The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-05-24
Bill xye's nine.
Naming It Vanderbilt As isund Tee EusA
Eatsr.

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Naming It Vanderbilt As isund Tee MusA
Eatsr.
Bill Nye in Detroit Free Press.l
| have decided TO sacrifice an
other valuable piece of mining
property this spring. 1t would
not be sold if l had the necessary
capital to develop it. 1t is a good
mine, for I located it myself. |
remember well the day I climbed
up on the ridge-pole of the uni
verse and nailed my location no
tiee to the caves of the sky.
1t was in August that l discov-
cred the Vanderbilt in a snow
storm. II cropped out apparently
a little southeast Of q point where
the arc Of the orbit Of Venus, BIZ
sects the Milky Way, and ran due
west eighty chains three links and
a swivel; thence south fifteen
PAGES and a half to q blue spot in
the sky; thence proceeding west
eighty chains three links of a sau.
sage and half to o fixed star !;
thence north across the lead to
the place of beginning.
The Vanderbilt set ont to be q
carbonate deposit but changed its
mind. l sent a piece Of the crop.
ping to q man over in Salt Lake
who is a good assayist and quite o
scientist, if he would brace up and
avoid humor. His assay read as
follows, to-wit:
Salt Lake City, U. T., A1g. 25, 1877.
Mr.. BILL NYE:-Your specimen
of ore, No. 35,S32, current series,
has been submitted to an assay
and shows the following result:
Metal ounces val per ton
dClu. lu..................,.
oilver. ..................
railroad iron. l
fyrites Of poverty. .........
Parasites Of disappointment W
NoTE.-I also find that the for
nation is igneous, prehistoric and
erroneous. If / were you would
sink q prospect shaft below the
vertical slide where the old red
birthstone and preadamite Stag
cross-cut the malachite and inter-
sect the schist. l think that
would be schist about as good as
anything you could do. Then
send me specimens, with $2 for
assay, and we shall see what we
shall see. MCVICKER,
Assayist.
Well, / didn't know he was IAN
humorist," you see, so l went to
work on the Vanderbilt to try and
do what Mac said. / sank a shaft
and everything else I could get
hold of on that claim. II was SC
high that we had to carry water
up there to drink when we began
and before fall we struck vein
Of the richest water you ever saw
We had more water in that mint
than the regular army could use.
When we got down sixty feet
sent some pieces of the pay streal
to the assayer again. This tint
he wrote me quite q letter and a
the same time inclosed the certifi
cate of assay.
Salt Lake City, U. r., Oct. 3, 1877
Mr.. BILL NYE:-Your specimen
of ore No. 36,132, current series
has been submitted to assay ant
shows the following. result;
Metal oxs. val per to
6Olu. u.............s.,s,s
silver ..............., -
Move n0ifah trace III
Old gray milestone. 80. trace .0l
Bromide Of axle grease. stain -
Copperas. s.................tra trace &c wort
Blue NltrlOl. ..............t Trace DC WOTtl
McvICKER, Assayer.
In the letter he said there wa
no doubt something in the clain
if l could get the true contact witt
caIcimine walls denoting a true fis
sure. He thought l ought to rul
a drift. l told him / had alread.
run adrift.
Then he said to stope out m
stove polish ore and sell it TO
enough to 60 on with the develop
ment. l tried that, but capita
seemed coy. Others had bee
there before me, and capital bad
me soak my head and said othe
things which grated harshly o
my sensitive nature.
The Vanderbilt mine, with a
its dips, spurs, angles, variations
veins, sinuosities, rights, title'
franchises, prerogatiyes and al
sessments is now for sale. l Sc
it in order to raise the necessar
| funds for the development of tn
| Governor of North Carolina.
had so much trouble with waite
in the Vanderbilt that / name
the new claim the Governor {
North Carolina, because 1t was a
ways dry.
Gov. Cleveland Depl0rcS the Dcfc;
Of the Morrison Bill.
| Especial to the Courier-Journal.l
Washington, May 1l.--Governt
Cleveland. In q letter to q prom