Show BELIEVE IT OR NOT OF COURSE WE BELIEVE IT it is stated that at the next state legislature neva nevada da badger will vill ask the passage of a law lav prohibiting t the lie killing alln 1 of 01 e 0 of f they say that the badger is a natural gold old di digger dier er and that although housti the bir big strikes in that state have be been ii made by wu biad spelled ope these little animals probably did not know that the aliey i taken frol new gold old fields it is said that the lar largest grest nugget ever evera are pleat y nevada came from a badger hole and that where wre there agya gya of badger bad t cr holes there is liable to be 11 gold believe it or noi tintic gintic Tin tic reporter ity it t lie to substantiate the declaration that we ive believe evidence is herewith offered 14 j alc at one time several years before his death jo tile gate state of crystal one of the best known mining engineers engineer 13 1 3 s 0 idich o a pt and brother of jackson C mccrystal both as n civa of the tintic gintic district as the famous G emilli and nevada evada t mines mines with which they grew rew up was called to v aich d make imade an all examination of a mining property 01 hi s had started in a rather superficial way consider erable ble return from the property which had been alv iven ren co reporter publicity mr mccrystal was asked by a aked looked to on one of tile the daily papers how the proposition him he replied in substance the 1116 let me not enough work has been done to determine w either its of the so called strike so I 1 dont c care are to be q k for or against it but you may quote me ine as saying that gopher mining evidently has been reduced toa to a fine art in at least some portions of nevada over in the section that I 1 visited even the little rodents known as gophers are adepts at imitating b the example of the prospector why they even know bow to sort the ore from the gangue material at one on oil the property I 1 inspected these cunnin cunnings cunning 1 1 little fellows had burrowed into the ledge and had built up a miniature dump on one side they had carefully piled the first class ore on oil the other they had stacked up the second class and out through the center they had kicked out the waste gangue material gopher mining you bet the little devils know the 21 game ame so of course we believe it by all means protect the badgers and the gophers op hers |