Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-11-15

who always agreed with The major in
everything. "O' course, his actin
mysterious hain't really nothin' p'tic'
lar as'ln' i'm. Folks out ycrc-t!as is,
they hain't nobody, hardly, th't lluin't
cot somthin' { be mys-that is, some
O them ducks is mysterious an somc's
noisy, like finished Ike, lamelv.
realizing tina! hn had almost slippeL
into personalities.
"l'ricl 6 talk e i'm, sighed 'Tnxy"
Wolf, with his customary stretch
IS !, Firm th' States, recon-
Yes, s he. 'Npect & go inluh min
in'Y s ]. I'ossihly.' : he, m then
= gits out Of II good, comi't'blo cheer
an walks oil,
Hunt nobody but NY clerk Gits
no tnlk out o! i'm. put in Colonc,
Hanks, The leudlord, can bout nil q
says { Billy is 'Nica dny,' mn Cigar.
please. Bat e pays is bills, mn car.
RIGS roll, too; s'posc thmt's all |
ought { worry bout"
"Oh, yes ol, ycs!' snapped little
Ike, cxciiediy, can all tn time, him
l"yin', most likely, l'r T. jerk tn
props firm under rye! I'm i'r siartin
i'm, am, an pretty quick, too /"
II wouldn't he too nasty, gentle
men," counselcd tho mild voice of
Professor Hendrix, editor of Tho Gold
liill Avalanche. "Wc may. after all,
be entertaining an angol-thnt is, n
sucker mnawnres. Let no guilty
capitalist escape Gro he has been in
duccd TO invest"
"llo hain't no capitalist" inter.
iectcd the major. scornfully. Giles
too-ioo quiet. think he'd bctlcr
have In run"
Easy, major, easy" said Hendrix,
softly. NOW | would suggest that
we select Il committee OF, gay, two. to
sound the gentleman and cndcGvor, by
peaceful means. il possible, to cause
him TO give an account OF himself.
II he declines 10 10 So" The editor
concluded with tolcrabIy graceful
wave of his hand, for the subject of
the foregoing rcmarks-a pale, some.
what ordinary looking young man, in
clothes OF Eastern cut had Just en-
tered and was passing through the
room.
Time was when Gold Hill had been
thriving, busy camp, with metro
politan aspirations. But its boom
died, and the glorcs Of Gold Hill were
only memory to the three hundred
citizens (who remained behind because
they could not afford 10 leave what
little was left them of their former
possessions), and to the '''suckcrs" who
had dropped their money Mt the time
OF the rush. 1t was still the centre Of
n fairly good but steadily "pcterino"
mining district, and there yet re-
manned tic hope on the part of many
citizens that some one might make
another big Strike" and tho old
times como back in which cese they
would DO Sin on the GROUND floor. !"
But several years had seen only n
steady decline in Gold Hill, and an
increase OF prosperity on the part Of
its hated rival, New kimberley, the
inhabitants of which were wont TO pro-
less Ignorance Of the existence OF the
former metropolis, albeit only twenty
miles separated The two camps.
1t was in the second year after tho
death OF Gold Hill boom That the bnsi.
ness men OF that camp began to realize
that retrciIchmcnt was necessary.
There was always tho hope OF ii
"strikc," or II chGnce OF unloading
something at n good price on some un-
sophisticated "tenderfoot" but, in
tho meantime, it was necessary TO
"look after the leaks" Tho gentle.
men who kept the dispcnsarics had as
lively sense of the necessity for re.
trcnchmcnt rs The rest, and they went
about cconomizing in practical man.
ner.
There was in the camp prominent
but somewhat impecunious citizen,
known us Joe Godfrey, and Mr.. God,
frey had formerly resided in the
"moonshine" districts. This latter
fact gave Major Fulton and Colonel
Hanks an idea. The bottom land.
near by grew large quantities Of ce
reals, including corn. Putting two
and two together Godfrey anc
the corn-crop why. it was as
easy as anything couldbel In short
time, Mr.. Godfrey's work made itsel!
feltby the wholesale men, who shool
thai, l.-o l.,