Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-01

rSn.'l rivsr. ieould usually get snough TO
w. , hr, lot always; am sometime, I
eau, eat Jo !. ricb 1t is all hck."
''taSn ..So d doubt , about that
mot a bit. When sas IN thsCn-
n,son district three years ago then 'as
n's0n soIIow Who was prospecting alorI 8
a ,,,nh iei where the ground. sloped Oh as
stasn s as The roof Of country cotgs
soro for iiftv y feet. @ and then there was car
Jrop m Of don't know how much mre,
u,cp tn ! brook m thst tumbled along over,he
uocts 70 Well he was about dead brSe,
aUcHS. aUJ was STUMBLING along not Gang
mncb u whaJ bscame of him, till be ep-
,,i nnd On a rousd stone that sent lin
poIi;Un PEI; U down coward the gully at sats
,H ,Hat made hin tear up the soil in hnd.
luis ..1t ~ was nause Over he went, but
to his great iastonishment he laded
sofa ~ a'y if not sand, on a narrow ldge
s,,i ,Ln onnote side Of the chasm popt
o, on 'mr nr twely feet down. When hthad
.eI .nl,od ar bimyf together bit he loked
Pud Pa,,nd an,saw that his ledge wa not
Uoh a,O aoodor him. for it narrovd off
n.L nue. ~ stIsm and down, while the
DON .a, y. bejovjt was at least forty feet
Wna1- Uror Aftf thinking awhile he con-
aIrJed & he cnld jam one end q his
oIu" 80 ayiee behind him, soltbat
~ m hntt void laug over the chsm
Tn 1%o lis be csuld have tied a ro,e. n
- haI one. yhia he hadn't. In ohce
ne lie = n rone he ietemined to use h;s telt
III sI;t . mn into three leces, and strip, cut
@ go bis ce.durotrousers.
.o ..Vyhen me got tbs curious line c,m-
Ltd it reached aittle over half xav
p pt the water. Helthought ks c,uId
drop the rest of tt way without anv
serious damage, aa proceededto nak .
one end of the line Ast to the butt Of
the oun. He was wy nervos over il
and inst when he bught he had #
tied the coil slippetsyer the hdge, the
weight of it brougl' ip his had with a
Jerk, and down 1t vat.
II reckon he thOgat he d Lost all his
friends. Then he di just what any
one else would hayaone. H. got IN
very carefully and ban to wax along
the ledge he was J. Upstream It
soon terminated. Ten he went down.
stream. The ledge ew narrower up-
til he Just had a fe-hold. At the
same place the gulctgrew narrower
He had proceeded ablt fifty feet and
was hoping to find hisvsy on. of the
difficulty when somehcbis foot Slip
ped again, and, whirlit around. he
pitched out over the gH His hands
flew out before him and truck against
the rocks opposite, leasg him sus-
pended above the gulf th was forty
feet deep below. For ait five min.
utes he was not in condin to see any,
thing, but at the end of MT time he
began to look around forte third time
to find means of escape lis eyes fell
on the rocks opposite pet soon, and
then he forgot ali abot us danger.
The pay-streak that Wa epping ou,
there was the biggest s'dever seen.
1t was a trying momen aft all. Ht
said afterward that if b has't noticed
that the gulch grew nrowt and the
ledge wider as it wet dou-stream
he would have just let,o an,dropped
leaving one of the big hines I the dis
t-ict to be discovered in SINE othel
way by some other ma"
"Then he got out alfightP'
"You bet, and sold OF in a reek fol
800, 900, and went to te Stats"
The tenderfoot looka aroun at tn,
door. and then said, hetatingl:
'Did that chap furnh anYAswor.
documents to prove hi story of tn
find?"
The clerk at that ornt plaed a
open box of cigars on tn bar With !.
smart slap. .
"raka . erota hnyslsbo said :
The miner looked rGoachfufy !
the tenderfoot and thenst the Get
and, having lighted cir at the id'
red alcohol lamp, borropd s. Of y
clerk for spending mors and walk
away. At the street dor he turn
around and said:
young man, the pafrs were 3
Necessary. / was that oap myse.Y
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