Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-06-15
A BOOM.
How Mining Stampedes Break
Out

How Mining stampedes Break
Dear reader, shall give you a few
symptoms of the mining epidemic in
mou ntain towns All right, will, any.
how.
symptom IA long-haired man is
seen pounding up piece OF quartz
about the size of mans hand.
symptom 1.-Two men meander up to
him and ask him where he got it.
Symptom 3--The long haired man
looks down into the mortar, and lies
gently to the inquiring minds who linger
near
symptom 4-More men come around.
The long haired man gets gold panand
doubles himself up over ditch and be-
gins TO par.
Symptom 1.-Two hundred more men
come out of saloons and other mercan-
tile establishments and join the
throng.
Symptom 6-The long haired man
gets down to black sand and shows
several colors about the size of blue
jays ear.
symptom 7.-Several solitary horse
men 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 i'm.
| pecunious for lo these many years come
around to pay some old bills. Queer
m IN buy spotted dogs and gold d-headed
canes. Stingy men get reckless and buy
| the first box of strawberries without
asking the rice.
| | have caught the epipemic myself.
| l am getting reckless. Instead of
turning my last summer lavender pants
hndside before, and removing the ham
sandwich Autographs from the front
breadths, have purchased new pair.
never experienced such wild, glad
feeling of perfect abandon.
| 60 to church and chip in for the
heather, perfectly regardless of expense.
II Zion languishcs, throw in small
currency with lavish hand.
Banks, offices, hotels, saloons and pri-
vate residences show specimens of quartz
carrying free gold and carbonates, hard,
soft and medium soft, with iron protox-
ide of nitrogen, rhombohedral glucose,
indications of valedctory, and free mill.
ing oxide of anti-fat in abundance.
| Nils, who live, near the Mill Creek
carbonate claims, came into town the
other day to get an injunction against
the miners, so that he could injunct
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 stake every little while,
with notice tackled on it, which sets
forth that the undersigned, viz; Johnny
Comeately, Joe Newbegin, Shoe Fly
Smith and Union Forever Dandelion
claim 1900 feet in length by 600 feet in
width for mineral purposes on this claim,
to be known as the Gal with the Skim.
Milk Eye" together with all dips, spurs,
angles or variations, gold, silver or
other precious metals therein contained.
Mr.. Nellis says he is glad to see
"boom. and at first he did oil he could
to make it pleasant for prospectors but
lately he thinks that their sociability
has become too earnest and too stimuli
taneous.
i told him that the only way could
see to avoid losing his grip, and having
his string beans dug up prematurely,
was to stake the entire ranch as placer
claim, buy him gatling gun that would
shoot the largest size OF buckshot, and
then trust to the mysterious movements
of an overruling Providence.
| don't know whether he took my adj
vice or not, but am looking anxiously
along the Mill Creek road every day for
a six mule team loaded with disorgan-
ized remains and driven by man who
looks as thsugh he had glulted his ven
geance, and had two or three gluts left
over on his hands. Bill Nye.