HIRAM ALFRED OWENS "CHLORIDE JACK"
Arizona Republican Newspaper
July 10, 1909

Chloride Jack is dead.  He has gone to the land of purple 
shadows, over the adobe divide into the region of starless 
night. Hiram Alfred Owens, known throughout all the western 
mining world as Chloride Jack died July 7 at 7:30 in a 
hospital at Prescott after a lingering illness of dropsy.

He was 66 years old and a native of Georgia.  Surviving are 
his wife and two sons residing in Oakland, Calif. A brother, 
John Owens is engaged in mining on the Sandy in Mohave county 
and another brother is a wealthy planter in Georgia.

In his death Nevada and Arizona lose one of their picturesque 
pioneer characters. He was known as Chloride Jack in all the 
principal camps and mining districts of the Sage Brush State 
and this territory. He was a veteran prospector and explorer 
who delighted in making and spending fortunes and ever ready 
when favored by fortune to assist his less fortunate fellows.

He was a colonel of a Georgia militia regiment of the Confederate 
Army during the Civil War and was in many of the bloody 
engagements of the war and was known as a daring and efficient 
officer.

Soon after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox he started 
west, locating in White Pine Nevada in 1868 and it was there 
he received the sobriquet of Chloride Jack by which he was 
ever afterward known.

In the early '70's he moved to Mohave County where he met Mr. 
McCracken both later sharing in the honor and emoluments of 
the discovery of the famous McCracken Mine. Mr. Owens 
afterwards disposed of his interest for $80,000 and a large 
block of stock in the McCracken Company. He married soon 
afterwards and later located his wife and children in 
comfortable circumstances where they now reside.