Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-06-16
CHAPTER XII.
Ny Mate.

Ny Mate.
,ou the day following the arrival
departure of the Japanese gun
[, ,hey attacked the little U-shaped
m that lay between two buttresses
tbe volcano and sloped sharply
m 10 the sea. Twenty-one men, a
and a woman, they went at the
pcIling Of it with sort Of obses-
n led, rather than driven, by Lund,
% worked among the rest of them
q Hercules.
The mems fancy estimate Of a mil
dollars began speedily to seem
|all as the work progressed, system
( lcally stripping the rocky floor of all
shinglr. foot by foot, and cubic
Id by cubic yard. cradling 1t In
ude rockers fiuming it, vaporizing
amagam of gold and mercury,
e. ID adding pound after pound of
min gold to the sacks in the schoOn-
b strong room.
They worked at first in alternating
bits Of fonr hours, by day and night,
der the sun, the moon, the stars and
4 flaming aurora. The crust was
hfted here and there where it had
bzeh into cnnglomerate, and explOd-
BY dynamite, carefully placed so as
to dislodge the masses Of ice that
erhung the schooner. Fires to
aw out the ground were unavailable
sheer lack Of fuel; there was no
< kftwoof between these forestless
ores What fuel could be spared
+ rs conserved for use under the hoil-
that melted Ice to provide water
h" cradles and fumes. and help
cook the meals that Tamada pre-
r'd ogt-otdrorS for the workers.
Buckets of coffee. stcwS. and thick
up> o' peas and lentilS. masses Of
ans win plenty Of fat pork, these
fre ''. ''l craycd after hours oi
b 4rl'" rrirHrur. Despite the
pa jH. -A'r.d profusely nj theiI
>h' 't"n.,. 1T over-garmrnts AS
ri ,..u and Shoveled or crow
pre- ""' the rich gravel.
il''.-. J.l ui it Iund was supreme
/ N''N.H- Superintendent. There was
81 lo. 0"rould not, did not, handl,
''f ''u any i'vn of them, ant
"Ngh Eul"y could see Shrinkage
r"'u'""->l"n, of his bulk, as da!
\ 'a' I" called upon it for heroi'
#N!.r. 'n never seemed to tire. "Go
H@i''. y' it," he would say in tn,
dpi' '" 'lme TO lose, an the odd
a,dN - u>, in "A way. Barring
I ll"k : - what we got to coun
" .'' "0 ''nn't want them thinkir
't'''. u 'o' weather don't break-aI
TTa0 "- right-as soon as we'v
4 lPdh"d u, we're stung. Though II
a>' way out Of this shore ice,
'o'N"' +" The worst. l saved Ou
Z lnr d!'@Ditr On purpose"
WIZ Lnnd handling all of tn
ci' ~ unit II was not long befOr
r. >h"'r'S began to scrape on in
pare r'"F That underlay the gravel &
ue "'sr ana work swiftly back I
le ''1 "e the U. The outdoor
'cn"h haa been established on top {
ne r".'H''ory between the schoont
NV '' beach, primitive arrang
'e"' o. bic pots slung from tripoC
'ef hr', smiled on a fat area tn;
a. ror1ly sheltered from the sea an
:" .e' ~ winds by outcrops ,
"es'her't lava.
a. raw. the men trooped from Il
t"o'h'' - he fed and warmed, al
''' lung themselves at the
aSH' lie more they got out Il
lure Ter" vas in 1t for them. b
's' .is lheir overlord, their bette
iiry knew it. only Demil
ofFr' with one hand the handle
sneerci
VI '' fifteenth day, with the wo
''''' man Aalf done, with more tn
"A Of actual gold in colors. tn
,S" - IRON -four dust to nuggets,
oh >'F'tg'rocm, the weather began
+a's"' II misted continually, a
,, tD1' rejoicing, prophesied the bres
"g up of the cold snap.
r n' the eighteenth day a regui
|.ta"K a"'K was blowing, melting I
A'Pe' outings Of the icy erags Q