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Show Deer and Miners Swap Mud At Keystone-Wallace Pond By Fran Barnes Last week, a young buck deer got hopelessly stuck in the muddy goo of the Keystone Key-stone - Wallace copper mill tailings pond in Lisbon Valley. Val-ley. The deer was saved, cleaned clean-ed off and released, but the ten mine employees who did the rescue work wound Up muddier than the deer. The buck, with four-point antlers "in the velvet", was noticed mired fast in the slimey mud of the copper mill pond one afternoon last" week. When their work shile ended, several mill employees, employe-es, including Angelo Melo, George Simons and Dan Shupe, formed a rescue party hoping to save the helpless deer. First they lassoed the hapless hap-less creature by an antler, but being "green" this pulled pull-ed off in the attempt to haul the animal out. After a considerable con-siderable struggle, involving several men, the deer was unstuck, its feebly thrashing legs were tied so it couldn't injure anyone, and it was dragged to a source of clean water. There, it submitted so meekly to the cleanup opera-tion opera-tion that its feet were untied to lacilitate the mud removal This proved to be a mistake, mis-take, for when the bath was nearly complete, the deer with its strength partially, recovered, exploded into action ac-tion and hastily departed :he scene leaving behind ten thoroughly begrimed and soaked men, without even a "thank you." George Simons, who repor:- ed the incident, laughed as he told the tale, "I can set-it set-it now! Some hunter's going to bag that buck next fall, and wonder whatever could have happened to the other iion and haistly departed the true story!" |