The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-23

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| claimed property. Then he sent for his
| grubstaking partner at Chloride, and
together they began digging and blast
! ing in the labor of exposing the ledge
and demonstrating the quality OF it's
ore. In several spots quartz was fouhd
| that ran forty-eight dollars to the ton
but the average rock ran tWenty-one TO
| the ton. And there seems to be thou-
sands Of tons of it. 1t was no trick at
/ all to sell such a property.
! Such uncommon luck to new mining
| prospector has caused stream OF reml-
niscences among ald-time gold hunters
in this region concerning the fortunes
that tenderfoot prospectors nave touhu'
| and lodges of precious ores which Vete-
ran prospectors have stumbled upon
However practical and scientific one
may be- there's no denying that there
is in the annals of gold and silver min
ing in the west certain mysterious
and capricious influence on mems lives
and fortunes known as luck. Old ana
experienced miners quit locations In DIS
gust after months of labor, and these
have afterward been taken by men who
scarcely knew the difference between
shaft and level After weeks work
the latter became rich.
favorite story of a lucky ma con"
Germs the discovery of the Blossom
mine, near Phoebe, New. TWenty-seven
years ago it was turning out bullion
that sold for tllirty-f1ve and forty thou
sand dollars month, and, flrst ana
last, it yielded five hundred thousand
dollars. James w. Peeer lawyer in
otaiillord' Coiln.' caliie W. " wy az"
10 settie the nttie estate u y ii'ah VIZ
haa oleo III rlosiie' leaVhis iiis MINING
properly to Connecticut reiatiVes' rec
Ter ulu not tneii Know soiu hiihe iol,i
quarry ne louiiu 'iic es'"'e 49,.
ehtahsieu ana IL tooh severai iiio'llns ~
set throusn tie Nevaua uoui -.
neanWnlie ne vis,'eu q ~ o.nei ~
iiiiiieu ~ po'ie' anu tiieie ~ piohou ~
sSoiiie iifioi iiia'ioli apou' MINNIE piopei
.les' the coioI anu loriii VI Soiu-Deli int,
ieuses anu iiow pioepeo'ota 81 apuo.
'heir searcnes lol liiiiies' iie i@iiioieu
over tue hllis ana through tne cahoiie
LOT aays' "hile ms case was uia ssin5 -
the supreme court az carson Slty' ne
was rldlng horsepack out from FlocIe
along with several miners one uay
When ne called attention 10 pecullar
plulsh FORMATION OF outcropplns rock.
mat rock away over there LOOKS lihe
the same sort OF quartz sd" IN ths
coin mine over at Bender s, SAD ne.
have you felloWs ever prospecteo II!
On, that only porpnyry' pee
4 nave seen IL thousands Oh times.
It's only TOOL DEAD rock, replied one Oh
the veteran miners.
A little later Lawyer Peeler was rid
ing that way again with a younger and
more inexperienced miner. Peeler sug-
gested that they go and look at the rock
lust to satisfy his curiosity. The out
cropping was some five miles off the
trail, but they went The formation
looked so good that the two men decl-
ded to come again secretly the next uay
with prospectors' tools TO ma what
there was in the weather and time
stained projecting rocks. The fact that
trained prospectors had been over ana
over that locality without seeking IN tine
outcropping almost deferred them from
going out upon, apparently a 1901 $ ef-
rand. They spent rev hours there,
or some time they tound not the least
show OF color. But digging INTO the
earth at the side OF the outcropplng' the
surface OF the rock, uhtouched by ext
dation and the elements, was lald pare.
Peeler Knocked away Dit OF the rock
and both men examined the DIT closely'
There were traces or gold, a 1901 or
two more or eafth were aug away anu
another piece was Whacked OH the
ledge. 1T was more abundant IN golueh
specks' That was the peglnnihs OF the
Blossom mine, Whlch hao IAN there lor
mans uses through all time, anu haa
been spurned by many prospectors VINO
are still ragged ana unkefnpt ana sun
Drawing the elements Whlle they chase
the tickle goddess Fortune over the
west
Said Colonel Timothy w. Brooks of
Pomona, Cal, the other day: There's
a potent fascination about hunting as
l have done for twenty years for gold
mines. Although the pursuit means
slow starvation and a heap of poverty
and misery for most of us, lot of us
stick to it purely from love of the
there is in it. and not that we
care anything about the pleasures that
money will buy There was old Ben
Dooley, who mined it at Rough and
Ready up in the Grass Valley country
of California along about 1853. He
long tommed dirt all day, cooked his
own grub and never stirred from his
cabin after dark This cabin was built