Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-01-31

You nave been good loser III 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 win 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 stock of one raillion, the shares Of which
went for sixteen dollars each
Millions were taken from the mine within a
few years, It became one Of tbs 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 70 do with 1t, Those
who we're not making it spent their time deyisng
ways and means to talk the others out of Dor-
ton of their wealth. Gamblers were in full evi-
dence, and there were some big stakes; but it
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 ore. Even the
men who had millions hesitated to sink shaft
on 1t. The people we're in fever Of excitement
The Mexicans owned practically nothing In fact,
the "greasers" could not get Took in" Alto
gether 1t was very discouraging-to them.
Then It occurred to some bright genius to
capitalize the labor Of the Mexicans Gathering
a bunch Of them together, it was proposed that
they sink shaft on one Of the weIknown
claims, which was twelve hundred feet in length
For each foot you sink, we win give you a
one-foot 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, and the owners would have the shaft
1t looked like a cheap way to prospect
The Mexicans pow-powed and 1abbered at one
another for half a 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 bailed water that flowed In so fast
that ii 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 one-quarter. Nearly
one hundred million dollars came out Of the hole
they sank! 1t was gamble pure and simple
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In the Occur dAlene 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 II
out OF the ground 1t was so 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 wonderful system
II simply cant lose" he told his friends.
His plan was 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 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 certain way, which would
involve. according to his system, betting the en-
tire amount on q single turn" He played the
queen to win, and the tickle creature played false
to him
Women are the cause Of all trouble, anyway
he muttered as he rose from the table. Z 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 was out"
It was the irony Of fate that, when the queen
Of hearts came out 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 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 motioned the proprietor few
mnnenfe LATER he wac nofd ~ II s-