Show OUR FIRST CORNISH MINERS ir introduction I 1 into to the If mining finin ilo be gi gloa of r th the 9 Sooth e perhaps the earliest carlie st experiment in introducing cornish miners into the southwest mining region was that made in the t Os by the english owners of mines on the maxwell grant in colfax count county Y northern new mew mexico the cowboys and mexicans looked in amazement at the immense dark muscular fellows from cornwall who were so 60 handy at sparring and wrestling and who knew absolutely nothing about a gun the cowboys and miners got along together with reasonable amity and in later years with the general mining dev development e loument in kew mexico other west of england men have been brought by mining companies or have drifted on their owr own account into the mountain regions of that territory thus a briton traveling t in southwest new mexico 2 on approaching a little hamlet by night was surprised and pleased to hear the heartiest and jolliest jol liest of old english ditties sung with the broadest west of england burr and accompanied compa nied in the proper places by vigorous stamping and a chorus of manly voices in the same brogue he had stumbled upon a little settlement of Com ishmen established ashore tas bort distance west of pinos altos and known as jacktown Jack town stub end of thought duty undone is s done the worst about the time e a boy begins to find out there any santa claus he begins to find out there is a cupid when two hearts beat as one they hit hard two souls with but a single thought feel the needom need of more before they are re through with each other sweet are the uses of adversity perhaps but it becomes a wearying sweetness after long continua continuance nm the real beauty of woman never fades A man may show himself to be a gre greater ter hero by carrying coal to the kitchen stove than by carrying a gun to the music of a band A doctors bill seldom reminds us of the comfort he brought when we needed hita him the one man a man always has a feeling of sympathy pathy for is his cifes annd aind detroit free press prem |