The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-01
IN rnE oREEDE DISTRICT.
Typical Mining Camp. with IT'S MIL
fonnires and DesultOry buildings.
From the Cincinnati Enquire

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Superstitions Of miners are among the
curiosities Of mental phenomena which
are past finding out, as witness a scrap
OF conversation in this camp last even
ing:
Halo, Davel That strike at the Dug
Out is a big thing Jest bin up there"
mo good, Charley. 1t hoodooed it
SELF" was the reply.
I'm what style?'
1T were Friday job Pay dirt on
Friday are a devils gift"
"Onless there's a heap of It, Then itH
The more there is the worse for the
finders objected Dave. 1T cusses EN-
all the. more. over on Grip dhe short
name for Cripple Creek a fat streak
was struck in the Davis mine on Fri
day morning. None Of the boys thought
what day II was, they were so tickled,
but after doing a little work to find out
II IT was the real cream. they all got
blind drunk, and kept tanked up full
for week. jest week and IL was
Friday when they got back TO work.
Had anybody stolen the miner"
Not yet. IT were all there, and az
they went further in II got better bet
ter. In ten weeks they took forty-six
wagons loads to the mills and Il gin EN-
back more'n three ton silver, worth &c.,.
IT to Denver better'n TO send II by ex-
press. and they hired a car over to the
Springs and had the pure stuff loaded
in. Then they stayed there till In the
morning to guard It. Jest then along
came a lot Of agents with mules and
carts and carried off about half the bars
locked In the car"
You don't say that agents carried off
ton n half Of silver2'
Certain and sure You see part Of 'em
was gaIoots from the mill and knew ali
about how things was hxed and I heern
part was from the sherins office 20 keep
order and see there was a fair divide
most anybody could ba agent in them
times"
'Well?'
Yes. and that hold-up was Friday
morning. They got to Denver with the
other half Of the STUFF. got a receipt for
II and sold her at big shave. ! reckon
they got pretty nigh $4,000 but 1t didn't
do EN- no good. They had worked hard
and KEEP sober good while, and wanted
a little blowout. They started in by get
ting too drunk for any use, and that made
EN- too rich for any sense so they began
to speckelate in the faro and monte bust
ness, and in two weeks they were cleaned
out One sobered no afore the others and
he had about 800 left, and they got back
to the DAVIS one Friday night looking
like three old buns
"But there was good stun left there yet"
ooh plenty It were good for big money.
but the boys was in debt considerable,
and so they had to mortgage her. Some
fellow there was always looking for
cNdncc ike tldt. IDGy iedlQ Utlle leDLS
and worked hard for a week Then they
had a fight among themselves and two
knocked off work and got drunk T'other
stuck to hiz a few days and then he got
drunk Pretty soon things got so bad no
body'd trust EN-, and when the mortgage
come due the Davis was sold meas'ly
cheap. Some spec'la got her and they
took out pretty nigh onto s60O0,0c0 before
wen, don't want no Friday in mine
Nor /, too.
Another story IS told of a mine owner
in the Cripple Creek district and It is
often pouted by the anti-Fridayites. He
struck pay dirt on Friday. In less than
month after his good fortune came he
was killed by the premature explosion of
a charge Of powder in his own works. II
one admits the soun6ness of the Friday
argument It follows that the charge
would not have gone off prematurely had
the strike been made on Thursday or Sat
urday.
Creole Is simply a mining camp on a
large scale. cluster Of miners cabins
with no regard to the arrangement. but
thrown up to suit the temporary conve-
nience of the occupants There is not a
street, not even a well defined alley in
the settlement, but the rear door Of
your neighbor's residence is just as likely