Show the prospector and his burro burr 0 1 I want to tell you said the prospector to his burro that these warm and days give me almost the same feeling that the gambler has when he at last makes a winning on the roulette wheel for I 1 have sensations warning var ning me that it is time to get out into the hills just as he feels that he cannot keep away from the faro table or a game of aluff every morning I 1 find myself gazing up into the canyons and resting my eyes on the commanding comman diug peaks which for several months past have been towering above the clouds but which are now again visible and approachable and the yearning within me implies that it will not be long now before you and I 1 will be out on the trail again looking for bonanzas you want to know where we will go well I 1 will tell you if you will remember a few years ago after we had been out in the hills for nearly two months without finding anything of promise we stubbed into a deep canyon one night and there found evidences of what had at one time been a mining camp it was difficult for me to even guess the period of its former occupancy but this I 1 discovered that the old mines had been worked quite extensively and that the ore was free milling sand and had been worked through crude and cumbersome arrastias arr astras that the camp had been quite prolific was evidenced by the permanent character of the buildings t such as cabins blacksmith shops etc for these were constructed of rock and the walls are well preserved to this day a tribute to the thoroughness ou ough ness of the builder in one of the tunnels I 1 found the rusted remains of shovel and picks but nothing else to indicate the personnel of the former owners or the date of operation and more I 1 found that the former operators had left exposed and on the dump large quantities of what I 1 would term high grade milling ore which I 1 presume when the mine was being worked was considered as being too low in grade to mill profitably in the bed of the canyon there flowed a stream sufficient for culinary mining and milling purposes while up the canyon a little ways there was a cozy valley in which you grazed vil with alth comfort and delight by all rights I 1 should have remained in this promising spot and devoted more time to exploratory work and investigation but I 1 was on my way to a new strike over which the country had gone wild and so put in only one night in this land of promise which by the way was far removed from railroad facilities but which is now only a few miles distant from a new trunk line which has since been built through the country the new strike I 1 went to see proved a fizzle and I 1 have been kicking myself every ever since that I 1 did not remain and secure a really good thing when I 1 had it within my grasp it may be too late even now for some else may have stumbled upon it and more fully realized its possibilities bili ties however in a few days we will be in that canyon again and if the ground is still open we will take up a group from which there is every reason to expect that we will eventually make a fortune and then some 1 I want to tell you old long bars concluded the prospector 1 I always have cave great faith in an old and abandoned mining camp not that there are not rich and virgin fields yet to be descove discovered red none whatever but in an old camp where the pioneers had the cream of the country to choose from wonderfully great mines are still to be found and for the reason that in the early days of mining facilities were crude and experience limited while development was not on so large a scale as that which characterizes mining operations of today for instance see pioche hamilton and a score of other old camps which are now so much in evidence and in which the min mining 1119 public alic is now taking such lively interest many mining camps of ancient date are like a plum pudding or a pipe which improve with age I 1 have long been aware of this fact and it is out in the hills for you and me for we are going back to this old gold camp I 1 have been telling you about and when next the world hears from us I 1 trust we will be worth a million or more just from the leavings ang s of those who have gone before |