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Show tie over $500, to outfit him for the journey to the gold state. HE RETURNS HOME AFTER FIFTY YEARS LATE IN LIFE MAKES FORTUNE IN MINES IN NEVADA. Leaves For Philadelphia to Share His I Mil.llons With Sister Who Sent Him West. San Bernardino. Cal.. March 4. Har- ry Parsons, a desert miner, 75 years of age. left San Bernardino yesterday yester-day for Philadelphia to visit relatives whom ho has not seen for fifty years. He goes back with a fortune estimated estimat-ed at $1,000,000, all amaBsed within tho last four years among the mining regions of this county and southern Nevada. When Bullfrog was first discovered Pardons was camped ten miles distant, dis-tant, trying to make himself beltove that he had at last made a strike He threw up his claims and Joined the rush, his burro dying within a quarter quar-ter of a mile of the original strike. This misfortune compelled him to camp on the spot, and In the morning he discovered ho was on a rich ledge. Two weeks later, he sold his holdings for $35,000. This was the first generous gen-erous wind the old miner had experienced exper-ienced after forty years of almost constant con-stant search for the precious stuff, during dur-ing which he constantly faced hardships, hard-ships, and several times looked death In the face. With his funds. Parsons bought up outlying mining claims about Bullfrog aud within six months had disposed of them to eastern capitalists for sums aggregating over a million dollars. dol-lars. The Nevada, Los Angeles and San Francisco banks were bursting with his gold, and now he goes oast with the ambition to share hia gains with relatives, erne a sister, who titty years ago, having great faith in tho gold fields of California, sent him forth, giving him all her money, a lit- |