Show TH F THE S 'S SURVEY SUMMER MM- MM S R d d H 1 By One of Them T Td d Say ISay but didn't we have a time Andy was blown up by gasoline Keep spent two weeks in the hospital Shores had t and ld Gans Cans and Bobbie Dobbie busted their transit Oh it was as glorious i But to be a little more exact Our bunch left Salt Lake in in a Pullman furnished by Pioche capital Some of us had never traveled travel d in anything but a hay wagon wagon before and believe me we enjoyed it Rees was vas so overcome that he brushed his teeth with the Pullman hair brush and Cliff Wilson tried to take a bath in the finger bowl We l e didn't eat much We had to pay for our meals The people of Pioche treated us royally They took us in their wagons and on their trains at just what we could afford to pay pay pay- nothing We vVe got meals at three for a doll dollar dollar dol dol- l lar r with the understanding that twenty- twenty five cents would be refunded on every doll dollar dollar dol dol- l lar r spent We understood all all' right but something must have slipped slipped nobody nobody slipped slipped slipped slip slip- ped us any rebates however but we still un understood dels del's toad But those meals were worth fifty cents to most of us and about six bits to Gans and King One evening Gans ate six ix pieces of f lemon pie and the next day his partner surveyed alone There are gnats in Pioche Not self re s-p s lady like gnats of kind and gentle disposition but ferocious little tittle beggars about the size of Bobbie Goodwin with twenty power horse-power appetites and diamond drill equipment for satisfying the same In checking up tip our work we ve had to allow for error due liue to gnat interference An And speaking about bout errors Andy used to togo togo togo go to the operator and proprietor of Pioche's moving picture palace and say S Sure P Black lack will sing for you W Wednesday Thereupon the said proprietor would b bestow bestow be be- sto stow twenty tickets upon Andy Andy would tell teli Black the next day And say those natives really paid 25 cents a scat seat to hear Black sing No not twice There were roulette wheels there too But bless the dear old faculty lets not nota a agitate them with tales of the underworld We Ve T i e worked a whole lot do down do there We worked out geological problems we worked surveying notes we worked overtime and we worked the hasher for more pie Our tripo tripods s were delayed and while we loafed around and prayed that they were lost for good we attended church an and murder trials There wasn't much else to do because they are awfully short on ice cream and pretty girls Every girl over ten years old is married to some husky brute that carries a gun on each hip and a hatchet in his hoot boot A part of our bunch painted a big redU redu red redU U and a blue 1910 on a white back back- gr ground d. The Th background was first applied with great care to the top of the largest smelter chimney in the district No one knew who did it but the sentiment was that since Andy was crazy after his explosion explosion sion sian he must have been irresponsible enough Yes we had a glorious trip but were all anxious to leave the gnats and quartzite as we were running short on hide and boots T i We e arrived in Salt Lake without any brass band accompaniment received a suspicious suspicious suspicious sus sus- stare from the depot police and dis dis- persed Gans and Bobbie put the remains of their transit in a pill box and sent them to Denver for repairs And speaking about transits H. H Alley is now charged up with three of them which he is supposed to have haye embezzled after returning Yes it was a glorious trip |