas want of n Very high crdr New York Popt |
