The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-11-30

bad '43er is not always the one who
reaps the benefit in little deals between
the two. Sometimes the effete East
gets hold of the Western 'srustler'' and
makes it very interesting for him even
at the latter's own gate
Patrick Healy has just dropped on
quiet little snap which has been. going
on for years, and which resulted benefi-
cially to New England while the great,
broad, noble, long-haired, jury-defying
West has been gently left.
Mr.. Healy has been for years sheep
raiser and wool promoter of California
and the Pacific Coast, later, however,
going 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 all along
the broken and furrowed valleys, where
once, in the flush times of thirty odd
years ago, the miners of the great Col
conda, or whatever they used to call it,
hunted for gold during the week and on
Sunday did their washing or lynched
some one by request.
During the past summer a mammoth
annie City, w. T., where all home and
foreign sheep are dipped, to abolish and
discourage that eccentricity of genius
among sheep known as the scab. This
tank is virtually q trough, 800 feet long,
filled with solutions of sulphur. arsenic,
soda and other political opponents Of
the scab. At this great watering place
100000 sheep have this summer resort
ed with their families. A great many
of them were from California, and some
were our own sheep.
At the lower end of the trough,
where the sheep come out, Mr.. Healy
noticed when the trough was clear of
dip that there was sediment of black
sand. Black sand does not catch the
eye of the novice, but when an old
forty-niner notices the metallic glitter of
that material he naturally goes after
gold pan and begins to investigate. Mr..
Healy did so. He was surprised to find
that he got from twenty to eighty cents
to the pan in fine gold. He set an old
timer to panning at the foot of the dip,
and cleaned up S12 per day in dust for
week.
Then q large, octagonal chunk of
truth began to creep into Mr.. Healy's
intellect. The dipping of sheep does
not necessarily get ont any of the dirt,
to speak of, but the Boston people who
scour the wool must be the ones who
have open to them q glorious, golden
fortune. Mr.. Healy came to this con-
clusion at once, and acting upon it, he
went to Boston Immediately, and as
fast as hack could carry him, he went
to one of the largest wool emporiums
and securing resorts of that great city.
1t was house that handled Pacific
coast wool exclusively.
Mr. Healy said he wanted to speak
with the boss prevaricator of the rancho
on IN important matter. He was
shown into the conservatory where the
big Colorado sheep man on his prices
for his wool. Mr.. Healy waited pa
tiently till he could get the eye of the
speaker. When he got the proper op-
portunity he said:
''Sir, l have made Il discovery that l
desire to act upon at once. 1t will
bring you millions of dollars easily and
surely, and L only ask that you will use
me white in payment for the discovery.
If | give this to you want 100000. 1t
will make millions for you and you
needn't go out of your establishment
except to go to Europe when you feel
like it, to buy Venus de NEEDLES and
Venus de Milos and other fine-haired
bric-a-brac Wealth will come flowing
in to your Golfers in a golden stream.
s@Let us make few mathematical
calculations. You scour 23,000.OO0
pounds of wool per annum. Fifty per
cent. of that, or l2,500,0 600 pounds is
black, gold bearing sand running say
fifty cents to the pan, or if You will be
judicious in buying of men whose
ranges are in the old hydraulic gulches
of the coast, you can bring it up to 81 to
the pan. Wen say that a pan averages
two pounds of sand, and you have from
So, 900, 600 to s6,OOO,OO0 per year. Do
you tumble, you old grizzly moss agate
of Massachusetts? Do you get on to
my little scheme, noble Duke of the
Kingdom of Codfish?"
'.Do I?'' murmured the sage. ''Do
l? 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 in error. 1 am an old
'49er myself. l came home by way of
the isthmus many years ago, and
know black sand with little, fine rubies
and flour gold in it as we'll as you do. l
have been on this little racket now for
some years, and l am doing moderately
well. I early learned that the growing
coat of California sheep was in many in
stances q bonanza. People thought L
was monkeying with stocks or dabbling
in oil when they saw how was getting
ahead, but l just told them that was
temperate and shaved myself, and used
an oil stove and went without hired
girl, and wore celluloid cuffs and col
lars, and economical, but they wouldn't
believe that I made my money that
way. They concluded l was writing
humorous articles for the New 9ork pa
pers at million dollars apiece, and
allowed them to think so. All my
neighbors think am q millionaire hu-
morist in disguise, but am not. l
pledge you my word l am not an
humorist. Believe me, noble delegate
IIOln lIlc SuHiiG lICttho Va oli~ ANOS>J
Mountains, fuzzy exponent OF thrifty
young commonwealth, l am not an
humorist. l am just trying to plug
along from day to day. and by an up
right life trying to SO live that when my
summons comes to join the innumera-
bic caravan and some more things like
that, shall not 60 like the quarry slave
at night with Il head on me like q cor
ner bracket, but sustained and soothed
like a Mormon apostle in the numerous
bosom of his family, approach my
doom. That's the kind of a tropical
shrub from Calavcras County | am"
Then Mr.. Healy went away. He had
never been thrown in contact with the
people of Massachusetts before, and I'M
less important business calls him there
again he will spend his declining years
in the great, wide, trusting and humane
West.-BiU A7-p.
He was real-estate agent and COM
planned that he had three adjoining
houses to let since last fall, and couldn't
rid yNf% hF,N for hat !