The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-05-28
Modern Tales for the Little Tots

And do not corporations employ min
ins engineers 20 run after mines. and
run over them. and run through them
and then run them down. az course.
and particularly the latter.
Thirty thousand dollars, What's
thirty thousand dollars TO an honest
mani And the miner drew himself to-
gether with a spasm-for. after all is
said. the fact remains that thirty
thousand Is thirty thousand-and put
ting on that look OF good old Bill Hart
when he saw the snake as he stopped
10 pick up his bed roll-remember
how the RATHER quailed under the look
until he persisted Of the shivvers.-the
miner demanded his rightful hundred
thousand.
He did not get il on the Instant: but
probably realizing that he was foiled,
the duple. dupile disciple OF duplicity
tried diplomacy. cndeavoring to work
upon the rympathy OF the rugged miner.
who was now raegedly standing first
on one foot and then on the other and
suffering all the torments OF the dry
and thirsty one hundred thousand
dollars H. lot OF money he lied.
glibly. 'and II is more than | can ar
ford for mining ventures. / really can
not AFFORD the thirty thousand dollars
/ which / offer you and must get assist
ance from some friends" The miner
/ was as adamant. which is not an in
sect as YOU think, but poetical name
for something exceedingly hard. or a
trade name for poor. old cement of the
portland kind. and as firm as adamant
and quite as annoying as the insect. he
remained for two whole hours. when
! in Difference to the piker. who con-
WINGED him that he would not pay the
hundred thousand. he hedged to sew
enty five.
Thirty thousand seemed TO be the
upper limit of the polished hireling.
but the two-hour conversation had
heartened the honest miner and he
thought that If he remained firm the
| corporation would come to time with
anyway thirty-five thousand, which
was. he well knew, thirty thousand
more than the mine was worth.
What win | do" he cried. IF I
should sell my mine. the mine'll be
gomez The mine was gone and dog
goned gone. for II the truth Were
known the mine had slipped in the ter
tiary period and had never come back
since. and while the miner knew little
of geology he did at least know well
the bad effect. And mines like this
are scarce" continued the good miner;
when this is gone where will | find
another"
IF YOU got my mail" testify replied
the visitor. you would not think that
mines were scarce. l offer thirty
thousand"
I'm hold it, declared the miner
I'm hold IL till l get my rightful price
If ! have to wait until I'm eaten up by
ants. Why, this mine is and he
described 1t by metes and bounds, by
rocks and stills, by porphyry and dykes;
he described the smelter and the
roads, both rail and wagon. and the
tin, Der and the climate: described the
faults--which he called veins the lime
and outcrops: described everything but
ore. "Tn hold 1t . he wound up.
Hold it. then" thought the visiting
man of guile, who believed that the
miner believed himself: but aloud HI
said, Well If YOU should change YOU
mind please write to me-" The minei
did not weaken-they never do-ant
he held the mine for thirteen years ant
then was found one day before thu
ants had finished
The manufacturer of tacks. hos,
only merit was that he manufactured
tacks, in the meantime had lived un
happily near the tack factory. tack
pattern 1887. had turned out badly oil
the road and was not selling as h
thought it should, although the vari
ETY. was useful, though not so usefu
as the other six thousand shapes. Blu
one day the manufacturer recalled tn
words describing mines which he ha
heard when on western trip, and h
used these same words in adyertisin
this backward tack. In just one yea
he sold a million dollars worth o
tacks and most of them were patter
1887. After paying all his taxes h
u cleared ten thousand dollars. and whe
y not bewailing his misfortune becaus
he owned no mine he lived foreve
: afterward.