Show NO MORE MINING 1 FOR HIM G oa experience 0 of diersing for bold was wa all it H want wanted d observed a young oung lawyer friend at 0 yoe Val 41 1 I have boon a cold minor in a my lime time all and d I 1 had about all I 1 wanted of 0 it in that one experience I 1 can assure you you sec 00 oo bo he wont ou on 1 I was pos easiod alth ith the idea when I 1 loft lots col cal lose logo some live years no that id liko like to go into told lola mining rus a bud buti nati noss first id learn tho the practical part of it then id locate orao some valuable alu able claim somewhere and take things easy afterwards merely taking out enough gold to pay my iny running u sound bounds noil ftp well I 1 had a couple of 0 hundred dollars eared saved up and with this I 1 bought an outfit of rough clothing and a ticket for tho the west coins going into de detallo det alln I 1 boand to a myself somo two weeks afterwards in irtz flat a mining camp in bl dorado county cal my money was about cone gone too and as I 1 had no way of procuring additional funds I 1 had to set to work whether I 1 to or not 1 I mot a mine boe up thoro there who agreed in consideration of at a ton ten dollar gold tho I 1 malloy I 1 had to giso rno me a job as helper in ono one of tho the lower levels of bis his mine iho next day I 1 out for my now flold field of at labora labor rf it was tho the doad dead of win winter to r and bittor bitter cold the snow was about two foet feet deep on tho the level and through thie this wo had to tramp trump a distance di stanco of half a mile to tho the mine thue thus far the outlook was not on cou ragina carta certainly hero cot got in tho the coco there 1 eald said iho the bos boss 1 1 pointing ing to it box like affair suspended over a holo hole in tho tha ground with motoo misgivings I 1 rot got aboard and then down wo we wont went I 1 down down until it scorned seemed almost us as if it wo had rt ached tho the center ol 01 tho the earth it wab dark as pitch too save for the rays of the candle which I 1 carried then I 1 bud had to crawl on my hands and knees through a narrow damp until we reached tho the face of the drift hero jim said tho the boss heros bores it new hand for ou better set him to work hold inc Ink drill 1 1 I put out my bund blind and folta felts thick slimy ooze against tho the wall small streams of water trickled from above down the back of my nock neck there was no gold in eight might either no dins treasure palace erected greeted my caes a as I 1 fondly hoped to it was an uncanny place damp dismal and altogether horrible to contemplate 11 here young feller teller pit gil a hold on an this drill will 3 a or ana and as I 1 instinctively obeyed jim prepared to strike whish and down came tho the hammer on the healt of the drill drift I 1 remembered only seeing a thousand slurs stare and then all became a blank when I 1 returned to consciousness I 1 found my arm in a sling the blow had glanced and the hammer bad had do on ray my forearm youre in luck 5 a our arm broken eald said tho the mine boss and then ho he added addel with evident eident contempt say youre no miner I 1 think school teaching is more in your line I 1 aiu allu was probably right at any rate rato I 1 managed to work my way bar back bark k to the coast and was glad enough to see new york city again I 1 can tell a no abreo no more gold or any other kind of manin mining in mine not if I 1 C can cin in help 10 1 l now borc herald |