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id-y’sfor*edine13,-!0rer91.ofol-odthofi-sehen-0reDID NOT LONG ENJOY WEALTHOWon in the Slocan.- /'.Mi'V-4 «'sfS■ *n-Id•ybsnie6)fl.e0•v •7.. ■*ii. #reISeotfc McDonald, the well known mining man, is dead from consumption, and is buried at Spokane. He^ • •had the ups and downs of many of* . - * «-the men who follow mining. Bornin St. Charles county, Missouri, in1851, he came to Butte, Montana,where he had a married sister:living, in 1869. He worked in tlie?mines as a laborer, but was am-,.bitious, and before leaving Butte he filled the responsible - position of? superintendent of the Lexington, at one time one of Butte’s famous mines. ^He was in the first rush Coeur d’Alenes, in 1884, and the Poorman and acquired interests -3 in other claims, most of .which he lost through litigation, v He quit mining for awhile and engaged inthe livery business at Wallace, and was still engaged in that business when lie arrived at Ainsworth,-in the spring of 1891, as superintend^ .enfc*of the properties owned by A?? W. McCune of Salt Lake. He didV ‘ ' I M , * . . . • « • •some work on the Krao and aban- doned it. Tlfen he began work on tlie Skyline, and it is generally be? lieved lie made that property pay. f His-next operations were in -tlie3 Slocan, where he and McCune had p obtained interests along with Steveto the? staked?r1-■*v -.v’rrV-vBailey in the fall of 1891, Bailey.•x-'V3I■aworked tlie properties ?1895,||lwhen a disagreement arose/oyerSore shipments. Finally Bailey’s interests in the famous Payne group were purchased by McCune|f and McDonald and their associates, x? McDonald took charge of the Payne, §? and it was under liis management^! that the mine paid over a million^ dollars in dividends in less than||feighteeu months.' It was then in?? ^ corporated and the ; control of the S?passed into the hadds?offfi?fa':v; fl. d?-b w £I/*O'jj i - ,* - u- ii*•1m-hrioui*- Kt-:.'I? *. ,r -li *«* 0‘ * •\v-ne n swo rti.pnetlt;and^marriedi-Mis^Ag:ii — - --ri'k
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Nelson Tribune
Nelson, British Columbia, CA
Mon, Apr 09, 1900
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