Show THE STORY or CREEDE A prospector named creede had spent a good deal ol of time in the mountains of southern colorado w without I 1 making his fortune when one night his jack or donkey strayed from camp and disappeared it wi will 11 never be known whether that donkey had privately made up his mind to take a flyer in prospecting on his own account although 0 judging by results this view of it seems reasonable elou enough h but it is quite certain that mr was a man on discovering hi his jacks absence a and nd no do doubt indulged in expressions highly disapproving of the conduct of any 0 jack that would stray off for purposes of prospecting 0 or ana anthi thid Dg 1 else it is a weakness of some jacks however to skip out whenever a good chance occurs and at a such limes jmes there is but one way to remedy the trouble go find em and bring erm em buck back to camp this is just what mr ir creede Creed edid did and he never was war sorry for it after coming to a full appreciation of what his jacks erratic conduct led to lie he walked a ion long I 1 distance to find that jack and maybe may be he threw away one club and cut a heavier une one at the end of each mile of his tramp I 1 dont know how that was but his search was wai f finally successful ful in a greater degree than there had been any reason to expect fo for r the beast was grazing on the crop pings of a mineral ledge which mr creede located local cd and named the amethyst development work made so P pod a mine of it that the locator was ed as much as for it ile he declined all offer rs however and in the summer of 1892 his interest in the amethyst property was yielding him a profit of per month the moral of this story is that if you are going on a prospecting 0 trip take along a jack that is a pretty good prospector himself liar harpers pers young loung people |