Show I 1 INSECT 0 b 1 gumns Gini iti mi end other SUB stores brovet I 1 0 the surface by anu ants golam day days there th cre is in the original garnet mike an and d the miner as well said nay my com cw pan ionas we gewere were aidin aam L mountains of new mexico following the duroc direction ton of li 1 glance I 1 saw R 1 well i ell formed f d N hv ajo indian standing motionless by what ap to ie be a as band lictao hes P 11 wishing is 1 in to ini etiolate eti late wei J nearer a and found that the st sta ew mine nathe was watching watch inz one oi of leeque at hills that dot the eco 0 o ma tew new 31 mexico exico aud and acl A 11 trl is 1 na as well no he lie hardly bow itte ajo tip o 0 of 1 ill nd d Terent after we itie ejiu an benl enl 1 nue and his object was the V i a at t least to me i aa agaj jq tribe had never pro baw a naturalist an and lit it was hardly lible l ible that lie had been stud studying ilie uie labile habits of the active insects ling ler ha helas try tr ying ing to collect enough f for dinner indians hate have been known to eat rate rats lut the indian vai was after all a close observer and was reaping ills tile reward for when hen I 1 asked him what v lat he be nas was doing lie held out a email small has ba the content contents ol 01 which 1 turned upon my liand garnets small but good goof in yeat t numbered num bere bits of quartz that T named gleamed nuts like I 1 d diamonds a m on ds here a bit of tor luoise large quantifies quantities of olivine oil vine and a i male ingle rein an emerald of but little value but an emerald after all an ant lull bill was a curious place from which to take euch such a strange 1 assortment sort ment but as my friend had suggested thia this was the original mine and tho the real miners mere were the tile ante ants in piling i ailing up thur their dome like houses the they brought out the minute cems gems on one 0 by by one and placed them among the tile bay bits of sand a here they gleamed and flashed as it if inviting collection the indians had found their alue value and n in in this way did their minin ja allow ing ng the auta to do all the ti e work n ork and takina the geina gems as wt As they were brought up the he etoney stone brought lii ought lip it I 1 this way ra range rein in size from the head hoad of a pin to a abarge jar ge pea and besides the ones mentioned rubies have been taken from the heaps them stolen gems are am sold in in lots and used in van marims iw kinds of beviel nearly every ant hill is is examined 71 n this way and the mound gone over often the ants being matched and and vcr the eams taken from them as eoon soon its is brought u up p whether the hetio insects have a liki liking n g for glistening object il it is is difficult u t t to determine but but the fact that so many gems are brought to the surface there would seem to bo be reason to suppose they had it would bo be extremely difficult to name in n industry followed follow ed by min nian that did not have its prototype in the lower animal kingdom our humble friends have havet their beir trades their werning beem arts and eo lentee just as wo we have hence we need not be surprised if we find aint miners whore work compares favorably with that of human beings in n an ant family that I 1 hava been watching for some tune time well up in in the sierra madro mountains mounta inq southern sout ern california theora the work ork ii ii earned carried on oil in a very methodical manner the workers apparently being protected by moldier ant anti with hue huge heads and slid powerful ul elwe for some time I 1 watched those mi miners at work noticing the regularity larity with ith which each cacti ant emme beamed ryu t to deposit emi t its load antho in alie same and finally 1 ly I 1 allowed the eun sun to axis pa th my ray hand glass and form a bright spot at the lie entrance of the mine A worker soon passed under it and feeling the fierce heat evident v below with the neo for almost ir immediately mediately out came a horde borde of fighters figh tere who ullo darted about bialog at tee eun full L spot pot and howin bv b their actions that they had deter mined wined to attack the foe whatever it wius was and when hen I 1 placed my ing 41 aglaee ass upon the ground ink they t ey at ii great fury fAst fastening enins their jaws upon the filver case and refusing to t be lie lorn torn away even oven parting wilt ith their heads that remained for a long ion timi clinging clin gius ginz to the glass |