Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-04

storm. and was so mystlfied that
the saloon became entirely deserted
before l had gumption enough to
realize that something was on. Co
ing out | went down to the store.
III was closed and dark. followed
my feet up to the postofiice. Nothing
doing; for 1t, too, was desolate and
deserted. and at the company head
quarters no one could be found but
the Chinese cook. Then IL dawned
upon me that a stampede was on,
and | made quick hike to the liv-
cry stable and corral, to find that
every hoof had been taken and that
the stable boy was on the last
mount. an old and foundered bell
mare that had not been used for
years. From him learned that
the new discovery was over in the
Soda Biscuit range, % miles from
our camp Being afoot, / could
not well follow, and so I rushed
down to my shack to get my bur-
70. He had hobbies on. and was
sound asleep | supposed fright
ened him with my rush and hurry.
for he baked like an auto with its
spark plug out when | Slipped the
hackamore on him, and would not
bulge an inch. | pulled him along
for a block or more, his protesting
feet making the ground look like
a ploughed field but | could not
get him to travel So, after an
hour or two of this hilarious enter
tainment gave up and went to
bed In the morning got up
and was as much alone as the man.
in good genteel society. who eats
with his knife; for the camp
was entirely deserted. After eat
ing breakfast | went out to where
had left my burro. He was still
there and greeted me with a merry
hee-haw, thinking he would get HIS
usual portion of barley for his morn
ing feed, for he had the gall of an
undertaken at a charity funeral. |
was in no mood to comply with his
desire, however and moped along
with my eyes on the ground brood
ling over the fact of my being left
in the stampede to the new camp.
AS | walked over the ground over
which | had hauled my obstinate
bnrro. noticed a piece OF broken
lquartz It was freshly broken, too.
and picking it up. was surprised
to find that it glittered with gold.
Getting my pick, | dug where ! had
found the quartz. and only two
inches under the surface | uncovered
two-foot body of ore that would
assay about $50 to the ton in the
yellow metal and, after a little
, work, l traced the vein for over
a thousand feet, and it was on va
cant ground, too; ground that for
years had been considered barren
and valueless By night | had a
group of three claims located and
\ staked; and by this time the first
of the stampeders began to trail in,
tired, weary and disguised, and
q swearing like mule-skinners From
them l learned that the new find
= was nothing more than small
, stringer that would not pan more
than IS to the ton. When | told
, them of my find, however, they went
: wild again, and made locations on
l extensions until the whole country
} bristled with stakes and monuments.
Within six months | had made a
. fortune out of my find, and from
that day to this, have always been
: backward in coming forward when
a new discovery is announced.
= Il want to tell you, Old Long
Ears" concluded the prospector, "if
YOU have a good thing at home you
0 had better stay with it; for there
J is no telling what you may find
! out in the great unknown; and
i there you are and then Some"