The copper era., 1903-11-05


good style, but cautious Sharon. b,
would wait and the bag must be ex
pressed TO Ball & Black in New Yori
and see what they said. We drew {
little money from Lent to leave or
and waited, and Arnold read all he
could get hold OF about South Africa
and diamond formations. Now comes
the answer from New York. There
were twenty-three genuine diamonds
unwashed stones indeutical with South
Africa. The rubies were of grade
and color they had not before seen
but rubies they thought OF much value.
| The turquoise was grade OF New
Mexico's stone. of small value, Arnold
/ said he thought Lent would take a
! fit Get out there again, make loca-
/ tions bring back more samples and he
would raise in the mean time the
/ biggest kind of a company aud we
should walk on easy street. We
did not feel so good if, said Arnold, |
had few thousand dollars we could
get there like dam on the Zuoa.
The news that Ball & Black got eX-
cited and that Mr. Black would come
at once to San Francisco and see
Senator Sharon and talk with Us did
not help matters, and now right here
ArnOld's wife got in her fine work.
Oh tell you she is Il business woma n
from the ground up, true blue grass
stock. She said, move you down town
TO board and don't you come near me.
| will see Lent and sell him the min e.
in Nevada county, and we did as she
said. She did see Lent and the
racket she raised kept him busy. She
was mad all over, she had got right on
to George Arnold at last she had and
found out what she had suspected for
some time-he had another woman in
town. She had found it out. Had
Lent given him any money since he
came back. Yes, there she knew it.
He had lied to her and the other
woman had got it, well he was going
to fiji out for another prospect was he.
Well he would not go in hurry at
least until she got divorce she
would stop that sure. Lent sent for
Arnold, but he could do nothing.
Black in a few days would be here
and they must have locations riad e.
Sharon sent for her and after much
trouble fixed it. She would consent
to separation and go home to
Kentucky and get Il divorce on con-
dItion that il Sharon would buy the
mine in Nevada county she should
have all the money. Arnold said at
first no and got on big sham drunk
and the. devil was to pay all round.
Ball came all right and talked to me
and they got Arnold sober and paid
his bills and got him to consent TO his
wife getting the money and he decided
Sharon all his mining ground, and
she opened on him in fine style when
they were signing the deed, but they
granted her Il divorce, and gave her
u check for Sl5, 900 and she pulled her
freight for Kentucky.
1T was agreed we should go back
by way of Nevada and make locations
and bring back what we could find
and then they would send Professor
Lannin to report. Now we were
broke you see and as we only named
1900 for an outfit it took away what
ever suspicion they might ct as to
plant but | do not think they had
any.
"Arnold says, "now Bob. yod go and
stay with those boys we met is Ari-
zona. De very quiet and no one will
know you. l will get that money and
go to England and buy diamonds and
stuff. and join you. You see it came
out all right and after you had left us
in that wind swept, cold desert. he /
told me how he made il. He got the |
cash and went to London and there I
found that TO make il look all right he |
would be obliged to go to South Africa /
and get the sand stone which is 1
what they call the diamond dust. |
There was no help for it so he went |
and got To Cape Town and found plenty /
Of rough stone to buy cheap, and Oh. /
varf was soil from the Diamond fields
to be shipped to England to a mining
school. Now he thought it out there.
He stayed in house near the wharf.
He fooled around and made himself
those same boxes we packed. and at
night just swiped from those sacks
enough to fill them, and took the first
steamer back. We took that soft sand
II and with those shot guns. shot every
bit of it in that hillside. in the ant
hills, the grass roots, and roots OF the
cedar, and it was very hard Job
Those guns kicked, We planted some
small stones too, in the ant hills, we
lad to keep that stock staked. l cut
NY foot bad aud we burnt up, as we
thought, every scrap OF box and paper.
md started for the San Francisco
to get point to get to the
Muddy to follow up the rail road
n Nevada. We got to Battle Noun
ain and Arnold did some fine work
here. We turned our outfit loose the
lay before and went in afoot, broke
Ind me limping. The agent wired to
lent and Sharon at the Bay and
quick WAS wired the funds to take US
iown.
"What had kept Us all these