The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-12-30
The Santa Ysobel
Mine
BY ANDREW c. EWING
Copyright. 1910, by American Press
Association.

determined to so to the southwest ana
grow up with the country. But Burge
soon found that while lie country was
growing he was standiag still. He
tried clerking for awhile; but though
he found 1t easier to obtain a position
there than In the east. the galnry was
not much better than that mid at
home, and he could not save any more
money. He concluded that If he
couldn't get a better living than I'm
New York he could at least get a more
independent one, SO he turned himself
into cowboy.
His employer, recognizing hls Superior
ity over the common run OF cowpuncli-
ers, made quite pet Of hin, TIL HI,
found that Adrian was mixing up L,
his daughter Gertrude, then turnei
against him. Adrian was discharged.
He did not complaia. Indeed. ha
thought his discharge the best thing
that could happen to him. What bust
ness had he to be In love? 1t was all
he could do to put bread and butter
into his own mouth without trying to
feed others.
Adrian said goodby to Gertrude Nc
Gregor-it nearly broke both their
hearts to part--and, mounting his horse,
rode away to find some other rancher
who would employ him, The country
hn yxas f,uS I'm. ,.t1
ish territory, whose original occupants
were Aztecs. they giving place TO Span
iards or mingllng OF Aztecs and Span
iards. The Spaniards had come to
America thirsting for the precious
metals and had opened up great
many gold and silver mines, some Of
which had paid largely, but all had
eventually been abandoned, and the
site Of many Of them had been lost
Adrian had heard Of one of these
mines, the Santa Ysobel, the tradi-
ton said had been worked success
fully till the early part Of the nine
teenth century, when the Indians In
the neighborhood determined to drive
out the whites and commenced a
course of pillage and murder. The
mouth Of the Santa Ysobel was closed
and concealed so that neither the In.
dams nor any one else except the own
ers could find it again. When the In
dian troubles were over, whether those
who had worked the Santa Ysobel
mine We're dead, Whether they had
failed to mark the entrance 50 that the
subsequent owners could find IT, cer-
tain 1t Is that for three-quarters Of a
century 1t had been lost
Adrian was riding along. dreaming
of some day securing the papers de-
scribing these lost mines and making
a search for some of them. He was
visionary fellow, much more attract
ed by will-o' the-wisp schemes than
solid drudgery. Like Johnny Look-in
the Air in the nursery tales. he was
building castles when suddenly his
horse went down into hole Adrian
succeeding In extrieating himself and
by pulling hard on the bride rein in
duced his horse TO make an effort to
clear the hole 1t was successful. and
Adrian was about to mount and ride
on when he became interested to know
what kind of hole he had fallen into
1t looked TO him as II the earth over
subsurface cavity had fallen away
and thus formed the hole. But what
kind Of cavity? The idea of lost
mine occurred to him. The only mine
OF which he had ever seen descrip
ton was the Santa Ysobel, and he re-
membered that this description located
1t under an orchard Of ounce trees
There were n few old trees near by,
and upon examination they proved to
be ounce.
Adrian resolved TO Investigate the
hole.
Riding to ranch, he borrowed pick
and shovel and, returning to the hole,
dug deeper. 1t was not long before
he found himself, sure enough in the
tunnel OF mine. At one end Of the
tunnel was pile of silver ore. A
number Of tools lay about, and Adrian
saw at once from their make that
they were very old
One day wagon drawn by four
mules drove up to the McGregor ranch
and young man well dressed and
with a prosperous air alighted and
went to the house. Gertrude saw him
coming, and, although at first she
doubted her perceptive faculties. she
soon saw that the conner was Burgc.
She opened the door for him. They
stood looking for moment at each
'thcr. then flew into each others arms.
That evening Adrian made a formal
DUPLICATION for Gertrude's hand from
Ter father. He told him how he had
on or, rather, into. the
santa Ysobel silver mine; how he had
aiken a capitalist into his secret.
ought the property and upon investi-
alton had found that when Il was
losed up the owner had Just struck
ich vein of ore. Abrams partner had
urnislfed him with means to go east
nd organize the Santa Ysobel Mining
ompany. He had returned, and the
nine was now In good working order,
urning out tons OF silver
There being no longer reason to sep
rate the lovers. McGregor gave his
onsent, and the three celebrated the
etrothal by visit to the mine. Ger
rude looked down into the hole into