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Show Still Prospecting While Attorneys Attor-neys Await Chance to Announce An-nounce His Wealth. HAS VALUABLE MINE Cash Piling Up at Rate of $175,000 Every Two Years on Lease. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Oct. 16. Somewhere in the deserts of southern south-ern California Joe Ward, for thirty-seven thirty-seven years a prospector, is still prospecting, pros-pecting, while his attorneys here await a chance to tell him that he is worth millions, and is receiving an income of almost $100,000 a year. Ward was the plaintiff in recent litigation liti-gation here over some claims on the Mojave desert. He won. His point established, impatient of men and their ways, the. old prospector again loaded his burros and turned to the desert, telling his lawyers to lease, or sell, or run, his property as they found best. The property contained a celestite, or stronium, deposit, said to be the largest in the United States. Stronium Stron-ium was in demand for making the I powder used in fuses. The lawyers Sent samples east; mining men came out, looked over the property, negotlat- I ed a lease, and now Joe "Ward has t cash piling up for him at the rate of $175,000 every two years. The lessees said they will send in steam shovels to handle the mineral bearing soil; they have a railroad spur proslde, they said; and every swing of the steam shovel will pay Its toll to the prospector, who had faded Into his dearest land again. His attorneys, who know him well, were asked what they expected to see Ward do with his money, when he finds out he has it. "He'll probably celebrate by buying a new burro, and starting for the des-' ert again," said one of them. j |