The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-27

try but it doesn't do them much good
| just the opposite. They have double
standard, gold and silver but this is how
it works: Everybody pays his debts in sill
yer, the cheaper currency, and boards gold,
because it is good all over the world; sells
it to broker at a premium to be shipped
| out of the country or smuggies it out him.
| self. 1t doesn' & enrich the country
"Have all the silver miners turned into
| goldbugs?"
| Not just that. They don't like it, but
they're all looking for it. Silver mining
| is pretty mining. The metal is found in
larger quantities, in more distinct veins.
You can depend on it, but gold vein is
mighty tricky. They don't like to take
hold of gold, but they had to come to it,
for the mines shut down, and the men
were out of work A miner is like sailor
he can t turn to anything else. Give him
a burro, grub stake and a compass, and
he'll cruise the hills as they navigate the
sea. Lots of the big capitalists of the
/ Tombstone and Leadville silver mines
have put on their old clothes and gone out
prospecting, rustling with pick and shovel,
frying pan and bacon, like me.
Searching For Gold.
II have silver proposition in Colorado
that used TO be worth half million; now
it won't pay 20 work More than one sill
yer miner is down here securing these hills
for gold. Haven't seen so many old miners
in years
Then gold is not so scarce as the silver
men claims'
Scarce? Lord, no! You're walking on
it now. You can't travel over these hills
and deserts anywhere but you re going ovsc
gold. It's in every gulch in Arizona. It's
just question of how TO get it out-that
is, locating the veins and getting the wa
ter to wash it with, for you can't mine any
more than farm without water. ~
is not that the principal difficulty in
mining here?''
Yes. The mills have TO pipe and pump
their water for miles, but there's more wa
ter than usual this season, for there's more
snow in the mountains. When it melts,
every gulch where water runs will be full
of miaers."
Il have been told Of the hardships en-
dured by prospectors among these arid
hills"
Yes. We have TO be mighty careful
Have to carry water in canteens for our
selves and in jars for the burros. Can't 90
more than 20 miles from a water hole.
Water is life on these deserts To get out
of it means death. Every year prospectors
get lost on the desert, try TO reach water
and die. The burning thirst goes to their
heads, and they get crazy and circle round
till they get weak and fall down and die. -
Il should think that would discourage
Others from travelling over it. "
Lost Mines.
Not bit. We 60 on the principle laid
down by the old man 70 his son, My boy,
never give a continental what happens, so
long as it doesn t happen to you Last time
was in l found q poor fellow just about
here. His tongue, swollen and cracked,
hung out of his mouth, his face was black
ened and eyes red and sunk deep He had
got TO this ditch. but was SO weak he
couldn't raise cup Of water to his mouth.
He would have died if hadn't taken care
of him
Where had he been,''
Looking for what I've found. a lost
NINE
Il didn't know tina: mines were ever
lost"
Well, you amt been herr long. Your
feet are a little tender vet I'm dry. Come
in here, and III tell you about them
They went into an adobe saloon. where
the miner took whisky and MS conlpaa-
ion cigar from the Mexican behind the
bar. Groups Of men were gathered about
the gaming tables Al a round card table
little apart they sat down and the miner
said: The r,ine l have found Is the lost
Soldier mine Il was discovered years
ago by a soldier thar deserted from the
Date Creek military camp"
DID dates grow On the c7Seks''
there yere nc oates and ~ crcck-rothi9s