Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-06-22

MsohthS 1tb SUES Ciean, carrying WIFI
it also a quantity of dirt.
II was amusing myself after this
fall OF rain looking over into tho tun.
mel to see the effect of the deluge,
when my eye caught sight of this little
nugget 1 wear here on my charm. I
picked it out and rubbed it clean,
when could have leaped with Joy,
for if things were as this piece of metal
indicated there was a rich vein of gold
running almost parallel with tho one
that had been removed from the mine
and which had never been discovered
by the ancient miners. I could
scarcely wait to begin my search, so
eager was /. But / had no pick.ax,
Sharp and Harold having taken even
that, SO 1 had to improviso one of a
branch of a tree with pick of ono Of
bones that wore in the bottom of the
main shaft. But luckily the soil was
soft from tho recent rain, and had
no difficulty in digging out several
very fine nuggets, one (which after
ward sold for $4,000 in San Francisco.
81 stayed there for three weeks,
working alono and bringing in ali
nearly $50, 1000 worth of metal from
the mine, which L buried as soon as
found. now saw that in order to go
deeper i'll the thing L would have to
have assistance, and with some of tho
smaller nuggets set out once more
for Sacramento, travelling mostly by
night, for those were wild times, and
the toughest element ON earth was
abroad in those mountains. But Mt
last got to the city, and the first man
L saw was Harold, standing in tho door
OF saloon. Ho staggered back, and
then watching me closely, stopped for
ward once more and fired ut me. Tho
ball passed through my hat, aud ms
drew my pistol to fire back, his friends
surrounded him and hauled him bnck
into the building. went on then to
see an assayer knew to DO an honest
man, and showing him my specimens,
told him my story. He pronounced
the nuggets fine ones and said 1 would
have no difficulty in making up q com.
pany to work tho mine, if it was found
to be all TINT l claimed for it. But ho
told me that unless L mcant to settle
with Harold aud Sharp myself, there
was littlo hope of bringing them to
justice, MS they were well known there
and had friends by the scoro of their
own sort, whereas wns stranger.
However, had the thing tnkon out
out of my hands, for no doubt in
dread of me, the two left town TINT
night. Two weeks later Sharp's body
was found n few miles out with his
thront cut from ear to err and with all
his pockets turned out, so Tint he met
his death ut the hands of his pnrtner
i'll crime. OF Harold nothing was
heard for some years, until ono dry,
while riding with II party through thu
mountains, we cnmo upon body fairly
riddled with bullets and suspended by
II ropo from II tree, where tho scoun-
drcf had suffered death ut the hands
of some lynching band, and met only
then with his just rewards. | sold my
mino for nearly 100000 besides tho
nuggets L had taken from it by my
self, and which wero worth nj least
$50, 900 more. 1t proved to be com
paratively small vein that / hal dis.
covered, but very rich while it lnsted,
and made the modest fortune Of every
one Of the stock company to which l
sold it. Those mountains nre rich in
just such stories, but I think few en-
equal the true ono | have given you. I"
Philadelphia Times.