The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-08-09
FRyER.s Hill.
The %ttiscoyerer Who bid Sot Know He
lad Found n Fortune.

Had Found Z Fortune.
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In last SUNDAYS ssTalking Machine"
a story was told Of the aaventts'c of
Dir. S. b. Thompson with Ute Indians
in the mountains $50 miles beyond
Denver about 1859, IN which it was
said that he never saw or lieard from
his partner afterward. The story was
told the writer by a relative of DR..
Thompson, who heard. it from him |
shortly after the war. NowDr. Thomp-l
son comes forward with The statement
thai since then lie has heard from his
partner.
The parlncr was George FRYER, and
ia the background was another semi
partner, one Chatfec. IL sort of unlucky
but sanyuine rrub stalker. who ALWAYS |
was on the VERGE of striking it. We
LETT FRYER working his way up one side
the CANYON. while DIR. Thompson took
| the other and fell into tho hands of
The ties. Missing his partner Fryer
kept on, finding here and there signs
| of cold. but hardly enough to pay for
| the trouble of grading or working a
pocket, Finally he reached the end of
| his tether. With only enough proyi-
| sions 10 keep him alive on half r%ations
| until he reached the outskirts of ciyjIi-
into the bottom of his burro's pack.
saddle a few pieces of sicazy brown
| rock whic, he had broken with his
pick from tho outcropping of n ledge
| near the turning point These speci-
mems had attracted his attention more
by their weight than from II put
ward indication OF value:
Arriving in Denver FRYER dumped
the net results of his Improbable "trip
into his trunk and hustled around for
another grub stake, securing which he
started arain in another direction in
search of cold. SO matters ran Oh
through tho wears of the war. No,
every one could be a soldier: so FRYER
hunted gold. sometimes in company
with ChaiTee. sometimes alone. DR..
Thompson had abandoned tho field
and was attending more serious affairs
than broken lcps as a surgeon in tic
Union army.
Fryer had the usual fortune of the
Notwithstanding striking a lead
and getting n few hundred ahead,
then losing it all in sinking a shaft
which had nothing at the bottom of it
short of China. One day. some ten
sears after the adventure with the
Ules. Fryer was down in Denver, aud
down IN luck. O%ycrhaulinr his dun
no~e he came across those specimcps.
These he carefully picked out and,
wore from curiosity than hope. took
Them TO an n%ssaycr. Tho ossuyer look
cd them over and weighed them in his
"
"H'mr c~orbonatcs." he said. .Come
around to.morrow,r
When Fryer had rome he took a
hammer. laid a niece of fine rock in
The hollow Of auircn nla,e. and pouud-
ed il mn fine. TErn lie swept M the
]nu,yrriypd mass corofully. wciohcd if.
nut il in a small! crucible, which was
placed in Il portable furnace, and the
ilamc turned on. There were two or
three other processes, and then the
contents of lIe vessel We're poured
into Il pail Of water. AS the lip of the
%cruc!ble fell below the horizontal a
!. streak of dazzling whitcncss shot out
and fell Kissing through the water,
, hardening into protesnuc and goblin
i shapes at the bottom. At the risk OF
burning his fingers the assayer plung-
ed his hands in after it. As he held it
lap Il smile played across his facc-a
purely professional smile. But he i'm,
medi"tely set to work, and, pounding
: up all the specimens, went through
> The process again. Again II still
, larger stream OF cleaning metal hissec
; through the water,
Then he weighed it, made a few cal
, culations on a piece of paper, whieI
he carefully folded up and put in his
c pocket, closed up the Office, wen
across the street and took n big drink
OF whisky, When his customer came
, inc next day the assayer was very
calm and n%onchalant. Had hs as
: sayed the stutf'" Yes rather indif
/ tefently. 'liow had it turned our
A ooh, so. so, BY the WAY. where did
: Mr.. Fryer lind the stuiI?n
MI. Fryer grinncd a very sarcastic
! md knowing grin. I'm the bottom %
his trunk. Could lac afford the gentle