Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-09-04
THE BUSTED HOPES.


Among the veteran miners of the Gold
Leaf district none could lay claim to longer
residence therein than little Andy Cobb,
the original discoverer and present half
owner of the Busted Hopes" In forty
eight hours from the origination of the
Gold Leaf boom little Andy was in the
gulch, coming along with the first Install
ment of fortune seekers from Deadwood,
with his camp kit packed on the only
broncho in the party, chartered for the
trip jointly by Andy and the Nussbaum
Brothers, the Jew clothiers from CHEYENNE.
1--WE located side an side-the two Nuss-
baums an me-" Cobb used to relate to
every "tenderfoot" that he could beguile
into listening. "Levi Nussbaum struck it
reh in the Three Ply Sunk prospect
hole bout big enough to bury Dutchman,
an sold to Boston syndicate for fifty
thousand in less N week. His brother,
ole Moses, had the same kind of luck. The
All Wool is the richest claim in the gulch
to this day, an it has bin five years since
Nussbaum let it slide for enough money to
buy all the second hand clothes in Amer
ica."
"And how about your claimi" the listen
sr would inquire.
Miner Oh, I've got it yet changed
rs name after the first year. all the same.
L was the 'Eldorado' first, but now / call
the Busted Hopes It's nice claim il
ID is a poor one-handy TO the shanty. am
wood an water convenient. There's plenty
of good ore in the Busted Hopes II we
only had little capital to invest in devel.
ppin' it the lad an could windlass out
the metal Eastern forty minis could han
dle it,"
Ed Brundige was the ''ladn to whom
Cobb had reference. He was a new man in
the gulch. comparatively speaking, his cit.
zenship merely dating back some eighteen
months OF whereabouts. No one seemed TO
know anything In regard to the "lad,s,
past history, and in Justice to the other
miners / must admit that obtrusiye curl.
bsity was failing almost unknown among
hem. A stranger In their midst was ex-
bected to furnish some sort of name. for
he convenience of parties who might wish
% address him, but further than this he
might, at pleasure, refuse to proceed.
Thus it CHANGED that Brundige, making
his debut In the gulch when half Of the
miners were down with mountain fever,
lad quietly settled down as a permanent
esident Of the place, without offering or
equesting any condolences whatever; and
side from the fact that he was cyan.
kee," and possessed Of some previous ex.
erience as n miner, the amateur Pinker.
ons of Gold Leaf had failed TO elicit anv
pointsY worthy of mention.
Little Andy Cobb had been one of the
rst to suffer from the fever. and for four
Ong weeks. stretched on the not oyersoft
aT mattress in the solitary "e ono orv,st
hat contained all his worldly effects. ex.
epting the mining claim lust mentioned.
u in d,ilv antic;nation ~ that s,r;,,'
isitor who calls alike upon rich and moor
Nurses were few In Gold Leaf Gnlcb and
90 I.,s-.e 49,, ~ - ~, ',e.'i osi.n' anu
n foot while their neiobbors were tigbting
Jingle handed with death. the meioritT
we're too busily looking after their own
n,erests 20 cay, far ,5a ,,a,, to;nn 20
tbers. So. accustomed 70 being left alone
nd uncared for. ANDY Cobb was agreeabIv