Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14

"Of course not" he replied, Il don't mean
tbot auyboiy shall. But those fellows down
there would give their heals If they knew
what was up here. What do YOU think Of
TINT and he handed me a bit % white rock,
the outside thickly cruS'ed with gold. brighter
far than the dust | had seen taken from the
river and its hanks. That's a part OF the
mine That's quartz. They haven't got Oh
the trail Of quartz Yet in this land. When
they do therell IL a bigger whoop up than
ever
..You see" continued Broener, II hap
raned 10 ret whatever education has been
Uttered into me at "A German university.
Mineralogv was my iavorite study. There
| became acquainted with Madame Quartz
the matrix. in fact mother, OF gold-a mother
who has a good deal 10 answer for III bring
ING 50 much of the root Of all evil into the
world. so soon aS | arrived IN theSe mines |
knew that the gold which has through
ages driltel into all thcSa rivers. CTNckS and
pulchps, must have tumblei some time or
other out of this kind Of rock. and wherever
the rock was. there WAS tho chance Of lind
ing gold III the original package So !
hunted and | found it at last, and here are
more OF the original packages"
He turned up IA fiat bowlder As he spoke,
and underneath, in n cavity, lay a pile VI
the yellow -leckeI white rock. Pircrs We're
there varying in siN from "A POTATO 10 q
human skull. Some serIncl half gold.
nickel up the biggest, and was aStOniShed
at its weight.
That's a hundred ounc"r,' said Bro,ncr,
..outside the rock il carries. Seventeen hun
dr,d dollars more than the whole crowd Oh
the bar below will get out in a day. II makes
me laugh Ia think Of those poor devils hump
ing themselves down there, and fighting over
sardineS II thirty-three feet claims Ia th"
man, when there's enough up here la send
them all 10 the old boy. For there's where most
Of EN- would go If they struck it."
And he laid back and had his laugh cut in
au expansive. silent grin. who's, heartlness
SEEMED to rervade his whole Icing. Singh
lar" he remarked, how circumstances alter
cases Rich a. | am, | can't afford to laugh
aloud, lest the poems b!o hear inr. They
alone can enjoy that luxury.
But where does this quartz come from |
asked.
He arUSn, went forward a few st"Is 10 The
nv NJ A"N tA'NA
shelf, AMI turnci over IA few bushes care
lesdy laid against the rock. There, low
down near the ground. was n streak OF
white quartz Then | observed on closer IN
s~Tsctiun that it hal lern dug into here and
there To the depth Of a few f@t Looking
closer still | saw the yellow metal. AMI IN
places where upturcd by the pick II shone
Eith a CLINT like gilt-v"ry different from
the dull"r color Of the river wash" gold or
that Of hank d~igging&"
ives. THERE'S the hank said Brurncr.
Tho Bank Of California, and II ! wasn't a
man 81 more than ordinary strength Of mini
Id worry myself To death nights fearing leSt
some other quartz lrarn~l reptile came crawl
ing up here and wurInin- himself into my
EiE. As il i, | nave fits OF such fear at
times, but when | ini them coming on | ,ay:
Be off. Ne devils BSau-. ali fear are
d~evilS-devils OF the mini Hard 10 h. put
out If once let in. AMI hound to kill II YOU
ant drive EN- out"
How do YOU get the gold out OF the rcckT
! asked
Pound the gold out Of the bigger humps
with mortar and ~I.%tle.' h. replied, hut
most Of it ! carry 20 San Francisco 10 b"
treated such a. that pieCC you threw down
just now. II looks worthless You can't -
any gold in it, yet it, full, full Of dust gold,
fine as nOur-ycs. fncr-finc a. the dust 90
the buttsrfiy's wing. ! take that 20 the
asSayer. How the mint officials opened their
eyes az them First they ever saw. Wanted
TO know where I dug them and how and all
about IL OF course | told them. / iDrated
my diggtngs in the farthest possible country
from this, and fired yolieys 81 lies otherwise
at them. 4 man must protect himself, you
know, and cut and nun from truth Just n
"A ship in an open ruadstead with a gale sud
denly coming on must cat and run from bsr
best bower. ! half Relieve they didn't quite
accept my story, and suspect sometimes they
set a watch on me 20 SO which way | trav-
eled No knowing, you know, what soDc
learned worm Of the dust NJ the mint might
do. Because such o one wUuh know wha,
this rock meant. and b. would yearn. yea
seek, for II diligently, and do-just rs !
might do under the SINE sore trial
To RE CONTINUED.