Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-15

I ION yoa worry, Partner, YOU amt
lost n0thlH. knows all about that there
lclaign for I've broken aaore'n one hammer
itinkeriIT round them rocks. and nv the
bFoneho Of iBimelieh, there no gold on
the top Of that claim. Nav. nor for a
long trail down into the ground neither.
But, Partner, yer good friend Of mine,
1 like yer ways, dye see. and Ell tell yer
Iwhat'il be between ycrself and me. old
Johns mine lowering his voice can
ltionsly. SIS likely to have a vein run
down underneath that there new claim. >
i WE'LL then" said Dick, we are too
late"
Nav. nary a hit TAHITI likely anv-
thing will happen for three or four
months yet and they'll get enough of
that claim fore then
/ This conversations occurred in late
/ April, when men were boring in the new
claim. There was excitement in the
camp. however. wnen il was rumored
that some paying ore had been struck.
\ lt was later announced that Wyndham.
the mine owner, was talking of buying
the property a. soon "a an official ASSAY
of the ore had been made.
/ These We're bitter days for poor Dick.
! Old Bill would reassuFe him in his hours
Ief dependency. That there ore won't
assay worth floor scrubber's cuss. ver'n
see.n
Even Bill was nonplused by the later
news, that the ore had assayed remark
Iably rich and that there was a rush to
buy. 4 don't see how it happened That
there assayer must be gone iuny. 7 saw
some Of that ore myself and it amt
worth quid of ehewed baecy."
/ CHAPTER II.
| The great event of the mining season
was the collapse of the Wyndham Mining
company. The mine had not proved az
rich as the assay had shown. In fact,
as old Bill had said, at warn't worth
much more'n good buildin' stone" The
| bankruptcy of Wyndham provided good
copy" for the New York and Chicago
l@yellows." which irregularly reached the
lcamp. Dick read to Bill with great in
ward satisfaction the news that the en-
gagement Of Miss Carstairs and Mr.
| Wyndham had been broken off by Mrs
Carstairs, on account of Wyndham's dis
astrous failure
| There came a day when Bill no longer
went to the mine, but tossed about in the
delirium of fever. The young doctor
/ told Dick that 1T was just drink. Con-
lstItution wrecked by liquor. He won't
last very long"
Dick nursed him az carefully "a he
lcould. One hot night Dick was sitting
1 by the bedside Of old Bill, who was lying
| in a stupor lie was reading a letter
/ from Frances. which had been surrep-
titiousIy written and dispatched. Sud
denly Bin woke up and turning painfully
Ieazed at Dick
Dick, old pardner, I'm off on the last
trail. It's time for me to pull stakes, y
see. we been good pal, Dick, alright
land I'm sorry to leave yer But fore
lgo, III tell yer to watch the north end
l0f the mine. And in the old box. yer'lI
| find a packet dressed to the old mother
in Wisconsin" He paused for breath as
Dick supported his head and wet his lips
with the medicine. III surely send it on
to her. said Dick.
Thanks, pardner, yer were always
good pal. So g-pard-watch the
north end. The vein may run
/ The rest Of the sentence was lost in a
mutter as old Bill crossed the great di-
vide
Bills mates in the mine all attended
the simple funeral and erected rough
cross at the head Of the grave.
The days passed into weeks and Dick
worked on in the Carstairs mine. The
machinery OH the Wyndham property
still lay idle, monument to hasty iudg-
ment. The whole story of the failure
was now known. The original owners
of the claim had followed the assayer's
clerk who was carrying samples of ore to
the assay office. Finding him asleep,
with the ore in a Ieathern bag under his
PILLOW, they forced the sharpened point
1 H.
sprayed the samples of ore with chloride
of gold.
| Toward the end of August Dick was
working in the north of the Carstairs
mine. He was feeling particularly de-
spondent, and was considering leaving
the mine, drawing the few thousand he
had left in the bank at Chicago and
again going back to the humdrum of
Wall street clerkship. He was welding
his pick almost automatically, scarcely
needing where he struck.
| A new deep vein of gold ore had been
laid bare for some minutes before he
was aware of the fact Then he
dropped his pick and cropping on hands
and knees he carefully examined the
vein. A few more strokes of his pick
and he had grasped the situation.
| Carefully covering up the vein again,
he worked hard for a few minutes b1 ak
/ ing up worthless rock with his pick and
carrying it over to the new vein. Piling
rock painstakingly upon it he worked
away till the bell rang for the end of the
eight hour shift. The cage seemed to
Dick to be crawling up to the top, and
when it had deposited its load on the
surface he hurried to his tent. Dressing
himself in the raiment Of former days he
hired blackboard" and drove off to
the town.
Reckon young Dick must be going to
see a gal over to Charville," remarked an
astonished spectator.
Nav. he don't 90 anything on gals"
commented 81, the saloon keeper Hes