The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-05-24
How Mining Excitements oek'"'

[Bil Nye]
Dear reader, shall l give you ~"
SYMPTOMS OF the mining epldemlc ~
mol1ntain towns? All right, l WILL
anyhow. -o, e
Symptom l. A l~0ng-haired maj -
seen pounding up a piece Oh qu"
| about the size of y mans hahu'
Symptom 2. Two men meandel up
to him and ask him where ne got H.
Symptom 8. The long-haired mau
! looks down into the mortar ana lies
! gently to the inqiring minds VINO
linger near.
Symptom 4. More men come near.
The long-haired man gets u gold pan
and doubles himself up over the
ditch and begins to pan.
Symptom S. Two hundred more
men come out of the saloons ana
other mercantile establishments ana
Join in the hong.
Symptom 6. The long-haired man
gets down tn black sand and shows
several colors about the size of q blue
jays ear.
Symptom 7 times. Several solitary
horsemen start out with some pack
mules and blank location notices and
valley tan. The plot deepens. The
telegraph gets red hot. Men who
have been impecunious for 10, these
many years, CINE around and pay
old bills. Poor men buy spotted
dogs and gold-headed canes. Stingy
men. get reckless, and buy the first
box of strawberries without asking
the price.
1 have caught the epidemic my
self.
am getting reckless Instead of
turning my last summers lavender
pants hind sides before and removing
the ham-sandwich autographs from
the front breadths, I have purchased
q new pair.
never experienced such a wild,
glad, feeling of perfect abandon.
I go to church and chip in for the
heather, perfectly regardless of ex-
pense. If Zion languishes I throw
in the small currency with q lavish
Banks, offices, hotels, saloons, and
private residences show specimens of
carrying free gold and carbon
ates, hard, soft, and medium soft,
with iron protoxide of nitrogen,
rhOmbohedral glucose indications of
valedictory and free-milling oxide of
anti-fat in abundance.
Nellis, who lives neal the Mill
Greek carbonate. claims, came into
town the other day to get an injunc-
ton against the miners, so that he
could lnjunct them from prospecting
in his cellar and stalking his pie-plant
bed.
When he goes out after dark to
drive The cows out of his turnip patch
he falls over a stake every little while
with a notice tackled on it which sets
forth that the undersigned, VIZ;
Johnny Comelately, Joe Newbegie,
Shoe Fly Smith. and Union Forever
claim 1900 feet in length
by 800 feet in width for mineral pur-
poses on this claim, to be known as
1.-THE Gal with the Skim Milk Eye,n
together with all the dips, spurs, an
giles, or variation, gold, silver and
other precious metals therein con-
MI. Nellis says he is glad to see a
"bO0m," and at first he did all he
could to make 1t pleasant for the
prospectors; but lately he thinks that
their sociability has become most too
earnest and too simultaneous.
l told him that the only way that l
could see to avoid losing his grip and
having his string beans dug up pre-
was to stake out the entire
ranch as a placer claim, buy HIM a
Calling gun that would shoot the
the mysterious movement OF an
providence.
l 90 moi know whether he took nv
advlce or not, but ] am looking very
snxIoasly along the Mill Creek ROAD
every gay for a six mule team loaded
With disordered remains, and driven
y q man who looks AS though he had
'lutted his vengeance, ana had two
n three gluts left over on his hands.