Show A MINK ml NS THA MOUTH Os one of abo th It bat itatani Won lr of monna reference to the natural vr wonders onders of montana particularly tho the chicken broth and springs brings bring to light others of equal magnitude colonel john doyles wonderful vinegar mia in ill beaverly ro nd county passes sea tile dorair dor tir i of doubt into the su sunlit alight ht of truth it is backal b by crisp affidavits and ad davits cost one dollar each in montana the colonel and his hia partners partner did not confine Tea to vinegar they discovered ts mountain of pure alum in the beaverhead Beaver bad range the was considered ten strike and d better than 4 gold geld U chiq jue they kept the find a caret for deveral weeks during which a shaft haft wu waa sunk bunk to the th depth of 0 SW feet the out cut waa vae made ill all the way through a solid solia vein of alum and it WM wius estimated that efm whole mountain was composed of oell M A large pile of stuff was heaped near the th nine mine ready for shipments shipment and abo minei bad a scheme to flood taa th duket with ith their product and take rake ja io at one fell swoop monday the colo colonel guella partner went to tb town to lay IZ in 46 bawa clipp of grub and tho the former remained beuoy to guard fhe he treasure during the morning a heavy raft be b gau gan to fall and con continued fluted an all day and in the afternoon the colonel had to go down tato into tha mine making aa be descent by sliding down the 8 aiom aad when onoe down at the bottom wila go A taken up with a 0 of hla bis novel and wonderful mine that he bb dia dj not heed toe the fleeting eting hours houra unta he h ha hp bened to eat hia bla eyes upward wid and saw iata that daylight had faded from the of the shaft he started to climb up p ward but had not proceeded more clial taa halt half way when to his horror he discovered that tile the heavy fall of rain haAso had BO thoroughly saturated the alum aluin siahs of the shaft that as a natural result they had drawn together until the hote bab conw no scarcely large enough for a man to crawl through the imprisoned m man recognized his awful position tiou wid arid without losing much time struggled toward the top of abo shaft every foot he advanced the shaft became smaller and for the last ten feet he was compelled to dig his way with a pocketknife and when vh he finally finalli reached tho the mcdace lie he was completely exhausted his clothes 0 o torn kru mid and his body badly bruised bruise 4 to the r iraln which was waa still fa falling fling soon revived the colonel and he started toward toe be camp to meet his hie partner to whom be related ilia his marvelous marve loua exper experience tince together they started to their mine or at least tried to tor although they strat searched for two days they were unable to find fina any sight eight of their late possessions the rain had undoubtedly thoroughly and tightly closed up the discovery shaft and melted away every sign of the alum piled on OB the mhd outside so that to this time it has been impossible to find any trace of tho the mine omaha bee |