Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-04

No doubt you will find him at the railway
station wherever and whenever you leave
the train. There are as many Smiths as
there are Youngs in Utah.
I've read your story of the Peso-la-ki
mine" said Smith. ITS a good story, but
l know better one because it's the story
of a better mine. Caleb Rhoads, rich
| Mormon, formerly bishop of Price, could
tell you more, but won't. Some people
who had money and faith offered the bsh-
op $4,000 to tell them, and he refused.
Forty years ago." continued Smith of
Utah, Caleb Rhoads and mis- brother
found a rich placer in the Uintah reserva-
| ton, but the Indians found the Rhoads,
and had trouble with them.
The prospect was a rich one, and the
two brothers concluded to fight for it. 1t
was so rich in gold that they could shake
enough yellow meal out of a single pan
of dirt to fill the bowl of an ordinary cob
pipe
We'll, the Indians came and saw, and
killed Calebs brother and crippled Caleb.
1t was almost a miracle that he escaped.
As il WIS, he brought away enough flint
and lead to sink raft all comfortably
| cached in Caleb's hide. He is a stayer.is this
same Caleb Rhcads, and he went back the
following summer and brought out good
ly bag Of dust. -t,
He continued tc go every summer for
sSoi ehu years, dHu MS nefgnDOrS mar
veled at the easy life he led, and some of
them offered 10 be company for him. but
the willy Caleb wouldn't have 1t. Finally
they made up jackpot and offered to buy
a snare in these annual Scrties, but they
were not for sale. At length, when four
decades had PASSED away and Caleb had
grown rich with little or no exertion some
OF MS neighbors determined to follow the
prospector into the kills.
Extended Them n Welcome.
Caleb heard of it and made his friends
welcome, but refused to be responsible for
the followers
" If you get lost in the hills said he.
You'll have yourselves to blame, for L
shan't hunt you out
We'll, they all agreed to keep I'D with
the prospector. and arrangements were
accordingly made for long journey Ca
leb gave out the day and date upon which
ne would Vamose, but no one believed him.
For a week they watched his house as ter
riers watch a rat hole. and Caleb silent
through II all like an innocent babe Final
~, when the last night came. the men who
were TO go with the prospector were SC
sure that he would steal away that they
had their horses saddled and ready all
night. 10 their great surprise Caleb never
stirred until daylight, when he started his
man out 10 call his neighbors. who were
to accompany him. That made the men
ieei SO mean that they outdid each other
/
the party suggested that Caleb might be
turing them out for the purpose of losing
Them. and gave 1t as his opinion that they
might better keep watch the first pipbf
but the others crly laughed at him.
He can't lose me, Charley said one
Oh the young men, and they ceased to
be suspicious of Caleb.
In order. as he said, to reach a favorita
camping ground, they were Obliged 10
travel far into the night, and when they
mad hnaiiy camped and had supper, Caleb
rep. tnem up Tor hours, telling them won
derful tales of the wild country to which
ne would lead them. When at last thew
rolled up in their blankets the weary men
slept soundly until Caleb called them to
ger breakfast he apologized for having to
get them out so early, but they must make
thirty-five miles that day, across an arm
of the desert, before they could find water
which in that country is only to be found
in rock basins or tanks. the cowboys
call them. All day long the four men and
eight horses trailed across the arm of this
shipless sea, without food or water for
themselves or their animals.
Sick and Saddle Sore.
What with their all-night watch at
Price, followed by hard days work and
short sleep, they were heart-sick and
saddle-sore long before the fringe of pine
that marked the place of water came in
sight. BY the middle of the afternoon the
foothills seemed to be within rifle range
hills began to retire, as 1t were, and finally
melted away in the darkness. The horses
were tired, and the pack horses had to be
urged on constantly, and now went along
doggedly, holding their dusty noses close
to the sand. Presently the moon came out
of the desert a little way behind them
and shone on the evergreen trees that gar
nished the foothills. Now they came to a
little stream, not more than a foot wide
that ran across the trail.
THE famished horses stepped short
Caleb. dfsmounting. scooped up a handful
of the water, tasted 1t and shouted to the
men to push on. The water was poisoned
with alkali. When at last they found
water the men were utterly done out. 1t
was with difficulty that Caleb persuaded
them to cook some supper, for they were
all for sleeping hungry as they were. The
good captain cheered them with the as
surance that they would have no more
such work. They were In Gods country
now. he told them. where water and game
could be found in abundance.
Tomorrow, said Caleb, you can go as
you please, for ] assure you that / am
not fond of these forced marches.
THAT night, when they had finished sup
per, a couple of Indians came up to the
fire and begged. or rather demanded, food
They were inclined to tie ugly. so the
white men fed them. but they refused to
go away. They wanted tobacco which was
given them, and then they asked for
whisky. They could not have whisky Caleb