The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-21

unboSOmed. All these details, carefully and straightforwardly told. interested couple Of saloon men. who decided to put up little money 10 help the honest prospector out, feeling at the same time great sympathy for his braEing the hardships in securing the desert for gold. ..r. ... ...
 The first thing to do was to assay the samples for gold and plantinum. The first return for the gold assay was in- deed highly satisfactory. for it ran up into the hundreds: afterwards came a higher per cent of platinum. The latter at very high figure per ounce. added to the gold contents. made the rock of exceeding value. These returns aroused great enthusiasm in the saloonkeepers, and each one swore the other to secrecy over the sharp edge of broken beer bottle. The noble prospector was given the best to eat and wear. and he was to take it easy and comfortable until well equipped outfit could be gotten to- gether for all of them to travel to the rich find. There preparations continued for three weeks: meantime the pros- pector was living on the fat of the land and was even handed few dollars to gamble with so as to keep himself amused. The fnanciers began to get uneasy to be off to the find that would enable them to turn up their noses at Morgan and Rockefeller The prospec-
 tor was sticker on minute details, and he would not start until they were absolutely complete. Eventually, after adding one thing at a time. there was no further excuse for delay and one morn
 ing by daylight the trio left with their train for the discovery that was to put 1 the Klondyke to shame.
 After three days travel they reached, sure enuogh, the bleached bones of the prospector and his burro, with his be- | longings scattered all round him. In addition there was also found some pieces of rock identical with that the l prospector had brought to the border i town. Finding no evidence to identify the remains, the three set to to work I and gave the bones a decent burial, after which they came to the croppings I so.s carefully and exactly described by I the prospector. It was near dark, but all of them kept chipping the rock and even cracked it by firelight in hopes of
 discovering free gold, but it was one of ! those things where the gold was fine
 and did not show in the rock. Next day all the samples were taken that could
 be conveniently carried, a great many
 claims staked off and the return journ- ey commenced The trip was quiet
 one, for the two residents of the border
 town were ruminating in their own
 minds how they would ou.shine Bill
 Greene; they would have two or three
 private cars instead of one, and perhaps
 run down to Canenea and offer Greene
 a lump sum wall his layout, for they
 were on friendly terms with Bill Greene
 and if they could help him out 1t would
 only please them to do so.
 The town was reached and next day
 an assortment of rock was picked out
 for assay. and the prospector carried
 it to the assayer The result was even
 higher than ever. After discussion with friends, it was remarked as sim gular thing that rock so high in value
 should not show a speck of gold. One
 fellow suggested banning some. This
 was gone straight away, but not a color I was shown. This aroused the suspicion l of one oftthe partners. who took some II of the rock for assay himself. The re- turns were nil However, there was still a particle of faith left. and after a
 mutal consultation of the two financial
 packers. it was decided to take samples I to the other assayers, and one lot over. l to an assayer on the Mexican side of 1 the line. He was told what the rock
 contained and t6 be very careful in his work. But Ttduring conservation a peculiar fact was let out by the assay
 erthat he had on certain dates to a party whose description absolutely tailed with that of the prospector, a
 platform wire from an old electrical
 apparatus. and certain amount of gold, which afterward turned oLt to be
 the exact value as found in the rich rock
 l This was too much for the two part
 ners. They flew back to the saloon with Ia void in their stomachs, hands on
 their hips, and an itching on their toes.
 But all too late. The willy prospector had been coolly taking observations l himself, and had smelled the rat. He had left a fewtminutes before the ar rival of the inf,Sfated partners, but not
 before borrowing $25 from the bar tender Every endeavor was exercised to trace the absent one, but to no avail. l A poor lonsesome burro still awaits an
 owner, and remains the only asset of
 the latest great gold find.--Arizona
 Republican.