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over s7oo . week. primitive as is. work. are. A

over s7oos wess. primitive as It's works are. A
'Rfrht over tbis slts many teamsters and
lsborors In Randsburs have passed repeatedly
n the lat ten years on sh ,i waS to snS from
windows at the "Republic' saloon In Rands-
the 81. Elmo mine Is worked to-day. along with
several teamstsrs. In October two years ago. lie
while the party sat and smoked about tho camp
hre In those evenings. the AN turned upon the
Another bit Of fortune in the Randsbura. dis
trIct came, to Charles Koehn. He started, the
s40o. Among the hundreds Of men who rushed
70 the new digsings In September was = young
Francisco. chop house. He spent three weeks
in Randsburg. located fourteen mines, and
had never been in a mining camp before. and
fully hot and ievsrish day last September he
Pm dead sick and tired of this chasing for
l !Ss IN this na,hi .wf sIr. desert Igs 4. IsfsiIO zion .n ss'd srs he.
ysas e got way; WIZ. VII, you CIV; FOR
Koehn knew no more about what good pros
poets were than the .Englishman, but he felt
s sIn u 70, 81. .h' s yoS %osl tsl aIy. and and % sYo, Ts to cheer 6,.r
was gladly accepted. The .Englishman. said he
had beoo told by reliabl. miners that his
hhibN hsthVu stNot " III
vised Koehn to take that. The legal transfer Of
S Sss Sl.i% ns 70 i for k R5eSRSFSss sl E = % Ss s an a sslt;
doing an act Of charity. Tho next day the
and snf' hs. never soS BEEN Smf heard on 'f from ss"s sin Go MG Tsrsc:
weeks passed, and when Koehn got an offer OF
$1,000 down for the claim. he Thought Il was
si..!:d seventy fee, INTO the ledge edge. and KosSn
cause i i so undsyysloped, but he believes there
stamp i faoU min 0r running FOR a s0H few 70 ys ssTe and sp' that
he has n mine worth fully $4,000 o
With TSe n writeF +. had vS.s ssyssai vial talk IS, a" s. Ksn nsn, on,
by q syndicate of millionaire gold miners in
Denver to report upon the psaclicebility OF In
when these Randsburg miners say they are
going. to have a second Cripple Creek here
that these desert mines have conditions Of min.
Ing unknown elsewhere In the Union. and II Is
Of mkIS an3, S,s sr wi., {. ss. predict TSs D Sssi the s. tg5STo
ment OF water to run the stamp mills Is AN
obstinate and tremendous problem 70 every
may over be brought from those mountains
seventy miles north down across this fearful
only can tell. The ore that I have examined
here runs all the way from Sl3 to Sis y ton.
lodges run away down deep Into the earth us in
Cripple Creek and on tho Comstock lode, and
an an se 1Sn G, OF m, Mste R, can ,h be 20 had md, for Src run,
in less thar. a year the richest mining town
on the Pacific coast. But no mining expert Ia
going to advise n capitalist to invest HE money
IN surface INDICATIONS alone, and that Is all
there Is now at Randsburg, Who will put sew
eral hundred thousand dollars In mines de-
vcloped but 100 feet into the ledge? How do
We know but that ledge may peter ont next
month"; Some Of the ideas Of the new miners hero
are wild. They want to sell n twenty foot hole
In the ground for $4,000 because they have
happened to take out n few thousand dollars
worth OF ore. will say. however. that II the
reports that | have had from the dry washes
the most e1travagant and reckless mode OF
mining for gold-nrc true. there are some won
derfully rich lodges hereabout. With modern
methods OF washing they might be
made to yield SIS. 900 a day. But all the min
ing experts who have been sent here agree that
II Ii best TO wait ak months or more. when tho
tunnels In the rock will be longer and the shafts
deeper. before we give any advice to the big
mining kings as to invostments here"