Show the boyhood 0 of Fa famous vy i americans iv eitzgerald ritz braid gerald john hays hammond the boys started on I 1 orsel or ack from san francisco to oakland their aunt with whom they were staying while their fatt fati er was in tie tl e I 1 ast consent ed to the trip they took a small 4 compass a shot 1 gun fishing tackle and GO 00 in money with ath them blan bets were also in the extra equip ment for the lads planned on doing J a bit of camping before and after they visited bleir tl air f fr r en on Is la in oakland john hays If Haromn ammond nd tie older of tie two bals la Is was fourteen years old ills bretler was two years younger they had been brought lp in the california of civil war days and ind they were accomplished riders ind skilled in tie tt e w ays of the great outdoors by the time most bos of today are still placing with toys tl air faller fati er a graduate of west point and an army officer le to d 1 ity in bif enli hid bid taught them self reliance a love for outdoor life lie and instilled in them a spirit of ad venture from tie time they were able to walk so it w isn t unnatural unni tural tint thit they hould should mike up their minds to see soi betl i g of tl ti e u world orld instead of merely liking the r ride ide to cealand oakland and back to san francsco co I 1 II 11 I 1 ey ev I 1 lad ad I 1 card eard much of the ito valley then a comparative wil wit berness and tl ti ey turned their horses heads in that direction seeking the adventure that appealed so much to their venturesome ds dispositions d they stopped at small hotels but for tie tl e greater part tl ey slept in the open they shot their own game varied their diet with the fish that abounded in the mountain streams and thrived on their own cooking py tl it e time they reach reached ed the loser yosemite lo semite nite they still had a sub part of their money left irom from there they ventured into nevada novada and by tl ti e time their father returned from the past and traced them through express company agents they had ridden approximately 1000 1 miles on horseback and all this in a period of less than three months chile seeing the country young john I 1 ad an opportunity to inspect his first quartz mine he ile spent sev eral oral dais watching matching tie operations there that experience was largely responsible for his choice of mining engineering as a profession a career in which he has gained world wide nide renown and great fortune tl TI e trail that started with the trip to the yosemite carried him to all parts of the world through dangers and hair raising adventures in south america africa and else where and to friendships ranging from lo 10 lovly i ay miners to crow crowned ned heads beads john hays hammond was born in 1855 in san francisco to which city his fatter fatt er who I 1 ad been a major in the regular army during the mexican war had been detailed ills mother was a sister of col jack hays flays famous as a texas ranger and later the first sher iff of san francisco loung oung hammond spent mabeb time at his uncles home his ills died when he was a little fellow his ills father and uncle between them faight ta ight I 1 lin to ride to swim and to hunt he ile proved that he was N as an apt pupil when he and his brother made their 1000 1 mue mile trip into tl e wilds depend 19 i g largely on tl ti cir skill m with ith rod and gun to live as they rode through the lonely and rugged country the youngster was educated in the public schools of san francisco later he went to a private preparatory school in new haven to qualify for admission to yale he ile was enrolled in college at the age of seventeen and m was as graduated in at yale he was a c of former pres dent tatt taft from prom yale he went to germany where he spent three years in the royal school of mines at rr freiberg eiberg he ile re umed to the united states and went to work for senator george hear t of california at 75 a month pis ills father wanted him to bo be a civil engineer but tie lure of mining was too great and he turned down a bet ter paying job with a railroad to begin his its chosen career he ile made progress enough to war rant him in going into business for himself I 1 lor or a time he was as too poor to pay an office boy and s dept out I 1 Is own office he ile rode role through the dan betous apache country on a business mission in 1882 later aarno t losing Ms life in troublesome lesico he ile came into world worldwide wide prom indence when he went to south africa to act as an expert for barney garna barna to a and nd cec coo I 1 III odes at their vast i ast dia mond hold he ile was accused of being implicated in the jameson raid on the transvaal republic and was sentence I 1 to death cut but he was par conid and find went on to greater fame and f artune by the north amer can newspaper all ance |