Show r the TALE OE A SUPPOSED TENDERFOOT D I BY By I AND A MEXICAN oot l mine operator from Utah decided to add to Ills e experience perk nce and Ir if t lle ble his hla pocket b by a tour of Mia business was mining He was born nd ral raised ed a mIner i His itinerary d Me Mexico o City whore where he met two to Mexican mine owners pd an honest promoter The char or of the Utah mining operator or suppo supposed ed cC were such that the honest promoter regarded him an e easy s mark Accordingly i the honest promoter handed him in large the tale OCR of a bonanza It cov O ored several or mining lo 10 and the present men only asking a mail sum pesos to enable them to Un live their re years in ordinary comfort the last work on the property The encountering or of water makinG modern ma machinery nece Mry and their WaRt want of funds re resulted In clo closing down don the miRe mine The work he said consist consisted etl ed ot of n a shaft about meters In depth with IncIdental levels from which It was said upward of had been produced The ledge he said wa was stronger and the ore richer at this depth mt but beyond this no reliable data could be procured The western t tenderfoot decided t to Investigate the proposition and ac M he told the honest pro promoter moter th that t he would visit the prop property property erty with the owners at their expense and that he had a friend that would him To this the owners and promoter readily consented The next day the they were busy makIng prep preparations preparations Two teams were necess necessary y yone one to carr carry the party of five and the c a other for the equipment which ed cd or of a couple or of timbers to set a windlass on some me rope a pall pair of hip rubber boots boot candles etc one etc t In Included included s a quart of tequila Making r an early arly morning start from the hotel on the Paseo de la Reforma the they passed the magni magnificent cent equestrian eo the monarch Charles CharieR the Fourth along the few Cew broad I paved aVoW clean cosmopolitan streets Including the sites site of the national pawnshop na JUI national lottery loMer thieves market Ute the house number 3 of Puerta Fal Falsa n d de deSanto Santo legand says un an Immoral woman lived with a Clergy Clergyman lerS Iman man and was transformed into a black mule and In fn this state shod like a horse When Vh n later on she was trans transmitted to her natural condition and diet she still wore the horse shoes the national museum etc and thence theo e along the narrow cobbled dirt dirty r streets street with their adobe bou houses es of one room which accommodates an entire Mexican can ean family together with their earthly JO possessions pigs turkeys R chickens cats and doss dogs and which is the typical home or of the numerous and poverty stricken peon peo l Thence along the Viga wIth its years ears of accumulated ob obnoxious obnoxious noxious odors finally reaching the open the way led over oyer acres and acres or of land entirely devoted to maquey plant lont extract of which is called pulque or Mexican beer 30 gallons of which is consumed each da daIn day In the CIt City o of eYe every short distance a shrine erected b by the grims in their journeys to and from the church of oC Guadalupe Each trav traveler tra eler that passed was supplied with pulque and Mexican cl cigarettes which are by rne men women and chil children children dren alike In due Um time the party arriVed at the place of 01 operations and began making ready fo for the descent While these preparations we wes on under the direction of the lend AC the tender tenderfoot t fOot who by h wa way wa wad his nose aeH elate the ten was taking ill in inthe the adjacent surrounding country countr and discovered a dump of considerable mal maz near the base of the mountain upon which thin c aimed bonanza was located At the point on the from whence the material came ame that the dU dump P everything had caved to such nn an extent that ordinary ob observation did not d disclose dose either a shaft or tunnel tunnelL t his return to the ty t however It is was 3 tuU fully explained by bythe bythe the promoter r who ho said it was Seas an abandoned shan shaft that the was wash h large and sudden that it if choked the shaft nar the surface thus making It too dangerous to fo attempt to Investigate nod and moreover nothing ha had ever been found ot of any value alue as could be veri verified von fled fied by an I n ot of the dump I A code ot of signals Vas arrange arranged be between tween the tenderfoot or prospective purchaser and his friend und and every everything i thing being iiI to readiness the tender tenderfoot tenderfoot foot placed one ClOt in n a noose of the rope and was slowly r and careful Carefully low lowered lowered ered When th the bottom was reached he soon discovered that there was waa not notto notto to exceed two to feet feat or of water at the deepest point and also that there thre Was excellent ventilation The shaft from surface to bottom did not show the least indication or of either eithern n a vein or miner and was one of those ugly pieces of oC work made to a ote the primitive chicken ladder The good n had bad Us its significance to the tenderfoot t and after relighting his 1215 candle several times he found Us its source in ih a small hole which he readily enlarged I pull pulling Ing aa away the loose dirt that had fallen from the collar or of the shaft and In a ae afew few e minutes he was In a tunnel of goodly proportions proportion but barren Reaching Reach IRe ing the portal porta of the tunnel h b y l through the small opening what he had observed d in his on the surface before de desi ending the shaft He removed ent of the loose rock to permit penult his exit and in iD a short time lie e was fas beside his companions much to the a astonishment of even eTen his friend who had been patiently patient awaitinG sig sh usia nals and h had d grown anxious at the stillness ess Ills IUs sudden appear lice ace and besmeared mudd muddy face and n nuu had bad a dire en effect t upon the own owners owners ers and wid promoter and the they offered t a prayer for their safe deliverance from the evil eU spirit before them and the quart ot of only went t of the way uch to the lUent of the tenderfoot and his friend The They showed their hesi hesitancy tunc tancy to further travel with the sup supt t supe supernatural being anti i insisted Oft on lightening the load by allowing Americans the full possession of the theone theone one rig while they crowded in amidSt the tools tool and other equipment and the abandoned but disillusioned tender tenderfoot tenderfoot foot and hIs friend made quick time back to the Cit City or of Mexico to tD be tol told of oC other fabulous producers with ith sun still great futures In that Mecca lecca of we wealth and fortunes fortunen |