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Show 7AANN \ \ Y fs : N\ ANAS SOM Th passe ome Y if Y, v fea< if) f :] Wy —@ A Journal of Current Literature, N ews, Art and Science for the Western Household. 3= Salt Lake No: 9. NOVEMBER. BY WILLIAM MORRIS. Are thine eyes weary? is thy heart too sick To struggle any more with doubt and thought, Whose formless veil draws darkening now and thick Across thee, e’en as smoke-tinged mist-wreaths brought Down a fair dale to make it blind and naught? Art thou so weary that no world there seems Beyond these four walls, hung with pain and dreams? Look out upon the real world, where the moon, Half-way ’twixt root and crown of these high ; trees, - Turns the dead midnight into dreamy noon, - Silent and full of wonders, for the breeze The story of the strike is similar to that of numerous other such discoveries. A couple of gentlemen, Mr. F. W. Wilmans and Mr.J. M. Drake had been looking through the diggings on one of Mr. Ferry’s claims, and with a view of probably leasing the ground, went up subsequently to look it over again before taking final action inthe matter. Crossing the Woodside claim, Mr. Wilmans observed a cropping that looked rather ominous of something good, and said to Mr. Drake, who was walking beside him with apick across his shoulder, “Just give that a knock will you?” John gave ita knock, and a chunk of lead and silver ore that fairly made their eyes glim- City, Utah, Nowember 3, 1888. $2.25 mines in the West. Take the Comstock Lode, for example, that has added satisfied with the lease, feeling that if it its hundreds of millions to the country’s The alleged discoverer of this proves to be a mine the year’s work of wealth. the lessees will effect very little in ex- vast treasure died in a miserable condition of poverty and degradation, posihausting its deposits. The accompanying sketch is from a tively suffering for the necessities of photograph by Mr. Adams taken soon life. This is stated upon the authority after the discovery was made. The of an old mining pioneer who was the most prominent figure in the group, discoverer of at least two of the great sitting on the left of the centre, is Mr.G. mines of the West, and who likewise, if A. Mears of Salt Lake. Beside him on the not already in poverty’s grave, is so near right is Mr.Wilmans, one of the discover- it that the matter of a few months or at ers, and on the extreme left near the ore most a year, will in all probability close bags is Mr. Drake, his partner. On the up his life’s troubles. There is an old right sits Mr. John Ferrish, one of the toiler now at Spruce-mond, Nevada, largest mining-patent owners in the who, if still alive, isan excellent examevery indication of continuous vein. a permanent Mr. Ferry seems and well Died at the sunset, and no images, No hopes of day, are left in sky or earth— Is it net fair, and of most wondrous worth? bewilderment of her passages. But through a meagre portion thirty-five miles of underground the | Woodside Strike, Park City. Ontario is not the special mer cracked off and rolled to their feet. Itis unnecessary to say that they lost no great amount of time in finding Mr. Ferry’s office and drawing up a lease on the property. This happened in August last and without any very extraordinary exertions, the lessees have taken out ore of a superior quality to the amount of ten to twelve thousand dollars. When I visited the strike a week ago the lessees had in their employ about ten or twelve men, including the outside help, and the ore which they were taking out, after briefly of a very much smaller exhibit all expenses of shipment, mining, and which is just now setting the Park agog. the 20 per cent. due Mr. Ferry dccordThe accompanying sketch shows simply ing to the terms of the lease, were deafew rugged toilers sitting about the ducted, was clearing them an average of mouthof ahole. There is nothing par- $250 per day. Their lease is for only ticularly “striking” that one would no- ‘one year. The property was worked by Mr. | tice about either the men or the hole, save that the latter looks somewhat Ferry from 1878 to and including 1882, fresh and the former have not the tired during which period there was taken expression that one might, with reason, out from various openings some $25,000 expect with persons who have been ex- in value of high grade ore; but it was hausting their energies in digging simply mostly in pockets, and up to that time a holeinthe ground. Yet in all the no well defined and regular vein was With full faith, however, simplicity of this, to some no doubt, un- discovered. interesting picture, it in all probability in ultimate success, the money was put looks very much as the Ontario did at one backin development till through finanperiod of its history. Whether the cial embarrassments the owner was comWoodside strike of which we are now pelled to stop active work. Concerning the late find, there is no speaking, is destined to repeat that marvelous history remains to develop- absolute certainty that the main vein | has been reached, although there is now theme of this article. I from the Law. ‘ Oe The , of which? . speak. . Had disposed were wont to indulge in was people who valued their reputation the gr@te to tone down the October chill. steady beat and the underground toilers have gone on working their way deeper sistency and the vastness of the world’s abundance is the interior of a great mine, and by no means the smaller among the great is the mine we have just alluded te. Wonderful does not express all that one feels as he explores her numberless caverns, and gropes in a at @. M vu, * fok® decency, all save the lights of the bar, prefeted walking on the opposite side of the street, to avoid the possibility of disagreeable suspicions. Mr. Morgan sat before the fire,—a smudge of backyard debris thrown in their | Rescued | thiat mills being abandoned to the bats and — JOE; OR, gentlemen a the corroding elements, the engines of A wonderful exhibition of man’s per- mil- quite complete, for it was so notoriously ene \rendezvous of abandons and suicides and of Stock- and deeper into that great depository of their themselves was a hole in the wall at the gloomy end of the fourth floor hall of a monstrous shell whose adaptability for private chats such as these two honored ton have been pinching along between 4| life and death, their candles in numer‘| ous instances flickering out and their wealth. IhePlels The place in which’ they _ While the great mines of Tintic, of Silver Reef, of Star District, of Frisco, of up in | Written for the Western Weekly.] night | with as becoming a grace as ever she did. kept contained J. f quefitly. For a number of years the centre of Utah mining interest has been gravitating toward Park City, and the prestige L | which she has gained she wears today have not lions. Think of this ye gods of silver and gold and say if there is not some reason in it. qdlains 1 ; Ps n were toge Another Ontario Looked Forward - to at Park City. the great Ontario greatness A go Betas j, ‘The Woodside Strike | Year: ble luxury the remainder of their natural days. Such an act of humanity would add to the “colbalt” kings a real 4 ‘ Yea, I have looked and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart? | Bingham, of Cottonwood Per want to speak aii Park, but like the majority of success- ple of the slips and uncertainties of ful mining pioneers, his dignity does not mining greatness. I will not say that he consist in thesuperior cut of his clothes. was the actual discoverer, but unless I Touching the subject of popular greatly misunderstood him he was tailoring among miners, your correspon- closely connected in the locating of the dent was, a few mornings ago, over-look- Bodie Creek mine, the proceeds of which ing a company of Park City’s light and made several men immensely rich in less heavy weight citizens, when an old resi- than twelve months. This same person dent proposed that I should point out located, as I am informed, a claim that from the group Mr. R. C. Chambers. shortly after furnished the wherewithal “The one with the high hat,” said I, at for the erection of one of the great hotels first sight. He was a small merchant of San Francisco, and left its propriedown street. Then the person with the tors with a mighty healthy bank acfur tipped coat—it was snowing at the count besides. time—and conspicuously large gloves As I have said, these are some of the must be he. No, that was a traveling regrettable things associated with the man on his first visit. With these ex- history of our great mines. It seems: ceptions they were all so nearly alike just a little peculiar that such should I was obliged to “give it up.” My good ever be possible. These brave, tireless humored informant then pointed Mr. men who, after such wonderful achieveChambers out to me, but on passing ments for others have sunk helpless unthrough the company twenty minutes der the burthen of their toils and exposlater, I was unable to identify him from ure, are even then more useful to the the laborers among whom he was ming- millionaires enjoying the fruits of their ling. There is probably noother class of labors than the latter seem to apprecipeople in existence where class distinction ‘ate. It would be a very small and yet a depends so little upon the social mannerisms in dress and. speech that prevail very graceful and becoming tribute to the general brotherhood of underground in other walks of life. workers, for the Mackyes, the Baldwins, the Chambers, the Floods, and the Speaking of rich surface strikes—and I think that few ever presented at first a richer picture or more promising indi- cation than does the Woodside—brings to my mind some of the regrettable facts associated with the St ee NS as, euntitinitiie Bi a as aaa De a c i aie most a splendid de an pea oe ae rest of them, to seek out all those indi- gent sufferers and place them in conditions of independent comfort, or better still, establish an asylum where they might enjoy the blessings of respecta- 9 ‘ 7 mnths iain nga aeesanaiels niall llnsiensiaadines His head was in his hand, and he saw a great madny more things in the smudge than wére there. In brief his spirits were at their low ebh, | Mr. Bellows stood leaning against the chimney. The kink in his eye was not pity, was not scorn, was not hate, was not sympathy, it was fiendishly analytieal. “You saw your wife in town, today, I presume?” he remarked. “T did.” “Mrs. Morgan and Brown are very good friends; they were out riding to- eS ’ | Vol 1. gether yesterday as well.” He stroked his well combed beard and chewed reflectively his goatee. : “T suppose they are.” “They were friends years ago before you came in upon the scene, were they not?” . “Perhaps; what of it?” “Oh, nothing particular, only you are a very strange sortofaman. I thought once I knew you; but I seem to have been mistaken.” “No, I think not, I have simply resolved upon a new method of getting on, which has probably not occurred to you. I purpose, sir, for Mrs. Morgan to enjoy the full liberty of her inclinations without receiving any additional notoriety, which she is evidently baiting for, from me.” . Following this last remark he drummed with the tongs upon his boot toe, whilst he whistled in a disconnected fashion one of*his mother’s lullaby snatehes to divert his brain from the thunder cloud which he felt over it. “I see in Bellows, “the my creeping mind’s eye,” pursued Zukes Morgan whom I used to know, posing as a resigned martyr before the scene of finger-pull- xX |