mount saint there was at the same date a second large its name if it ever had one lost for me both of these have perished leaving not a stick and scarce a memory behind them tide after tide of hopeful have thus flowed and about the mountain coming and going now by solitary d g l rf in the story of a mine now with a rush last in order of time came reared the big mill in the valley founded the town which is now represented by s pierced all these and shafts and and in turn declined and died away our noisy years seem moments in the wake of the eternal silence as to the success of in its time of being two reports were current according to the first six hundred thousand dollars were taken out of that great upright that still hung open above us on crazy then the ledge pinched out and there followed in quest of the remainder a great drifting and in all directions and a great consequent of dollars jt the until all parties being sick of the expense the mine was deserted and the town according to the second version told me with much secrecy of manner the whole affair mine mill and town were parts of one majestic there had never come any silver out of any portion of the mine there was no silver to come at midnight trains of pack horses might have been observed winding by tracks about the shoulder of the mountain they came from far away from or laden with silver in old cigar boxes they discharged their load at in the hour of sleep and before the morning they were gone again with their mysterious drivers to their unknown source � df in the story of a mine in this way twenty thousand pounds worth of silver was in under cover of night in these old cigar boxes mixed with down to the mill crushed and refined and despatched to the city as the proper product of the mine stock if it can cover such expenses must be a profitable business in san i give these two as i got them but i place little reliance on either my belief in history having been greatly shaken for it chanced that i had come to dwell in at a critical hour great events in its history were about to happen � did happen as i am led to believe nay and it will be seen that i played a part in that d i r tke tion myself and yet from first to last i never had a glimmer of an idea what was going on and even now after full reflection profess myself at sea that there was some obscure of the cigar box order and that i in the character of a wooden set pen to paper in the interest of somebody so much and no more is certain then under my immediate sway belonged to one whom i will call a mr i only knew him through the medium of local gossip now as a momentous now as a to point an and again and much more probably as an ordinary christian gentleman like you or me who had opened a mine and worked it for a while t in the story of a mine with better and worse fortune so through a window pane you may see the by shoot up into a backed giant or into a pot dwarf to at least the mine belonged but the notice by which he held it would run out upon the th of june � or rather as i suppose it had run out already and the month of grace would upon that day after which any american citizen might post a notice of his own and make his this with a sort of quiet told me at an early period of our acquaintance there was no silver of course the mine was n t worth nothing mr but there was a deal of old iron and wood around and to gain d i r � of this old wood and iron and get a right to the water proposed if i had no objections to jump the claim of course i had no objection but i was filled with wonder if all he wanted was the wood and iron what in the name of fortune was to prevent him taking them his right there was none to dispute he might lay hands on all to morrow as the had laid hands upon our knives and besides was this mass of heavy plant worth if it was why had not the owners it away if it was would they not preserve their title to these even after they had lost their title to the mine and if df in the of a mine it were not what the better was nothing would grow at there was even no wood to cut beyond a sense o� property there was nothing to be gained lastly was it at all that would forget what remembered the days of grace were not yet over any fine morning he might appear paper in hand and enter for another year on his inheritance however it was none of my business all seemed legal or all was one to me on the morning of the th mrs appeared with the milk as usual in her sun bonnet the time would be out on tuesday she reminded us and bade me be in readiness to play my part though i had no idea what it ic the was to be and suppose came we asked she received the idea with derision laughing aloud with all her fine teeth he could not find the mine to save his life it appeared without to guide him last year when he came they heard him up and down the road a and a 