Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-26

| u,th the medicine. "Ill surely send -
on to her." said Dick.
"Thanks, pardncr. yer were always
n good pal. So long-pard-Watch tue
noryh End. The vein may ruin
The rest of the sentence was lost IN
a mutter as old Bill crossed the great
divide.
Rilrs mate in the mine all attended
the simple funeral and erected a rough
cross at the head of the grave.
The days passed into weeks II DICK
worked on in the Carstirs mine. Inc
machinery on the Wyndham properly
still Law idle, a monument to hasty
Judgment. The whole story Of the fail
IRE was now known. The original
owners of the claim had followed the
assaver's clerk who was carrying sam
pies of ore to the assay office. man
him asleep, with the ore in a leatherh
bag under his pillow, they forced the
sharpened point of a syringe through
| the leather and sprayed the samples or
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 OF a
| Wall street clerkship. He was welding
his pick almost automatically, scarcely
needing where he struck.
nav dam x-nin Of void GRO had hppn
laid bare for some minute before he
was aware of the fact. Then he drop
ped 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
breaking up worthless rock with his
pick and carrying it owe 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 raj
ment of former days he hired a "buck-
board and drove off to the town.
Reckon young Dick must be going
to see a gal over to Charville,' remark
ed an astonished spectator.
Nav, he don't go anything on gals"
commented 81, the saloonkeeper. Hes
more likely goin' over after some books
or magerZeens. Hes a queer cuss, is
Dick"
Dick further astonished the mining
community by quitting work at the
mine.
"Allers thought yer'd quit senten-
tiously remarked 81. yer amt the pick
and shovel sort. But it's been GOOD ex-
perience for yer. Better come into the
s'loon, 1 need a new hand and yer'd be
husky enough to keep the boys
straight"
Dick reported that he needed a rest
and change and was going away in a
few days.
But it was many days before he leftt.
Fol the next day the management Of
the CarStairs mine discovered that
their latest and richest vein ran
straight through into the abandoned
Wyndham property. "Old John" made
haste to buy. but was informed that
the deeds of the land were in the pos
session of one Richard Leigh Of New
York, who had bought the abandoned
machinery a few days previously for
some thousand dollars n had had the
deeds of the property thrown in.
"Old John" was wise and as yet
scarcely any n had been allowed to
hear of the new vein. His agents ap-
preached Dick and offered him an ex-
ira thousand for the machinery and
land. Dick dismissed them with the
information that he would speak to
Old John himself. That elderly mine
owner was much surprised that Dick
had inside information as to the vein
and hat Dick was further prepared to
begin mining operations himself.
1t was about a month after the new
mining firm Of Carstairs, Leigh & Co.
had been Incorporated that Frances,
from her old position on Dicks Shout
der. was talking V old times.
"And 1 said you would find the mine
didn't I, Dick, dear"
"Of course you did, Frances" an
swered the man of mines, mine at last
BY a mine.'-Canadian Graphic.