Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-08-13
Aa1Emus WARD ON MINES.
MARI Twain Tells Hew the Great
Humoriss Interviewed Him On
the sabjecs 90 Lsdgss-Seme FER
picking Questiens.

had sever seen him before. He
brought letters Of introduction from
mutual friends in San Francisco. and oy
invitation ! brsakfasted with him. IL
was almost religion. there In the silver
mines, to prscede such . 0 with
whisky cocktails. Artsmus, with true
Cosmopolitan instinct. always deferred
10 the customs OF the country he was
in. and 80 he ordered three OF
Nominations. Kingston was present.
I am a match for nearly every beverage
Won can mention except q whisky sock.
tail. and therefore said 1 would raths
not drink one. / said It would go right
10 INV head and confuse me. 30 that 1
would be in q helpless tangls In ten
minutes. did not want to oct Q luna
tic before strangers, bot Artemus gently
insisted, and I drank the reasonable
mixture under protest. and felt all b
time that I was doing q thing that l
might be sorry for. In . minute or two
I began to imagine that my ideas were
cloudsd. I waited In great anxiety for
the conversation to open, with o sort OF
vague hope that my understanding
would prove clear. after all, and my
misgivings g%roundloss.
Artemus dropped an u~nimportant 70.
mark or two aud then assumed q look OF
superhuman earnestness and made
the following astounding speech He
said /:
"Now, there il one thing ! ought TO
ask you about before I forget II. You
have been here in Silvsrland-hero In
| Neyada-two or three years. and OF
course, your position on the daily press
has made II necessary for you TO 60
down in the mines and examine them
carefully in detail. and therefore you
know all about the silver mining bust.
ness. Now, what I want TO get al is
Is. we'll, the way deposits Of ore are
made, you know. For instance : Now.
As | understand II. the vein which con-
| taius the silver Is saudwiched In between
castings Of granite. and rum along the
ground. and sticks up like . curbstons.
"well, take q vein forty feet thick.
for example. or eighty, for that matter.
or even 100; say you 60 down on 1t with
what you call the = inclinss, maybe you
90 down 500 feet or maybe you don't 60
down but 200; anyway. you 60 down,
and all the time this vein grows mar
rover when the castings come nearer OF
approach each other. you may say. that
is when they do approach. which OF
course they do not always do, particu.
larry in cases where the nature OF the
formation Is such that they stand apart
wider than they otherwise would, aud
which geology has failed to account for.
although everything in that science
goes to prove that. all things being
equal, IL would 10 1t did not or would not
certainly u 1t did. aud then Of course
they are. Do not you think IL isf"
said TO myself, "Now. ! just knew
how II would be. That cusssd whisky
cocktail has done the business for me.
! don't understand any more than o
clam" And then I said aloud. Ill
that is-if you don't mind. would
you-would you say that over againf j
ought"
"Oh. certainly. certainly /! You see
I am very unfamiliar with the subject.
and. perhaps. / don't present my case
clearly. but l."
"No. mono. no. you state II plain
enough. but that vile cocktail has mud
died me q little. but wiil-no. 90
undsrStand. for that matter; but i would
get the hang OF 1t all the better II you
went over II again. and I'll pay better
attention this time"
He said why. what i was after
was this" Here he became even more
fearfully impressive Than ever and en-
phasizsd each particular point BY check.
ing II OIL on his hnger ends. This
vein. or lode, or ledge. or whatever you
may call II, runs along between two lay.
en OF granite, Just the same AZ u II
were q sandwich. Very well. Now,
suppose you 90 down on that, say l.0OO
feet. or maybe LOO Qt don't really
matter), before yon driit ; . thsn You
start your drifts, some OF them across
the ledge and others along the length OF
ii where the sulphursts-l believe they
call them sulphurets. though why they
should, considering that, 30 far NJ ! can
see. the main dependence OF o miner
does not so lie. as some suppose. but In
which 1t cannot DO successfully main.
tanned wherein the same shouid not con-
hnue. while part and parcel OF tns same
ore NOT eommi'tea 70 sitner IN sne sense
reierIeu 70, "hsaeas, % aineren. OIL,
eums'ahces, uo most 'nsiperlenced
among US sou,u nos us.oos " Ne1'' or
might overlook u u did' OF scoth y
very idea OF sucn 'ning, e'sh 'nougn
Il were palpably demonstrated a. sueh.
Am l not rightI'
l said sorrowfnlly: :" feel ashamed
Of myself. Mr.. Ward. i know l ought
TO understand you perfectly well, but
you SEQ that internal whisky cocktail
has got into my head. and now l cannot
understand even the simplest PROPOSE
ton. told you how II would b."
"oh. don't mind II, don't mind II;
the fault was my own. NO doubt. though
l did think 1t clear enough r."
Don't say n word. Clear ] Why.
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