The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-21

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teceh Of man, says the Washington Post,
and this he does, and thus does the gold
he gets And it's why hack TO mother earth.
More eold In buried with the dead than
was lost In sea and earth since
ies OF CASTLE were S,nk I'm Biscav and the
caravels OF solomon she Jew were lost
among the Moluccan reefs aud shoals ON
the Malay peninsula, which was called
Ophir.
hands of man In most unjustly and UNI
Equally distributed. In the earth is dis
tributiou IN even more lacking In law and
balance. The G~eoloGist 10 yet TO come
who viii trace, like a placer miner its
luvial deposits, stream washinRs, ledge, |
and vein, tO the grandest pocket
of the earth. What . And II will he! The
philosophers stone alone could rival II.
But new there must he gold i'm
plenty. Did IL i'm the earth's first whirl
from chnos sink like q plummet to the
center? Are the outcroppin9s OF the hills
and mountains but flakes and wires
whirled and spun upward from the golden
hall thousands OF miles below the sur
face? Possibly.
How many know where the largest
America was found?- In California No.
.Ceur d'AIene, Nevada, New Mexico? No.
In old Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, IN PotoSt, In
then? In North Caroiina. And It's story
IL al weird and fateful az the
A poor and ignorant Irishman,, living in
sne 'n n,Ssn IN, door Of his cabin with a
lump 81 metal. He had found II sticking
out from . water-wa.hed gully and car
, eighty 'H iSs for a s% mile. L was a duii.yei:
. Stone ,T rsss isnbedas sd1 IN L. 70. over sso
years q fortune lay. upon the floor of his
howell while he toiied early AND iase, max
root to earn n scsnty living: "A companioS
sss ou %ias. T Ss .:o, snD az se's isla a. .
This was in the flush DAYS 6ef9r e, the R war;
mountain bring that much. A third m9Hn-
taineer was cai,ea N sonsa.'.TThh . ,h;ri
dollars was q lot OF money. hne ei n,b
:. trotter. He went TO Ashevilie f1Hr times
q year, and had been clear To winning
Walking AROUND the lump he Esi ed at IT
from every side, ouchin9 u WIN ms Soe'
sPat ON i, and breatnea neaSity. ~,,,.h .
pile,'' said he. "Hit air nuthin' but nress,
er hit air" He looked around on the
good" -
knife and scraped the dull metal till . new
Ef his air soSla a,, hit w y;ns".r from a iue
WntcD was orOu8hs En"A ukOA
facing OF the lump. The three men nung
over IL intently. Fives ten. nfteeh min-
utes passed, and still the metal shone
clear and u~ntarnished.
"Hit's goold!"
"And I've heerd goold was ruth more'n
500 q pound," sold the second.
, "What q ID fool I've been,' Groaneo
the owner OF the cabin. "ror Two year,
I've worked, an wealth l never dreamed
of kickin' undher my feet"
"I claims q third" broke in the assayer.
"Ye'd never q knowcd what IL was, but
for me-"
AN . third for me,'' said the other.
The owner OF the gold gave q suiien a..
sent. They obtained Q pair OF steelyard1
and weighed the gold. 1t turned the
scales at over 100 pounds avoirdupois, and
they roughly estimated 1t to be worth
i. 926,OO0-Over 5000 apiece. That nhgnt al
three sat up and watched the treasure
. unable to sleep from excitement ano
thoroughly suspicious OF each other. Ins
next day they rolled 1t securely i'm q ciotf
and started for Asheville afoot with the
gold slung to q pole and carried betweer
two.
II was the devirs gold. Az the mrs
Mating place the 1rlSnInau nuu snSS ~
third. and he was shot dead from behind
Hastily hrowing ms ooIy ihso q cIu,ll
Oh bushes tne niuruersrs hac.u I IN I'LL