Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-11-23
SHUDDERED AT
FATE LIKE HICKS
PARTY IN DEPTHS on MIDWAY
MINE DESIRED PIPE
LINE.

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
Manhattan, and A. 7. 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 here and left to it's
own devices. And they heard the
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.
\ 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-
ploration, they wanted to go up
again and they rang the bell for the
cage.
Nothing doing
They rang again with the same re-
suits and then began to boiler. Then
a faint hello was heard and looking
up faint light was deserted afar
off. 1t was held by man who was
coming down the ladders to tell the
party what had happened. He had
been already an hour on the way, for
the walking wasn't good. Then the
party learned that the cage was
broken, and then there was some.
thing doing. A climb of 800 feet ur
the ladders was ahead of them
Cheerful prospect, and they had beer
: invited to breakfast next morning
with Cal Brougher.
No chance.
I'VE don't have anything like this
at Ubehebe," said Jack Salsberry.
mo, no, no, no. said Billy Doug
lass.
Where can we get a drink" ask
ed Jack Humphrey.
Haven't you got telephone
Billy?" asked Alec Johnson 'I't
like to connect with the Bank sa
loon"
Well, | had good dinner, my
SELF" said Cal Brougher.
How about beds, Bill?" asked
Bob McClelland.
: Just then the suspense was lifted
by the announcement from the fore
i man of the mine that he could lif
e the party to the 500 level, and tina
!. they could get out through the Rec
: Plume shaft
The Red Plume shaft" groaneC
a Cal Brougher; that's ten miles"
+ Up they went to the 500, the en-
:, tire party being landed there in du,
time. Then they began to walk b!
2 the light of the candles. The moor
, was shining above, but it was no
shining for them. In the streets be
low there were electric lights, bu
they were a mockery for them The!
: were paying for some of those light
and not getting the benefits. Moth
ing unusual for the electric lights
There was gaiety going on some
: where, but they just walked along
and made a bluff at gaiety. Their,
+ was plenty OF eat and drink some
: where in the town, but for them
4 there was nothing but the rougl
: walls to guide them, and hope il
3 abundance that they might get out
: Do you remember that poor fel
$ low Hicks who was walled in in tn,
mine at Bakersfield" asked Sails
berry.
No, no, no, no, walled Bill,
Douglass.
They fitted up pipe. and lie
E things down to lin
!, oh, don't mention it." shiveret
1 Jack Williams.
. Fl wish they would let a pipe dow,
I. to us from the Tonopah Liquor com
pany," said Cliff McClelland.
Just then Cliffs brother Bob, VIII,
: is six feet, six or seven inches, hi
0 the roof with his head, and scrape,
8 off some of the high grade. Nobod,
: knew where he was going. They fol
I lowed along a serpentine course