Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-08-08

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"Hugs." p, said. "Tm feeling lucky
/ today or I'D mover bay. closed This
/ deal I'm letting Won in on one of the
/ biggest things that's ever been found
lu sonora. Just to SHOW YOU how good
/ u is. here's nav smrIt,r receipts for
/ eight hundred pounds of picked ore
One thousand ana Twenty-Five doIIarsl
/ That's Do. FIRST and last orc ,naf's ever
been shipped from the old Eagle Tail.
/ J. Dug it out myself. and sacked il
and shipped il. and then some of them
crooked Mexican officials tried 10 beat
"p aut of uy title ami blowod up the
Who'll" works with dynamite,
} "-. sir. clean as whistle, ! had
my powder stored away i'm the drift.
and the minute 7 found out l was
ruchrcd laid fuse To it ami brought
he Who'll" mountain down That was
ten years ago. and old AragOn and
I'll" alonte mineral have had the land
located ever since
Bot they've spent five thousand
20. os trying to find that lead. but be
ing nothing but a bunch of ignorant
IcAloaHs, of course they never found
nothing. Then Francisco Madero
lr.. al
off his job and old AraEon lets the land
revert for taxes. I've got Mexican
that Keeps me posted. and ever since
he sent me word that the title had
lapsCd I've been crazy to relocate that
claim.
does it, he asked. beaming paternally
Al Bua. There amt a man in town
that wouldn't have jumped at the
chance, if | was where | could talk
about it. but that's just what couldn't
do. had to lind some stranger that
ing about and then git him to 20 I'm on
il blind
Now here's the way I'm fixed.
boys" he exclaimed. brushing his un-
kempt beard and smiling craftily.
when | dynamited the Eagle Tail it
was mine by rights. but Cipriano Ara
gon-he's the big Mexican down at old
Fortuna-and Morales. the mineral
agent. had buncoed me out of the title.
so. according tn law. blowed m
their mine. and if | ever showed up
down there | reckon they'd throw me
into Jail. And if at any time they find
out that you're working for me. why.
were ditched-that's all, THEY'LL nut
YOU out of business. So. after we've
made our agreement and I've told YOU
what to do don't want TO hear a
word out of you-I don't want YOU to
come near me. nor even write me a
letter-iust 20 ahead the best YOU can
until Won win out or 90 broke
1T amt a hard proposition" he
continued "jf Won keen your mouth
sbut but If they tumble it'U he a fight
to a finish. I'm not saving this for
YOU. Hooker. because | know you're
safe. I'm saving & for vour nardner
hore you talk too much Mr. he Ian.
coy" he chided ewing him with sud
don savaritv pm afraid of vol"
"Au right broke in Hool,er good !
noturedIv 81 reckon We understand
Now % ahead and toll us whore This
mine is and who there is down there
to look ont for"
Tho man IN look ont for" an
svarad Erugar with venop, 10 Cinri.
oro Aragon He's tho man tbat biIl,od
mo out or the mina onca and hon Az |
# again If he can Whom wont down
was ten wears and moro ago 1
I wasn't IN 70 those Spauisb w,vs of |
his and he was So dog.gonad noIite |
and friendly I tboucbt could trust |!
him anywhere
..rIo ou.ns = b,o ro,or ooa ,,o,o., /
still. runs cattle. works 2 few nIacers
sends out pack-trains. and has every |
Mexican and Indian in the country in /
debt to him through his store. Soft he I
happens 10 want any rough work done /
there's always somebody TO do it.
We'll. just 10 show you how he did .
me, / got to nosiHg round those old /
Spanish workings east of Fortuna and |
finally | run across the ledge that I'm
telling YOU about, not far from an
abandoned shaft. But the Mexican
mining laws are different from ours.
and am American has lots OF trouble
ANYWAY so I made trade with old