Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-21
MOUNTAIN EPISODE
Another Case of Good Luck to
the Fellow With
Nerve"
BY ERNEST MeeAFFEY.

hS Win iheiioW BIZ" eno SCI uNS'
pines and bleak outlines OF the Colo
rado canyon. ROCKS, timber and lone
illness had been his portion tor two
years and he was beginning 10 ieei
restive. He had taken the chance OF
coming west as a rehef from the
drudge OF Office work In New forh'
and now, after TWO years win the
Midas Gold Mining company ne hau
begun to sigh for Broadway and the
"skyscrapers" again, the whlrl OF me
In the Streets the sight OF Laughing
faces and well-dressed men ana "o-
men, the dash and go OF the great
city Of his boyhood.
He wondered what Margaret Floyd
was thinking Of that bright Septem'
Der morning. He had been mere
clerk in the New York house, but his
irreproachable ancestry, founded on
the exploits of a thriving fur trader
and trapper, had given him entree
even into the charmed circle where
the Floyd's moved, and he had danced
and firted and sighed with many
damsel whose furthest thought was
beyond and above the idea OF taking
seriously any attentions OF BUD
Faraday, as his inttmates called him.
But as he was young, good-looklng,
something of a musician, and gifted
with an abundance of that quality
known as nerve, he made his way
wen Wherever ne Went Ambitious
enough TO Know that vegetatihg IN
downtown once was SLOW moue o.
prelerment' ne mad eagerly aceepteu
the opportunity OF striking out TOT
the mountains and roughing IT, WIN
the nigh thoughts OF youth TO pulld TOT
MIN the Alnasehar visions oil nope
lie had gone without a word 10
MISS tloyd' and without even note
TO tell her or mis- destination rae
would stand pat ne SAID 10 nlmseli'
and not bore anyone about MS new
venture sympathy he did not want
put only chance TO rise.
And this morning, with the magnifi-
piercing the clouds. with the rare air
OF that great elevation Milling mis-
lungs, he mad Tor moment rather
yearned Tor what was not TO De- Tot
the ola languid lie or the streets anu
drawing rooms. But the mood passeu
as quickly as 1t had come, and tara-
day stretched his athletic hgure and
fcf-treak
fast.
The Midas Mining company oper.
ated the gold field by means of water,
Hydraulic mining was the technical
term. Huge hose which sent out a
stream of water with terrific force
washed down the collaborating side
hills INTO sluices, where the gold sepa
rated from the earth and rocks by rea
son OF its specific gravity. and was
caught in rifles or partial obstruc
tions placed in the sluices. The power
of one of these engines of liquid NIGH
was simply tremendous. After tht
timber had been cut away and re
moved from a slope or hillside tht
great tubes would be turned on tt
the earth and rocks, and mountains
would melt away like snow before tn,
sun.
The "Giants" was the name tn,
miners had for the two most formida
BILE streams. These would sluice ava,
the hillsides like a woman cuttin
bread. and roar like the thunde
which beloved I'D and down the patl
of such a volume OF water. At 2
feet away 1t would cut a man in tw
like piece of cheese. At 100 fee
distance it would crush him into
Jelly. At 200 feet 1t would toss hiT
against the ground, bruised and III
conscious done to death most likely
and II escaping death. favored almos
as by a miracle. The entire outfit c
the Midas Gold Mining company ha
n NEST wholesome respect for tn
"Giants."
4 shout from orig Harry" sreete
Faraday as he emerged from the cabi
and started for the office.
'eWheD are the bosses coming?" We
his cry.
"What bosses?" oueried Faraday.
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