Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-26
The Names of Mines.
WHY THE BOYS ARE SO PECULIAR IN THEIR
SELECTION.
From the Salt Lake Tribune,

Names of mines, like ones emotions when
eating Limburger cheese for the first time
are peculiar The locator of Dry Hash pro-
badly showed his preference for dish which
| is a prominent feature of boarding houses,
and has large circle of acquaintances
Moonbeam, indeed is more poetical. but not
SO euphonious, nor so suggestive of Utah rs
| Boss Bed-Bug. Little Blk leaves one to in
fer that there is Big Blk ; in fact, on con-
sideration, we'll concede that there are a
great many of them Mollie Darling shows
that although she is getting to be quite an
old maid she still has admirers. The Fraud
is an exhibition of human nature the loca-
tor wanted to prick the pride of the vein and
spur it to belle its name
On inquiring Of one miner why he had
named his claim Il Know ALL" he explain
ed
When left the East left my girl there,
and and-some trouble | had with another
lady. When got out here, wrote back to
my girl that | was dong bully. That wasn't
SO, but you know how Il fellow will write.
Wrote that | expected to return soon and
cage her in palace. She answered, i know
all. Yours no more, Jane.
Asking another, why he chose to name his
mine the Terror, he replied:
"For a lady"
How Didn't know that was a female
name.
well, you see, that's my wife, she's holy
terror. Left her in Gold Hill.
The owner of Damn the Luck said
Two Of us started out prospectin, an had
two mules. On the morning after the first
night out We had one-other choked hisself
to death with the rope. Next day t'other
mule went over a precipice-we had none"
Lost your tools p
No" sadly and respectfully.
Grub? z"
Worse"
.What 2"
The big canteen, quarter full of whiskey.
went over with that mule. Damn the Luck
wns located soon after that"
Tom Pike being questioned Ito &c his rea-
son for naming location Joab johnson,
said
That that-was my name i'll the States
| asked the proprietor Of the Last Chance
if he really considered that his last trial for
Il fortune if he failed, wouldn't try it
again ?
No sir no, sir will so to Robin the
stages.
LIVER of Thee seemed to whisper of an ab-
sent object of love. Said | to the owner
That name WAS coined by your heart.
She comes to you i'll sweet dreams
''Yes."
"And by day your thoughts turn fondly to
herr"
..Yes"
'.Ah fond hearts sundered by cruel cir
cumstances Are You long parted"
Very"
Her name, good man! Perchance may
meet her in my travels and tell her Of thee"
Nancy
To the man who Was showing me his two
claims, | remarked
From the name, the Treasury you must
have high hopes OF this -
That isn't why named 1t that.
"Why, them"
There's nuthin in 1t.
"And this second one, Hector, you admir-
ed the valian Trojan p
Named for my dog Hector. He's dead
Buried over thar come AL see his grave.
''No | WAS just passing.
Saying to IL miner, one of a family "What
fancy led you to name this claim Tim Finne-
gan :" He replied
We'll stranger, it WAS at Prescott, an me
an Tuscan Jake was playin' II game of cur
sock, jes' for the drinks. You know, when In
comes one of them crazy, blood-thirsty hell
hounds that turns loose in mining camps
sometimes, ripped out his six shooter, shot
the barkeeper dead then turnin on me an
Tuscan Jake said
I'll blow the top Of your d-dh heads of.
I'VE knowed he'd do it There was the
bar-keeper dead, an thar was the pistol
pointed right at us. 1t WAS fearful We
darsn't take full breath Jakes feelin's
worked on him 50 powerfully that he couldn't
keep still he hrched round a little. Quick
as lightning II ballet laid him nj my feet
Now, the pistol was turned toward me, with
the muzzle within three feet of my face, an
the ewes of the sroundrel fairly blazed, as he
said
Move, move, Il n you, jes' the hundredth
part of an inch
1T was the most horrible time of my life.
The sweat stood on my face like cobble-
stones knowed he'd kill me ii moved a
finger an it seemed all the time | was goin
to move in spite OF myself. even wished
he would shoot me an have it over with.
.Ies then IL pistol flashed behind the wild
beast an he fell dead i'll his boots Tim
Finnegan had got too much whiskey early in
the evenin, an stretched ont on some bar
rels in the corner an went to sleep. The
shots that killed the barkeeper an Jake
walked him. An, being sobered by his nap,
he, unbeknownst to me ah the murderer,
easily an gradually drew out his pistol an
sent the bloodhound to kingdom come.
'You fled from the scene Of horror -
Il hugged and kissed Tim.
..What is the name Of this prospect i'll
front of u.s.
Tim Finnegan No. =.
The one to the right ?
Tim Finnegan No.
''And this on the left 2
..Iim Finnegnn No. 4.
''llow many locations nave you on this
hil?"
sixteen
''rhe name Of the last one -
Tim Fnnegan No. 10"
'How is 1t that you have No. ~ and only
sixteen locationsY
My boy an my dog an my horse is Tim
Finnegan No. Ii, II an lS.
You haven't named your wife that =
''No hut if died tore her an Tim he
n bachelor | want her to he Mrs. Tim Fin
negan."