Show 11 I 1 mm TO THE BONANZA I 1 I 1 jim rule falls fails to dmd arnd new comstock treasure ire asure II 11 THE HOPE TURNED TO ASHES I 1 I 1 courses courage of stock brokers broker that wr revived IT br tho the Proun leas of ono one who has ha minors minor look ladle again cubed to r earth arth by aules Nal failure lurtis to an or atay I 1 in consolidated virginia N joltn J i rn rul bulo a haa box not foufa tt it promised I 1 sed now bonanza la ill the C VIrg lula mine the th brokers are ajun I 1 discouraged and the son francisco examiner says bays mat old jim rule repute of the ilia under earth lion as 03 a 11 0 tf Is in need of 0 repairs the great strike that t w was to revive g oe aa alio 0 ti throes tn oaty 0 the h 6 v e nt je br bringing ingling the ithe comstock lodo lode into attention alte nUon make it a few more millionaires and ail 1 several thousand more haupers paupers pau pers peril set et corks pop plot under the influence of a new net met of 0 wine openers and bring back crowd to pino street bas na not net beert been it nick jim rule has baa prodded the th rock which lie deemed heavy with silver wind lound found nothing but some borne cheap 36 took rock the tb way way jim rule ad per aslon to seek the nw now bon bonanza ariza Is a romance alt the latter day times in mining P he ha sold simply that the ore was there and tile tho direct uis told him to dig it out but rules history sa as a miner was waa a vast influence innuendo in securing tor for him the permission und aai the appropriation ot of money that he ha wanted ile ai was regarded un on the ewt t as is n mascot of the tha lower levela levak this to la the history that gained him what he be sought J jim 1 it rule huls la Is one of the cornish that ha t came to the coast to a seo it digging tor for gold eoll mid and hilver might not tin lie inure than for val roal and tin under the surf or if the tin jill yes tea of tits his in n I 1 nils au as a 1 manful hadnet ca ne lie front I 1 ab exis fcc its iti brown s luey itley tile location c of tile the pennsylvania and the keystone barics about those ri viness vwe worked word lah alth creat under ui tile direction 0 of rule in the I 1 groat between the brown valli and aid tile the grass arl valley lea mines tho the keystone Keye tone and the pennsylvania proved i the equal of the life famous und and I 1 owney t before water la in the ellett ehatt stopped further vi bule was strenuous in his iresom e luenda lons that work woric should be continued but prescott of marys akile wore n not ot vv illIng to provide the costly cosily machinery that was waa needed and bence hi the tha shaft was as not punk deter deew than the O foot level since that time work in the tha drown J alley mines mine has never been resumed duld GOES TO NEVADA disgusted at this ending of oc ills his hoam rule went to nevada to spy opy out cut what truth there theio might be in the tales of the fabulous riches irk in tho the lierle discovered constock Conw Corn tock lode ito I 1 to I 1 went to lysla city and w worked aked with rick pick and shovel movel until some mine boss saw that he was too loo valuable a miner to spend his hia time on lifs life own manual labor he was advanced to shaft boss foreman ond and superintendent for a time he was superintendent dent of 0 the lady bryan brsan owned by its ills brother obin john rule atil william 0 oneill neall but unluckily the lady bryan was off tho the comstock comstoch and atter after contant tapping carne to 10 bo be pamel deemed pc mel one of the most untamable of tho the wildcats I 1 his experience in the lady bryan one of the few ex of jim rule who until unlit not now was thought to have miners luck which may mean intelligence avid and raudy lie he made such a study of tile the comstock lode and read the language ot of the rocks rocha so closely that senator john P jones who to Is supposed to have a rood ehnow ledge of the comstock on en waxed him as underground fote flieman man when lie the consolidated virginia mine under milder contract about ten years ago aeo senator jones owned mills for working the ore the mines were not producing pay rock and foreseeing that thai the mines might be closed and provide no work for his mills mr jones made an agreement with the con Foli dated virginia company by which ito ho was to work the ole mine at his bis expense paying the mining co company in party 60 cents tor for every ton of ore he took out the discoveries ot of rule while working tor for senator jones gave eave him the opportunity port unity to make tho the search fur for the bonanza of ISM 18 that never was found he directed considerable work from the 1100 foot level and then deeming that his employer had not treated him fairly he parted from him in an anger ger lie he callied caal d away a memory riter nory of a body 0 tire ore that he had never mentioned to I 1 ills his employer in a year or I 1 less one jone s yielded ills contract saying he be had lost money ever since he had begun tu to dig ore WHAT MADE imi FAMOUS OUS rule kept his secret about the ore he had bad seen in the eighties he perfo performed arned it a feat that made biffl famous among miners tit at the time the stock market 1 was in a state of collapse not one stock on the board waa selling tor for tl 1 I 1 IL share consolidated virginia had bad levied an assessment of 20 cents centa and I 1 the stock was offered tor for 25 cents a share a asep paid while the market was vias in this cmil condition of parmeala pa reala rule made a propone tion alon to develop a body of ore in the gould curry mine tor for 0 a share of 0 rite ilio proceeds lie he said ho he knew the ole oie was waa nedr near the southern boundary of the mine find and ile he could find it lie he had his 0 opportunity in one sense merso lie he waa title buc ces cess stul ful in another unsuccessful f u 1 lie he did find the ore body but ins instead tend ot of I 1 lying in the could curry mine it was in the savage just juet over the boundary line this discovery in savage caused a revival ot of in mining stocks which was augmented by a discovery ot of ore made about tile the same time in consolidated virginia for it a time rule turned his 1111 attention to gold mining and as superintendent ot of the hurley mine in Cala Calavera veras ii coun ty ly produced urge large quantities of pron table ore from a mine unproductive for or I 1 many years year last I ast fall rule ald lirange things about that secret bouy body of 0 ore in the I 1 virginia mine he told of 0 a discovery ho he made when iw I 1 or jones A drift from the 1100 foot level of the th consolidated virginia mine ranging upward and to the south had tapped a largo body ot of valuable ore angry at jones because of treatment he deemed unjust he hael bad covered up the ore are ile ho told his story to the directors ot of the company ho slid said bo be was waa sure ho he could nod find that ore no he was so certain that ho he offered to charge nothing for hlf his services unless la 10 brought out that ore the directors tempted his kropa rillon million they authorized authorised an expenditure c of KWO a month finder rules direction tor for six elx months rule wim was to receive 30 0 per cent of the net proceeds front from any ore he be found but hin share was not to exceed no matter how much ore was dug out under hie gid guidance dance I FOR 1 OR A BONANZA then began tha rho work at the ni mine inc first repair of the old tit consolidated virginia shaft was waa this shaft 1650 feet derp deep had not nol been used tor for years except as a vent for gasna gailes the shafts used in working the mine ama abl C C Call fol nia cun coil Voli daled og or the ophir shaft i or the boat beat belcher than ha f f for or u underground fill all tile mines ot t t the h e C Com on sloAt are connected by it a maze of tunnels and drifts a mystery of the drifts to all except ilia few experts who know the lode us it a car conductor knows his hl cockels cockell after the repairs to the shaft nn an excavation ca on was made at the 10 1000 foot foot level for a room for of supplies and for direction of work brigade headd headquarters for an army of the dark from thu this room a bui tiou the miners call 1 11 it was waa excavated a horizontal deitle drift e extending due south in this thin drift rule to find the ore he tapped when working upward from the 1100 foot level day after day the ml elnera ore drilled and drilled and rule promised dase aana and hoped still the great banawa WM waa not lound found some silver allver bearing ore was plied piled away its 01 the drilling continued much of it contained only 12 to tho the ton the most valuable contained 36 to the ton the tha average assay value was waa 20 to the ton toil this prod product u ct was not profitable rule itule was groping in what the miners call 11 broken broen rock in this formation a nugget may ay be found as a raisin may be spooned out of a pudding but it Is no not t U alia a kind of formation in which to find a b box 0 x of raisins that la is a a big body of ore so the six months given to jim rule to find tho the new bonanca will mill expire on juno june lt the mining company has spent on the work nothing better than a little PO ore hns has been found PLEADS FOR FURTHER jimr the directors of the consolidated california and virginia held a meeting on friday jim lule came down from virginia city to be present at that meeting ile ho appeared before LIT the e directors confessed confes aed ill his failure thus tar far but begged begged tor for jut just two months more time to continue hla his exploration the directors said bald him nay the th op P that he sought bought had been given him he H tried and failed no exten alon of time would bo be gran led the conditions are just the lie ARMO is as before rule mado made his bin contract save sav that the old consolidated virginia shaft Is in order for working and at a new drift has borin boon made at tho the 1000 0 foot lovel love superintendent lyman intends to continue work at this level though rule will not be there to direct tho the honesty of jim nula rules 9 declarations Is not auctioned old miners miner say the reason that rule did not find the ore Is that the ore was taken out under tile the of roger bronder past fast who succeeded Bucco eded him when he ha loft left the employment of jones the brokers are disappointed whon the contract with rule was made six alx months ago tho the hopes of the operators were expressed in an increase ise in tile tho price of consolidated california and virginia and other comstock nice ka recently it a little flurry in stocks has oc occurred currL but this had bad nothing to do with rules work rule what beco nta nes of him ile he says bays ho he sill go back to talaveras calaveras Cala voras veras and pull out more gold for uie the owner of 0 tho the hutley hurley mine he does want just juat one more ith chanco ancis at that 1000 foot level in C consolidated anso H virginia but chance Is denied him and d the big bonama of 1891 ft as as not found |