A PLUCKY PROSPECTOR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1483, 15 February 1887, Page 2

A PLUCKY PROSPECTOR.

A sturdy, stoutly ballt man, with a far cap covering a square head, and a ragged, sraooti shaven face, who was to be Been at the Fifth Avenue Hotel daring the week and might have been mistaken for the captain of an ocean steamer, wm Oiptain N. D. Moore, of Hurley, Wls. Captain Moore is noted as the disoovorer of the famous Gogeblo Iron range which les m the mountain* sixty miles below I Daluth and stretches aoroas the country i from thirty to fifty miles. Unlike mosfc explorers, Capaln Moore has reaped tb» benefit of bis eaely tolls. He was an old iron furnace man m Marquet tee, Mich. , when he made a plunge into the wilderness of not them Wieoonain, and for at least ten years tramped baok and forth over a pathless wilderness, spying oat the count y. In that period of time he grew so poverty stricken that he was sometimes refused ot edit for fool enough to fill his knapsack when he started into the forests, and a part of the time lived solely on th» game whioh he killed. Having looated the ranges, he had some lively experience! m trying to secure their possession. Abont Bevan years ago ho was taken ill with typhoid fever. An Irishman who was his companion stole all his field notes, and going to the nearest town disposed of them to a gang of speculators, who j immediately started for Warsaw, where the government land office was looated, with the Intention of preempting the lands named In the notice. Captain Moore was told of (he theft and insisted on arising from his aiok-bed to head the rasoals off. Bis physician told him that it was certain death for^hlm to make the attempt. His reply was that ha might as well die on the road as to die m bed. Be rode 193 miles without sleep, while the thief and the conspirators, taking things more easily, did not arrive at the land office until three or four hoars after the captain bad made hit eppeiranoe. The wealth of the Gogeblo range lies m the Bessemer ores and its moat notable feature m the rpgularity of the foot line formation. Captain Moore has lived to have a fortune of a oouple of million dollars,' and it is predioted that this will treble and quadruple m the next four oe fire years. — Awtralasian and South American,