| Show BADGER FOUND GOLD MINE strange story of an old miners discovery in nevada N H george santa fe yardmaster has ta hena layoff of three weeks and gone to nevada to develop a gold mining claim which he has there there Is quite a story back of his going mr george grub staked an old miner who bad struck a streak of bad luck this miner finally found some excellent surface indications in the nevada mountains and staked his claim the prospects were so good that mr george his brother and his brother in law took three adjoining claims the old grizzled miner worked away all winter on the funds supplied him by mr george his developments were encouraging but did not pan out large quantities of the yellow metal A short time since another old miner in hard luck came past this first miners claim carrying his kit or tools with him mr georges friend was naturally lonesome and invited the stranger to take a claim and after looking over the situation this stranger decided to do so an even ing or two lat erthe two miners sat on a ledge ot roc bilking A badger came into sight the miners gave chase and the badger ran into a holo on tho strangers claim they went to work with their picks and soon dug the badger out and jn doing so they made a remarkable ds covery his bed in the bottom of the hole was made on a big chunk of tho very richest of gold ore the gold in the stone on which he lay was worth way they discovered a vein of gold bearing quartz which runs through both their mines as well as those belonging lo 10 mr george his brother and his brother inlaw in law mr georges trip to nevada Is for the purpose of fully investigating his new gold mine wellington mail |
