Show in our yesterday day we baet a genuine character he had a beard alio color of sunset in a i murky sky was coarse featured heavy set and tall he chewed to bacco with a powerful pressure and sent forth the juico from his ponderous jaws with a force and provision equaled only by a fire engine lie asked if wo were the editor and re ceiling an affirmative continued its the biggest thing outside o china what is wo asked Nol hin like it in these digging ho went on no doubt of it we replied but what do you refer to diina all the way across from jim whites cornar atako to the lonely post just back of the sally ann what runs who is jim white and where doea sally ann hold forth we ailed never saw bothin like it he went on nothing like what an d arc you driving at anyway we wanted to know this lift said holding out his rugged hand with some small pieces of rock in it got a lead a hundred feet wid ejust like it beats everything west of boston wo bookel at the rock we ought to be something of an expert at that business bu now having done tho bania thing several thousand timed we asked him what he thought it was worth so this little black patch hero bensaid be said ye horrworth horn worth ten dollars a pound this hero ia achre ochre got somo gold in it and dead loads silver taint worth as much as the horn though this green stuff here carries enough coppe to supply all creation thing in tho conns try oct moro sugar out tub than enough no doubt it is very valuable you bet jut aay that the sen eral jackson is no snide and that any man that thinks we aint struck it for wrong wo promised and have kept alie promise thia will be broek to our eastern readers but similar chinga take place here wih amazing frequency and wealth is becoming monotonous to |