Show A KANSAS MANS the saying 1 that it is better to be born lucky than rich proves true more often than most old proverbs the rich man may spend his riches in fruitless mining while the lucky man manvill will be taking a walk with his head in the air and stub his toe against a million dollar gold or silver mine this latter piece of luck happened to mr B F deweese who according to his own description is a kansas tenderfoot visiting arizona to look around 16 he was loitering along agodo I 1 red buck canyon which flows into the hassayampa Hassa yampa just below the oro fino mine not dot pretending to prospect for he knows nothing no thins about 0 ore re when he came upon a cropping of some peculiar looking black rock As he was collecting a few specimens and curios to take home he broke off a piece of it and finding that it hung together by strings he concluded they were grass gr ass roots and tossed the fragment away but he kept a very small piece to add to his collection all this happened on the of last february and he never gave it a second thought until last week when he was exhibiting his curios to J B leonard an experienced and case hardened prospector leonards practiced eye at once singled out the small piece of black rock and ea eagerly berly inquired where it had bad come from it was covered with wire silver and black sulphur ets mr deweese having a good bump of locality was able to take him to the place with the result that they located a bedre four feet in width of ore that runs into the thousands this piece niece of news will probably cause an influx of kansans kansana to yavapai 1 county to try their luck but come to think of it mr deweese did not even try the prospect prescott arizona arizo a |