The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-02-10
WAYS THAT ARE DARK
TRICKS THAT ARE VAIN
HOW LEE DON AND OTHERS
MADE CLEANUP ON STRIKE
IN ALTA CONSOLIDATED.

Goodwin's Weekly of Salt Lake pub
fishes the following incident connected
/ with the recent important strike of ore
at the property of the Alta CONSOLIDATE
ed Mining company at Alta, Utah:
Il wish to remark,
! And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain
The heather Chinee is peculiar;
Which the same / would rise 10 ex-
plain"
When Bret Harte penned the above,
he had in mind, of course, his expert
ence with some of the celestials Of
early California, but the verse has
been applicable to most OF the race
Of the Americanized Cinnamon in the
western mining camps. To show how
cute they are and to what extent their
trickery is sometimes carried when
they take it into their heads to put one
over is exemplified in the following
plain tale of the hills, an actual oc-
currence, which happened here a week
ago.
On Thursday last at the Alta Con-
solidated boarding house in Alta, the
miners at the dinner hour came in
showing signs of suppressed excite
ment which finally got the better of
them, and they began to freely dis
cuss the strike made in the property
during the day. All the time the Chi
nese cook was shuffling about, bring
ing in food and taking out dishes in a
sleepy sort of way. but very much
awake, as was subsequently proved.
The Cook Got Busy.
With the meal over and work finish
ed, the cook quietly slipped out and
hunted up another representative of
the Flowery Kingdom, one Lee Don, in
whose noodle parlor everybody is
home, whether it is at quiet little
card game or turning trick of any
kind that might mean financial gain.
1t was not 80 minutes until Lee Don
was bundled up and on his way down
through the heavy snow of Little Cot
tonWood in the night In some mys-
terious way it was impossible to get
Alta on the telephone, and those who
tried to call Salt Lake could not hear
at this end of the line. In
the meantime Lee Don was trudging
on and after long, hard fight, reach
ed Sandy. 1t was but a short trip to
the city on the Midvale car and one
Chinaman after another was seen or
telephoned to.
Bought Cheap Stock and Unoaded.
No sooner had the brokerage offices
opened Friday morning than the
Cinnamon began giving their orders
for the stock, and when the call open
celestials watching the market They
gobbled all the cheap stock in sight
and then awaited developments. In
the meantime the mine management
was trying to get news from the prop
erty and a representative was hurried
up the canyon. Likewise he hurried
back with rich samples and news of
the strike which was rumored during
the entire day, and the stock steadily
advanced until Saturday morning
when the strike was confirmed and
every one began to buy at high price,
Lee Don and his encourage unloaded
and took the proceeds.
1t was one of the cutest coups ever
negotiated in the mining speculative
history of the state, and as a net re-
suit, there are a number Of Cinnamon
who will not worry if the cold weather
keeps up for six months.
Needless to say, Lee Don and his
friends of the Alta Consolidated are
ready to retire.