Show singular discoveries in mines minas that rich minoa or are 9 odea discovered by accident history both ancient and mod modern verifies veri flea mangad many of this orna kin kind have jaee u under or my own 0 this thia is said to bo be luck but it mattea not cot whether it is luok luck or be science a n ce so BO long as ai the 11 find iu Is a good otto lu ill those eased it would seem boain that it is ia even bolter better to be born lucky thin than industrious only last spring a 11 pro prospector not twenty miles from rom here I 1 after limiting hunting many days daya for a quartz ledge tired in lia big search and th threw raw down lis his pick and shovel an and 1 I took up I laid billa and sauntered for forth I 1 h for game fortune lo tiiDO favoro favored ti him the lack cano came suddenly sud deoly to lini lim as ai it were he shot a der deer which in its death struggle Bt fell ov over r the roe its and bollea dowid down the mountain tile whon tile hunter reno h a I 1 his game ho he found fouad it lying ou on the ibo outcrop of tin da immense galeda ledge which ho he soon sold bold for a goud good sum la in the curly days of 0 california a poor prospector badly out of lack was waa re lt turning to lo his estop after night when h ho 0 was U tiled by a vicious dog having havu no weapon with which to and off on his enemy he felt around la is the dark anil A euen laid laia lou la of the first thing la he ca chuu u id OR caleb toll which wan wait a rook rock the dog dg bad fled flea of course anti and the man kept the abono in lia his blind until ho he was vis a aado it fe in his hia own cabin in the tha morning he saw something bright ou on tho the missile ot of war anil and on closer a examination he found taftt abat the th rock was lull fall ol of gold lie ile returned an anil a found the ledge from which the quartz z boulder had bad floated and ana sold it tor or a 1 large ago amoust of money I 1 about four yours years ago a poor but in du lustrous prospector in this country bad tho the misfortune or good fortune to loso lose his hia horse horga it was an old bay horse horo mod like bis big matter was a wandering wani vani I 1 prospector only that he prospected lor for grass while hn his master prospected tor lot quartz this particular day the old buy bay win wandered dared farther akau he be was waa wont to do probably because the bunches of grass were few and fur be tween at any rate the prospector desired to move camp but ca could u id not do ao 50 without the assistance a of his hia bay he ha must needs find him bim no ile was at last successful sail an I 1 while returning with the th truant he noticed the bead of a mountain ram sticking in in the rocks stopping to examine it ho he siw raw rich neb looking quartz scattered about and I 1 following follo tinK it up be hit bit upon what is III now the not note a d 1 hOyu BUD giua the longest and richest silv allver a r ledge t that hat we know of tile the district was wi named day bay horse us as it should have hare been find and is tho the richest silver district ru in the liver country I 1 know a mit ami U 0 ua onca c who followed mining and p prospecting r 0 for feriod u period of forty years yeara lie 0 had been all through california Col colorado rua aud tans a aal n d hail baa tanty lita scale I 1 in georgia before coming west lie he WAS not much on digging deep holes hole but lie 10 would go round hunting hu lor for shallow diggings so BO long as the buys boys would stake him ile ho was getting worn out prospecting and when on the day of july ac 4 be camped 0 on Is a 06 tributary of 0 prickly ric kly pear creek in northern montana lie be sold bold to his three roe compan companions a lets sink a hole ou on that bar its the last chance it we dont find cad it horo here I 1 dont don t know where next to prospect the younger members of the party put the hole bole to bedrock badrock tile the diggings were named last chance and two years later the old man threw away hi his tools anti and wont home borne ti it georgia with a joyful heart and in ia clean gold dust but no nob b I 1 until he be bail bad seen the city of helena the metropolis of blon montana tana spring up about him only last august a prospector proa in in the lower wood luver elvor country met with an unexpected streak of luck th that s t so as tont shed him aiila on bis way across from bellevue to croy canyon cannon the pack on the tha horse ho he was leading became loose and in order to adjust it he dismounted while rearranging it he saw something at his feet that resembled rioh rich silver 11 float ue ile traced it up to tho the which was only a short dis is tanco away and found that he had bail one of the tha best beat prospects in ia wood river lilt er no ile located the original and ana two extensions and the beat ore I 1 la the yein vein casays up in in the thousands recently lecent ly ho he sold eold out for a aring little fortune on a mountain trail la in california there used to bo be a big boulder which furnished u favorite avonto resting place tor for tired tiled footmen thousands of men had eat on that stone stona wad reatha their weary limbs in fact it was of so go peculiar shape that it to 0 o fit eye every ry one who tried it with long usage it had worn as aa smooth its as ivory and was una greay greasy with ft contact with m miner I 1 ers a clothes one day an old pros fecto squatted himself upon this favor its ite reig rei ici i if g stone and while getting his w win I 1 1 lie carelessly and unconsciously I 1 tekld away at the boulder with mith his pick it A piece of rook rock hew flew off said and revealed to him the surprising truth that he be was sitting on a rich chunk of quartz ile he at once proceeded up the hill and found the lodge ledge and it was full fall of gold and brought him much woith gold en era |