To Find King Solomon's Mines.
To Find King Solomon's Mines.

TO FIND KING SOLOMON'S MINES.

W. C. Wynkoop on His Way to Africa for an English Syndicate, He Says.

    W. C. Wynkoop is going to hunt for King Solomon's mines, those spoken of by H. Rider Haggard. When he finds these mines he thinks he will have discovered the land of Ophir, where the Bible says King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba unearthed their riches.
    Mr. Wynkoop is a Colorado miner and editor of the Mining Industry. He is being sent to Africa to search for the mines of Ophir by a London syndicate. Mr. Wynkoop called on Chief Skiff of the Mines Department yesterday and promised if his investigations resulted in the discovery of anything, he would furnish descriptions for the benefit of the department.
    The particular region to which Mr. Wynkoop is going is a mining territory in a range of mountains in Central Africa about 10� south of the equator and on the edge of the unknown interior of the continent, where scientists think was the Land of Ophir. The ruins of an ancient city have been discovered there.


Source:

Unknown, "To Find King Solomon's Mines, W. C. Wynkoop on His Way to Africa for an English Syndicate, He Says," The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Tuesday, 29 September, 1891, p. 8.


Notes:

    Richard Wynkoop, in the 1904 edition of the Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, has this to say about William Conklin Wynkoop and his family, on pages 157-159:

    790. Legrand Wynkoop, (John 445, Benjamin 178, Benjamin 53, Benjamin 8, Cornelius 1,) born September 15, 1809: married, 1st, January 4, 1830, Lucretia T. Conklin, of Chemung, N. Y., who died November 26, 1853, aged 41 years; married 2d, June 20, 1854, Maria Darker, born September 23, 1827, in Quorndon, Leicestershire, England.
    Legrand removed, in 1837, to Dixon, Lee County, Ill. His second wife is mentioned as an easy and graceful writer for the magazines.
    Children of Legrand and Lucretia T. Wynkoop:
1344. Adelaide: b. May 18, 1831: d. Dec. 21, 1832.
1345. Helen: b. Aug. 24, 1833: m., 1st, Samuel H. Leidy; m., 2d, John Van Ornam.
1346. Orpah: b. May 26, 1835: d. July 8, 1835.
1347. Alasco: b. Aug. 21, 1837: d. Sept. 1, 1838.
1348. Arthur: b. Aug. 27, 1839: d. Dec. 16, 1841.
1349. Cecilia: b. Apl. 11, 1843: m. Robert E. Bailey. He enlisted as a private in the 2d Reg. Minn. Vol. Inf. He re-enlisted, with nearly all the regiment, and served, as hospital steward, until the close of the war.
1350. William Conklin: b. Aug. 6, 1845: m., Apl. 26, 1874, Johanna Caroline Van der Leeuw, b. Dec. 25, 1851, d. Aug. 28, 1887, daughter of Rev. J. W. Van der Leeuw, of Amsterdam, Holland.
    He served in the 2d Reg. Minn. Vol. Inf., and was wounded, in July, 1862, at Corinth, and was sent home. While he was on a furlough, the Indian war broke out, and he served six weeks against the Indians, in a company of independent rangers, called "Old Company," which was never mustered into the service. He was, for seven months, with the 1st Reg. Minn. Mounted Rangers, organized to fight the Indians.
    He rejoined the 2d Reg. Minn. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war, and was promoted to the place of Sergeant-Major, for meritorious conduct, in the charge on Kenesaw Mountain. He had a commission as First Lieut. in the engineer corps, but did not muster in on it.
    He studied mining engineering, and followed it as a profession, after 1867, in the Western States and Territories. In 1873, he studied, in Europe, mines and mining methods. He was author of Ancient and Modern Mining Methods; and of The Old Mines of Mexico.
    While he was in Holland, he was in communication with a Wynkoop, of Amsterdam, whose sister was interested in the history of the family, and who gave him information from old manuscripts and tradition, which has been used elsewhere herein.
1351. Henry Legrand: b. Jan. 8, 1850: lived in Bellevue, Iowa.
    Children of Legrand and Maria Wynkoop:
1352. Lillie May: b. Nov. 16, 1858.
1353. Mary Darker: b. Oct. 15, 1860.
1354. John Frederick: b. Jan. 15, 1869: d. Nov. 26, 1869.

    William Conklin, (W. C.), had an extremely interesting life. Enjoy this small slice of it.

    All my best,

    Chris

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