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Show are now bonded for fifteen thousand thous-and dollars. They look fine and work on them are being pushed rapidly. The Vein has been cut 40 feet, and there is no waste. The croppings can be traced a dis-1 tance of three hundred feet wide and three or four miles long. There is a fine field for the prospector, pros-pector, in that Vicinity, as .ome gold and silver bearing rock has been found. Keep The Union going for better times are coming. When Bryan gets to the White House and stops the issue of Bonds, and starts our mints to clicking out the silver dollars, tl.en the country willbocm Comstock. WrPtcn for The Union. HAHDCART EXPERIENCE. Her parents at once made arrangements ar-rangements for a narriage and our Captain performed the ceremony, which made the twain one fieli. AVhile this was going on and our company stopping on the bank of the stream, I noticed two strangers walking around from one cart to another and at length they came to my cart and stopped and to mj surprise one of them called me by name. They were two men who had lived in the same place that I had left only a few months before. They left one year before I did, to go to California, but had found profitable employment at that place and stopped. About the first thing they said was that they understood we were out of provisions. provisi-ons. I told them we were. One of them said "We &r keeping a station there, in that house," at the same time pointing to a house a short distance away, and said, "you come with us," and, turning to my wife said "we will send you something to eat." I very gladly accepted the invitation, and on entering the house he asked the cook if ho had anything cooked and wes told he had. Then they told him to give me what ho had cooked and then to bake and cook some more bread and meat as quickly as possible. He told me to take what was already cooked over to my wife and children, and not stop to eat any of it but to come right back and they would soon have some more ready for me. I obeyed with thankfulness to them as also to my heavenly father for thus providing for my family in this our great time of need. I returned and in a short time was siting at the table on which was a loaf of bread about two inches thick and 14 or 15 inches acroas, baked in round ' campers bake oven and a good eized frying pan full of fresh fried Buffalo meat I having a keen appetite, m my inmost soul thanked thank-ed my -Heavenly Father , for this blessing, and I asked him to bless it to my good, and started to eat in good earnest I Hid not 6top until I ate the whole of it. "We stayed here three days, and while we were there our company were starving and I and my family were feasting, and some of our company said 1 was eating with the Gentiles and going to the Devil. To be continued. |