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Show DAILY c GOOD STORIES ABOUT LUCA IN MINING GOV. TABOR MODE MILLIONS AND DIED POOR. Good Strange Vicissitudes of Fortune, and Bad, That Have Sometimes Come to Men. Stories of the finding of mines are always interesting, and it is strange, too, how sometimes after misfortune has pursued a man for many years a turn in the tide of his affairs will come, and no matter what he does, good fortune seems to be Invisibly standing by his side and takes care of Aim. Take the cuae of H. A. W. Tabor for Instance, lie hnd been an unsuccessful placer miner in California gulch, where Leadville now is, in the days of that excitement, and had remained and opened a small log rabln store at Oro. In 1877 a couple of Germans, August Itische and George llook went to him for a grub stake and he furnished them with about thirty dollars worth of grub, powder, tools and last, but not least, a Jug of whiskey. They started v off on the trail over toward Adelaide where the Gallagher brothers had found the first mine in the Leadvllle district a foot, answering thnt I might sell if I got my price. " Well, what's your pricer .. hundred dollars,' I reTwenty-fiv- e In my mouth. heart with my plied, 'Come down to town und get your money,' was the answer. That night I went to the tavern in Plumas, ate off china dishes und slept with $2,500 under my pillow, and in clean sheets for the first time in two years. Next morning the purchaser asked me to help him put in a couple of shots, and, of course, I agreed. When we got to the tunnel he examined the wall and selected a point about 100 feet from the mouth. The minute he laid hold of the sledge I saw he was an expert miner. In six hours we had two holes in the rock. When the shots went off I could hardly keep myself from running Into the tunnel. After the smoke had cleared away I was the first on the spot There lay exposed a body of ore sparkling with the golden bits. The ledge was afterward found to be three feet thick. It ran over $100 to the ton. "I had dug my tunnel Just a yard away from the gold vein a year before. I had been in and out of that tunnel thousands of times and never knew how near I was passing the big fortune which I had hoped, prayed and dreamed for every minute in all those ' months. I had such a fascination for wanting to know how big & fortune I had missed, because I couldnt see Into the rocks as my buyer had done, that I lay aroun Plumas for a few weeks, "Ore that went as high as $1,200 a ton was taken from my mine. In six weeks the buyer got more than $13,000 out of the property, and in a year it ran to even $100,000. By the time they reached Fryer hill, their frequent imblbatlons of the fiery liquid had produced a somnolent effect and they camped for the night! The next morning upon looking around they found outcroppings and concluded thnt that was as good a place to WHEN TRAINS RUN FAST. sink as any, and the result was that the "Little Pittsburg was born. Mr. Tabor had a half Interest in it Passengers May Expect Trouble When "a Speed of 100 Milee an Hour which made him rich. Everything he Is Reached. touched seemed to turn Into money. When the "Little Pittsburg" became a The German engineers are spending pay mine William Lovell, better known by the cognpmer of Chicken Bill had a large amount of time and money on located. the "Chrysolite adjoining it. experiments whose aim is the producHe sank a shaft some distance and tion of an electric or steam locomotive found nothlng.so he went to the "Pitts- which can run 100 mllea an hour. Acburg," took some of its rich ore and cording to a cable dispatch they sucput it in the Chrysolite shaft and ceeded last week for the first time in covered It up in other words he reaching 100 miles an hour speed; but "salted it Then he went to Tabor the question which naturally suggests and sold it to him for something like itself to railway engineers in the UnitTabor put some men to work ed States Is, who wants to travel at $3,000. and in a few hours they went through such speed? Side by side with the the "salt and got into barren ground. speed records of this German experiTabor instructed his men to keep right ment we would set the discussion on sinking and they did so and in a which took place on the location of few days struck a rich body of ore and distant signals at the recent meeting of ll the Railway Signaling club. The sigTabor sold the property to John ' V. Then for of Chicago nal engineer of a leading railroad there $3,000,000. he bought the Matchless" of Tim stated that he had not been able to Foley for $116,000, and In less than work satisfactorily a mechanical signinety days it was paying him $60,000 nal with a greater length of wire than a month, and continued to do so for 2,000 feet. two years. It is well known that if trains are to How luck remained with Tubor until be run with safety under the block he had accumulated $8,000,000, was signal system, the spacing of the diselected lieutenant governor of Colorado tant signal from the home must be and United States senator for a period proportioned to the speed of the fastof thirty days at a cost to him of est trains. The distant signal tells the $60,000, and how he died penniless and engine runner that the home signal in debt a few years ago. is history so stands at danger, and that he must well known as not to need repetition stop his train before reaching it, and here. the faster the train is running the farA short time ago a number of old ther bnck must this information be timers were discussing luck In mining, given him. With present train speeds, when one old soldier of fortune took It is not uncommon to place the distant a nip, and leaning back in his chnir. signal 2,500 feet back of the home, and said: if this is a proper distance for sixty Tve been mining now forty-tw- o mile an hour trains, then for 100 miles years, and I've come to the conclusion an hour the distant signal ought to be that luck in mining means an ability placed at least 7,500 feet back. to look deeper into, the earth than But trains are run a large share of other folks, I could sit here all night the time when the signal cannot be and tell you illustrations to prove my niHde out at 1.000 feet, or anything like idea, but one will do. that distance. They are often run when "Along at the time of the Modoc In- a semaphore cannot be clearly seen till dian war up in the lava beds near the one is within, say 200 feet. Under Oregon Hue I was working a claim In such conditions the engine runner Plumas county. The mine was called would have Just one and one half secthe Billy. All the boys there agreed onds to decide whether his train were with me that the Billy would make me dashing on to safety or destruction. rich. considerations other Numerous "I kept at work on it every day un- might be cited to show that, whether it til my $1,100 capital hnd gone into the he practicable or not to attain 100 tunnel for grub, tools and miles an hour in a burst of speed. It Is I wrote back to my brother near not practicable on railways carrying a Rochester, X. Y., to lend me $600. I general traffic to run trains at speed kept steadily nt work. much in excess of the highest now at"The miners came in and saw me tained. If trains are to be run at 100 L miles an sweating and blasting nwny in my hour, then It must be on a All of them said I was dead sure road built for them alone, from which to get Into rich ore in a week or more. all other traffic Is excluded. Numerous Well, when my borrowed money attempts have been made to show that was gone I had put two years into the such a railway would be a paying enwork. I was worried because I knew terprise, but the capitalists have never that my brother had a growing family been convinced. The mere fact that to support and he mortgaged his place the Germans have attained over 100 to help me. The tunnel was then ISO miles an hour on their ex;ierlmental feet in the rock. road, therefore, proves nothing ns to "I became discouraged and got sick the practicability of adopting such wondering why I hnd ever been such a speeds. Engineering News. fool os to keep pegging along there, when I might have got rich as the Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. other miners had done by the doxen in Digests all classes of of food, tones and strengthens the stomach and digestive Calaveras county. organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, One morning as I was gathering up Stomach Troubles, and makes rich red Kodol man blood, health and strength. my tools to quit, a business-lik- e Cure rebuilds wornout tiscame up. He asked to see the mine, Dyspepsia sues, purifies, strengthens and sweetwhich was mostly in solid rock, with- ens the stomach. Gov. G. W. Atkinof W. Va. says: "I have used a out timbering. After he had closely son number of bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia examined both walls, he casually asked Cure and have found It to be a very effective and. Indeed, a powerful remme If Z wanted to selL edy for stomach ailments. I recom"I feigned indifference, and, after mend It to my friends. Sold by Geo. cnlculuting 190 feet of tunneling at $10 F. Cave, Wallace Drug CoH and Wn. Glddlngs. Far-we- nltro-glycer-in- , UTAH e. tun-ne- STATE JOURNAL, DECEMBER WEDNESDAY, DECISION FAVORS Its in the Quality holesome Bread I and constantly increaaing among lovers of good TEA is only gained by merit. TO CLAIMS ON UNSURVEYED POPULARITY PERMANENT i RELATES 1903. 23, LOCATED LAND. den,aBd i Are Not Subject to the Grant Made to the State for Public School Purposes. F.ITOWERS Senior who reAttorneys Higgins the Brudburn Henry present Mining company are just in receipt of an opinion from the commissioner of the general land Office, wherein the decision of the local office is reversed in its holding that the location of a mining claim upon surveyed lands is subject to the grant of lands made by the United States to the state of Utah for & ... diffsrence-rdifftren- Clam i. 'I This is If you can guess the correct weight of this Turkey he is yours. the delicious, wholesome bread produced. He will be awarded Thursday noon. 8ee him in front of the store. BOYLE HARDWARE CO. "Not the cheapest, but the best. 2455 Bros. Peery MILLING John Washingon Avenue. A. Boyle, Manager CO. There Is No Trick Extraordinary ABOUT DRE88ING WELL AND 8TYLISH. Christmas NEITHER IS IT YOU EXPENSIVE KNOW WHERE TO If BUY YOUR CLOTHES.. COMTOUI Sale. AND LET US 8HOW 'largest have purchased a large shipment of Holiday Goods ordered for the Underwood Agency and now offer them at extraordinarily low prices. Come and see the display. We AND YOU FINEST THE LINE$ OF MENS, BOYS AND DRENS CLOTHING, HATS, CAft SHOES, ETC., TO BE CHILr FOUND UTAH AND AT PRICES WONT JAR YOUR THAT BANK A- CCOUNT. SMALLEY Putnam PATENT CLOTHES PIN. Glothing ...House Device Which Was Invented By John G. Howard of Pleasant View. store. Importers. the one time in your life you get something for nothing pre-empti- on Driven to Desperation. Living at an out of the way pluce, remote from civilisation, a fumily is often driven to desperation in case of accident, resulting in Burns, Cuts, "Wound. Ulcers, etc. Lay In a supply of Bucklins Arnica Salve. It's the best on earth. 25c at Jesse J. Driver's drug that Free Turkey! ! Flour..... - Orchestra music from 3 to 5 p. m. Ogden Furniture and Carpet company. taiti M pre-empti- on John G. Howard of Pleasant View has recently hud patented from the United States patent office, through his attorney, Elijah Farr, a new and Ingenious Improvement In clothes pins. His invention relates to a clothes pin of the spring clamp type and adapted to be mounted permanently on the clothes line, or may be used Independently of it It is readily thrown into and out of clamping position and being plvotly mounted on the clothes, line prevents the tearing of the clothes when blown about by the wind. The new device consists of two jaws each made of a single strand of wire, each of the strands of wire being bent nearly at its center to form a lateral portion and two longitudinal etxenslons with loops intermediate of the ends of said longitudinal extensions, the ends of the wires being bent to form finger holds, one of the ends of the wire forming one of the jaws formed In a hook, to to be secured to the other Jaw, and a piece of wire passed through the loops to form a pivot for the jaws. The device, though very simple, is yet very ingeniously contrived, involving in structure, movement and effect a new mechanical combination or principle and no doubt will prove of great general utility. Since the Issuance of the patent Mr. Howard has been deluged with letters from various manufacturing and introducing companies from all parts of the country, asking for control of territorial rights. G. W. (ravlot of Pleasant View has acquired a one half Interest In the patent. in FRED. J. KIESEL & CO., Crescent' And notice ca in everything and-atoma- Bake is best relished where the clams ar right. This i. rule holds good with ' any kind of a hake. Next time, bake with school purposes. The question involved is one of deep Interest to the mining men of the state, as it affects. the title of many mines which, in the course of development, have become very valuable, says the Deseret News. The question came up in a suit to quiet title to the Jfoola group of claims in section 16, own-shi- p 28 south, range 4 west, a schooj section. i The local register held: thjt as the claims proved, to be upon a school section the title was'vested in the state notwithstanding that the land was unsurveyed at the time the mineral location was made. The decision, the general land commissioner reverses giving the land to the mining companq. For reason of the action the commissioner cites the following and reverses the local officer, as follows: Where settlements with a view to or homesteads have been or shall hereafter be made before the survey of the land in the field, which are found to have been made on section 16 or 36, those sections shall be subject to the ciHims of such settlers and If such sections or either of them have been or shall be granted, reserved, or pledged for the use of schools or colleges in the state or territory In which they He other lands of- equal acreage are hereby appropriated and granted and may be selected by said state or territory, in lieu of such as. may be or homethus taken by stead settlers. And other lands of equal, acreage are also hereby appropriated and granted and may be selected by said state or territory, where sections 16 and 86 are mineral lands. Your decision is accordingly hereby reversed, the papers pertaining to said mineral application herewith returned and you are directed to allow same to proceed in the regular order of business in the absence of other objections." , Pleases users because of its superior in fact, a gratifying diffsrsnee flavor 'goes to make a TEA of surpassing excellence. Just Arrived I 2345 Washington Avenue- - Five Cars of Bran and Shorts 5 We alo have the moat complete llneol Poultry and Peed (Supplies In the eounty. Z FARR & CO. & I I I JAMES BALLARD J I FLOUR CORN HAY : W. I Sacccssor to Ballard -- i Kdcr CASH MEAT MARKET Salt Meat and Lard a Specialty. Oysters In Season. Cheapest Meat Market in town. Plats Bolling Meat, per lb., fie. Shoulder Steak, I lbs. for 331 24th Phone 127 A SL suppims " Make nice presents We have em. MENS. SLTan anti Black $2.25 and $2.50. Childrens Felt Slippers. 1 LADIES. $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, Fur top, Felt and Fancy $2.00 and $2.50. Z C M I. or Shoe Department Fill out this Blank, cut it out and send it with the amount of Subscript00 i UTAH STATE JOURNAL, . OGDEN, UTAH. subscript011 Inclosed please find $....:. ...for to the DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, beginning with No or date ..1903. Name Residence (O City and County State I |