Gunnison news-champion., 1919-02-21
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wonderful new disesgeries, ~ Z
may net be cut of phne y yepsint
some remarks of cid Mafk IWu{n sn
the subject Of ich gsa1 depssits,
which originally appeared forty cd
years ago in the Califoxnia paper he
was connected with.
II have just seen ysar dispateA
from San Francisco in Saturday
evenings Post" wrote Mari, s.about
gold IN solution IN Cslistoga Springs
and about the proprietor having ex-
t1cted 1000 ounces Of gold of the
utmost hneness from two barrels Of
water during the past fortnight, by
process known enly to himself.
| This will surprise many Of your
readers, but it does not surprise me,
for once swned these springs my
self. What does surprise me, how
ever. II the falling Of in fichness, Of
the water. In my time the yield
was dollar dipperful. ! am not
saying this TO injure tie property in
case . saae 10 contemplated. I am
saying t in the interest Of history.
It may BE- that the hotel proprietors .
process b IN inferior one. Yes, that
may be the fault. Mine was to take
my uncle Il had an extra one at that
time on account Of his parents dy-
ing and leaving him on my hands)
and NIL him up and let him stand
fifteen minutes, to give the water q
chance to settle. We'll, then / in
serted him in m exhaust receiver,
which had the effect of sucking gold
out thru his pores. I have taken more
than $l1 900 out of that old man in
less than day and half.
~ should have held on to those
springs, but for the badness of the
roads and the difficulty Of getting
the gold to market. consider that
the gold yielding water is in many
respects remarkable, yet no more re-
markable than the gold bearing air
Of Catgut canon up there toward the
auriferous range. This air, or this
wind, for it is kind of trade wind
which blows steadily down through
six hundred miles of the richest
quartz groupings during an hour and
o quarter every day, except Sundays,
Is heavily charged with exquisitely
fine impalpable gold.
Nothing precipitates and solidi-
fies this gold SO readily as contact
with human flesh heated by passion.
The time that William Abrahams was
disappointed in love he used to sit out
doors when the wind was blowing and
came in again and began to sigh and
J. would extract over q dollar and q
half out Of every sigh. He sighed
right along and the time that John
HARRISON and Aleck Norton quarrelcd
about Harbison's dog, they stood there
swearing ut each other, and they
knew how, and what they didn't know
about swearing they couldn't learn
from you and me, not by a good deal
and at the end Of every three or four
minutes they had to stop and declare
a dividend. II they didn't their jaws
would clog up SO they couldn't get
big, nine-syllable ones out at all and
when the wind was done blowing they
cleaned up just little over 81 600
apiece. knew these facts to be alb
solutely true, because I got them from
man whose mother knew person
ally;
buy the water privilege at Calistoga
now at any price, but several good
locations along the course Of the Cat
gut canon gold bearing trade winds
are for sale. They are going to be
stocked for the New York market.
They will sell, too; people will swarm
for them n thick as Hancock veter-
ans in the south.
MARK TWAIN"
Co.,