Show KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT HELPED OUT MINERS they followed the example set by byrua the great when he captured babylon A few tons of silver ore instead of a city was at stake however there were gathered in the lobby of the windsor hotel a number of engineers and mining superintendents As is frequently the case there was a good deal of talk of shop among the nam ber present were men who had been working at one time or another in nearly every prominent silver camp in the united states the climax however was reached when one of the mining men showed how a knowledge of ancient history once camo into play and paid a man exceedingly well of course he said yon have all heard of the pelican and the dives mines at georgetown and know that there has been very rich ore taken from these claims there waa a dispute between the owners of the claims the dives used to keep its ore and have it all sampled sanday the idea was that no civil pro cess could be served sunday and by getting the ore down and sampled that day there was no chance for their opponents to do anything of course after the ore was sampled no one coald swear to its identity when removed from the sampler and so it was safe the rest odthe week the dives people aimed to ship down about tons each sunday this amount of ore being valued at about mr schneider the banker who was afterward shot was tha owner cf the pelican and was anxious to get even with the dives people in any way possible one day he told one of the miners around georgetown that he could have all the ore that he could get from the dives people and that he would purchase the same at full value at the pelican mill the bargain certainly gave no one a legal title to the ore thus to be obtained and as to the moral aspects of the question I 1 Bupp tese that bother any one of them the law certainly would have looked upon ore taken from the dives people under this arrangement as stolen ore OBTAINED THE KEGS the miner with whom the arrangement had been made had for some time had some low grade ore in sacks in one of the bins of the foster sampler a mill about half a mile above the sampler where the ore of the dives people was sampled one evening after he had made arrangements with a couple of friends he went to mr foster after the latter had locked up his samp lerand asked him for the key of the mill as he wanted to gy the sacks holding the low grade ore stacked in the mill mr foster of course had no objection and handed over the key during the night there came along a wagon loaded wah ore picked out at the dives mine by one who knew the grade of the ore it was dropped on the hill and the two men packed the ore in the foster sampler the ore was put m the sacks which formerly held the low grade bajena ore it was impossible to take away the oro that night so it was left with the hope that mr foster donld not notice anything out of the way but when the next night it was noticed by the two conspirators that a brand new lock was placed on the door of the mill and that all the windows had been firmly fastened down they needed no one to tell them that mr foster wanted an explanation of how worthless galena oro had suddenly become ore running ounces in silver the two conspirators sneaked around the mill hunting for an unguarded place but every point was locked no door opened no window was to break in meant burglary and burglary means canyon city for a term if discovered so what to do became the question KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY here came in the advantage of reading says theone to the other have you ever read any ancient history no was the reply and what good would it be here well if you had you would know how to solve the problem of entering this mill without breaking it cyrus entered babylon by turning the river that flowed beneath the walls of the city and entered by the way thus opened we must do the same with the water running through the flume entering the mill and thus enter without breaking through tho wall or through the roof it much of a job to turn the water of the flume at the adgate he and in a few minutes the flume was dry here was a good pathway leading into the mill and nothing needed to be broken or in any way injured it very long beford our two conspirators were in the mill and were moving the sacks with the rich ore about which mr foster was so particular and anxious to learn something the time at command did not allow of carrying the ore entirely away not only that but it was not safe to handle just that class of ore immediately for at the least it meant a cutting of a good deal of the profit of the job here again the flume and its supply of water caffa in handy alio sacks with the ore were dropped over the tail flume and as soon as the water was turned on there was a veil of hiding all that wealth hidden behind it when the conspirators had moved all the ore they returned by tho way they had come again turned on the water and then nothing on the outside showed that the mill colonger no longer held the ore it once did when the doors were opened in the morning everything was found as usual except that the ore to guard which all the paddocks and nails and screws had been brought into requisition was gone in due time the ore wag removed from beneath iia curtain of water brought to sampler and sold it ran ounces in silver to every ton and as there was a little more than five tons it can be readily calculated thai good pay als received for the slee los ja night denver bevre i the iron port of the world Escana bais the county seat of delta county mich it lies at the foot of the great pine forests and overlooks little bay the head waters of green bay five years since it was practically a village in tho wilderness according to mr nurses Nur carefully written report capable of tha fullest verification Es canaba is the greatest iron port of the world he tells us that during tha navigation season of 1890 it shipped tons of iron ore or nearly double that of au the ore porta of michigan wisconsin and minnesota combined its lumber output amounted to about feet while the freight capacity of the vessels entering and clearing from its port exceeded tons this compares with the tonnages ton nages of tha greatest seaports of the world which are 1 london 2 liverpool 3 new york and next comes with tons iron mrs john drew has been on the stage for sixty two years she is seventy one bews yews old and when e child of nine sha appeared tin several plays in the louia dihe theaters sho wis born in london and arus advertised ia hor day is an infantile |