Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1902-05-02
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t,lrs Of the Blue Bucket Diggingo
"Lo4t Lodes, ,'Ola hannels, aud
o,ner mines of fabulous richness, re-
cl MARI Twins stor, of two mar
yeiols mirs af California N early
dn. Of course Mtrk's narrative is
truss H never writes any other
sort af narratives. Mark would
rather he truthful than funny any
day. He is unusally funny, The
following tale is funny:
Il have just seen your dispatch
from san Francisco in Sa'urday
evaniug Post wrote Mar, "about
g,ld III solution IL Calistoga
Spriags, and ahilut tine proprietor
having extracted 81 800 Of gold Of
the utmost hneness from two barrels
Of water during the past fortnight,
by a process known only to himself.
This will surprise many of your
readers, but it does not suprls g me,
however, is the falling off in rich
ness of the water. In many times
the Weld was a dollar dipperful.
am not saying this to injure the
property in case a sale is contem-
plated. | am saying in the interest
of history. 1t may be that the hotel
projectors process is an inferior one.
Yes, that may be the fault. Mine was
to take my uncle | had IN extra one
at that time on account of his parents
dying and leaving him on my hands,
and fill him up and let him stand
fifteen minutes, to give the water
chance to settle. Well, then | in
serted him in an exhaust receiver,
which had the effect of sucking
gold out through his pores. have
taken more than $l1 900 out of that
old man in less than day aud a
half.
IL should have held on to those
springs, but for the badness OF the
roads and the difficulty of getting
the gold to market. | consider that
the gold yielding water is in many
respects remarkable, and yet no
more remarkable than the gold bear
: ing air of Catgut canyon up there
towards the head of the auriferous
range This air, or this wind, for 1t
is a kind of trade wind which
blows steadily down through SIX
hundred miles of the richest quartz
groupings during an hour and a
quarter every day, except Sundays,
is heavily charged with exquisitely
fine, impalpable gold.
Nothing precipitates and solidi'
fes this gold so rapidly as contract
with human flesh heated by passion
The time that William Abraham
was disappointed in love he used tc
sit out doors when the wind wa
blowing, aud came in again and be
gan to sigh, and | would extrac
over dollar and half out of ever.
sigh. He sighed right along, ant
the time that John Harbinson an
Aleck Norton quarreled about Hart
nson's dog, they stood there sweai
ing at each other; what they dldA
know about swearing they couldn
learn from you and me, not by
good deal; and at the end OF ever
three or four minutes they ha
to stop and declare dividend.
they didn't their jaws would clog u
SO they couldn't get big, MN
syllable ones out at all, and whe
the wind was done blowing the
cleaned up just little over $l'o'
apiece. know these facts to
absolutely true, because | got the
from man whose mother | kne
personally
II do not suppose person cou
buy the water privilege at Calisto'
now at any price, but several goo
locations along the course OF &
ratgut canyon gold bearing tra'
winds are for sale. they are goll
to be stocked for the New 70
market. They will sell, too; peol
will lswarm for them as thick as Ha
cock veterans in the South.
"MARK TWAIN