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Show RISE OF MILTON DETCH IN GOLDFIELD DISTRICT More than passing Interest attaches to the. recent announcement from Goldfleld. Nev., that the Daisy claim, near that city, is the seat of one of the richest strikes ever recorded there, because be-cause If true it brings Milton M. Dctch to the forefront as a man who has cleaned up over $1,000,000 In two years. Detch Is credited with being a half owner In the lease on the Daisy wherein where-in the bonanea was encountered. This ore body Is said to measure three feet in width and can an average value of $2000 gold per ton clear across, much of the wealth being visible to the naked na-ked eye. Started to Practice Law. Detch went Into Goldfleld In June, 1904, from Ouray, Colo., to practice law, he having just received license to enter this profession. He also possessed pos-sessed considerable knowledge of mining, mi-ning, which had been gained during his young lifetime, spent almost exclusively ex-clusively In the San Juan district of the Centennial State. But aside from owning one typewriting machine, much the worse for wear, two suits of clothes and half a dozen law books, Detch's wealth was so limited that he trusted entirely to fickle fortune for his breakfast the day following his arrival. His confidence that some acquaintance would be encountered and that a helping help-ing hand would be received from that friend buoyed the young prospector on to maintain a cheerful disposition and inspire hope for the future. Takes Early to Mining. Goldfleld was then but seven months old. and the business that an attorney was needed for could have been packed Into an envelope, because nobody no-body had time to look for any trouble, and everybody was busy getting mining mi-ning claims under the laws that pioneers pio-neers In a new district create themselves, them-selves, and which everybody has too much regard for their lives to violate. Detch at once plunged Into the spirit of the district, forsook law for the time being, and was soon looking for ground, while his typewriter and a sign in front of a little tent was all that told of the presence in that region of Goldfleld's first young attorney. Favored by Fortune. Almost at once fortune favored him. as prospectors' needed his services in making out a few location notices, and before long he was in demand by men engaged in forming mining companies. He therefore gathered in "interests" all over the Goldfleld district, and In addition addi-tion always a little cash for each legal service rendered. Some months later he got In early on the Bullfrog discoveries, and became be-came one of the incorporators of the Bullfrog National Bank mine, which started his fortune growing toward the hundred-thousand mark. Thenceforth luck followed his every venture, and the striking of the extremely ex-tremely rich ore bodies in the Daisy caps the two years' efforts of this energetic en-ergetic spirit as having been phenomenally phenom-enally successful. He is about 30 years of age. |