The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1906-11-13

you're a guesser from Panamint.'
IL can't talk to you now, but | will
meet you at the restaurant around
the corner in half an hour" said the
cashier
In the restaurant later the grub
stalker Joined him. dead broke, dry.
hungry, but good natured.
I've been down the Panamint way"
he explained after he had cleared out
the big bowl of soup. Every blame
fool is going there to try and see what
Scotty's got, but my hands are up.
81 lost my best burro there and I've
had enough; but I've got something
good down in san Diego county, and
that's what | want
Did you ever make stallo?" asked
the cashier
Found the Red Rose"
What"
Fact and I kin prove It, Dye know
Col. A. c. Beltmer?"
Why, yes, he banks with us re-
piled the cashier.
We'll, ask him who found the Red
Rose mine. and while you're about it
you might also ask him who was fool
enough to sell for thousand dollars,
as I'm that man. You've heard the
old saying that a suckers born every
day, Ell? Well, I'm the Friday sucker;
| was born that day, sure"
II was strapped, and / sold out for
a thousand dollars. You see a poor
man makes a find; hCw's he, without
a cent, to get the attention of men
with money or to get within mile of
them?
When | struck the Red Rose | was
hundred miles ont on the desert.
"All had on earth was four pounds
of bacon and a pound of coffee. Some
chaps came along and offered me that
money for my claim and l took it,
Il went to Los Angeles walked in
TO a barber shop, and got bath and
a shave, then went to a store and told
a man to fiji me out from head to foot,
and / vow when / went out | didn't
know myself l bought a bag and
went over to the hotel and entered my
name as John Handy, Red Rose, San
BernardinO county, took the best room
gave the bell boy a dollar, and the
next morning read in the paper that
Col John Handy the millionaire
mine owner from Red Rose, was in
town
"Well | gained twenty pounds in the
next two weeks and at the end of the
month | was broke. No no: / didn't
drink it up. ran across the wife
OF an old pardner She was scrub
bling floors i'm schools and she is 90
years old | staked her with $500,
hired a little house for her so she
could rent a room or two and that
cleaned me out
Then / got stake from a res
taurant man, the next day ! was walk
ing to the desert; and. dye know.
there's something about the desert
that kind of locoes man? This time
III let YOU into it,
"YOu know they have been finding
some queer stoues down a. Mese
Grande Pala and different places i'm
San Diego county; and last week
was sitting In bar room at DaggCtt.
out ON the desert when a man came i'm.
the picture of hard luck, but when ne
came to pay up he unrollcd from a bag
a lot of curious stones and offered TO
sell them TO me One was the
most beautiful blue you ever saw
where is it? / sold it for 500 at
Indio one night wanted burro.
and ! struck an Indian and bought
his burro for the stone and $40; he
wanted o. for his sQuaw
ut might have been worth $1,000
for am I know but me point is This
lac he
me map of thc place where hc found
&c.. here 30 is He said hc Knocked 80
out of the side OF a cliff with stone,
and there was a lot of it AN broken
up and no good
IL kept q little piece and showed 90
TO a travelling jcwclcr and hc told me
that If ! knew where the mine was
was i'm luck and would make my for
tune. so there YOU are The stone
has probably been Knocked and ham
| mcrcd with rocks. and AN YOU want is
to- put in small blast and get iu TO-
it whore it's good
Glow much of q stake do you
want?' asked the cashier
Grub" was the reply. grub for
I two months and some new tools Hum
/ drcd dollars win dO Co."
CAN right said tho cashier "I1l go
you: sign this and he drew up Che
! following
Is john Handy agrcc to divide with
| anything { may dud from january o.
/ 1905, to March il 1905 ou account of
grub stake of 800 provided by
The proapector signed the paper
I and said he would make it six months.
The CA hicr took him 70 am out.
fttcrs and next day the man left
for thc desert AN of which is the
story of The discovery of one of Inc
best tourmaline mines in southern
. California
There are scores OF grub stakers