Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-07
THE PROSPECTOR.

| He came in yesterday from the Esmerald
country, and his rain-moistened and mud
covered garments, his sluggish and uncertain
gait, and an unmistakable WEAKNESS IN hi
eve told that our friend had had rough time
| of it. In answer to an enquiry why he didn'
come by stage, We were informed that the wall
was made on principle-that he opposed al
laonopolies, stage monopslies included. and
that consistency was his favorite piece o.
jswelry. We first saw the prsspector at Good
years Bar in 1850; we next met him al
Sears Diggings In 1852; he drifted about till
River country; and at irregular periods since
we have seen him in Carlboo, Reese River,
Phoebe and mining camps without number IN
this State. He now halls from Squaw Hollow
a new district of which he claims to be the
discoverer; but his real home is clouded with
veil as mysterious and impenetrable as the
one hanging about the birthplace of Homer
or Cervantes. A reminiscent tear coursed his
cheek as he stood Gilheoy off for drink, and
with fearful and tremulous voice he whis-
pered gratitude to another old friend for an
accommodation in the shape of metallic
piece with which to procure an transformations
meal. (The accommodation was only tenn
porary one-until he could get return from
Mint deposit.) We met him az hour later,
and a two-bit meal had had a rejuvenating eff
feet upon him. His eyes were brighter, his
+l.o -. 6 h.
nation pink-Gilhoely had been perhaps an
artistic contributor to this efect-his voice
had grown frmer, and his tongue ratified eff
CHEEKY words such as but few shorthand re-
porters could have taken down. The high
wine tear weiled up, overlooked the reservoir,
as it were, as he anxiously and sorrowfully
enauired for Bill Scudder, Frank Anderson,
Bob Taylor, Tom Andrews. Sam Baker and
the other ''eld boys. " But when We cushioned
him about his latest discovery the dead Past
was buried by the magic hands of a contented
Present and a golden Future, and even a
Sellers would have marveled at the wealth.
pictures our friend painted. He had found
1t at last The lode was thirty feet in width
at the groupings, increased in width as he had
gone down on it, was filled from wall to wall
with Stephanite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite and
Frelslebenite of silver; and the entire surface
of the vein was broken out with Telluride of
gold thicker than Jobs body with boils
When we mentioned wood and water, sag
costing that without these no mining property
S.
that the country was covered with groves of
trees which would have been the
envy of band of Druids, and as for water,
there was enough to supply the manufacturing
demands of the world. The prospector had
been importuned nigh unto death by Bill
Lent, the Cook Brothers. Geo. Hearst, John
W. Gashwiler, George D. Roberts, Lucky |
Baldwin, and other mine operators, to give
opposed to tricksters, and none of these fell |
ows could get show in his mine if they paid |
Millions fer an interest. He proposed to deal
,nly with men who played fair, and didn't
Know but what he would give his old friend
ohm w. Mackay a chance Consistent to the
asst in opposition to-monopolies, the prospec
or started on foot for Virginia City. He may
lot talk Nackay into his certain fortune; and
he Midas visions may vanish before the reai-
les Of to-morrews hunger and thirst, but the
faithful attendant, Hope, will
ever desert him, but tightening otherwise
eavy burden even when the pick and shovel
or the last time have been threwn aside, and
he prospector passes out to the UNEMPLOYED
egions of the Hereafter.