Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-30
SHUDDERED AT
FATE LIKE LICkS'

party which went down into the I
lower levels of the Midway mine on J
Thursday night. The party saw a I
great body of ore in the upper levels
where the high grade shimmered in !
the ceiling and walls like a sea of
FURNISHED copper, and then, some
thing happened.
In the party, besides Mr.. Douglass,
we're Cal Brougher, Jack Salsberry,
Foreman Shilling of the Belmont
mine, Roy King, Jack Williams, Cliff
ford and r. B. McClelland and
Charles and Frank Humphrey of
Manhattan, and A. t. johnson, gen.
eral manager of the Spider and
| Wasp of Wonder.
1t is not generally known, but
there is a body of ore on the 500, and
this is the body the development of
which promises to make of the Mid
way another Comstock. The 500 is
the bottom of the mine and the par
ty was dropped tieie and left to it's
own ucFtCSS. Anu lhSy HSdlu thN
cage going up and coming down
above them like the rise and fall of
the market, and then everything was
forgotten in the wonders of what
they beheld.
One of the miners stuck a car in
the cage, and forgot to lock it in.
Bing, bang! and it was all off with
the exploring party. The cage struck,
tore out several feet of guides. and
the party below went on exploring
just as if nothing had happened. 1t
didn't make any difference to them
! anyhow, since they knew nothing of
, what had occurred. But bye and
!, bye, having finished their trip of ex-
p~loration, they wanted to go up
again and they rang the bell for the
cage.
Nothing doing.
g They ram again with the same re-
suits and then began to boiler. Then
a faint hello was heard and looking
up a faint light was deserted afaT
a. -
- off. 1t was held by a man who was
:. coming down the ladders to tell the
party what had happened. He hat
been already an hour on the way, fol
the walking wasn't good. Then thu
! party learned that the cage wa
broken, and then there was some
thing doing. A climb of 800 feet VI
the ladders was ahead of them
!. Cheerful prospect, and they had beei
invited to breakfast next mornini
- with Cal Brougher.
No chance.
: I'VE don't have anything like thi
at Ubehebe," said Jack Salsberry.
NO, no. no, no." said Billy Doug
!. lass.
Where can we get a drink" ask
ed Jack Humphrey.
Haven't you got a telephone
= Billy" asked Alec Johnson. II
like to connect with the Bank So
loon"
We'll, l had a good dinner, n.y.
SELF said Cal Brougher.
" How about beds, Bill?' aske
- Bob McClelland,
Just then the suspense was LITE
- by the announcement from the for
man of the mine that he could Ii
W the party to the 500 level, and TIL
90 they could get out through the r,
9 Plume shaft.
The Red Plume shaft" groant
Cal Brougher; that's ten miles"
Up they went to the 500, the e
tire party being landed there in d
time. Then they began to walk
ms the light of the candles. The mo,
IA was shining above, but it was n
,ad shining for them. In the streets
md low there were electric lights, b
the they were a mockery for them. TIL
of were paying for some of those ligf
and not getting the benefits. Not
cen ing unusual for the electric ligh
ort There was gaiety going on SON
the where, but they Just walked alor
of and made a bluff at gaiety. The
was plenty OF eat and drink son
five where in the town, but for the
nth there was nothing but the rou
Las walls to guide them, and hope
the abundance that they might get o
yer Do you remember that poor t
and low Hicks who was walled in in t
ZEN mine at Bakersfield" asked Sa
of berry.
we'd mo, no, no. no walled 81
Fe Douglass,
ide- They fitted up a pipe, and
the things down to aim"
oh, don't mention it," shiver
red Jack Williams.
With Il wish they would let a pipe do
iull- to us from the Tonopah Liquor co
fore pany,' said Cliff McClelland.
Just then Cliffs brother Bob. "
I in is six feet, six or seven inches,
} by the roof with his head, and scral
res off some of the high grade. Nobo
re- knew where he was going. They