The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-05-20


for. il it's so rich as they say e'
The small boy stopped whiytlinI,
cooked his head on one side, closed one
eye and sqninted at Sam with the 9TH
cr.
stranger, have you got half dollar
about YOU; If you have, perhaps I'd not
mind telling YOU"
= Sam forked over the half dollar, and
the boy looked at II amoment and whis-
tied: Get out of the Wilderness
well, feiler, bein' as it's you, don't
object to saying that the reason dad
wants TO sci! this claim is Cause it's too
rich"
''Too rich. Played out" put in
Sam.
Now. stranger, you jest hold yer
hosscs till I get through, and III ex.
plain il to you. You see this amt like
claims where the gold is in sandy gravel
and mostly in the bed rock, but the
bank here is nearly all clay, and there
is heaps and gobs u(1uc gold all through
1t. The clay is the aIl-fredest, stickiest
stuff that ever wuz, and you can't begin
to work II. When dad gets to work
down there he naturally gets the darned
stuff all over him. aud when he comes
IN at n ight he's jest coated with itabOut
six inches deep, more or less, and this
clay is plum full of goid.'
~ don't see that that's any reason for
his wanting 10 sell OUT interrupted
Sam.
"Well, OLD hoss, you keep cool an
don't get rampagiOus an I'll tell you
how it il. When dad comes in at night
he's mighty tired; but mann, you see. IL
such an awful economical woman that
she dou't like to see SO much goid vast
ell as dad has about him in the clay
every night, so nam she allers turns In
and cleans him up. At first she used
tn be satisfied with scraping him down
with hoe and panniug him out. They
made lots OF money at that. lie used tU
pan out rich, tell you. But pretty
soon nam got unsatistied cause 1t took
loo long TO pan him out every night,
aud besides, she didn't get half the gold.
The clay was so sticky it didn't wash
good. Then she got string Of siuices
out in front OF the house and put up q
little hydraulic and used to pipe him
OFF. Dad was dreadful mad about IL.
You ought to hear him growl and cuss.
he said II was too wearin' for "A man to
work IN the drain all day and then be
worked hisself at night. lie had to
give IN, though. Nam said he should
not board with her If he didn't, aud
that fetched him, you bet
Things ran on in this way for some
time. The old woman made two or
.hrce hundred dollars II week reg'lar.
But, as Itold you before, she wits awful
'avin', and she found she couldn't pipe
,fm of clean, and lost ever SO much In
he tailins. You don't know how
'ticky the clay is around here. The
'nly way to work it clean Is to chuck ie
nto kittle of bilin' water and bile it
or two or three hours. That's the way
.he fellow that first struck the claim
ised to work the rich crevices. Mann,
heard of this, and she thought II she,
'ould work the old n,an IN some sucl.
way she could save the gold. OF course
she didn't expect to bile him right
Town, you know; that would not have
oeen exactly on the square, but she
.hought ifshe could let him stand In mid.
lin hot water for An hour or two every
night she could run him through the
hydraulic then and wash him Off pret-
y clean.
well, stranger, you mightn't think
{, but dad was SO pesky contrary that
ne wouldn't do IT,, Nam said he'd got
% do 1t, cause she wasn't goin' to see
money thrown away by no such con-
lrariness. Neither one Of them would
give n so they concluded they'd spljt
20 below and buy ranch
That's jest how it is, stranger; If you
lint married and want to buy this
'laiin, you can make n mighty good
hing out of it, but you've got wife
She won't let you rest for tryin' to work
you to good advantage"
Here the unsophisticatcd infant fill
shed and walked away, calmly whis-
ling:'l wish was daisy while
sam retired to reflect on the matter, for
le was, aud is, married.