The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-29

sent a forty-pound specimen OF the ore to
an atsayer in New York, he does not re
me.aber his name. and got n report that
the ore was worth $44 in gold, and he for
gets how niuch in silver. He caused u
Suppression OF tle work then, aud 1t has
not hem resuned siuce. although, he
says, h. had n big button of god ana AL
other OF silver to show for his assay.
which cost him $40 He has not got the
buttons now, and cannot tell what be-
came of them. He showed me- two little
pieces of ore which lie carries In his vest
pocket. One WAS a specimen OF iron
ryiites ard the other a small piece of
assure rock which might cary anything
in the way of mineral from iron to gold
and its characters les not be determined
except by assay. He would not part with
either piece, but s i'd that he had men at
W rk opening and clearing out the hole.
He said hull IL had been filled up to keep
cattle from falling In. He promised,
however, to fire Il shot In the hole as soon
ms 1t was cleared out and th1n give me u
chunk Of the ore.
LOOKING BACK.
Diminishing the gold mine story, l asked
David about OLD times in Wanaque. I'M
he waxed eloquent. lie said that he had
been seventy-nine years in the one spot.
aud could remember rs FIR rack as tnat.
Wannque was then a section containing
only four or five ionse,s, on the high
iCdu W NtNbuI1 luu OIueE pOlutS
i'll New York State. The road
Passing through the place was known,
and is still Known to II few, as the Cannon
Ball road, although, he says, the uWme
has since been given enormously to
anoti err roat in the same ueighborhoo |.
David accounts for the name by saying
that during the revolution some Tories
III Pompton were engaged in CASING can
non balls, which were carted 10 Tarry-
town for the British, and that one day II
man was diving up the road with a load
of cannon balls hidden under a load of
manure and the b ,ttom of his wagon
dropped out, allowing the balls 10 be
strewn along the road for miles. David
said that he had seen the timber cut off
the hills three times in his lite inie, aud
that most of the first and second cutting
went into Qua coal for making Iron,
although the charcoal burners did u great
business with Newark and Paterson
thirty wears ago. He spoke of the de-
cline of the charcoal business as a calRm-
iry. aud said that where thirty or forty
Wagon loads vent Iowa the road from
that u glon forty years ag ], they had fall
leu off to Two or three II week now.
GAME PLENTIFUL.
According to David kauouhe, WanaQue
was a paradise for game in his youth, aud
he said that deer was SO plentiful then
that they thought nothing Of XII ling Il
bakers dozen Il day, while bears and
wolves We're plentiful. and wild pigeons
were 50 thick Tint they dark.ued the sky
for hours at O tImA. He SAID that oned4y
his brother saw a big flock of pigeons
a'ieht in Il buckwneat stuoble, and get
ting mis- mus.Set. he put into 1t II handful
of shot and powder enough to drive it,
ana crypt up to II stone wall, upon which
he reste I his gun. Then he shouted, and
MS the pigeons AFRO 'e he cut loose and
killed ninety-sx OF them. When hs was
a poY. there was u big blues be IT that
used to pass around the corner OF The
house every mornlng and eros the river,
returning the, same way every night.
When l asked him why the bear was not
killed, ne said that his father did moi
have n gun, but when he grew up it was
different, and no bears could COM fool
ing a ound where he was.
HI TAME WOLF.
Iasked him about Sam Keyerson's tame
wolf, which used t. follow mis- wagon 10
market in Newark and lick d every dog
on the load. David S lid that he remem-
bered the Wolf wei because he WAS with
Sam the time he captured it. He said that
they found the wolf-den in a cleft of rnk
up on the side of Windbeam mouutaia and
that Sam fired into it, killing the oil , she
wolf and five of tbs ru9s. Two Vt the
BUDS were uo5 hult,aud they carried them
home, but one of the men dropped u pup
from his shoulderio the ground and broke
its neck. Sam Ryerson raised the other Que
and IL became very tame, but was mog-
tally afraid of a dog, aud never fought
one In its life unless the dog took hold OF
it, when it would slash back with its
wicked teeth.