Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-02


Office and occasional bedroom. 1t served
as q concert hall one evening when we
were visited by couple of darkys, who
own q good mine and yet were working on
the new road for a grub stake, to get
food for the winter. One enormous darby
stoutly declared; 81 b'lieve the way to
make big money it'll to hold on t it.
Y'ave ter work. had, but we bound to keep
it. We've refuthed nightly big otferth. "
GLOW muck"
"Well, one man he offered nth thirty
thouthand, and we heerd thome fellow was
talking about forty thouthand. Bot we
vally it at $4,000 You nevah gwine to
sthrike nothing rich if you don't expect to,
and if YOU hold on it why then you may or
you may not. Got to take big chantheth
in mining to make big money"
On the concert evening the little room
held thirty souls. A sad-voiced fiddle that
wandered in original keys was brought, and
the big black startled US by believing;
oh, won't you bury me, mother, mother?
Oh, won't you bury me, mother
Oh won't you bury me- mother, mother,
Way Gown by the sycamore t.ee!
For I'm g'wne 10 git married, mother, mothr.
I'm g'wirc to git married, mother;
Img'wire to git married mother mother
WAY down bv the sycamore tree,
Moonlight starlight,
Moonlight shines so bright.
Their great boots, nObua!led and caked
with mud, keep time to this, and the fiddle
mnmbled independently along. The livery
stable man sat in the long sink leaning
heavily against the water barrel in the con
ner and helped them out with the refrain.
On bench in dark corner some girls got
the proper young men Sandwiched in. A
few chairs, which are borne in and out OF
he dining room fer meals, were on one
side, while q wide bench, covered with
gray blanket ("mountain sofa }, was
crowded, and at last was pulled away from
the table so that newcomers could take an
elevated seat. A sickly kerosene lamp on
the table cast weirn, low shadows on the
fine, manly faces of the rough-looking te-
lows who lined the walls of the little room.
A dirty rollertowel figured as drapery and
a great Sunday-school text glared down
from the wall at the odd audience, the
roaring darkies, struggling fiddle and the
highly edited Eastern spectators.
Primitive Simplicity of Edith's Boudoir.
The boudoir was another revelation to
my benighted ignorance. The stairs led
Ato a large space in which were two beds
and the kitchen stove.pipe. Partitioned oil
were halfdozen little rooms and we
entered one. 4 candle stood on q solitary
wooden chais ia homemade bedstead in
pine in native yellowness, covered with red
comfortables, some hooks, tin lard pail, an
old blanket by way of carpet completed the
truly charming simplicity Of our apartment.
We must add sundry embellishments, such
as q midnight chorus of shores aud little
friendly gale that, playfully scorning the
loose-iointed window as q barrier, entered
and gambolled sweetly over our temples the
livelong night. ,
At breakfast one man observed: The
rain was trickling down the back of my
neck in the night and woke me up"
"What did you do?" asked the Mortified
fastener.
"Just moved q little away" answered the
philosopher.
, Then we realized that another luxury
beside feather bed and chair had been
granted us, for we had been protected b,
the only unleaking roof in the house. The
terrible rain had sprinkled every bed, boots
and clothing were wet, the floor damn
enough for rubber shoes and tin pals to
catch the leakings spotted the house.
All that dismal, rainy Sunday we Rugged
the wood stove and fought the drafts. One
man solcmnly read dictionary; some the
old papers. Others told us of the terrible
winter when the snow was twelve feet deeerr
and their only occupation was digging
tunnels through ii from place to place and
shovellin2 it off the roofs. Others, when
spoken to- would instantly pull bit Of ore
from their pockets and begin expatiating
upon property I'm interested in, just over
there Yes, big streak of mineral assays
give l2O ounces in silver and 40 per cent
lead. Like to have you look at it. It's
Just up that mountain. Go nearly there on
horSeback," meaning the horse had to climb
about o.e thousand feet, and then the poor
tenderfoot would have to scramble over
rough places for about half a mile. Each
man would then have his specimen to show
and some seemed to have their pockets null
eff mineral. One inch fall of snow ended
the 6fty-six hours rain and dazzling indeed
was the reflection as the radiant sun poured
down from heaven of intense blue. All
the sharp Jagged outlines of the rocky peaks
freshly powdered with whiteness, showed in
exquisite clearness IN tue rarifed air, and
the wonderful beauty OF a perfect Colorado
day seemed to watt our thoughts to heaven.
Romantic Discovery of the Yankee Girl
Mine.
A mile from this stronghold Of Demo
cratic principles is the famous Yankee
Girl mine. 1t was discovered By chance.
A miner in an adjacent camp saw deer
in the valley, seized his rifle and started in
pursuit. When lie came to where the dear
had vanished in the timber he sat down on
a small boulder to watcssand idly handled
the stones around. They seemed SO heavy
he broke open one, and another and an
other, and found them to contain galena.
So he and his partner staked claim and
started tunnel; when II feet in the wien
was 10 feet square Of perfectly solid mineral,
a wonderful phenomenon.
The mine was bonded for $4,000, bat
Messrs. Posep, Crawford and others from
Silverton Immediately offered 1925 600, and
on acceptance went to Pi'tSburg ard
raised the necessary funds. The lucky
owners now are Hammond and Mckay, OF
Pi,;sburg, and Crawford, the Remaining
twelfth interest being divided among some
Standard Oil people.
Miners live well, we discovered, besides
earning 81 per day, for we took dinner at
the Yankee Girl Mine and had really
good square meal served on long tables
covered With clean white oilcloth, at which
we sat on benches on either side. The
forty men who were our dinner companions
sleep in a big room upstairs without the
luxury OF sheets but with plenty of blankets,
and they give the room a quaint, fantastic
air by banging their clothes on the ratters,
Al this mine we first entered the ore