Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-29

the very ltEt ChDlnf llN iAhh ulle oi wv
solid snow. sult and uupaG ablc by day
because o. the sun. but hrril as steel by
pirht. and hero we laid down our loads
nt daylight nad took shelter in 10 brush
shed built by A'ya Boles. We fried oar
bacon aud nsriach. nud utc like wolves.
ON the thifl day, discouraged and
disguised, for not % color os yet had we
found, we took the tools aud climbed mp
out Of the canyon to q warm mountain
side tlmt lay 10 the sun. It was pleasant
hero. Some tall. wild flowers had shot
through the brown carpet Of pine quills
by the odgo OF q ioaming, tumbling
stream. made muddy froiu slide On tho
steep hill above. My "parl did not
like work, but DO was always making It
appear that he wns moving mountains.
After backing in the sun bit he took
the pick and pushed ON up, and soon bad
the powders tumbling and runhling
down the angry stream, while ! sat
there and pulled some N the preitiest
flowers ever soon. u was like picking
the patterns out Of brown Brussels car
pct: they wurc 30 soft and ino and spir-
itual. They had such delicate, fresh
tinted little stems aud the new blue
blossoms were o. blue ns the eyes Of q
baby. But they went to sleep, closed
their eyes forever, almost ns soon rs
pulled them up out uf tho warm brown
carnet-thoy were 10 new and tender.
heard q wild shout. and springing
NIL saw two arms tossed In the air and
little bare, black head thrown back
till the face looked straight mp to tho
confer Of tho blue tent Of heaven. Tho
big little man walked tOTard mo ma
ioahcally down the morlinin side, tip
tooing on oggsl All but ho was tall
Wo-ho had struck IL.
Going back with him we found the
water clear hcrc, flashing down over Il
curiously green and brown and white
floor of bare bedrock, aad horo, right
through this. where his pick had struck,
CLEANED and shot and flashed u glitter
ing scam Of solid no'al.
n you could have seen those swinging,
sweeping arinsl That windinill that
overthrow Don Quixotc was nothing in
IS velocity aud persistence. was
made 10 comprehend that tho voin ran
here aud that Il ran theroi was bound
less and was hottomlcss; that tho noun.
tain was In fact ono solid mass Of virgin
gold, Yot no said not word--oEly
those arms.
We got u piece Of Il out, moro than a
pound, and almost pure. battered oil
piece Of crag. rods mp the hill. and
that, too, wns heavy, almost solid.
We rat late by the Ere that ightaftei
supper, and " was later still VIXEN he
spoke for the first time. and then he
spoke almost systematically; "To buy
California first, all California, includ
ing this mountain ct solid gold. That
Il, you SEQ. before they hud ont that
gold Is 20 plcniyi thon buy Oregon, or
time; then come and got the gold; buy
Ireland, poor Ireland By goshl Thct
buy England;g 20 right to Queen Vlctorii
and buy her crown and her throne OF
contract; good lawyer, so she can't bacl
out; then come back and get the gold"
lie was silont for u ,timo and thei
with his face lifted far above mo as ,
searching for tho north star, ho said hal
sayagoly;
"Say, straight over tho mountains 4
Yreka tonight on the crust, Flannigal
not to know word, nor Campbell
straight to Yrcka; got enough alread.
TO bind contracts, buy California ani
contract with the Oregonians before 70
morrow nightT' Another pause, the
suddenly again. "Say. look here; lmigh
kill you and keep the whole thing.
Is all my find anyhow"
And bless mo II he didn't look rs II h
might Anyhow tho campfire was sinoi
ing on my side and got mp aud lennc
against n post. Then ho got up, too, an
said, Come on, lots GO"
followed the desperate little rasca
keeping behind him all tho way I
Yrela, where We arrived just as Grea
house 81 Slioor opened thcir banl
Breathless, and with face still lifted Il
above me, the boy who was going TO bu
Queen Nictoria's throne and crown On
have her throw In ireland, strobe mp
where Charley Slicer, now In Oal,lan
was buying dust and laid the nugge
before his eyes. "Pure stuIW
Young Slicer turned II over and Owe
took up glass, looked at II careless
: and then, handing Il back as he turned
attend to some one else, said, soto VOC
Eyes, pretty purc-copper.
got job as cook ON Greenho
next day, aud poor Iii, after goth
himself into pocls OF trouble and mi
, ing himself mp with me and my Anal
died at Red Blur, with his face St
lifted to the stars, am told.-Joaqu
Miller in Elmira Telegram.