Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-28


reports which are happily true-of the
inexhaustible mineral wealth of the
surrounding region says he.
"'No-o-not exactly says L; but |
do want TO hear something about
mines. Mr.. Hotelman out there who's
gentleman of the old school If ever
there lived one) told me that you might
put me on 10 good thing
Precisely says he. Now, sir. my
name Is Jones-Agamemnon G.. Jones
and my pardner. Mr.. III. Smith, is on
business trip, selling shares of our
mine, which we have called THE
Treasury" from reasons which we car
make obvious to any investor The
shares. Mr.
'Saunders-R Red Saunders Chanta
Seechee Red
"'Mr. Saunders, are 80 cents apiece.
which price is really only put upon
them to avoid the offensive attitude of
dealing them out as charity As a
matter of fact, this mine of ours con-
tains store of gold which would up
set the commercial world were the
bare facts of its extent known. There
is neither sense nor amusement in
combining such enormous treasure In
the hands of two people. Consequent
~ my pardner and are presenting an
interest to the public, putting the nom
final figure of so cents a share upon it,
to save the feelings of our beneficial
ries'
"What the devil do / carer says l.
Tn looking for a chance to dig Could
you tell man where to go?
"'Oh,' says he, when you come to
that, that's different. Strictly speak
Ing, my pardner Hy hasn't gone off
on business trip. AS matter of
fact he left town night before last
with two-thirds Of the money we'd
pulled out Of pocket up on Silver
creek in the company Of two half
breed Injuns, Chinaman and four
more sons of guns not classified, all
In such a state Of beastly intoxication
that their purpose, route and destina-
ton are matters of the widest con-
here hating myself to death, thinking
perhaps / could sell some shares in a
mine that we'll find yet, If we have
good luck IL you want to go wild
eating over the hills and far away,
I'm your huckleberry.'
"'That hits me all right says l.
For what don't know about mining
nobody don't know. When do we
startT
"This or any other minute says he
getting up from the table.
await till / finish up these eggs,
says 1. And there's matter of one
drink coming to me outside. l may as
well put that where it won't harm
any one else before we start
"'All right says he, waving his
hand You'll find me outside, at your
pleasure, sir
al swallered the rest of my break
fast whole and hustled out to the bar,
where my friend and the hotel man
was waiting. Now I'll take that drink
that's coming. and rather than be
small about it I'll buy one for you,
too, and then we're off, says l.
"'You won't do no such thing says
the hotel man. It's a horse on me,
and I'll supply the liquor. Mr.. Jones
Is In the play as much as anybody
$50 the hotel man set 'em up and
that made one drink. Then Jones said
he'd never let n drink suffer from
lonesomeness yet when he had the
price, and that made two drinks. l
had to uphold the honor Of the ranch,
and that made three drinks. Hotel
man said 1t was up sticks now, and
he meant to pay his just debts like an
honest man, and that made four
drinks. Then Jones said-well, by this
time I see I needn't have hurried
breakfast 80 much. More people came
in. woke up the next morning in
the same old bedroom. Every break
fast Aggy and me got ready to pull
for the mines, and every morning I
woke up in the bedroom. should
like to draw a veil over the next two
weeks, but 1t would have to be a
pretty strong veil to hold 1t. tried
to keep level with Aggy. but he'd
spend three dollars to my one, and the
consequence Of that was that we went
broke within fifteen minutes of each
other.
'swell, sir we were a mournful pair
to draw to that day. We sat there
and cussed and said, Now, why didn't
we do this. that and t'other thing In
stead Of blowing our hard earned
doughr till bimeby we Just dripped
melancholy. you might say. How
somever, we weren't booked for a dull
time just yet. That afternoon there
was a great popping Of whips like an
Intun skirmish and into town comes
q bull train half mile long. Twelve
YOKE OF bulls to the team; lead, swing
ana tran wagons for each, ~ big AZ
hopses on wheels. You don't see the
IKE Of that In this country. Down
TIE street they come, the dust flying.
whips cracking and the lads hcllering:
Whoa haw. Mary-up there! Wherp!
Whoa hawy
~And thcse fellers had picked up
ny threats walking in the dust; also
they had months wages aching In
their pockets. We hadn't much more'n
got the thump of their arrival out OF
our ears when who comes roaring into
town but the Bengal Tiger gang, and
they had four months wages. The own: