The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-07-27
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SALTINo a HI NJ
How . Fortune was Missed A
Prospect Hole That Didn't Par
! Out.
.Isssiyii~ 'hTonS-ie-
How l missed my fortunc ," sal,
Tin Buckley, with y good-na,uret
chuckle. 'I-ordy! I'm afraid you'll
90 back on me il tell you. tor i
Was durn mean trick and no mistake
but don't know d you'll blame N,
when ] tell you The facts. lie va.
rich, and 1, like many a poor prs-
pector what's worked and worked ana
never gets any ahead. seed my title
clear to q cool f,rty thousand. and
just to"k the bull BY the horns and
said ''gee-uP"
Tim give another chuckle a. h
thought over the past. AMI finally
commenced
ME and my partner had been
prospeciin' ON the head waters If the
Arkansas AMI just made up our mind.
sed strike il ar bust. Everyday
else around ~ wss geiiiu' rich han,l
over Est. aud thar Vas mn particular
reason Why We shouldn't. We thought.
Leadville was just rising into motto.
riety, and every inch Of ground fer
miles around had bsen staked Out in
claims. 20 that when Bill and me
Bill vas my partner - finally came ia
the couclnsion that wed 90 to minin'.
tOO, thar was M rom for Us any
where except To dO the next hest
thing and strike the Arkansas. W.
dug an Incline into . hill. and at the
end Of the FIRST week we'd run a hole
eleven tee: deep. The indications
were just tip top. and when We
packed cur burrer On Saturday after.
noon, our pockets filled With .peci.
meme that beat ANYTHING the R'i'ert
E. Lee ever turnesl out oil hollow
fur looks. We was just about the rwo
happiest mortals that ever went into
AN assav shop.
"Well. the assay panned ou, eleven
ounces, which WAS = sort Ut ,lamper
On our feelings. vi course, hut Gnu
GLIDING that bv next Saturday we'd
run il up to fifty or a hundred. we
went back Ia our claim aud pitched in
again for all was out. Next Satur-
DAY We went back to town again tn
have another assay made. and it Was
'leven ounces again.
I'VE ielt mad when the a,sayer
tokl Us /; made up our minds he wxs
nO good On earth AT bis trade. and
Sunday we pegged hack tn our claim.
determined u GU toa man what under.
stood his business next time We wanted
IN assay made.
I'VE did Try another the follow
ing Saturday. bu; it Was no use. 1t
was Ieven ounces just the same.
I'VE kept workin' away like good
fellows two weeks more, and had got
the hole all Of sixty feet into the
hill, when we LETT for town and Just
let the burned prospect hole go to
thunder.
eleven ounces was Do showing at
all. and ruiher than work another
week with never any better indica-
tons developing, We just made up
our minds 10 starve 20 death. for in
the end it was all the same anyhow.
''As usual stopped in at the hotel
Sunday afternoon, and while lookin'
over the papers in the readln'- room !
heard Two men talkin' together back
q me about mines, and as how one
q them would like To git ho:d Of an
interest in good payin' hole tor some
eastern capitalists.
II don't know what gave me the
idea. but it came all If sudden like ;
aud 6xin' the mans face on INV mind
| passed out of the rO.n and iook
walk up Fryer Hill to think the
matter over.
What l had concluded to do was
this: Salt the mine, take that fellow
up to il and sell it IN him. make or
break.
IL made . bee line for the little
chief mine and filled my pockets with
ore. taking just as much as ! could
lug oil. The ore looked for all the
world like the ore in our mine, and
D" arriving there ! At once set tn
work stickiD' pieces into crevices and
pstchin' up the walls OF the tunnel
until the hole looked Gr all the
world like the best PAWN lead in the
state. Then ] returned.
Next mornin' I returned early To
The hotel and Introduced myself to
Mr.. Bitters. Told him had struck
i rich and S0uld sell out for $50, 900. |
finally induced HIN tn visit the |
mine.
"1e set to work spreadin' news
Daper on the ground and hogan tn
pick where l told him. He folded it !
up. and we rode back to
own, where We had an assay made
{ gave 200 ounces. which set him
vild with delight.
From that moment YOU never seed
J fellow stick 81 cI,se tn anoiher rs
3itters did To me. He Was afraid III
ell the mine tn somebody else before
'e could git q chance tn buy It, aud
'e began to watch every step / took.
tothing would do but 1 had to gu
o his room With him and drink and
at the best there vas in the bote..
hen he began to make propositions.
6ering me $4,000
Il told him I couldn't think Of :
akiIg less than $50. 900, half of that
D Bill and $50. O00 to 90 tn me. hut s
e urged 50 hard that finally said 4