Show MIDNIGHT BEll ROMANCE Property Near Alpine Is Being Re Be Reopened Reopened opened by Man Nan Who Lost Out On It Lehl April 14 Owners of the Midnight Bell mine which h is located near noor Alpine 1 about seven miles north of here are re rejoicing rejoicIng Joking over oer some important disclosures I which have recently been made in the property Several samples were sent to the assayer today which no doubt will wilt go well in lead and silver sliver But the own owners owners owners ers are especially concerned in a strike which they the expect to make malc in about a week or ten days das Jed Wilkins Hard Har Luck I It seems S that about ten years ears ago this property was vas located by h Jed J d of Alpine He lie was an ordinary an anand and worked on it at intervals for six or doing probably 1000 worth seven years rears I o of or development work ork Finally he opened up a body of lead leall carbonate ore about I two feet thick The ground was loose loos and two days da s after he struck it his in incline Incline cline dine shaft caved in Patiently he be cleaned it all out again and had Just gotten it in shape when again the treacherous ground gave way and Mr Ir Wilkins went off to develop development development earn some money mone to continue ment mont and support his family False friends so his story stor goes got him Intoxicated on hard cider at the cru cm crucial crucial cial moment and in the middle of the night Jumped his property They Ther cleaned out several old and abandoned drifts in inthe Inthe Inthe the hope of locating the lost ore and after locating each other out in turn finally lost the ground and it came into possession pO of its present owners Agrees to Uncover the Ore What hat gives the color of truth to Wil Wilkins 11 tons kins story Is the fact that he has signed sl ned neda a contract with the Midnight Bell directors direct ors era tn to clean out the drift at the bottom of which lies the ore capped with five feet of lime which Is itself shot full of ga galena gaI galena lena I na and if he does not find it as he lie I claims he had it before betor he sets gets ets no pay pa t I Ifor for his services Since he ho went to work worl I two days ago the stock sto k has up roo per cent and if his story stor proves true It I will take another similar raise I |