The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-28
Was Not q Humorist.

foot who - made to suffer, and the
bold, bad 49er is not always the one
who reaps the benefit in little deals
between the two. Sometimes the efFete
east gets hold of the western 'rusiler'
and makes it very interesting for him.
even At the lstter's own game.
Patrick HeaIy has just dropped on a
quiet little soap which has been going
Oh for years, and which resulted iene-
ficislly to New England, while the
great. broad, noble. iong-haired. jury
defying west has been greatly left.
Mr.. Healy has been for years .
sheep raiser and wool promoter OF Cal
ifornia aud tho Pacific coast. later,
however. going into the business of
purchasing shefp on the coast for the
Utah ard Wyoming trade. These
California sheep. when ct home, feed
over the old placer grounds of the
golden state, eating the rich grass that
has sprung up oil along the broken
and furrowed valleys where once, in
the flush Tires of thirty odd years ago
the miners Of the great Golconda. or
whatever they used to call it, hunted
for gold during the week, and on Sun.
day did their washing or lynched
some one by request.
During the summer q mammoth
dipping corral has been erected at
Laramie City, Wyoming territory.
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 vir-
tually a trough. 300 feet long. filed
with solutions of sulpaur, arsenic, soda
aud other political opponents Of the
scab. 1T this great watering place
l5O. 900 sheep have resor.ed this sum-
mer with their families. A great many
Of them were from California, and
SINE We're our -, heep.
At the lower end of the trough,
where the sheep come out, Mr.. Healy
noticed when the trough was clear OF
dip there was a sediment Of black
sand Black sand does not catch the
ewes of the novice, but when an old
'49er notices the metallic glitter OF
that material he naturally g,es after
gold pan and begins to investigate.
Mr.. Healy did so He was S, rprised
to find that he got from twenty 10
eighty cents to the pan in fiue gold.
He set an old timer to panning at the
foot of the dip. and cleaned up sl2
per day in dust for a week.
Then large octagonal chunk If
truth began to creep into Mr.. Healy's
intellect. The dipping of sheep does
not necessarily get on any of the dirt.
to speak of, but the Boston people who
scour the wool must be the ones who
have open to them a 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 empo-
RUINS and securing resorts of that
great city. 1t was house that ham
died Pacific coast wool exclusively.
Mr.. HeaIy sad he wanted to speak
with the boss prevaricator of the ranch
On an important matter. He was
shown into the conservatory where the
managing. editor was beating down a
big Colorado sheep man on his prices
for his wool. Mr.. Healy waited pa
tien,ly till he could get the eve of the
speaker. When he got the proper
opportunity he said:
sSir. have made discovery that
| 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 l give this to you /
want 100000. 1t will make you
millions, and you needn't get out of
your establishment sexcept to go to
Europe when you feel like it. to buy
Venus de Medicis and Venus Milos
and other fnd-haired bric-a-brac.
Wealth will cone flowing into your
Golfers in a golden stream.
"Let us make few mathematical
calculations. You scour 5000, 600
pounds of wool per annum. Fifty per
cent of that. or IL, 800 900 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. Well say that pan av-
erages two pounds of sand, and you
have from So. 600. 600 .to Sc, 600, 900
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 Goldfish ?
"Do l ?" murmured the sage. Do I!
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