Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-04-01

man shooting at target after he has
been told the direction. The chances
are he will miss. but II he makes bulls
eye only fool would attribute 1t TO his
craftsmanship.
They say" said another" that about
every ten years there Is business panic
in the East, but I've been out here a
little over thirty year, and know for
q fact that every ten years there Is q
mining craze-some new outcrop Of dig
gings have been discovered, and there
is a rush and boom. In 40 the world
was running 10 California. In 80 the
country was crazy over Pixies Peak
Ia 80 the silver discoveries OF Virginia
City wore making millionaires by the
score. In 70 there came the LeadyiIle
rush, and 10 was q dandy. In 80
the Ceur dc Alene country was
opened up, and so IL goes. But while
the discovery OF mines Is largelya mat
ter Of chance. and the management OF
them is too often a swindle and a gamble,
where IL is followed earnestly and per-
sistently as business enterprise, II Is
sure to pay In the end. Why, right here
In Denver there are more men worth
$500, 900 than In any city In the country
except New York and Philadelphia, and
nine-tenths OF them made their money
out OF mining. And. lot me say, the
wealth Is by no means all discovered
yet; wo have only skinned the surface"
Others at once became reminiscent,
and without exception all were disciples
OF the doctrine Of luck.
was old Cruise. He went 10 Montana
when II was bowling wilderness in
'C3, with calp-seekiBg Sioux on every
hand. For twenty years he plodded
and starved. and lived the life OF her
nit IN a shadowy gucb near whore
Butte City now stands. Why, he got so
poor that he couldn't get credit for
sack OF -four, but he had dumb faith
that there was gold 10 the earth near
by, aud be hung on, for he belle we'd
there was money In his claim, and after
a time he got others 10 believe the same;
and so there came day when he sold
out a part of his interest TO an English
syndicate for about $1,000, 900. he Is
wifeless. childless old man, who does
not know what TO do with bis money
Eyes" Joined in third party, when
old Captain Suffer built his sawmIll la
the Sierra foothills, he had no dream OF
gold till one day It was found In the
mill race, and California within year
became an El dorado. A year after tho
Custer massacre In the Big Horn coun-
try. during a noon halt cavalry officer
sat down to rest on a knoll OF soft clay;
near bv was his orderly, holding the
brides of both horses. They were
smoking and admiring the grand noun
tain peaks about them. After biz the
orderly's eyes came down TO earth; they
were glued on the knoll on which the
captain sat. Suddenly be leaped TO his
feet and shouted out, My God, Captain.
you are sitting on gold mine? ana
such proved 10 be the case, and these
two men. who were out hunting In
dams, stumbled into wealth"
This reminded another that: "ln the
sumner Of 81 prospeetor with :he
euuhonious name OF Chris Keyes, who
had been prospecting 10 Montana I'LL
everything bat his faith In bis own luck
was gone, came one day 10 Fort Benton
With bag full OF quartz, In which gold
was stuck like plums In pudding.
which be said he found 10 the Bear Paw
Mountains. A party was made Up TO
20 With him 20 what he described a. .
gulch full OF gold, but they were mas
sacred By the Indians. and Keyes and
his secret were losI 10 the world. Tens
OF thousands OF dollars and years OF
time have been spent In searching the
Bear Paw Mountains for keyes' lost
mine. aud some day IL will be found,
stumbled on. "a 10 vEs By its original
first discoyereT."
you've al heard OF Alder GBlcE
Nine said man who had been quietly
smoking up 20 this tina. "WeA. you
know II Is the riches, find that has as
vet been made In Western Montana.
ana It's discovery vas an accident, -
much as the find OF ths hero Of Dov's
Fiat that Bret Hsrse tells about Early
IN the sixties Bill Fzi.weather and
some friends started out 70
prospect the Big Horn Range.
but were driven out Of their
course By the Crow Indians. Dishears-
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