Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-01-31

you have been good loser; I'll put in with
you and play hundred thousand against your
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 Ave 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 stock of one million. the shares of which
went for sixteen. dollars each!
Millions were taken from the mine within
few years. It became OF this most famous
in the entire Rocky Mountain country.
In the early days of the Comstock Lode. in
Virginia Nevada, made money so fast
that they did not know what to do with 1t. Those
who were not making it spent their time deyising
ways and means to talk the others out OF a por-
ton of their wealth. Gamblers in full evi-
dence. and there big stakes; but IL
remained for bunch of Mexicans to play for the
largest stake on record in the United States
without the use OF cards.
One of the many claims located in the midst
OF the district, had not shown any Even the
who had millions hestated to sink shaft
on IT.. The people were in a fever of excitement
The Mexicans owned practically nothing. In fact
the "greasers could not get look in" Alto
gether it was very discouraging-to them.
Then it occurred to some bright genius to
capitalize the labor of the Mexicans. Gathering
bunch of them together 1t was proposed that
they sink shaft OF the well-known
claims. which twelve hundred feet in length.
For each foot you sink, viii give you
one-foot surface interest in the claim" they
told" provided you sink to ore"
In other words, If they abandoned the work at
any time before reaching ore. they would get
nothing. and the owners would have the shaft.
1t looked like cheap way to prospect
The Mexcans pow-powed and jabbered at
another for half night and then started to
work.
Everybody laughed. They we're comparatively
poor men. They could Ill afford the expense they
undergoing. They drilled by hand, fought
the hard granite. and gradually lowered that
shaft They bailed water that flowed In so fast
that 1t 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 wealth
taken out than from any other portion OF that
richest single mile Of ground in the world
The Mexicans share was one-Quarter Nearly
one hundred million dollars came out of the hole
they sank. 1t 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
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. IL was so mucn easier. with
what cash he had after selling his mine, he could
count up to hundred and fifty thousand
dollars
He had evolved wonderful system
Il simply can't lose," he told his friends.
His plan to play steadily for 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 was as much 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 certain way, which would
involve. according to his system, betting the
tire amount on a single turn. He played the
queen to win. and the tickle creature played false
TO him.
Women the cause OF all trouble, anyway"
he muttered as he rose from the table. II ought
TO have known better than that for that was the
queen Of spades, and should not have made that
bet except wheniall the queens except the queen
OF hearts was out"
It was the irony Of fate that when the queen
OF hearts came ont Of the box. it SO happened
that It won
In TIE days when Cheyenne wyoming. was the
headquarters for the cattlemen Of the northwest
gambling 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 motioned the proprietor A few
moments later he was paid Off It Is customary
to pay gambler his calary at the end Of each