The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-29
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ana roots ana cIOgEed mp with fallen
stones, 50 that we were month or moro
in reaching the bottom. Then a new OBJ
stacle was met in she shape Of foul gas. so
dangerous that a number of US nearly lost
our lives and we were compelled to sus-
| pend operations till the mine had 70 SONS
degree cleared itself Just as we had
! reached the bottom in a second descent,
. and thought success was about - crown
our efforts, still another difficulty was en-
countered. For hundred years or more
the water from the soil had been oozing
into the old mine, carrying with it a de-
| posit of limestone, soil. sand and other
substances, and we soon discovered that in
this way nature had paved the bottom Of
| the excavation TO a thickness Of three or
/ four feet with cementlike rock, such az
| the stalactites in caves are formed OF, as
/ hard as flint and resisting all our efforts 70
take it away by means OF ordinary tools.
yet we were able, By dint Of hard labor
with picks. 10 satisfy ourselves that the
mystery of the treasure train, aud OF the
silver mining OF the dead Mexican, were
at least in part explained; for we found
undoubted evidence that large quantity
OF silver bullion had ut some time been Sc
creted in the old mine, and that the por-
tons of it most easily accessible had been
recently taken out. We were, indeed, able
to get a little of the silver bullion. and
then suspended operations and closed up
the mine till with proper explosives aud
hydraulic drilling machinery, which | in
tend soon to take 20 Iacatecas, we can re-
sumo operations with a certainty Of I'M
covering whatever is there. Whether there
Is enough there TO pay for our trouble is
the chance which we must take; but my
opinion Is we shall in time uncover mole
than half a million dollars worth Of silver
bullion, mined a century and half or two
centuries ago but never marketed"
Here Mr. Wilmington, his story con-
cluded, took an orange from his pocket
and began eating IT,
Il never see an orange" said Mr. Ely, ot
Cleveland, fine old gentleman en- routs
for Cuba, where an American company is
expending 8 100000 in opening up "a great
iron mine, that / am not reminded OF an
incident which saw twenty years ago at
JaftI. a Mediterranean brig laden with
3OOJ0 dozen oranges had been wrecked ia
a gale near the old city. aud had been
thrown upon the beach, and her hull 40
rent that the cargo rolled out into the
water. The oranges were in crates, bur
the crates broke Ia the SURF and the fruit
hoated out upon the surface Of the water.
! tell you the literal truth when say that
az far as the vision could reach In every dl-
rectiOn the sea was yellow with oranges.
In all my travels have never seen a mora
beautiful! nor novel scene than that made
by the breakers rolling in with orange
crests. The beach for miles was strewn
with oranges, and every wave, as IL rolled
upon the sand, left q winrOw Of oranges
as it rgcaded. the fruit rolling after IT,
Hundreds Of boys from the town came ous
and were employed by tho master aud con-
sui ia picking up oranges from the beach
before they rolled back into the ocean.
Several members Of our party stripped and
went in bathing ia these extraordinary
waters, that they might af'srward say
they bad had the novel experience q an
orange bath"
The same gentleman told US Of n pretty
sccDe which be witnessed in the Ned.ter-
raneaa, and which may contain q EuRxes-
ton for some artist. a sunset o. sea 8
always worth looking a. said Mr. Fly,
''for 10 IS sure % bring somethinZ beautiful
Ia the way 81 cloud effects and tinted re-
fect.oEs. But one has % be on the alert
e he would see p sunset from q shiD'E
deck There - no twilight Almost BE-
fore You know il, ard while the strong
glare from his rays makes Jon th!ak the
.un IL ssh high IN TIE heavens you SEQ
bin piping his under edge IN the horizon
q water. u "A minute or tHO yo1 look
again and hs t. half ial 1uersed- Tires or
o0r minutes later and be has disappeared
! men comes darkness with amazing rapid
y. TIE transition from TEnt auul!Eht
% dense cArsuess IS - sadceu a. 20 -
tartl-nl, ~ those who sos u for the Grss
Inle. Passenger a. Eea uuconscs9uElT
sTra tho habit u looking FOR tHe sanss,,
nd one day in the HediterrAusan al "a
,olri were cut o. deck watch * the sun
-r0w re1 and Sink nearer E11 nearer IT,
.or.zoa.
"Suaie1iyI beard a sort n cheer n uo
rom TIE taroats O. -s4y fellow paassagers.
nd o. looking % SO xhst had brp8gat a
crtu ] beAe.d a picture ssr1 a. I nsyst
sw before AID eZpecs never % 49, saalu-
1st ~ The s1u's lower EDGE to1cheri TIA
srIzoa tT.n steamer. fore sails - and
raoEe pouring from Der fsansl. passet D.
wen ~ AMI ere s1n a. such c.sta1us tkss
- chip vas who. = within TIE uuu's CIR
1mfereuce. j. vas as = TIE steamer haA
eea painted t1ers ~ tie had Il aor.s
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