The sun., 1897-02-28

| TO see me sweating and blasting away In my
81 sd e s into es Psy
ssa we EssM st
had put a mortgage on his place to Rolp me. The
tunnel was then is0 feet in the rock.
derod why l had ever been such fool as TO keep
| pcgging along thorc, when / might have got
ia Caisveras county. One morning as was gath.
came up to Tho tunnel, Hs asked TO soc the tun:
,lmbcrlnp. and after ho had closely. examined
both walls for two or three hours, asked me II |
after calculating 100 foot Of tnnnelling at $40 u
foot, answered that might sell II got my price:
$500 80 T With my % heart t' in M my uncut mouth. G como
tho answer, and that night went went tS eth. tho
Scan % 'Rs sheets % FOR ihc rst % ii%o % II two J years
to 's help him put in a couple OF shots, and Of
.e rom h' Ss Ss snd RPn cospS SSGS
OF holes here he said. Tho inlnute no laid hold
Of the, slcdso, l saw hc was q miner and IN n
tho shots went on could hardly restrain myself
from rushing Into the tunnel at once, and when
spot. And there iay.a body OF orc exposed Which
was afterward found to be thrce feet thirS anil
sep TO the sn soa had dug % s
and had been In and out OF that tunnel thou ,anis
OF times and never know how near had passed
hs yS hs sups
Tior knowlsdge OF my purchaser had enabled
II had such a desire to Know how big for
tune had missed that hung about Plumas for
a-feg weeks. @ In that time ore that went as high
months tho buyer had got more than sl5 900
nG% from his mine a year later he sold i fqT iD
worth Of the Creede bonanza syndicate-worth
Your telling abop, how YOU worked in that
way ono could get gold when struck ri Dorado
county In California In thc summer OF 1851. l
was n reckless young chap then. and. like nine
tcnths Of the men about me, did not exert my.
self to get gold more than was necessary 10 have
an easy time about camp. gamble, and so down
To Frisco for au occasional froliC. Why, some
tunes now nov IL wonder, when nj recall recall those days 4
really 500 myself and others washing out S25
and $50 worth Of tiny nuggets and dust IN
day. l had u brother who once ,panncd out 81 so
between sunrise and sunset. You fellows, who
almost kiii yoIrseiyes% % nowsdHys to to hnd gold
used to work In day after day. One June day. in
1852 three young men OF us left Hangtown lnow
riacervillel on prospecting tour mp tho Iuba
River. il was no trick to make money those
days. Everyone hnd n sackfu or SO OF gold dust
lying around somewhere. We left our little
Hangtown, and struck out up the river We
packed our blankets, PICKS, pans and shovcls, a
rOCkcr, nltlc KruD, COHcc pot ana frylhs pan on
mule, and struck out for fortune Of 100000
each. for we had by that time made up our minds
to 20 IN for wealth then hen, qso back to jersey,
down as tho rich young men from California.
Just above Fenton's Bar we located claims
on virgin ground and went to work. We worked
just an hour by the watch. The cleanup
weighed four ounces OF clean river gold. That
G oaSG 3 or ' The rate q Gn
ton. We wcro out for 100000 before the
rainy season set In. Word had come down from
"a
do. a little figuring showed us that. We struck
fro Ohio took possession NJ OF the ground % that we we
had abandoned. and they cleaned up SsOO.OOO In
two years and went back TO the States. They
were smart. We were continental tools.
An there's OF II. we had fortune In our
hands and wo lrt II So. All OF our party are dead
OF going back TO Jersey and marrying any one,
for I've meyer seen the day had even the fare
pars Sy. woaGs @ IN
long Toms at Gold Hill. near whcro Jim Mar
shall found the first gold in California. we were
hungry youn. men had come aud taken up the
best mining. claims in California by that time.
ono day and looked over our ground suice.
"'we'vo had awful luck said ono OF them,
and cant you boys tell where wo can wash out
".You bet answered Parson Dan OF our
party You Just buy few inches, of water
rights were worth then 81 an inch. Tho Illinois
incn gave US three ounces OF dust for the water.
long story short they worked hard early and
late. and In three months they went down 10
Sacramento with $4,000 in gold dust and mug
gets, while We Jersey boyapcxscd along at $40
day Now, do you lhndsburg men call that all
luck or ability 70 see into thinSsi"
Il knew n Dutchman IN Montana q dozen
years ago., said u middle eaged man, who stood
over near Higginss bar, who made $1,000 or
ss9oq from ;nro c quart mine Sna il va" The
Dutchman had u large family. and his children
helped him in his search for pay rock. Hts ten.
bush was an opening into yellow collaborating
quartz The old man paid no attention TO the
girls talk but sho said a week later: Papa, I've
dreamed three times about that gold mine by the
mankanitn BUSH.
Then he thought there might be something in
days for a manzanita bush such us the girl
described. When they found It they eot their
lied chunk Of II In mortar, and found II worth
ra So .Gh can prove ms to be AZ dead faet ior
she has over had any dream like that since
The man. Hank Raymond. who found tho
Farewell mine, In the Globe district OF Arizona,
luck Gyor know Of. remarked Major Phil Ma.
son: 81 knew Hank WELL and was In the neigh.
borhood when no located the mine. so am sure
Of my facts. Hank and u comrade came out OF
somo scientific engineering college buck East
more than q dozen yonrs ago, with the intention
Of doing mining engineering. They went down
into New Mexico and Arizona and got Jobs with
some silver mining ,omnnnics at Corilos. Pres
gradually cheaper, tho mines closed down and
Hank was left to hustle. He then turned pros.
puctor. and went for four years all over tho
mountains IN southern Arizona, locating gold
mines that no never developed. In the fal of
1850 hc was clean plumb busted, and couldn't
IND u thing In his profession to do.
"llo went over To tho Globe diggings TO say
Roodby 10 hs old col. 20 chum, for Hank Ind
made up his mind to got back to Yankee land
somehow, where no might do something with
that tins education uf his.
g, It's no use tooling away my time out here
with mines said he to mo- why. NO one ever
makes any money In them now
Hank loafcd about Globo for q week. Tho
afternoon before he was going to start 10 work
his way somehow or other ba, k tn New York lao
went ont FOR walk with his Chum over the sun.
baked, barron hills, IL wAs farewell chat. The
two mon snt down In u gulch and talkud for Sow
eral hours Hank was poking among tho thou
sands Of stones aud bouldors lying there, ns all
wo follows do from forco of habit when wo are
out In the mountains of u mining country. IIo
picked up u bit OF live rock.
lily hcnvcns' said he, study ing II, that's
got n heap of color In It.
lie took that noat down TO his tent looked II
over care fully. postponed his departure from
Globe, and went Ia work following up taat float
10 he mother ledge. II took fortnight TO do IL.
lie located the Farewell mine there and any one
in Ina Tnrritnripa will tall thnt Hn MI