| Show HORSES ON SNOWSHOES SNOW SHOES mr miles tells ft a rainy rahly good mi ning story A group croup of mining men had gathered in the lobby of the Knut stoid to listen to a discussion on the bonanzas when mr C W miles who Is said eald to be deac reaching hang out for a controlling interest in the P property perty of tho the sunshine mito mining ning company drew up a chair 1 I hear considerable talk in this locality about the snowfall and its interference ter with development at the mines was waa his opening they dont know anything about snow and tho that may arabo from rom it lie ho continued for two years I 1 super intended the development of a piece of ground on which an english syndicate expended in a a vain attempt to make a mine out of it in plumes Pl unias sierra county california where in penetrating et ot it some gome P parts Is ot of the trip are arve made over twenty five feet beet of snow enow you may look incredulously upon tho the state statement ment but I 1 want to tell you that a after le leaving oving the stage at strawberry valley and taking tile the sleigh tor for lm la porte the tha horses are put on snowshoes and without them the beast refuses to budge an inch somebody snickered oh I 1 am aware of the incredulous aspect ot of the story etory continued mr 1111 hut but there are hundreds to lo verify it four horses in harness and every toot foot encased in a snowshoe snow shoo that Is made on the pattern of a big biff soup bowl the tha shoes are enameled as it were with application of a lope dope that prevents tho the snow front from adhering to it and tile animals soon coon learn to maintain a very rood pace more of a shuffle shuf llo perhaps the narrator departed from the thread of his story to tell about what Js Is known as thistle all shaft aft by which the property of a big biff scotch company Is developed the shaft has attained a depth of feet where it taps tile khe bod bed of an ancient water course above which the mountain rears itself from this shaft drifts have radiated the gold cold bearing gravel beginning at ft a point three feet above bedrock and spreading over tin an area of yards nothing that does not afford a gross SS value of 3 per cubic yard Is hoisted says mr miles iles at present the mine and the employment it affords are arc tile the only things upon which the locality has to depend although there alu re has been considerable prospecting mr miles leavea for mercur early next weik week to inquire further in into t 0 tile tho merits ot of that locality |
