Show BADGER FOUND GOLD MINE i Strung O StOl Story of an un Old Miners Miner's DisCO Dis- Dis ery CO lr in iii Nc e N. N H. H George Santa Fe yardmaster has taken a layoff of or three weeks and gone to Nevada Neva a to develop a gold gol mm- mm Ing claim ing claim which ho has there There t. t Is quite a story back of oC his going Mr George grub staked an nn old miner min mm- 2 er who had uck struck a streak of o bad had luck This miner finally t found some Indications In tho the l- l excellent surface Nevada mountains and staked his claim The prospects were vere so o good that Mr MI George his brother and hist his t law In took three adjoining adjo cl claims The old grizzled miner worked worked work- work 1 ed fd away awa all winter on the funds sup sup- piled him b by Mr George His de developments developments de- de c- c were encouraging but did not nul pan pal out largo large quantities of ot the i yellow metal A short time since another ol old t miner In har hard luck came Caine past this ri carrying his kit lell kit of of 4 first miners miner's claim l tools with him Mr Georges George's friend waif waw naturally lone lonesome ome and Invited I r the tho stranger to take tak a n claim and after arter atter af at- ter looking over o the situation this stranger decided to do so An evening evenIng even oven r ing log or two later the two miners sat on ona f. f j- j a ledge of of- rock talking wh when n a badger er ei 1 came Into Right sight Tho Rio miners gave chuse and amI th ih badger at Into a hole holc on tho the strangers stranger's claim Thc They went to work with their picks i V and soon dug tho the badger out and in ini i doing so EO they mode a. a remarkable thIs dis lisP P covery His Ills bed In the bottom bollom of theA the A hole wa was made on a big chunk of the II I very richest of gold ore The Tho gold InrI In Inthe rI fi the t tone stone on which he la lay wa was worth In this wa way they discovered f a rich vein vuin o of or gold-bearing gold quartz which runs uns through both their mines as as- aswell well wll as aiS those belonging to Mr George Georgo his hit broth brother r and his brother- brother It in law Mr Georges George's trip tnt to Nevada eada c 4 Is 18 for tor the purpose of or tull fully Investigating ing Ing- his new gold mine Wellington Mall t f- f |