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Show MILLARD, THE UBIQUITOUS. We hud a call, yesterday, from V. L. Millard, a man who is a ! thorough type of the bohemian prospector. He has traveled over nearly every section of the toot tool; was in the African diamond tit-Ids a short time since, gathering sparklers: spent the summer in San Juan: has been taking a spin through Montana and Utah, looking up le;ids: l-oarded with a nrt-class Mexican family i:i Sononi, a few days,and then ran up to Colorado to see the boys and gU a breath of fresh air. It is his intention to look up a lot of claims of marvelous richness in the tiwee:-! tiwee:-! water country, and then saunter up into the Like Superior region, hunting hunt-ing lifter some rich rock that is said to exist there. This done, Millard th:r.ks he'll step down to Colorado agaui, disburse a few claims aai finest his Iricnds and slip down to Silver Ci:y for a couple of davs. He's a phenomenon, Muhrd is, and can out-ta:k out-ta:k two-thirds of the professionals o: tr.e day. His conversation U a charming admixture of senlimentanu i slang, philosophy and poiiti.-s, presumption pre-sumption and candor. He can .-pit a str.iigLter stream of tobacc imce than any man wfo ever sat .:: our editorial mom, and can hit with hi -;uti-j with more unerring accuracy ti.e backs or the books in our library t:..iii any other snitti-t in the country. MiiLml is simply a brick, and van l:.k mines into a craven ima-,. woirl'in's be afraid to Wi that lit cuii'd sell a discovery to a corps,-, ;uui make the purchaser believe that ar--ntite w:w pure nuriiVrou- p-k. Mili.im seductive in ids ways. gonial j;: liis manners, and is the 1-os.- pp--pector aivl ubio'titoiis gold huut.T oj L;e c-juntiT. '.ir-.r X'.v.J, |
