The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-06

the poor man has suffered greatly from
the effects of the water which runs out of
the rock and removes the outside cover
ing of his shins, and he had several at
tacks of peritonitis of the larynx. The
resin for Long Charities hands has filled
long-telt want. Angelo Murillo de
Costa and Long Charlie have been hired
to work in the mine since my last report
was made out.
Vel refer here to myself and Colonel
Francis Napoleon Beers of Red Dog, who
has successfully focused a great many
important mining schemes-have made
preliminary surveys for ditch to carry
water in the rainy season for milling
purposes. At present / have no milling
purposes, and Long Charlie carries the
water we use at the mine in molasses
can. Preliminary surveys are made by
walking over the proposed line of work
and casting your eye on the ground. lou
must go over the ground again, says Col
onel Beers, with theodolite, and make
observation of the mentricious elevations
OF the abnormal expressions of the
ground, with transverse edifications of
the conformation of the serpentiginous
line of segregation, and whenever you
make an observation stick a stick into
the ground or scratch it with your foot"
Colonel Beers donated his services and
opinions free of charge for three days,
and / am very thankful therefor. / like
Colonel Beers. He has been in the war,
and has fine, hearty, iovial manner,
also large red scar on his stomach,
which he got by running against picket
at the battle of Lookout Mountain. He
wears Il small piece of the picket around
his neck. 1t is tied to string.
The ore now being taken from the
mine is freely impregnated with
sulphurets and stain that looks as
though walnut juice had been squirted
into 1t with shotgun. 1t also contains
large quantities of 'greenhorn" gold, and
l think l will ship few tons of it to the
State Fair to be used in the milling ex
hlblt. This greenhorn gold is very
plentiful in the foot-wall, and Angelo
Murillo de Costa thinks it is the genu-
inc kale seed. Since we struck it large
quantities of wall rock have mysteriously
disappeared at night from the dump, but
L do not care. Angelo may have it all if
he wants it. He lives only two miles
from the mine, and | have often noticed
a tired feeling about him in the morning.
Some day he will think of the long,
moonless walks through the woods,
when the owls gave him the boots, and
that tired feeling will creep over him
from one end to the other.
There was a report circulated last week
which has no truth in it, and which I
wish to deny. 1t was stated that great
strike was imminent at the Big Thing
mine, near Hardscrabble, and that / had
sent letter to w. A. Pinkerton, request
ing him to send me large force of guar
anteed and experienced assassins to
guard the company'S grabStick and keep
the strikers from cutting the shaft up
into post holes. 1t is true that Long
Charlie, who has charge of the hoisting-
works, is not a union man, and works
fol SiY hits q 1au onH tbaf A
de Costa is member of the Malta Society
of New Orleans, but if there is a strike
can do my own aSsassinating, numbering
and manslaughtering, and not invoke the
aid OF Mr.. PinkertOn's artists, who may
have acquired their grit by robbing their
grandmothers when they were boys, but
have long ceased to be either useful nee
essities or ornamental attributes to this
glorious young Government.
Angelo Murillo de Costa is quite strik-
ing, but only in appearance. He has the
hydrophobia when the moon changes,
but at other times looks almost intelli-
gent. He eats beans like white man,
but seems to like them a little bit
Frenched. Otherwise he is harmless.
Here in the pine woods, where the
WhlzZ bug sings athwart the morn and
the loo-loo fowl drops her melancholy
melody into my ear at midnight, it is the
sense of the settlement that there should
De now ana Jnen Wild, free, careless I'M
lettering of legs and arms and souls that
have been wrapped in the somber habili-
ments of husbandry. The itinerant fid-
dler is invoked, and we gather ourselves
together at somebody's house and swirl
away in the intricate meshes of
the may waltz, or talk hay in
the corners, erstwhile chewing the
over-ripe doughnut and the ballasting
pie. do not often dawnce, meself, hav-
ing sprained my leg once on the Bully
vardy at Los Gatos while trying twist
with Toughey Kelly's sister. My feet
wabble little too much when "balance
alp and Swing on corners"
Another reason why 1 do not dance
more is that l do not like to ask an inno-
cent trusting girl to dance, and then seem
to deliberately bang her against every
body, and kick her to death, or cover her
body with nice large red, blue, green and
yellow bruises. l shall never forget the
time led my partner-a sweet little blue
eyed thing-to her seat, and asked her if
might bring her an ice.
NO" she whispered, softly; shut you
might bring bottle of arnica and call an
ambulance"
Since then 1 prefer to go to the ball
barefooted. A. V. HOFFMAN.
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