Salt Lake Times | 1890-12-11 | Page 9 | How Shorty Started the Mule

H iw Shorty Started the Mule. Arizona Miner. Shorty Smith, the boss packer of the Hradshaw mountains, while driving his pack train up the Del Pasco hill, had a very exciting experience last week. Part of the mules were loaded with a Frue concentrator. Oxie of the mules, the largest in the train, was loaded with the long side stills of the concentrator, i one on each side, and when the train had gotten half way up the hill and on the steepest part of the trail the mule with the timbers gave a lurch sideways and landed about 100 feet down the hill and lodged in the air between two oak trees about iifteen feet from the ground. How to got the, mule down was the next question. But, like all great packers, Shorty was equal to the emergency, lie soon took iu the situation, rushed up to one of the mules that has some, powder, pow-der, caps and fuse in its pack, which he soon fixed so as to explode the powder and placed it in the hollow end of one of the trees, lie touched a match to the fuse and yelled: "Get out of the road! " and when the shot went off and tho smoke had cleared away Shorty looked around and saw old Tom (the mule), with his load all on. walkim? un the hill to the train, and not a scratch on him.