Show arm fridays daily cepl aj HE JUMP t iut is from ills attempt to do so from an incident that occurred alio llio other day we should imagine that there were well developed iron mines as well as gold dilver and copper in our hills A week or two since a well known moneyed man of our city hearing that a couple of iron mines which we will denominate vulcan and cyclops had iacome proceeded to the locality to see what he could see the party in question has lately purchased a valuable iron mines not far from town but being i speculator had determined ta get one or two more if possible when 10 approached tho mines which are bining each other ho was astonished aston shed to every affo hundred feet of the claims a stake setting forth all that was necessary to prevent him from carrying out his original purpose arrived at the point of discovery of ono of the mines he found an immense tin sign and a large hole in which was engaged an astute individual throwing out ore hollo yelled the would be jumper what are you doing there oh jest throwing out ft little iron ore dont yer want abita and the afore mentioned astute individual threw a chunk of ore out for tho other to inspect when our jumping friend retired he was heard to remark in a somewhat disgusted tone 11 II 11 theres no chance to jump those claims and im a fw thousands poorer than I thought of course had our speculative friend found things as he expected he would have been entitled to have jumped the claims and none could have blamed him but there is a moral in this the party we refer to knows something about irons works and things and dont you think dear reader that taking into consideration the fact of his recently pur chasing for a good sum an iron mine near ogden canyon and his attempt at gaining possession of two more not very distant from the first that there may be some truth in the rumor eliat tho ogden iroil works have been purchased by a rich corpora tion it would certainly seem so and knowing that what we have just related is as near correct as can be and being abaro that alie party mentioned is not one who is given to speculation unless tho spec ia pretty well in sight we think we and the rest of our citizens hava cause to hope that ere long the ogden iron works will be working in full blast we shall see |