Arizona republican., 1898-09-11

deTed. and every mine ill the camp that depended upon hired labor stood still for his determination. Deep shafts filled with water. and costly machinery rusted in idleness: and Windy Guich. but the other day as law-abiding anG sleepily plodding as any New EngianC village. was ;luw alive with q throng oi bo,zing itllers. nursing bitterness ugainst the mine-oNucrs. and especially casting curses upon the name of Harvey Neil, whose plI:ocratic indifference tc the rights of labor was held to be the cause of all the trouble. Appeals fer protection were made to t,le authorities in vain. until at length. the strikers souls intianfed to frenzy by non-succsss and want. that coward's ally dynamite was invoked to bring tn terms the Mas cot mine. while had not Harvey Neil been slInmariiy hustled cut of sight by Frightened friends. the chances seemed that even murder mi giit have been ad,ied to tine horrors of that nj glt The county authorities were now aroused to take summary action. and peace wiis after time restored Hut capital which might have been tempted had been frightened back from c field which lawlessness could so dominate Windy Gulch. poorer by far than it had e.er been E,eforc. lad ceased to dream of any boom. while Neil. all the costly i'm provements upon his property de stroyed. with no possibility of redress. found himself practically at the foot of the ladder once more. More disheart- ened than he had ever been, the young man, who now felt old. borrowed money to get his mine in working shape. once more; and when that was done he be- took himself-to the east for the rest and change he so sorely needed after the long strain that had been upon him.
 And now up by the old trail the Grubstake mine was presently wing. with the Mascot in outward showing of prosperity. Buildings went up and de velopment work proceeded at such a rate as only unlimited command of capital could bring to pass. while all the camp wondered. The Grubstake had been located years before by q couple of credulous youths who were directed in
 
 tended revelations of a so-called pro- lessor of spiritualism in Denver. AL though they had carried their tunnel some sixty feet into the mountainside before they lost faith in their oracle and sold out to the colonel for song, no mineral had been discovered, while the camp was generally of the opinion that none ever would be, until the new owners operations stirred doubts as to the soundness of that judgment. Some there were to opine that the colonel might be preparing new bait for one of the English syndicates of the type that SC often had been his gudgeon; others. who thought themselves equally we'll informed as to the great promoters pc culiar methods, argued that he was more probably plotting mischief wkich would presently be apparent in the ground where the two claims crossed, prophesying that Neil would be forced Tor his own peace eventually to pur-- chase the Grubstalle at it's owners own figure; while others still more full of charity toward gentleman who. so far as reputation went, seemed generally in the position Of the under dog. contended thta the work upon the property meant only that there was mineral to be uncov- cred there, since, whatever his faults. there was no man who could see farther through stone than Col. Randolph Meredith. And these last could take unct;on to their souls when one day the ore wagons began coming down from the Grubstake side of the hill on their way to the Orodelphia smelter. while rumor said that strike had been made surpassing even the Mascot's richness.
 Harvey Neil was still east when this occurred, and the honest gentleman in