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Show The Fortunes of Mining. In Harper's Magazine Philip Vcrrlll Ml-ghcls Ml-ghcls tells of the tragedies and comedies of the Western mining campn. of thc curious cu-rious ill luck of some and the phenomenal failuro of others: "The man with whom the writer bunked," savs Mr. Mighols "a sober. Industrious In-dustrious jouiir fellow engaged In working work-ing a lease with several partner.-. They sunk a shaft 150 feet in depth and 'drifted from tho bottom, in their search for golden gold-en ore, until not a penny was left in their trcasurv. Thv hnd discovered absolute-lv absolute-lv nothing. Tlio lease was abandoned and all were obliged to go to work for wages. Day after day they hnd Hung their coats across a monster dorsal fin of dark, volcanic vol-canic rock, ouljuttlng from thc hill, near bv. and given It never a thought. That ledge of rock was fabulously rich The leasers who followed them went at tho ledge of hopeless-looking porphyry, on top of the ground, and found It fairly shot full of gold. They channelled It out, as men might channel for a ditch, and removed over fifty sacks of ore, worth $i(.K) a sack. |