orn at Elmira, N. Y., in 1852, M. F. Clute has had a varied career in a score of states and territories. Having early learned the painter's trade, he has followed it in many different sections of the country, and has also engaged in other occupations at various times and places. In 1889 he came west to Colorado and to Redlands five years after. Most of his time for the past ten years has been devoted to prospecting and locating mines. He has followed this business in Colorado and Old and New Mexico, as well as in California, and now owns mines in Mono county, north and east of the Yosemite, in Death Valley, the Panamint country and at various points on the desert between Redlands and Granite Wells. Mr. Clute has eleven good mines near Mono Lake, one of which has been extensively developed and is considered a fine property. He believes that there is just as good mining country within two days' ride of Redlands as there is anywhere in California. He was one of the original locators of the Redlands mine, which created considerable excitement three years ago, and in the value of which Mr. Clute still believes. He has been twice married, first to Miss Sarah B. Younts, who was born in Pennsylvania, and, after her death, to Rose B. Caldwell, also a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Clute has three children, all of them living in California.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 23.)