The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15


the ice go out. he was one of those
piodding stampeders. a man Of bovine
eye thick neck and thick body, stand
ing five feet ten in his mukluks. On
stampede McQuade smoked his pipe a
good deal and sat down quite often TO
think which is well in country where
Stampeding sometimes means a tramp
OK 200 or 300 miles over the snow.
like gold well enough" Mcouade
would say. but / ant goin' to muso
my legs off for it," So While the others
ran ahead up the frozen creeks like
hunted mOOses he smoked his pine and
looked carefully about. After a STAN
.ede he returned to town like the rest
put unlike the rest, he was not frayed
out and frost bitten.
one idea lasted McQuade a whole
week. ON Monday in October an idea
came and it remained with him until
the next Sunday. Why 20 so far TO
find 50 little? Why not search closely
about near the heart Of the district and
see n anything good had been over
looked bN the frantic claim seekers. He
began mis- search, and though the men
OF gold on Bonanza and FL Dorado
creeks laughed at him and his half-fed
maiumets his sled Cross-tra cked over
the whole country. He went up and
down every creek and every pup" as
the miners called the small ravfnes
~ .ast he found an unconsidered trife
IN She way of fraction on Bunker
'TtVtN bNlMttu GAINS NJ = ana NO. 10.
Wnica claims had, in some way. failed
3D. u JOIN each other. Hundreds of pros
pectors Ead passed the fraction but
none observed il particularly, and that
the men Of The adjoining claims had not
absorbed II was simply because they
strcaks.
MeQuade sunk hole and found 4
good prospecS So he built a small
cabin, with a pole floor. a dirt roof and
one small Windcw made OF ginger ale
bottles SET upon end. The weather was
cold, but he kept steadily at work his
pipe between his teeth. and its smoke
mingling with the white fog of slow
breath from his great lungs The con-
tinual and prodigious presence of this
smoke and feg gained fo- him the name
Of "bullgine' McQuade.
II he unds enough in that cemetery
plot o his TO keep that eveTlastin pine
ag9in. remarked one miner. "heU do
well. with tobacco at s. a pound" And
n laugh went round at the expense of
john McQuade and his fraction.
But McQuade was content and so
were his dogs, for as soon as he began
10 put little dust into his moose skin
the stOmachs of his sharp-fanged mall
amuts felt the tsde Of prosperity
Though his dump grew steadily. he was
not getting out much gold. That would
come in the spring when he would
wash out the dirt. For the present he
must still ec0nOmize. But when a raw
I boned, tired-loolSng young stranger
came 10 Ltte- ON enc Gay MCG9uade
oid not hesitate to give him as good
dinner as he could get together Per-
haps this was because the new mans
urst name was John. though his sur
name made no Celtic appeal. nor even
stray suggestion being merely Wood
John Wood was broke and his appe-
lite was something to amaze even the
unimpressionable John McQuade The
miner ministered to that appetite for a
week. apOlogizing for the rawness OF
re beans, which you couldn't cook on
Yukon stove nohow." md for the
beef, which was stringy and stank.
I bought that meat at a bargain"
explained Old John to Young john
"Oniy paid $50 for a fore quarter. The
reason why I got it so cheap was be-
cause it was spilled; yet by putin
handful o cody in il when it's bin il
comes out ali right"
But it's rank. Tastes like some old
cayuse that died up at White Pass, -
said Wood. who could look a gift horse
or a piece Of one. out of countenance as
readily as any other migrate. Il heard
they had tirst-chop mutton over at FL
Dorado
wal. I'll eat good mutton in the
spring" said John McQuade. cheerful
". AN 1 won't keer IL they charge me
$40 for oyster stew, neither"
John Wood kept staying st Nc
Quade's cabin, though he walked about
n good deal He tried to get a lay -
but nobody in the neighborhoOd would
let him in. Sometimes he and Nc
gled with the crowd at "Pete's Place. -
The two men Of Bunker creek had lit
tie dust to spend, and seldom drank at
the bar. When man with a large
poke invited the whole crowd 10 i'm
bibe the bad whisky with him the two
Johns did not hold back. John Wood
took large-eyed interest in the weigh
- ing Of the dust by the barkeeper. He
would cape and stare as the golden
grains ran from the leathern bag into
the scales
THAT chechal1o Of BulIgine's has got
an awful money-mouth." remarked
JirE Lawrence to his partner. as he
Razed at W God. You could a-heard
him Sigh a mile when Pete Swanson
blew in thousand here yesterday"
John Wood saddled himself upon the
gOod-natured McQuade in such a
brOtherly way that Old John finally
let him into his firing holes and his con-
fdenCc.
i've got a good thing here" said Nc
Quade. If this here pay don't pinch
out It's bitter than that cultus claim
on the left. an it's as good as No. g.
II IL was only bigger
Wood looked into the pan McOuade
held in his 1aud. and It required much
self-COntrOl for him to keep his fingers
off the wet gold that yellowed its bot
tom.
Yes" he said at length. its too bad
we haven't got anything but fraction
here. Why couldn't you have located
500 feet?"
The 1--WE" passed the easy-eoing Nc
Quade without challenge. He smiled
curiOusly and said:
''Mebbe I didn't do my damdest to get
a good cl- M But 7 hsger out forty
thousand here all right
'Weli. that VIII do fO. start said
John Wood. but we must wash clean
and keep il an. They say on FL Do
rado creek they lose over half by slop
washing"
And so By this and that John Wood
worked bis way IN and the dull Nc
Quade did not know just when the time
came that he began 70 regard the ar
= p. rangement ~ being share and share
y with the chechal<o.
In the spring they whiD-saweA lum-
Der and made sluicess They wefe moi
long in washing. out SOS 900 worth Of
gold dust and nuggets When il came
20 the cleanup the careless ana unsus-
psciOuS MCCuade let Wood handle
nearly all the gold. with the result thai
200 ounces Of IL were separated iron
the mass and cached at the foot OF Z
spruce tree near the cabin. That made
McOuade's share $500 short ~ The
s14OCO IL should have been. The onls
reason Why IL was not much shorte1
was that the 200 ounces were all thai
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