Show S Dame F FOrtune Smiles Upon a BrokenHearted Miner I Turning from a long chase after the elusive yellow metal toward his hI old borne on a Vermont farm Carl Burkley a prospector ot of Ney Nev struck a rich vein In an unexpected quarter and has quit the to go east to spend the rest of his days on the farm arm Back In Vermont a fortune of In cash and a big farm are awaIting hIm Leaving his Nevada home he has bas ar arrived rived lived In Salt Lake and has been telling his friends of the good fortune that befell him It was by merest chance that he learned of the windfall He was prospect prospectIng Ing around when a comrade Informed In Informed formed him that a letter Jetter awaIted him at atthe atthe the It had been there for fora a week after traveling over the west in search of him Burkley knew the letter contained something of Importance for it was the first he had receIved since he left home It was In the early nineties when he came west and he tells the story In his own wa way Well he said as he recounted the story to a number of Salt Lake friends I have hae a ticket and enough money to carry me to Montpelier Vt my old home I have made Salt Lake my head bead headquarters quarters when In this part of the west and the city has great attraction for me meI I dont ever expect to come back though for I am going back to the farm I am tired of the prospecting game for there hRS has been nothIng In It for me When I was younger I had a pretty fall fair education and learned a 11 lot about so I thought I could come anywhere In the west and pick up gold where others failed to find It Then I started a rainbow chase through four or five western states and wound up recently rather discouraged for I had laid nothing by for my old age I never expected that my failure at prospecting would be followed by g good od fortune from another direction nor that this good fortune would take me back to the old Vermont hills where I was raised It was less than a week weck ago that a friend of mine who Is also prospecting to me there was a letter Jetter at I Is s sned something unusual and dlan dida t lose an any time getting to the postoffice I had practically secluded myself from friends and relatives and Imag ImagIne the Ine who WaS writing to me When I rode Into after afier a long journey over the hills bills I found a letter from attorneys In Burlington Vt In which It was announced that ray my grand grandfathers grandfathers fathers estate valued at more than had been left entirely to me meI I 1 blew out of and came right to Salt Lake I bought a ticket to Ver Vermont Vermont mont had a little UttIe money left and I the New Years day In the happiest sort ot of way Oh Ill be back in Vermont In a week and Ill never leave the old state What Interest I have hae In mining will be handled from there and It Is me for the farm for the rest of my life Im going to milk cows plant crops farm and fIsh and hunt just as my grand grandfather fath father r did and as I used to do when I Iwas Iwas was a boy Twenty years of prospecting has taught me there is nothing In the game It Is a game of chance and the farm Is safer and with a more even break Burkley helped start the boom in the theold theold old Carbonate mining district near Glen Glenwood Glenwood wood Springs Colo Coio and In the Goldfield and Bullfrog district he was equally ac active active tive but the net result of his labors was little more than nothing He had hadI great faith I in n the district about and expects that district to be heard from within a few years but he says It I cant create enough o 0 fa sensation to drag him away from the farm Ho He has scratched the Itch from his feet |