The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-21

StanO ana ike MS GRANDSON better. AL
bottom he decided the young man to be
sound after all, and began to make allow
ance for his geographical heresies. The
boy had been sent to an eastern college;
that was clearly mistake, putting him
out of sympathy with the west; and he
had never been made to work, which was
another and a graver mistake, but he'd
do more'n his father ever did if 'twa MT
fur his fathers money" the old man con-
cluded. For he saw in their talks that
the very eastern experience which he de-
rided had given the young fellow poiseJ
and a certain readiness to grasp details in
the large that his father had been a life
time in acquiring.
For a month they loitered over the sur
rounding territory in the private car glid-
ing thru fertile valleys, over bleak passes,
steaming up narrow little canons along the
own-rushing streams with their cool shall
low murmurs.
cut was to be started on the Last Chance,
or that the concentrates Of the
True Grit would thereafter be shipped to
the Careless Creek smelter. Next they
would learn that new herd Of Galloways
had done finely last season on the Bitter
Root ranch; that a big lot of ore was
sacked at the Irish Boy, that an 18-inch
vein had been struck in the Old Grow;
that a cOncentratOr was needed at
Hellandgone, and that rich gold-bearing
copper and sand bearing free gold had
been found over on Horseback Ridge.
Another day they would drive far into
a forest Of spruce and hemlock to- a
camp where thousands of ties We're being
cut and floated down to the line of the
new railway.
Sometimes they spent a. night in one :of
the smaller mining camps off the railroad,
whereof facetious notes would appear in
the nearest weekly paper, such as:
s'The Hon. Peter Bines and his grand
son, who is chip Of the old block, spent
Tuesday night at Rock Rip. Young Bines
played the deal from soda card to hook at
Lem Tully's Turf Exchange, and showed
LENS dealer good and plenty that there's
no piker strain in him.
Or, it might be:
'Poker stacks continue to have a down
ward tendency. They were sold last week
as low as eighty chips for a dollar. It is
sad to see this noble game dragging along
in the lower levels Of prosperity, and we
! take as a, favorable omen the appearance
of Uncle Peter .Bines and his grandson
the other night. The prices went to par in
a minute. Young Bines gave signs Of be-
coming as delicately intuitional in the
| matter of concealed values as his father,
| the lamented Daniel j"
Again it was: -.
"Uncle Peter Bines reports from over
! Kettle Creek way that the sage
brush whisky they take a mans two-bit
for there would gnaw holes in limestone.
| Peter is likelier to find a ledge of dollar
bills than he is good whisky this far off
the main trail. The late Daniel J. could
have told him as much, and Daniel J.'s
boy, who accompanies Uncle Peter, will
! know it hereafter
'.FFi1e young man felt whoesemely i1fsig-
! nifcant at these and other signs that he
! was taken on sufferance as son and a
! grandson. :.4. .5Et-s ...@. -s~i..-
He was content that it should be so.
| Indeed there was little whereWith he was
not content. That he was habitually pre-
occupied, even when there was most
| movement about thenn early became ap-
parent to Uncle Peter. That he was con-
stantly cheerful proved the matter of his
musings to be pleasant. That lie
was proner than most youths to
: serious meditation Uncle Peter did
not believe. Therefore he attributed
the moods of abstration to some
matter probably connected with his pro-
ject Of removing the family east. 1t was
not permitted Uncle Peter to know, nor
was his own youth recent enough for him
to suspect, the truth. And the mystery
! stayed lnviolate until a day came and
went that laid it bare even to- the old
| mans eyes
| They aWoke one morning, to find the
car on a siding at the One Girl mine
Coupled to it was another car from an
Eastern road that their train had taken
on sometime in the night. Percival noted
! the car with interest as he paced beside
the track in. the cool clear, air before
i breakfast The curtains were drawn ano
the only signs of life to be observed
. were at the kitchen end, where the
white-clad cook could be seen astir
Grant, porter on the Bines car told him
the other car had been taken on at Kaslc
Junction, and that it belonged to Rulor
Shepler, the New York financier, who was
, aboard with a party of friends.
AS Percival and Uncle Peter left theil
car for the shaft-house afters breakfast
, the occupants of the other car were be
t stirring themselves E%.fI* 7.s -
From one of the open windows a low
but inpassioned voice was, exhaustins
the current idoms of damnation il
sweeping dispraise of all.land areas nortl
and west of F'ifty-ninth street, New York
Uncle; Peter smiled grmly. Perciva
3 flushed, for the hidden protestant had ut
} tered what t. were his own sentiments {
month before. .'.'
Reaching the shaft-house they chattet
with Pangburn. the superintendent, an,
> then went to the storeroom to don blouse
!. and overalls for descent into the mine
For an hour they stayed underground
.. . traversing the various levels and drifts
while Pangburn explained the later de
: veloDments Of the Vein and showed then
, where the new stopping had been begun.
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