Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1916 — RICH THRICE, DIES POOR [ARTICLE]

RICH THRICE, DIES POOR

Philip Deidesheimer, Once Famous as Mining Engineer, Passes Away » in Poverty. San Francisco. —Philip Deidesheimer, eighty-four, a mining engineer once famous, died in poverty here. His invention of the “square set,” a system of underground timbering used in wide veins, made possible the development of the famous Ophir mine on the Comstock lode. Hls invention, according to mining engineers, is now used all over the world. Deidesheimer made and Jost three fortunes, He died in poverty, but hopeful to the last that hls mlninf ylaims would restore him to afflu ence.