Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-21

What W.T.. HeaIy Saw While ON a Tisss
60 MassaChusetts.
From the Detroit Free Pres.

From the Detroit Free Pres.
Ii Is not always the eastern tenderfoot who IA
made to suffer- and the bold. bad 'iaer is not
always the one who reaps the benefit in little
deals between the two. Sometimes the effete
east gets hold of the western ''rustler- and
makes II very interesting for him even at the
latter's own game.
Mr. Healy had been for years a sheep raiser
and wool promoter OF California and the Pacific
coast, later. however gong into the business Of
purchasing sheep on the coast for the Utah and
Wyoming trade. These California sheep when
at home feed over the old placer grounds of the
Golden State, eating the rich grass that has
sprung up along the broken and furrowed val
leys, where once in the flush times OF thirty odd
years ago the miners Of the great Golconda or
whatever they used 10 call II. hunted for gold
during the week. and on sunday did their wash
ing or lynched some one 10y request.
During the past summer a mammoth dipping
corrall has been erected at Laramie City. Nyo-
ming Territory, where all home and foreign
sheep are dipped. 10 abolish and discourage
that eccentrlcity OF genius among sheep known
as the scao- luis tank is virtually trough. 500
feet long, hlled with solutions OF sulphur
arsenic, soda and other political opponentHo of the
scab. AT this great watering place $50 600 sheep
nave this summer resorted with their families
great many OF them were from California, and
some were our own sheep.
At the lower end of this trough where the
sheep came out. Mr.. Healy noticed when the
trough was clear Of dip there was sediment OF
black sand. Black sand does not catch the
eyes OF the novice but when an old 'Iger no.
tices the metallic glitter Of that material he nat
urally goes after a good pan and begins TO in
vestigate. Mr.. Heay did SO. He was surprised
to find that he got from 20 10 80 cents To the pan
in fine gold. He set an old-timer To panning at
the foot OF the dip, and cleaned up ZIP per day
in dust for a week
Then a large, octagonal chunk OF truth began
to creep into Mr.. Healys intellect. The Dip
ping Of sheep does not necessarily get out any
OF the dirt To speak of, but the Boston people
who scour the wool must be the ones who have
open to them glorious. golden fortune. Mr.
Healy came TO this conclusion at once and
acting upon 1t, he went To Boston Immediately.
and as fast as hack would carry him he Went
TO one OF the largest wool emporiums and
securing resorts of that great CITY. liz was q
house that handled Pacific coast wool exclu-
sively
MIR. Heay said he wanted to speak to the
boss preyarcator OF the ranch on an important
matter. He was shown into the conservatory,
where the managing editor was beating down O
big Colorado sheepman on his prices for his wool
Mr.. Healy waited patiently till he could get the
eye of the speaker. When he got the proper
opportunity he said:
''Sir, have made discovery that desire 70
act upon at once. IL will bring you millions of
dollars easily and surely. and | only ask that
you will use me white in payment for the dis
coyery. II L give this to YOU want 500 COO
lt VIII make millions for you, and you needn't
go out OF your establishment except To 20 to
Europe when you feel like il to tuy Venus de
Medcis and Vents Milos and other fine haired
br'c-a-brac. Wealth will come flowing into Your
Golfers in golden stream.
Let US make a few mathematical calcula-
lions. You scour 25.00,0O pounds OF wool per
annum. Fifty per cent of that or IL 5000
pounds, is black, collaborating sand running
say % cents to the pan; or. If you will be Judi
clous In buying OF men whose ranges are in the
old hydraulic gulches of the coast YOU can bring
1t up To 81 to the pan. Well say that pan ave.
RACES two pounds of sand and You have from
S300000o to SIS 600 900 per year. Do YOU tum-
Bile, you old grizzly moss-agate Of Massachus-
etts' DO you get on to my little scheme, noble
duke OF the kingdom Of Goldfish 2"
"Do IL murmured the sage. "Do /? Come
with me-"
He took Mr.. Healy out to the rear OF the
great securing rink, and showed him where two
Cinnamon were at work with gold pans.
"You think. Mr.. Healy," said he. that am
putty man from away up the creek no doubt.
You do not know me. You are I'm error. | am
an old '49er myself. came home by way of the
lsthmus many years ago. and know black
sand with little, fine rubies and -four gold I'm Il
as Well as you do. have been this little
racket now for come years. and am doing
moderately we'll / early learned that the
growing coat of California sheep was I'm many In
stances bonanza. People thought was mon
saw how was getting ahead but lust told
them that was temperate and shaved myself,
aud used an oil stove and went without a hired
girl, and wore celluloid cuffs and collars, and
economical, but they wouldn't believe made
my money that way. They concluded
l was writing humorous articles for the
New York papers at a million dollars apiece,
and allowed them to think so. All my neigh
bors think am millionaire humorist I'm dis
guise, but am not ! pledge you my word
am not hunorist. Believe me, noble delegate
from the sunlit peaks of the Rocky Mountains
fuzzy exponent OF a thrifty young common
wealth, am not humorst i am Just irving
to plug along from day to day. and by an upright
lfetryingtO so live that when my summons comes
to join the innumerable caravan and some more
things like that, / shall not go like the quarry
slave at night with head on me like a corner
bracket, but, sustained and soothed like a Nor
mon apostle in the numerous bosom OF his
family, approach my doom. That's the kind u
tropical shrub from Caayeras county am"
Then Mr.. Healy went away. He had never
been thrown In contact with the people OF Mas
sachusetts before, and, unless Important bust
ness calls him there again. he will spend his de-
Ginning years In the great, wide, trusting and
humane west.