Show DOES GOLD PROW There Are Miners Who Believe That it Does I r > gold grow There are old mining men in Utah ulio nelieve that it does and some oT thrm cite instances to prove their theory the-ory orvOn old miner in particular relates his experience in this direction Onetime One-time manyyears ago said he I was working amine in the west hills J rail tunnel on a fairly good lead of gold ore and had a fairsized dump when I struck water and just about that time my attention was diverted to another camp Fifteen years afterwards after-wards I returned to the mine which was in an inaccessible place I had never been touched during my absence ab-sence or relocated But you may judge of my surprise however when I found that the dump was a solid mass of gold ore How did J account for it you say Well I never did settle the question to my satisfactfon unlessit was that the water which came from the tunnel and emptied onto and into the dump held gold in solution which by some natural chemical action was precipitated precipi-tated upon and taken up by the waste and rock in the dump A recent issue of the Butte InterMountain Inter-Mountain contained an article on Does Gold Grow as follows They werE all weatherbeaten trailblazers blazers who had led the march of civilization into the mountains and as they toasted their hlns by the big stove in Lon Pickett s hotel bar at Melrose their conversation wandere from the recent election and the departed de-parted jrlories of other days to the latest discoveries in science John Helehan had just quit reading from 2 mining Journal about Professor Em mons discovery of the method of transmuting trans-muting silver into gold hI think Emmonsis a humbug said old Judge Longly a California Argonaut Argo-naut The old alchemists you know tried that but they might as well have tried to make an apple seed Nature an holds the germ and all the scientists who imitate is to her can do quicken its growth Ive heardl tell of gold growing I remarked Will Robbins So have I said the judge but you have never seen i grow have you I dont believe all the yarns these experts spin anyhow Boys spoke up John Treanor perhaps per-haps I have got some queer old notions no-tions stowed away under this diggin hat of mine hut for 30 years man and boy Ive been a prospector and rye been doin some thinking And I tell you now that 1 believe gold does grow Twenty years ago I struck the Locust and sank a shaft I was silver ver ore and after diggin for awhile I gave it up in disgust Then I wandered wan-dered over to the other side of the range and located the Banner a copper mine now in the possession of the Anaconda company I moseyed around for awhile and eight years ago I went back to my old love the Locust Hang me if I could believe my eyes I boys when I found the prettiest ledge I of gold ore right where the silver ledge was I was as pretty us a icture and I kept right on diggin and have been diggin in that hole ever since I seemed to me that in the places I where the water struck t it grew richer I run three tunnels at the bottom bot-tom but found the gold was not yet ripe so I just closed up the tunnels and let them rest for a few years 1 I Blame me if I dont think Hank Stebbins does the same thing said Jack Flice Hank lives up in Soap Gulch and has a claim he calls the Belcher He discovered it 30 years ago when Wash Stapleton was making mak-ing bullets in his mine to kill Indians with I is in a reef of sand lying between be-tween the lime formation that borders I on the Melrose valley and the stratified gneiss formation that runs from that i point to the base of Red mountain j Thirty years ago Hank discovered that there were gloluies of silver in I the sand and located it but there i wasnt enough mineral to pay and h ° j abandoned it Ten years ago he went hack to the old mine and began turning turn-ing ovei the sand He began to find chunks of gold instead of silver He has a good thing of it now He mines it like the Mexicans used to mine it years ago He cuts stairs in the sand and takes the rock u in a candle box and sorts it over Now all he has to do when he wants to make a stake is to go down to the sand pile and wiggle a crowbar for a few minutes and up comes a piece of shining gold Several capitalists have attempted to get hold of the mine and one of Heijves agents made him a good offer of-fer for i but Hank wont sell for he I is sure he has a fortune if the gold keeps on growing |