The Nome daily gold digger., 1907-02-22
GET RICH QUICK
 MINING co.

We have read, with much interest, the booklet put out by the Mine Ex- ploring Association. of 131 State street, Boston. Tn the opening sen tence we are taekn at once into the confidence of the association by be- ing told that it is organized for the purpose of locating and developing mine which has been for over twenty years one of the mysteries of the age" According to the book let, wherein our appetite is whetted with this smack of mysteriousness, a highly reprehensible individual, by name Steadman, had a wonderful go. mine secreted in some indefi- nite locality upon which he drew with unfailing regularity and joy to keep up his connection with .Le De- mon Rum.
 Time after time would this sadly misguided man disappear from the booze" centers to replete his treas ury and re establish his credit by drawing upon the golden hoards of his secret mine. Foolish and ener- getic enthusiasts would vainly at tempt to trail the anti-temperance disciple, but he was up to all their tricks and doubled upon his trai Ito such good purpose that his pursuers always returned loaded down with choice lemons. Then Dteadman would blithely blow into town later on and unload alrge chunks of the yellow metal and the town distil- leries would once again hum with business. Finally, in a frenzied at tempt to paint the town more thar usually vivid red, poor old atead- man passed over the Great Divide,
 l clutching the secret of his mine in one hand and bottle of double x in the other Surely this is moving tae, and we are constrain- ed to know more. Naturany, there was a great hullabaloo at the un toward taking off of MT. Steadman, but the profound sorrow of his townsmen was tempered by a fever. ish desire to find the fabulous secret mine. They prospected, cussed and tramped, all to no purpose. Stead man had hid the mine all right. And now comes the third chapter in this veracious chronicle.
 A hunter suddenly apears upon the scene and rambles unconnected- ly about in search of game. He is accompanied by guides and assist ants" and, from all accounts, we should judge he had perfected his hunting outfit so it could take care of anything from mastodonss to jack rabbits. There is lots of action here, ! for a snow storm gets busy and the hunter is sawed off from bunch of | helpers and takes refuge from the tempest under a ledge, from which he nonchanlantly breaks off large pieces of pure gold-at least, that is
 what a man wei acquainted with minerals tells him afterwards. Somehow or other the plot gets a bit
 tangled after this point, for this | hunter, notwithstanding the scien- | tlfic way in which he frames up for game, overlooks the trlfling detail
 of marking a sure trail back to the
 gold ledge, which, we are led to in'
 fer from the booklet, was Stead mans mine. One is almost moved | to tears at such carelessness. Still,
 it is somewhat comforting to know | that once more we have got that skiddoo mine in touch with Ine eag-
 CT world The veracious booklet tells us that the hllne Exploring As
 sociation has got the mine corrallei
 within a few miles of somewhere and the lassoing of the same is pret- 1 ty close at hand. We are also much impressed to know that the object of the association is not to open the mine and operate it," but simply to locate the mine, secure the title in a
 perfect manner and then open the property in such a way that a buyer will be able to judge what 1t Is he is asked to buy" Taking ' le bok-
 let's statement elsewhere tlat the ore in this wonderful mine should average S1,800 per ton, we venture the humble advice not, under any circumstances, to let go. When in the whole history of gold mining no gold ore has been found averaging much better than $50 per ton to the whole body of ore, $1,S00 rock is too good to rashly thrw away. When the mine is found we would ask the association to wire at our expense. Mining Topics.