The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-02
Uopyr3hi. l9H. by Frank A. Munsey.J
CHAPTER XIII.

"SdInei hao ueeA turning from cold
to wcrn; and they had been laborinc
feebly to clear away the great slide
OF loose rock that covered up the
ledge. the Eagle Tail mine had re-
manned mystery.
whether. like the old Eagle Tail of
frontier fable. 1t was so rich that only
the eagles head was needed to turn
the chunks into twenty dollar gold
pieces; or whether, like many other
frontier mines. 1t was nothing but
MOLE In the ground. was matter still
10 De settled. And Bud, Cor one, was
determined to settle 1t quickly.
Come on" he said, IS Phil hesi-
tated to open up the way to the lead;
we got a month, maybe less. to get to
the bottom of this: and then the hills
VIII be lousy with rebels. II they's
nothiDg here. we want to find out
about 1t quick and skip-nnd If we
strike It. by grab. they ain't enough
Fed daggers In. Sonora to pry me
loose from 1t. So show these hombres
where to work and we'll be up against
rock by the end OF the week"
The original Eagle Tail tunnel had
been driven into the side of a steep
NH; 30 steep, In TACT, that the loose
shale stretched In long shoots from
the baae Qf the frowning porphyry
oiKes that crowned the tops Of the
hills to the bottom Of the capyon. On
either side of the discovery gulch
snarp ridges. perforated. by the gopher
holes OF the Mexicans and the ancient
workings Of the Spaniards, ran di-
rectly up the hill to meet the contact.
But 1t was against the face OF the big
ridge Itself that Kruger had driven
his drift aud exploded his giant blast
of dynamite, and the whole slope had
been altered and coyered With q slide
of rock 80 '.
Against this slide, ia the days when
tEay were narkins time. iiud anu his
Rardner had directed their energies,
throwing the loose stones aside, build.
Ing up walls against the slip. and
Clearing the way to the solid ychist.
There. somewhere beneath the tumble
OF powder-rtven rock. lay the ledge
which. II they found II, would make
them rich: and now with single-jack
apd drill, they attacked the last huge
fragments. blasting them into pieces
and groyeling deeper until they could
strike the contact. where the achist
end porphyry met and the gold spray
had spewed up between.
1t wac slow work: slower than they
had thought, and the gang of Mexi.
cans that they had hired for muckers
were marvels of ineptitude. Left to
themselves. they accomplished moth
Ing, since each problem they encoun-
tered seemed to present to them scme
element of insuperable dtficulty, to
solve which they either went into cau.
Gus or waited for the bose. Mean
while they kept themselves awake by
smoking cigarettes and telling stories
about Ber9ardo Bravo.
To the Mexicans Of Sonora Bernardo
Bravo was the personifcation Of all
the malevolent Qunlities-he being q
bandit chief who had turned FIRST gen.
erRl and then rebel under dadero-
qhd the fact that he had at last been
driven out pf Cbihnahpa and therefore
oyer into spneFa, made his 4aaieye-
'lence all the more imminent.
Undoub J, somewhere over to the
east; whs ae Sierras towered like a
blue wall. Bernardo and his outlaw
followers were gathering for o raid,
and the raid wonld bring death to So
gpra.
He was bad man.. this Bernardo
Bravo. and II half OF the current sto-
yfes were tfne. he killed men when
ever they failed to give him money.
and was never too hurried to take a
fair daughter Of the country ND behind
him. provided che took hts fancy. ]
Yes. surely he wss q bad n,an-but
that did not clear away the rock.
For the first week Phil took charge
q. the gang. urging. directing and ca.
1olinS thenls and the work went mer.
rilt on. though rather, slowly. The
Mexicans liked to work ion non Feline.
he was so polite and spoke such good
Spaniah; but at the END of the week
It developed that Rud could get more
results out Of them. # ! n. /;
Every time Phil started to exp!ain
anything to one Mexican ali the OH.
ers stopped TO listen 10 him. and thas
took tinhs.iI But Buds favorite way e
directing b man vss by Rrunts and
signs and sbeA1ing his own back TO /
the task. }so, he refused to urdsr.
stand Spanish. AHA cut. OH all long
winled axplsgatiqHs! end sngeestions
by an iIlpat lent motion. s0 10 10 work.
which she,s trabaiadores obeyed WITH
shrusss saad sriass X IS ~. 80.
80 Don Felipe turned powder-man