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Show Old Prospector Muses Of Former Days, Mines, Men an optimist. Every time he finds pay dirt it's another Comtsock. Tha loot of the rainbow is always just over the next hill, or around the next bend in the gulch, and unui goom camp once more. Here's ine clay he dies the true prospector figures he sure will Iinu It tomorrow. tomor-row. Well, I'd surely like to see a rip sr.oi-.in', v.hoop-'er-up, . okl-tim,. hup:n.' DEt'KIES VANDALISM ' SHOSHONE, Idaho. Sept. 29. il'.l'i '' Destruction and defacing of th,-Shoshone th,-Shoshone ice caves for no apparent reason than sheer vandalism, has i roused the ire of Congressman A. T. Smith. Twin Falls. Idaho, whn has announced that statutes pie-venting pie-venting respaes of the scenic wonderland won-derland may be passed. MOKKOW RETURNS WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. (I'.l Ambassador Dwighr W. Morrow returned re-turned hei e today from Mexico tc j submit his resignation and cnnfi-r I with President Hoover and Secre- I . .... or- (.-...to S;""--on on ;nt(rn:'- . tional relations between this cun- try ana Mexico. TONOPAH, New, Sept. 25. Eyo" Df the mining world today were turned to the historic old camp of j Manhattan, Nev., and Uiere are considerable influx of ' men who hoped to share in riches recently i discovered. Favorable reports from j the discovery continued to be received re-ceived here. Assays were fabulously fabulous-ly rich. The old prospector talks: They've struck it rich over at Manhattan. In one way, it's a pretty good time to find a mine, then again it's a bum time. I The world's worth more now than it was last year. Prices are lower, nd that means when you take a '..it oi' gold out of the hills it will '.uy something labor of the men vho have to dig it, grub, machinery Mid trucks. There win he a rush to " o new amp. Lots of men haven't any jobs, anyway, and figure they may 'is well meander on over and see '.f they can find a gold mine sticking mi of the sagebrush. They probably won't. Airplanes already have carr'ed in some, and others went by a- - mobiles. It's no 'ine far the old-timer to strike out with his pick and shovel and bur- io. All th" land 'round about was jitaked a long time ago. On the other hand. Uncle Sam already al-ready has more gold in his vaults than he knows what to do with. The papers say the federal reserve bank and the financiers are kind of worried about what to do with all the gold. To turn it loose on the country would upset lots of thine They say she looks like the Com-slock. Com-slock. Well, we could stand a big producer, at that. You can't ever tell about these mines. I've seen gold you could pick out from the grass roots with a pair of pliers. Family used to support itself packing the gold in fruit jars, but nothing big ever came of it. There's been a heap of gold found all around Manhattan, tho, and these tuns of ours hold moro riches than have ever been taken out. By the way, read the other day about a famous writer pitying the poor prospector. Said he spent his clays in vr.in search for treasure, and gets robbed when he finds it. That's the bunk. Most prospectors prospec-tors should be envied. Surely, he feis robbed plenty, but look at the fun he has. Never was a prospector but was |