Show LET THE CAT OUT Experience of an Expert in an Early Day at Old Bingham The Pacific Coast Miner lu a department depart-ment In which many liberties are taken with uptodate veracity publishes the subjoined story an enjoyable one no matter at what States expense Some years ago In Bingham Utahan Utah-an expert was invited out to see a new prospect from which It was reported good ore had been taken Sure enough on looking it the bottom of the shaft ho found highgrade carbonate of lead ore which then Iii that camp carried high values in silver lie struck his pick into the soft mineral at the bottom bot-tom and dug n sampling trench perhaps one foot deep The point of his pick on making one of tlie lower cuts pulled up a piece of sacking and on repeating the stroke he extracted nearly half an ore sack The prospectors were notoriously no-toriously rather hard individuals so ho excused himself for a minute got to tho surface pulled up the top ladder and halloed down to them Boys you have a firstclass prospect I you go ten feet deeper you will find your ore already al-ready sacked and lit out to where he thought It was safer |