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Show was the reply, 'and what good would it be here? 'Well, if you lad, you would know how to solve the problem of entering enter-ing this mill without broking it. Cyrus entered Babylon by timing the river that flowed beneath th( wnlls of the city !nd entered by tho vay thus opened. , We must do the same with the water running through tho fiuine entering the mill, and thus enter without breaking through tho wall or tlirough the roof.' "It wasn't much of a job to turn the water of the Hume at tho headgate, and in a few minutes the flume was dry. Here was a good pathway leading into the mill, and nothing needed to be broken or in any way injured. "It wasn't very long before our two j conspirators were in tho mill and were moving thesaeks with tho rich ore, about j which Mr. Foster was so particular and , anxious to learn something. '; "Tho time at command did not nllow OHfr-triafrTjUint V'ini"ff WKP'liO' WlrmiTrr just that class of ore immediately, for, at the least, it meant a cutting of a good deal of the. profit of the job. lb-re again the flume and its supply of water cams in handy. The sacks with the ore were dropped over the 'tail flume, and as soon i :ui tb water was turned on there was a j veil of water hiding all that wealth hid- , den behind it. "When the conspirators had moved all the ore they n turned by the way they bad come, itgain turned on the water, and then nothing on the outside showed ; that tho mill no longer held tho ore it ; once did. When the doors were opened in the morning everything was found as , usual, except that the ore, to guard , which all the paddocks and nails and j screws had been brought into requisi- , tion, was gone. ' In due time the ore was removed from beneath its curtain o water, brought to the Pelican sampler and sold, j It ran 470 ounces in silver to every ton, and us there was a little more than live ! tons, it can be readily calculated that ' good pay was received for the sleep loat ; at night." Denver New. i . j '! THROUGH THE FLUME. KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT HISTORY HELPED OUT MINERS. They Followed the Ktnmple Set by Cjrm the Great When He Cuptureil Kahytoii. . : A I'ew Tom of Silver Ore Iiisteuil of it ! City Was at Stake, However. j j There were gathered in the lobby of : the Windsor hotel a number of engi- . neers and mining superintendents. As is frequently the case, there was a good deal of talk of shop. Among the number num-ber present were men who had been working, at one time or another, in near- ' ly every prominent silver camp in the United States. The climax, however, was reached when one of the mining men showed how a knowledge of an- "pinj '"''V once catfcv ju)(uJ"'--'" "Ol rLJ:"' exceeding Vyou have all heard of the l'ifi. the Dives mines at Georgetown, and know that there has lieen very rich ore taken from these I claims. There was a dispute between j the owners of the claims. The Dives used j to keep its ore and have it all sampled i Sunday. The idea was that no civil process pro-cess could be served Sunday, and by get-ting get-ting the ore down and sampled that day j there was no chance for their opponents j to do anything. ' Of course, after t he ore j was sampled, no one could swear to it- j identity when removed from the sam- j pier, and so it was safe tho rest of the week. "The Dives people aimed to ship down about 100 tons each Sunday, this amount of ore being valued at about oO.OoO. I Air. Schneider, the banker, who was : afterward shot, was the owner of tho Pelican und was anxious to get evn ; with the Dives people in any way possi- j ble. "One day he told one of the miners around Georgetown that he could have all the ore that he could get from the Dives people, and that he would pur- chase the same at full value at the Peli- I can mill. ; "The bargain certainly gave no one a j legal title to the ore thus to be obtained, and as to the moral aspects of the ques- 1 tion I suppose that didn't bother any i one of them. The law certainly would j have looked upon ore taken from the Dives people under this arrangement as : stolen ore. Or.TAINED THE KEOS. "The miner with whom the arrange- ment had been made had for some time had some low grade ore in sacks in ono of the bins of the Foster sampler, a mill ; about half a mile above the sampler where tho ore of tho Dives people was sampled. Ono evening, after he had made arrangements with a couple of friends, ho went to Air. Foster, after the latter had locked up his sampler, and asSed him for the key of the mill, as he wanted to get the sacks holding the low grade ore stacked in the mill. Air. Foster, Fos-ter, of course, had uo objection and handed over the key. i ' 'During the night there came along a wagon loaded with ore picked out at tho Dives mine by one who knew the grade of the ore. It was dropped on tho hill , and the two men packed the ore in the Foster sampler. The ore was put in the t sacks which formerly held the low grade galena ore. It was impossible to take away tho ore thi't night, so it was left, with tho hope that Air. Foster would not notice anything out of the way, But whim tho next night it was noticed by the two conspirators that a brand new : lock was placed on the door of tho mill, i and. that all the windows had been firiu-I firiu-I ly fastened down, they needed no one to ! tell them that Air. Foster wanted an ex- planation of how worthless galena ore ! had suddenly become ore running 500 I ounces in silver. j "The two con spir?tors sneaked around j the mill, hunting for an unguarded ; place, but every point was locked, no i door opened, no window was unshut. To break in meant burglary, and burglary bur-glary means Canyon City for a term, if discovered. So what to do became the question. KNOWLEDGE OK HISTORY. "Here came in the advantage of reading. read-ing. Says the one to the other. 'Have i ou ever read any ancient hhitoryr 'No,' |