Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-11-04
MINING LUCK.

eaIiy uayS al O6tef bar, as relat-
ed to me by Jack Heenan, a cousin
OF John c. Heenan, the "Benecis
Boy" Jack had more dust in his
possession than he cared to leave
| lying about his cabin, so one night
he took his sack, containing about
$1,000, and climbed up the side Of
tho mountain above the camp to
hide it. Going to prominent
shelf OF slate rock that cropped out
on the slope he began scooping out
a hole under the edge of 1t in which
to deposit his buckskin bag.
While thus engaged he was sur.
prised to find in his hands a sack
of gold dust the same size as the
one be was preparing to bury. He
took both sacks and going to another
place lat some distance secreted
them.
In two or three days terrible
howl was raised on the bar by Mike
Rooney. Some one had stolen a
sack of dust he had hidden upon
the side OF the mountain and Mike
was on the warpath-was ready to
shoot the thief on sight.
Heenan let him fret and fume for
time and then asked him to take
a little walk up the mountain.
While on the road Heenan told
Mike OF the queer circumstances Of
his finding another sack while en-
gagged in hiding his own, and said
he was sure of soon finding the
fightful owner by the row he would
raise. He had moved the sack be -
cause he had concluded that owing
to the prominence of the landmark |
the promontory of rock was no
good hiding place for his own OF
any other mans hoard of gold.
On finding his sack safe and all
right, Mike WAS delighted. He car
ried it down to the town and enter
ing the principal saloon called on
all hands to take a drink, ss he had
found ''one honest man. He then
told the story of the recovery of
his sack. The story WAS spplau,led
and again Mike called up every
body to celebrate the event in
another round. In short Mike
went on a spree over his discovery
of aL honest man and never let up
uatil he had spent the last penny
weight of gold,
A DREAM AND BIG NUGGBT.
In 1858, in connection with q
brother and two "outside" partners
we had picked up, was working
placer claim at Omego, Nevada
county, California. The claim was
On Independence hill, locality
famous for coarse gold and nuggets;
several Jumps having been found
weighing from five to ten pounds.
jim, a partner who hailed from
Staten Island, claimed to be gifted
with second sight or kind of clair
voyance-hsd spells come over
him" during which he could see
into the ground. He was also a
dlligent and capable dreamer. In
his night visions he saw immense
amounts OF gold in the bowels of
the earth, but the trouble seemed
always to be that he could get hold
of no landmarks on the surface by
means Of which he could find the
treasures.
One morning, however, at break-
fast Jim told of having seen a big
nugget of gold In a dream that had
come to him in his bunk the previ-
ous night. This time he had a land
mark The nugget was lying among {
some waste rock on the dump OF a
tunnel that had been run into one
of the banks of canon known as
Missouri Ravine. Jim said be {
could still see the nugget as plainly /
Is if it were lying before him on the t
breakfast table. Now, he would
lhow US that his dreams we're not
Ill mers vapors of his brain. In I
,hort he became so excited over his
lream that jumping up from the {
able he said he would go at once c
md look for his nugget. '
We all laughed as be left the '
,abin, but in about half minute a {
.erious look came into the face OF
Bill, partner from the upper Mis- 6
Isssipi. Up jumps Bill, aud say l
ng: mi go and see jim find his I
nugget" he dashed out of the cab a
n. A moment later he could hear
,im calling to jim to wait for com q
1any."
Said L: at looks as if Bill |
b;,Lo lin has at least dreamt .