Show 1 1 I 1 1 V I 1 I 1 I 1 cailles M essay sims of his experience lie A ak sr gra ahle description of the incidents attend ent seeker antly watch a few of the boys while crass with pick and chorel in quest of a surplus the proximity of the time reminds me that I 1 have sald nothing about it this year and will not defer io important a subject longer it Is not known to the entire world are mineral as well an old wagons and venerable butter in that department atif the ted states this Is doubtless because the fact his never before been pro claimed in tile columns of THE STANDARD those veins are presumably the repositories of great wealth and the fact that none af pf it has over yet amil taken fram them strengthens that supposition I 1 hare been trying to induce some of them to give up and still have hopes of success mining Is one of most stimulating and seductive occupations on earth when you f lad something as you go along but the frame of mind in which one finds hini self who has banged and blasted and dug and swore until be Is in possession of a symmes hole and nothing else is different that is different from the former condition not differ ernt from tho I 1 had succeeded in scaling the hand over hand in places and got up to the place where hostilities were to commence this was I 1 judged about leventi miles from the level of the valley al thou g hills othe ire refused to accept this astir 1 I say ing it was 8 little too big 0 vi audr party was holding a long steel rod on a rock while another was banging the auff inglut of 14 OCCaSiOnally making a and producing a fine flow of human gore and profanity and gai r ing on the rock as it seemed at t he inch in three ye gra times paws very slowly when you am trying to remove a rock which Is presumably ill t hat intervenes between you and a colossal torture ali this time I 1 stood around and made suggestions without the slightest appearance of weariness or irritation finally at ter a few goner scions bad come and gone they said the hole would do As weary I 1 was I 1 went to it and looked in to see how gold looked before taken out in solid chunks th e view was some what disappointing but I 1 never let on I 1 then told the boys in order to show that I 1 could perform As well to direct had better in the shade of a rock somewhere and I 1 would attend to the blast they consented and I 1 started in mining is easy enough when you know how and I 1 wondered how it was that the other fellows perspired so much while I 1 was cool as a cucumber this reminds me that I 1 never raw a coal cucumber but the sentence is written now I 1 got along finely there was plenty of dirt lying loose and this had to be moistened for tamping purposed I 1 put plenty of this around the fuse and shoved it doah hard the a tol a t he bo Y a the circus seen I 1 was ready top start they approached and asked how much powder I 1 had put in Tha where I 1 fell down I 1 had forgotten the powder and filled the holf they had been these long years making wi th wet earth well packed lucell r tiley had what we mining men call 1 ss poon you eat soup ith it very fast but you can clear dirt out of a narrow excavation with it and make ble profi feon the investment they cleaned out the aperture and filled it up according to their idea 1 sought a place of safety and found it see illustration which faithfully represents all the details 2 Q 0 f 0 0 I 1 0 0 0 a 0 0 3 1 I a tb a above the ciphers lle n t I 1 be blacas where I 1 to rest while climbing to the promised land there should be several bhore of baese but the management of tax refused to enlarge this number of the paper 10 the of them all in the hur purpose depre nis the enins 2 to as barly 1 I cal he I 1 when the blast winter toffe rons ranch the slaughterer bog hou d be about w bere the column tale illk this diagram was dra a special artist of this peper and ro e les as 1 le one of the staff that it 30 0 ore like a boll he on had anan a oil 3 bu that counts for nothing tai in e er ellb lit t 4 A d ab a till re splendidly I 1 gle d I 1 pretty soon there was a notes its if the salvation army had all got together and a whole lot of uncle sams property went whizzing into the adjoining bounty when I 1 returned which was after the wait over the rock was gone the hole was bigger but there was still gold to be spen A boulder from the conval bion had lit on a 40 belonging to the ranch of yens jorgenson Jor gonson Chri near the foot of the hill and left belp with only 13 of those ind an finals thou the others picked up sampled to be assayed in order that there amigh t be no mistake ido livered one of them personally into the hands of an assayer in salt lake receiving the following returns i ESSAY the ap 01 06 left by 70 44 I 1 in acl vin as 0 0 01 d 0 silver 0 o luo L 11 0 P ro t G ameo charges 1 1100 0 WASs N cj r in I 1 A the assayer awed mobs hannover had nover before seen ow h nalty in the part of the ore and wanted to know if I 1 lot him have a pim of it to put in his L I 1 W 7 ap at VM I 1 z I 1 granted his request having plenty more of the ame kind on another occasion while the others had gone off prospect ilig I 1 took it into my head to get supper and have it all ready for th em when they got back we b ad plenty to cook and there was plenty of fuel in Christoffer sons fence being but a short distance from where our wagon stood and our mules dotted the plain the boys said that the supper was too good to be destroyed and got another one themselves they said the if ishad fever and one of them sel a cake of it up and shot at it I 1 have the flattened bullet yet there lives or did live before taylors dramatic company went there in it man walo claimed arcon ghIs other accomplishments to be something of an assayer in a spirit of humor and thinking to have a good joke on him I 1 sent him a piece of thit bread to assay messenger brought back a saying in substance that if I 1 t woul d raise more odthe substance composing that kind of track and stop making holes in the ground I 1 would be a sight better off at the end of the year it seems that in humor as well as in poesy I 1 must have a rival I 1 will post you at all points caitiff CAi ciff in ilia |