| Show THIS TIRS IS A TRUE STORY ben rich la one of those adventurous on sp spirits brits that are always billing illing Nt to let lot prospectors go out into the hills where the bard hard work ie Is and ater wards generously tike half of whatever lucky strikes the toilers boilers have been able to make of course his experience peri por lence ence counts for something against the theother other mans work and it was wass a fall appreciation of the balao of this thi 13 experience that animated a grizzled and dusty veteran who called on him the other day with a long mysterious story and a email small mineral specimen mr rich examined the latter with a connoisseurs carefulness and listened to the tile former witha with a martyrs resignation at last he said 1 I pronounce uncO this ore real talc tale a sure sign ot of the near proximity of rich mineral get back with all haste to the spot whency it came and go down on it theres a fortune within reach of course im in 11 away went the prospector streaking it for the mines as though bis his virgin feet were shod with seven league boots A few days later sir mr rich detected his miner minor wandering aimlessly along the street be he at once pursued and boon soon captured him well said be he of great experience well I 1 ill replied the wayfarer 1 I found oar our claim just where I 1 left it I 1 vent went down on it found more talc finest talc prospect I 1 ever saw when sure I 1 bad had done work enough to bold hold it against lumping jumping I 1 went off a Is few w miles looking for new now claims found lem em talc in every one exa examined minad the country a little more closely and discovered a tract of talc tale covering four hundred acres entered it as desert land are yoa you in on the deal 1 HAY MAY be some croakers who 0 are still dissatisfied with agdens bale sale of 0 f bonds if 11 BO no the following from a paper may afford them a little solace the county ot of spokane wah wash ha has been adv of county bonila bonds and the tho best oter they can get is lon on a bull basis of a dig t of the bond bonds bear 6 per cent ce t interest Int erot hence bence it was thought by tome some that they ought to tell kell at par the county li Is a about bout in debt and it ll 11 tor for the pur pose of refunding this indebtedness that the bonds are to be oll sold |
