Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-02-07

you have been a good loss-. I'll put in with
claim"
The prospector lost the claim
"Now will play you for your services tomor-
row to show me where the claim is and where to
open the ore For that will consider that you
have five thousand on the table,"
The prospector lost that.
The next day he traced out the lines of the
claim for the winner. who organized company.
with a stock OF one million, the shares of which
went for sixteen dollars each
Millions Were taken from the mine within
Few years. 1t became one of the most famous
In the entire Rocky Mountain country.
In the early days of the Comstock Lode in
virginia, Nevada, some men made money SO fast
that they did not know what to do with It. Those
who were not making 1t spent their time devising
ways and means to talk the others out of a por-
ton OF their wealth. Gamblers in full evil
dence. and there were some big stakes; but it
remained for q bunch of Mexicans to play for the
largest stake record in the United States
without the Of cards
One of tn many claims, located in the midst
of the district had not shown any ore. Even the
men who had millions hesitated to sink a SHAFT
on II. The people were IN a fever OF excitement
The Mexicans owned practically nothing. Insfact.
the greasers" could not get Took In" Alto
gether It was very discouraging-to them.
Then 1t occurred to some bright genius to
capitalize the labor of the Mexicans. Gathering
bunch of them together. 1t proposed that
they sink a shaft on OF the we1l-known
ciaims, winch was Twelve hundred Feet In length.
For each foot you sink, we will give you
onefoot surface interest In the claim" they were
told" provided you sink to ore"
In other words. If they abandoned the work at
any time before reaching ore. they would get
nothing andssthe would have the shaft.
1t looked like cheap way to prospect
The Mexicans pow-powed and jabbered at one
another for half night and then started to
work
Everybody laughed. They were comparatively
poor men. They could Ill afford the expense they
were undergoing. They drilled by hand fought
the hard granite, and gradually lowered that
shaft They bafled water that flowed in fast
that It threatened to drown them, but they stuck
to the work with desperation.
At three hundred feet they uncovered the rich
est portion of the world-famous silver deposit
and, from the vein they opened. more wealth was
taken out than from any other portion of that
richest single mile of ground in the world.
The Mexicans' share was onequarter. Nearly
one hundred million dollars out OF the hole
they sank! It was a gamble pure and simple.
They played for high stakes-and won
In the Occur d'Alene, of Idaho when that min
ing region was the center of the EARTH there were
some big games. The story Is told of one man
who conceived the idea that he could make
money In gambling faster than he could take it
out of the ground. 1t much easier with
what cash he had after selling his mine, he could
count up TO one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
He had evolved q wonderful system
Il simply can't lose" he told his friends
pihn was 10 play steadily Tor sixteen hours
daily. and, by complicated series of bets, to
retrieve when he lost
Everything went along swimingly for the first
few days. At times he much as twenty
five thousand to the good
Nine days after he started top lay he suddenly
found that he was just where he had started
he had one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
when the cards came a certain way which would
involve. according to his system, betting the en-
tire amount ON a single turn" He played the
queen to win. and the tickle creature played false
to him.
Women are the cause of all trouble anyway"
ne muttered. as he rose from the table 81 ought
to have known better than that, for that was the
queen of spades. and should not have made that
bet except when all the queens except the queen
of hearts out"
1t was the irony OF fate that when the queen
OF hearts came out of the box. 1t SO happened
that II won.
In the days when Cheyenne, Wyoming was the
Headquarters for the cattlemen OF the northwest
gambling ran wide open. When the COWBOYS
came TO town they made things hum Money
grew on trees. The gaming spirit was in the air
dealer standing behind roulette table one
night suddenly motoned the proprietor A few
moments later he paid off. It is customary
% pay gambler his salary at the end of each
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