The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-11-13

fLeadvillc (Col.) Chronicle. /

chuckle. Lornyl IN AFRAID you'll gt
back on me if ! tell you, but it was /,
durn mean trick and no mistake; but
don't know as you'll blame me when
tell you the facts. He was rich, and i
like many prospector what's worked
and worked and never gets ahead any,
seed my title clear to cool forty
thousand, and just took the bull by
the horns and said 'gee-upl'"
| Tim gave another chuckle as be
thought over the past and finally com,
menced
"Me and my partner had been pros-
pectin' on the headwaters Of the Ar.
kansas, and just made up our minds
we'd strike it or bust. Everybody
else around us was getting rich hand
over fist, and thar was no particular
reason why we shouldn't, we thought.
Leadville was just rising into notoriety
and every inch of ground for miles
around had been staked out in claims,
SO that when Bill and me--Bill was
my partner-fnally come to the con-
clusion that we'd 60 to minin' too,
thar was no room for us anywhere ex-
cept to do the next best thing and
strike the Arkansas. We dug an in
cline into the hill, and at the end of
the first week we'd run a hole eleven
feet deep. The indications were just
tp-top, and when we packed our burro
on Saturday afternoon, our pockets
filed with specimens which looked
first class, we were inst about the two
bappiest mortals that ever went into
an assay shop.
Well, the assay panned out eleven
ounces, which was sort of damper on
our feelin's, of course, but concludin'
that by next Saturday we'd run IL up
to City or hundred, we went back
to our claim and pitched in again for
all twas out. Next Saturday we went
back to town agin to have another
assay made, and twas 'leven ounces
again.
We left mad when the assaycr told
US; made up our minds he was no good
on earth at bis trade, and on Sunday |
we pegged back to our claim, deter
mined to 60 to man what understood
his business next time VIC wanted an
assay made. aa
We did try another the followin'
Saturday, but it was no use. 1t was
'leyen ounces, just the same.
We kept workin' away like good
fellows two weeks more, and had got
he hole all of sixty feet into the bill,
when we left for town and just let the
turned prospect hole 60 to thunder
'Leyen ounces was no showing at oil,
md ruther than work another week
With never any better indications de-
'eloping, we just made up our minds
o starve to death, for in the end it
vas all the same anyhow.
As usual ! stopped in at the hotel,
sunday afternoon, and while lookin'
'ver the papers in the readin'-room |
leard two men talkin' together back
me about mines, and as how one o.
hem would like to git hold of an in
crest in q good psyin' lode for some
Eastern capitalist. t1~ 9D
| don't know what give the idea,
ut it came all sudden like; and
kin the mans face on my mind, !
assed out of the room and .took a
'alk up Fryer bill to think the matter
yer.
What had concluded to do was
his; Salt the mine, take that fellow
p to it and sell it to him; make or
rsak.
made q bee-line for tho Little
'hief mine and filed my pockets with !
re, taking just as much as ! conld lug ]
q. The ore looked for all the world
ke the ore in our mine, and, on ar J
wing there, at once set to work stick 4
I pieces into crevices and patchin' up !
,e walls Of the tunnel until the hole
'oked for all the world like the best !
ayin' lead in the State. Then | re-
lrned.
Next morpip' returned early to the \
ptel and introduced myself to Mr.
itters; told bin / bad struck it rich
ID would sell out for 100000. ! f-l1
lily induced him TO visit the mine. =
he set to work spreadin' . news !,
aper on the ground and begnn to pick
here | told him. He folded it care . I
lIly up and we rode back to town,
here be had an assay made. Il gave Z
m 200 ounces, which set him wild I
lib delight.