The Kusko times., 1929-03-23

were in a reminiscent mood. Years before, they had left distant pros pect which had once held great promisa5f for them-a quartz vein in the White river country, which they referred to as. the Old Judith. claim They had, found it to be heavily min- erai.zed with some sort of gray metal lie crystalline sulphide mineral. The. vein had Ssen well explored and some development work. done, but the claim had been abandoned because it had yieldede8ew gold -colors in the pan.
 Larsn., as was usual, was doing most of. the talking. "Jack," he. said, sdo you know I can't help thinking we somehow missed a bet when we left theaOM Judith"
 Let's forget it, Larry. That claim is la deaeAone. Don't dig it up again" broke l,r. Jack with vigorous wave ofsthe ssen edged butcher knife, as he cut so,na, large juicy steaks from a auarter4p of caribou.
 Larry went on without paying any attention to his partners disapproval: "It was. the rottenest break we ever had, thezend of our. biggest hopes. Do you remember, Jack, when we, made our final sampling and as soon as we got into the fresh sulphides with our shaft, the ore stopped panning,?" He paused. X moment and then added: "I saNedz.out 8 tobacco can. full of the gray Scrystals. That can of sample came ont with us when we left the Old Judith..,'
 q remember our sampling and how. we gntf barely smell in the pan, but I've faocgotten about. any can of gray crystals" said Jack, with a steak on fork just ready to place in q pan of sizzlines suet.
 "W elk Jack, the other day found the rusty can and sample in the bot tom of. eur. old pack that the, grizzly tore sup and scattered around when he located our camp soon after we ar rivedA here. The crystals had been weataereds some and were darker in color. Out of curiosity 1 tied up the weathered sample and sent it to the assay. office, along with dollar bill, but you know how it is, we have been SO busy with our new compressor and our steel; sharpener that l never got around to the letter. The assay office ran it for gold and silver, and here's what hney reported. got the returns the last time I mushed in for the mail" With this Larry paused again and held up printed form which he took from g aspocket-worn envelope.
 Jack glanced over that way, but de- cided that caribou steak was more i'm portant for the time being. Hes did not again think of the report until the steak was done and they were. stow ing away large anauthfuls, of the same along with numerous sourdough bis cults and huge tins of coffee. Then he sass, it lying oH the table where Larry dad placed it, reached over and picking it up, began to read 1t, care- lessly at Gxst and then with interest ing interest. He paused suddenly, in the act of transferring an enormous steak to his plate; then he dropped the steak, fork and all, into the plat ter and jumped to- his feet. Twenty fe hundred dollars in gold and fifty one ounces of silver to the ton! don't believe it!' he yelled. This was pretty quick for. Jack, for he was generally quite deliberate in his move ments.
 The assay office must be right, put in Larry. quickly. "The' assayer Is a man of experience, and I don't see how anyone could salt the sample. sealed if' ii new canvas bag after