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Show oo LAS VEGAS EXCITEMENT WAS SHORT LIVED When tho nowa of tho Las Vegas strike reached town, together with samples of ore said to have come from the scene, there was great excitement In the usually peaceable town of Las Vegas, says tho Searchlight Bulletin. The samples shown were snld by Searchllghter8 who saw them to bo the finest they over saw, quite similar td Mohawk ore. Then the stampedo was on. According to the Review, "some wont with a span and a demijohn, demi-john, and some went with a ono-horst, shay and a quart, and somo went with shank's maro and a pinL" And soon the country wns alive with locators, although It Is difficult to sco how the locators could expect anything on the BUxface when the rich dirt lay S00 feet below the ground. But Las Vegas" llttlo boomlr was doomed to an untimely end, for soon came the news that thoro was nothing to it. oo Sf C. Bauchman has returned to his old position as foreman of tho Ogdon Steel & Iron Works aftor an absonce of a few months. rtn |