The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-13
MINERS suPERSTITIoNs.

covered - = Friday.
| Superititions of miners are among
| the curiosities of mental phenomena
| which are past finding out. as witness
| a scrap of conversation in Creede camp
| one evening recently:
"HalIo, Dave! That strike at the
Dug Out is q big thing. Just bin up
there
mo good. Charley. 1t hoodoed it.
self,'' was the reply.
I'm what style2''
ut were q Friday Job. Pay dirt on
Friday are 4 devils gift
''Onless there's = heap of it. Then
it'll do"
1.-The more there is. the worse for
the finders objected Dave. 1T cusses
'em all the more. Over on Grip 1.-THE
short name for Cripple creekl a fat
streak was struck in the Davis mine
one Friday morning. None of the boys
thought what day it was, they were SO
tickled, but after doing a little work to
all got blind drunk and kept tanl<ed
up full for q week. Just a week, and
it was Friday when they got back to
work, you see."
Had anybody stolen the mine?''
mot yet. It were all there, and 40
they went further in it got better'n
better. In ten weeks they took off
forty-six wagon loads to the mills. and
it gin 'em back silver worth ninety
fue Thousand dollars. The owners
flowed they could take it to Denver
bctter'n to send it by express, and they
hired a car over to the Springs and had
the pure stuff loaded in. Then they
stayed there till two in the morning to
guard it. Jest then along came a lot
of agents with mules and carts and
carried of about half the bars, and
left tho three fellers tied and gagged.
locked in the car.''
''You don't say that agents carried
of ton n n half of silver?''
Certain and sure. You see. part of
'em was galoots from the mill and
knew all about how things was fixed
and heern part was from the sheriff S
Office to keep order and see there was a
fair divide. Most anybody could be a
agent in them times
"Well?''
Yes, and that hold-up was a Friday
morning. They got to Denver with
the other half of the stuff, got a re-
ceipt for it and sold her At a big shave.
reckon they got pretty nigh $40. 900,
but it didn't do 'em no good. They
had worked hard and KEEP sober a good
while, and wanted 81 little blowout.
They started in by getting too drunk
for any use, and that made 'em too
rich for any sense. SO they began to
speckelate in the faro and monte busi-
ness, and in two weeks they were
cleaned out. One sobercd up aforc the
others, and he had about one hundred
dollars left. and they got back to the
Davis one Friday night looking like
three old bums.''
''Rrt there was good stun left there
yet
'0h. plenty. It were good for big
money, but the boys was in debt con-
sidera BILE. and they had 20 mortgage
her. Some fellow there was always
looking for u chance like that They
paid their little debts and worked hard
for a week. Then they had fight
among themselves. and two knocked
off work and got drunk T'other stuck
to biz few days and then he go,
drunk. Pretty soon things got so bad
nobody'd trust 'em. and when the
mortgage como due the Davis WAS sold
meas1y cheap. Some spec lator> got
her, and they took out pretty nigh on
to six million dollars before she gin
OUT
"Well, don't want no Friday in
minc-''
Nor toc''-Cincinnati Enquirer.