Amador Ledger-Dispatch, 19 February 1904 — Death of Alvinza Hayward. [ARTICLE]

Death of Alvinza Hayward.

Alvinza Hayward, tbe well known mine operator and multi-millionaire, died in San Prancisco on the 14th instant, at the ripe age of 84 years. He made his start ii. Amador county, in tha operation of the Eureka mine at Sutter Creek. This property^, after a struggling existence against 'adverse fortune, suddenly loomed into prominence as a gold producer in 1857, with A. Hayward as the heaviest stockholder. For a long time it yielded dividends from $20,000 t0 540,000 per month. After disposing of the coutroling interest in the Eureka mine, Mr. Hayward became interested in the Plymouth Consolidated, and was the guiding spirit of that enterprise during its bonanza days— when it yielded from $10,000 to $100,000 per month. Since the closing of the Plymouth Consolidated, Mr. Hayward transferred his field of raining enterprise to Calaveras county, where he became interested in the Utica, at Angels, which has probably proved the richest dividend paying mine along tho mother lode. Many of the old settlers throughout Amador county will remember Mr. Hayward in the infancy of his mining ventures in Sutter Creek. In his demise the state loses ono of the ablest, most experienced and successful mining men that ever operated in the mother lode region.