Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-05-28 | Page 14 | Luck an Element in Prospecting for Gold

I LUCK LUCH AN ELEMENT IN PROSPECTING FOR GOLD RON r. CITY In In the te of the mining prospector there is but hut one ruler of events event and that Is Luck Even more marc definitely than chant chance e it controls the d destiny ot of the It governs the miners miner's career Sometimes it seems to sport spoil with it Its subjects although its general attitude i l I. I one of ot stern stem hostility O ca It setS its own laws at dc- dc flanc and a recent case ease happened near the older mInIng territory in th the southeastern part of oC Nevada Xe that highly illustrates tes the tIme curious exception Three young oun mining engineers graduates graduates ates from Crom a Massachusetts college and re regarding regarding re- re garding arding themselves as equipped d to wr's wrest wrt-st fortune from the west settled on the rocky l ledge dge that extends from l Ca north and located a mining claim They worked them and at the end of a year jear par had a hundred feet teet or more morp of ot tunnel which ended against a wall an of 01 o obdurate lurate rot rock tp Vp to to this time they lia had not found even a trace traIl of ot gold or s slIver cr nl- nl they had located with a hope of striking the parent vein that thit ignis of aD prospectors At this stage t nearly t were e broke d 8 oo oot li TI They had spent t anti and the eo o outlook the tIme circumstances was ws hopeless But Dut they had lost It something more than their time or money which h enabled them to contemplate with calmness the Idea of salting their mine It is only Just juat to I ear sav of the they did not entertain this Idea until they were at the last latt ex- ex WIth their last dollar Invested in ip goM dust lust the they charged d an sn old shotgun And w 11 n the dust into the face fal and Into the fissures of the rock at the end of the tunnel innel Th Then n they the blasted out the rock rork and sent nt a sample to the tiu- assayers to I test its value Front From it was nas recovered Indicating that the th ore gold cold produce pro pro- du duce tu tl to the ton That was a almost fabulous for or the neighborhood and and- half their mine sold at once for tor or to a 1 aI I mining company which proe prosecuted the I work In In In th tunnel They broke down the first wall wan and I struck a II ledge of or gold Jold and sliver silver quartz I from h they have taken up to the nt time about Jl 1 XH and which I I Idi fair to I ert continue to be b. a richly pro- pro UlI ing Ins and permanent property u Ufe Th rh- rh hi in three th-ee the e east young oung g m mn men n now arc arc- enjoying mg g I