Show 01 Once Owned the Greatest G Mine A t iJ D Dapper per Benny Hit Upon Six Claims That Now Wow Produce a Month 7 LADY DY LUCK TURNS HER RACK BACK Benny Saved by Philosophical Slant Settled Down to Simply Life Life Life- Heart Stop Beating While Saying a Prayer C I. I Luck smiles on this man and J then deserts him What do you t think of his philosophy t tt i TImmons Ont The The gang In the corner of the bar nt at Cobalt Camp was playing up seven-up under a smelly oil lamp Jack McMahon was mopping the bar and mentally calling It a bad night Then the storm door opened and nd dapper dappe Benn Benny the gentleman gentleman gen gen- adventurer ad was pushed In by bythe bythe bythe the north wind t II I Lo ever everybody luck everybody luck body luck to you all nil he sl shi shouted as he peeled his mackl- mackl naw off and tossed it on the three- three legged chair Drinks for the gentlemen Jack he ordered stepping over to the EmpIre Empire Empire Em Em- pire stove to thaw out Jack walked from b behind the bar and poured three fingers for each card player Fifteen drinks had bad to come from each quart and he preferred to portion the the liquid liquid himself But as for Benn Benny well any on one could see with half halt an eye that he was a gentleman and therefore wouldn't take more than two fingers So the bottle was placed beside a glass on the bar and Jack said In his Ingratiating manner Step up and pour for yourself Benny Benny Pours Benny forsook the stove and poured Lucky Benny the gang wished ns us the red eye was washed down Benny leaned over oyer the bar and whispered Jack th there's theres res re's a gold mine gold mine waiting for you ou and me up me-up up PorcupIne Porcupine Porcupine Porcu Porcu- pine way So Jack queried He had heard beard similar ar tales before Gold waiting to be picked ed up Benny Denny continued And what hat Is m more re m my lucks luck's Just right now Jack had heard those stories of the Porcupine field ICO miles mlles north and 5 GO miles from Toronto But nobody's no no- nobody's bod body's s Cou found d any real pay dirt that I know he lie Interjected Seems that Its It's all talk and no dust Benny talked tall on He lie knew the theland theland theland land and he knew men who hId found gold there What was needed was 75 for a grub stake Well share and share alike Benny urged Finally Jack gave In Jt lt was vas hard to hold out against Benn Benny u He was such a persuasive per per- e talker When Benny walked ed out with Jacks Jack's 75 the gang In the corner roared Benny had been staked grub before and had never found his mine They joked McMahon so much that he lie became doubtful of the whole en en- But one couldn't take talce a stake grub back It wasn't done But Jack McMahon had a brother- brother law in-law In Lubine He lie told Jim of ot the Porcupines Porcupine's richness One half of his half In Benn Bennys Benny's s stake slake could be had for 75 because 75 because he was In the family They all nil had better get rich together Jim paid his 75 7 5 Benny Goes Northward The next day Benny n north north- ward Somewhere along the way he hemet hemet met Alex Gillies on the tue same mission The They Joined d forces a as 3 companions not notus as us partners When they reached the Porcupine section a Section a wild bush land landI I wIth bits of swamp they swamp they found old Bill nm Davidson vet veteran ran of ot British ColumbIa Columbia Columbia Co Co- Co- Co lumbia mining cutups camps panning punning gold Yes there was WIlS' some gold gid Id thereabouts there there- Of Ot course the best land had all aJl been staked out by Bill Bm but hut If the youngsters w would Uld go some Rom miles that way they might find sonic some some quartz ve veins ns there They found the designated spot Slot al al- al I most lost In lying low spruce swamps They staked slaked twelve claims Then they tuey tossed a coin cin to decide which should take the sL six east and which the six west claims Benny got the western ones Benny found a prospectors prospector's forge overgrown with dank grass on hl his 1118 land Someone had given up there years ears before B By the tIle side of those I claims ran the portage trail over oyer which hundreds had passed No one one had found gold there but you ou never knew your our luck till you ou tried The dapper adventurer ad began dIgging digging digging dig dIg- ging and he be found quartz veined with what looked like gold He lIe filled a apack apack apack pack full and started Cobalt wa way Da Days s 's later Inter when he lie reached the edge o of Cobalt he met Alphonse Pare Pore mining min mm- ing engineer and nephew v of the TImmons TImmons Timmons TIm TIm- mons Brothers former storekeepers who had made a little money silver sll mining around Cobalt Cabal t. t Pare stopped Benny and asked what luck He lIe had a hunch that Bennys Benny's luck had turned after seven years of failure Benn Benny showed his samples Pare decided there was no reason for Benny to visit Cobalt the Cobalt the thing to do was to turn around and go back and talk business Pare made quick work with his pack and the two headed northward Snow began to fall before they reached ed the Porcupine lands but a providential rain washed It away the da day before they reached the claims That was the fall of IDO 1009 Gold Sticks Out Yellow gold of unusual richness was sticking sUcking out all alJ over the whiLe e quartz The rains had washed It clear The two stood In an infinite solitude besIde beside beside be be- side the ground which In in- 1023 23 was to tobe tobe tobe be hailed as tI the e worlds world's greatest gold goldmine goldmine I mine with an output of ot worth of ot g gold ld a a. a month Gillies was elsewhere and the nearest neighbor was old Bill Dm Davi Davidson son laboriously panning gold beyond the hills Pares Pare's trained eyes told him lim of the find But Pare pla played ed the game squarely He sat on a boulder looked across at nt Benny nonchalantly packing his pipe and asked him if he be realized what he had found I I III 1 have found some found some gold Benny answered gazing ov ove the waste land You have found much found much gold Pare Pure told him Pare opened his wallet took out 2000 2030 In currency and laid It on the boulder for the right to look In he lie said succinctly Benny accepted the money and continued smoking Pare took tool his geological hammer and spent the rest of ot the day tapping rocks s. s When they started back to Cobalt Pare o offered orel In behalf of the time Tim Tim- mons Dunlap s syndicate for Bennys Benny's six claims If It the tile samples assa assayed ed as high as he regarded regard regard- ed them Benny was satisfied To Give One to Pal But Benny made one stipulation That sum SImm would purchase only five of the claims for he lie was going to give one of them to his old pal Barney Burney McEnaney Barney Darney had befriended him and und it was only fair that he be should share his prosperity McMahon Mc had agreed to this when he grubstaked grubstaked grub grull staked Benny To this Pare made no flU objection Thus five claims would still be worth When the assa assay was completed Pare called Benny In Th The s syndicate found lound It would require much macli money to develop develop develop de de- de- de those claims Their original offer offer offer of of- fer held good they never broke their word wOld But would Benny like to Join the syndicate He lie would be given some SOnIC cash cush and shares a shares a twelfth Interest valued Interest valued at a n ashin shin share re Benny had dealt In shares before He preferred all nil cash but perhaps Jack McMahon might wish a n sa say Jack knew a nice piece of ot bar goods when he saw It but little of gold mID mines s. s lIe He decided that Benny should maT make e the decision Benny Denny said all cash Benny gave half of It to Mc Mc- Mahon Mahion j 1 The s syndicate eventually acquired Gillie's Gillies claims but they couldn't budge Barney Blarney McEnaney Sure It ItI I was Bennys Benny's gut gilt wasn't it And Its bad luck to give away a n present and und that's what your our asking me to do i Begin the Mining Work began at ut the Bellinger mines Benny went to 10 Point Alexander on the upper reaches of the time Ottawa river m-Iver and took his parents from there thereto to Pembroke a pleasant pheasant little town that had grown from a trading post Benny had alwa always s loved Nellie Hill now he could afford to marr marry her She had faithfully waited while he made his stake They visited Toronto and other cities but bat the tile two decided that Pembroke was a friendly place so the they returned there Word came that the mine as as they called the Porcupine claims had Imad had become a bonanza So Benny hit the trail again Ma Maybe be luck would strike the second time The whole countr countryside was willing to sta stake e Benny Benny Ben Ben- ny fly but he needed nothing A few miles from his great discovery ry he found claims that seemed to have sImilar similar similar simi sImi- lar formations lie He bought them from the discoverers and organized a company company com corn pany called the tile Reserve But It takes tales money to do quartz mining Money went and gold old didn't come though across the the way the original Hollinger was paying thousands of ot dollars dol dol- lars lam a n day Eventually the Reserve was put up at sheriffs sheriff's sale saJe Ben Benny y was flat fiat broke again But In the few years that had hind passed Barney McEnaney Mc Me- Enaney had hind been persuaded to sell his gift claIm clain lIe He had received a price said to be Barney Barne was present present pres pres- ent at the sheriffs sheriff's sale and bid In Inthe Inthe inthe the Hollinger Reserve for Reserve for one good turn deserved another you know Ono One couldn't see a pal go o down In dis dis- grace McEnaney died led a few days dus later hater In Other Ventures Benny went Into other mining ventures yen ven tures tures with his lila retrieved stake But lightning luck seldom strikes twice he found Finally he turned back to Pembroke lIe He had hind a pretty little home there a wife who was a mate and three youngsters who worshiped him as king of everything lie was wan happy To while away the long winter winter winter win win- ter months he lie opened a n howl ig lg alley al al- al- al ley dapper ley-dapper dapper Bennys Benny's place It was known throughout the time country W Word rd came that the Hollinger mine was being called one of ot the great gold mines In the time world Dont you wI wish h you OU hind had had swung swung on 1 he ho was asked ed I see the time stock the they offered you OU at ut a share shore Is selling for tor 00 CO Benny smiled and und shook his head Im glad they are it pay he lie said They deserve It It they played square with me And Im I'm happy huppy here Suppose we go deer hunting tomorrow tomor row 1 They did That was In the fall of ot 11 1010 1919 A few days das later inter Benny returned with a bucks buck's antlers for 01 the children The They saw him afar off and amid ran to meet him ills His wife came to the time doorway smiling She hud had cool cooked ed just what he lie wanted wanted wanted-it It was as ready for him Benn Benny In the tIme prime of ot health and feeling that the time good God had hd been kind to give him so much happiness went In huh and sat down own at atthe the time table tahle He lIe bowed owed his head In iii prayer Ills HIs heart stopped beating before he lie c could uld re- re re ll reopen open his eyes They have taken out of ot tlC lager mines General l Manager Mann Mana ger gel A. A Ii F. F BrIgham announced announcer this week that yoi of ot or ore had been charted out for the next three years Experts say there Is another worth of gold old waiting for fur them A million dollars of ore I Is being taken out each ouch month und and one half of that Is net profit Some of ot the time members of the original syn sn I- I l- l I cate are fire receiving dividends ut at the rate of ot a day It Is the time worlds world's greatest geld mine New New York World r |