The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09

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of rowing disposition, and never hav-
ing visited the States, that was naturally
! the first place he'd think of. And when
! a man goes to America he's pretty GER
tain sooner or later to fetch up in New
/ York. So it was in New York that ]
/ figured should find him. But before I
| started l thought it would be as well to
make the thing certain by sending on
| cable message, addressed to certain par
ties in New York that you may have
heard of, asking whether my man was
there. Sending kilograms half round
the earth costs money, Bob; but it doesn't
cost quite as much as to go yourself, let
alone the time and the wear and tear"
However, expenses being paid, said
Bob.
That's all very well, but parties en-
ploying one like to have a good account
of their money; and a good recommends
ton is sometimes worth more than cash
| in hand. Well, didn't look for an an
swer inside of week or ten days; but
| forty-eight hours after had sent off the
dispatch the landlord of my hotel came
up to me and told me that he believed l
was looking for Mr.. Valentine, and that
man had just arrived from Panama
who had met party going by that name
in Mexico some six weeks before, and he
thought likely he'd be there yet. told
him to bring the man around, and he
came and had a talk with him.
! He had seen Valentine, sure enough;
made up my mind rs to that. He de-
| scribed him as near as could be; for
! though l had never seen him myself l
had all the points about him from those
who had, and photograph taken four
or five years before. The fellow said that
! Valentine had come to Mexico from New
! York, after being wrecked in a big gale
at ST. Thomas, and friend of his-IIl
call him Percy-was drowned in the
same storm"
You call him Percy, do you:" in
/ tcrposed Mr.. Stap!eton. and he was
drowned in the St. Thomas hurricane:
And what might his other name be-"
I'm not giving names; I'm telling you
a story" returned Mr.. Clifton CURLY.
That's all right; something occurred
to my mind, that's all; and mighty
good story it is you're telling" rejoined
the other aTably. $50 Mr.. Valentine
went over 70 Mexico, did he? And what
/ id he do there?"
"Well, he'd brought some letters, so it
seems, introducing him to the president
and some other sweils; and he handed
: .o,,o ~ o,,I VINO ,ooo;ra1 in orOOd ctv1n
| He gave 'em to understand that he'd
come to settle, and grow up with the
! country, so to speak.
lone thing led to another, and at last
/ they got talking about mines; and with
that the president gave him guide, and
sent him off up to place called Pachu-
ca, about sixty or seventy miles north of
/ the city. He moused about there-he
/ knew something of mining, it ap-
! pears-and examined the mines that
were working, and some others that had
/ been given up; and at last he fixed on a
/ bit of ground where there wasn't any
mine at all; but he took fancy to it
for all that, and went back to Mexico to
see about getting possession of it. He
managed things very cleverly, and got
the swells interested, and made out that
he wanted to let them into a good thing,
/ and would be satisfied with very small
! share himself, and would take all the
trouble of looking after the business off
their hands into the bargain. So what
did he do but raise a company, and the
/ company raised capital-you know
how those things are worked-and they
filed their claim to the land, and ap-
pointed him manager, and the first tests
he made showed q bigger percentage of
silver than had been known in that
neighborhood for hundred years.
THAT was the news my informant
brought me; he said all Mexico was talk
ing of it, and that Mr.. Valentines pick
ings, though they might be small, COM
paratively speaking, were likely to stand
him in cool hundred thousand dollars
a year, which is enough to keep man
off the parish.
eyes, l should think it might" Mr..
Stapleton assented. And that's the way
it is in this world, Henry Clifton; luci;
goes dead against man for years and
/ years, and no let up and then all of i
sudden, for no reason that ever anybody
can find out, his brother dies and leaves
him million in England, and he goes
to Mexico and collars a mine worth a
hundred thousand year. The million
amt enough, and the mine amt enough;
he must have 'em both; that's the way
of the world every time!"
Mr.. Clifton accepted this statement
without comment and went on with his
| story.
LAS you may suppose, l lost no time
in packing my grip for Mexico, and 1 got
! there in due season and without accident.
I / took the train at Buena Vista station
! to Omeltusco, and then by diligence and
| horse car to Pachuca, which Preached at
shutdown, dead tired, and chock full OF
dust, and precious cold, disagreeable,
| shabby hole Pachuca is. and I don't care
who knows it!
"But was on business, and when
learned that bir Valentine was camping
out about five miles above l hired a mule
then and there, and black fellow To-
show me the way; and by niShtfall
! had him.
CHAPTER XVIII.
A DILEMMA.
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