Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-05-10
"A Miners Streak Of Luck.

Herman Schcel. OF Silver City, Nsped,, owns
and wniks little miuo to tho southwark of oud
on line with tho Farman shaft, which is not
a bad picos Of property for ono man to have.
l1o has DoW been woTkiug his mnc somo three
Years, and ii has never yet asked him 10 w1rk
tor nothing. So far IS he has Su4k Oh his
veto tho quartz is geld beating. 10 sonc points
|: wtua be spaaklcg mtro 10 tho point 10 soy
that The gold is qusr,z bca,iag, as o small
quantity OF quariz is found stickiGg 10 q large
amount oi gold.
S1ue years rg, Herman Sctcal showed The
Tiiter srcclnen OF his quartz btaligg soiG.
saying There is plenty tuore Of the same kid
where t.: came from. | have been w.sohicg
tho place ilr two 1esis, AID il there shall bo 20
niorc work done 'hero IL anoih2r year | shall
own the g;ouDd," He thea explained that 10
!ound the gold 10 Tho side Of an old sb;udoncd
tunnel, aud hsd carefully piasttrcd up aud en-.
ceaed tc place whero the g1d made lis ap-
ntarancr. l0 sfer oonScris'ion hc always Sal j,
II shall have sll the mcncy want one Of thas:
r:agS-it will not be icns COW before | shsii
come into u,y prcpcrtv.'
Finally Ta missed Mi SchCe ftom iha stfcc,s
Of Vir&ioia City. where he was cereral!y TO be-
riuDd 10 those places 10 which stock desc;s Sc
most coDgvegatc.
We did not see him for long Imo, and be
theo said nc was living 10 Silver City. Still re.
meC4berlDs The god he had sh0wn Us, &c asked
4 lie had al last c:nc ino his property" Esd
how is was "pabnio9 cut.
MIR. Schenl vas very rc!icont, though he Was
good eoCugh tc say that he thought from the
prosptc's thst i. would eventually turn oct 10
be miEe.
a day or two s!nc1 VT met Mr.. Schcrl. aud
the conversation turned upon tho Old times,
when nc was yet TcckoDed among the million
aires.
when | first Wtn; to WotE down there"
SAID he, tho miprrs 10 tho neighborhood did
not know what 10 make ct me. Every night
when quit wcrk carried homo on my back
lot OF ouar'z 10 barley s,ck. Believing the
grCu6d 10 which was at wtrk coed for sotbng
they concluded | must have muiug on lho
bralo. No doubt some of them thought | was
going crazy. They finally regularly made fllu
ot mo whom they saw mo going homo of even
lrgs With my load OF rock on MY shoulders.
They'd sing out: 'Hullo. Hermanl Got An :
other sack of wire siv.r? Let us see your
samples-mu;t have got something mighty
rich,' otc.
II ccu'd alford u let thom laugh" said Har.
man. for l WAS not carrying homo trash In
This ~ny psckod home on my back two tons ard
n half Of quartz l then got it crushed, and the
result WIS S3S eco in gold. Had boon Cling
my barley sack each evening with silver dollars
| could not hsvs carried homo as much money
in The same time as aid whom l WAS loAdsd with
the rich specimens from my mite AlI this
time tho boys thought was crazy-hs, hs, hs |
1t just suited mo to have them think SO. | was
only packing home the very richest of my ore
such a. did not care - leave lying sbout-and
did not ca:o 70 havo Anyo4e inspect my dump
pile tno closely. II was good joke, but tlu
'aneh Was on my sid". There goes Herman
with n'i"theT sack uf wru silvo:--na. hal' mnd
s" IT went III thos days" "