The Butler weekly times., 1893-03-23

had to pay out l,5O0 shares of stock
to the hungry crowd and take his
Sl,5Oo back to Virginia City.
They also loaded couple of hum
dred pounds of coal on the buck
boad to exhibit to the stockholders,
as that would send the stock to IS a
share in day
The first thing Daggett did when
he got back was to try the coal. 1t
appeared to be No. l coal, but for
the life of him he couldn't make it
burn. 1t was nothing more than a
sort of black shale, with about the
same inianmable qualities as asbes-
tns. Daggett gave a long whistle
aud then went out and purchased
tive.sailou can of kerosene oil. Then
h rlggei up sprinkIing pot aud
p ceedei to sprinkle the coal with
tn oil. fhe porous stuff drank up
{ % absorbed it almost instantly
a T. race When the coal
W n'o the stove it made a mag.
n - - n''- Being in an expert
men al mood Dhggett put in the bal
an:s If the night improving his
draft. He was alongside a tall
building. on the upside Of the hill,
that had drainpipe, the longest and
largest in town, running up to the
gutter Oh the roof. He connected
his stovepipes with this and thereby
secured draft like a blast furnace.
With everything in readiness Dag
gett built fire in the stove, piled
on the oil-saturated coal and await
ed his usual evenings visitors.
When they got there they found the
stove almost white hot and Daggett
bemoaning his bad luck. Gust as
[ thought fortune was in my grasp
he whined, I'm left again. This
coal won't do; the public won't have
it 1t will burn out the CRATES and
ruin all the stoves in town."
"Great heavens! man, is that the
only drawback to the coal?"
''Ain't that enough! Look at the
- heat it gets on. You can't reg
ulate it. Hear it roar like an assay
ing furnace. You'd have to mix half
a ton of rock with the stuff to keep
it i'll check. The cost of buying new
CRATES il the drawback. Only mil.
lionaires can afford it. l want coal
for the poor
Here Prof Stewart the leading
geological authority of the Co mstock
lifted piece of coal to his nose and
shifted time or two
Its got kerosene oil in it," he
said.
"Yes, that's it; that's the great
drawback" said Daggett. 'It's the
oil that makes all the trouble II
you could only get the oil out and
get just the plain coal, you'd have !,
fortune. but, you see, theres the
cost of extraction; all these things
ccust be considered
! Most men would have lost their
nerve completely when Stewart dis
covered the kerosene in the coal, but
not Il man like Daggett. 1t threw
the crowd completely off their
guard, and then some Of them ven
tured to inquire if Daggett wanted
to sell any stock in that mine.
He said he'd sell every share aud
added that if anybody bought they
did it with their eyes open. He die
not want any man to purchase who
didn't know the facts, and in abou
five minutes he had sold over 5000
shares.
The boys thought Daggett, VIII,
had been drinking a great deal wa.
losing his wits.
''If we don't sail in and nail tn
thing" they argued, somebody els,
will. Daggets's good fellow ant
means well, but the nervous excite
ment has unbalanced his brain ant
his friends might as we'll get th
benefit of his great discovery a
strangers.
So his friends proceeded TO fal
; on his neck and then on his share
and in rs hours he was supplyin:
the demand at S5 and still the bows