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M THK WEST SHORE.
ami when Ltis eyes rested upon this they of Johnson, who visited that great min.
mrfllnl to wonderful portions. He ing center, developed the fact that about
wml it and eagerly turned it over and a week after the date of the stranger's
over in his hand. It was a piece of rot- departure, a man entered that city with
ten quartz, as large as a walnut, and a pack mule, which he sold at auction in
thread of free gold were protruding the street. He then purchased a Wells,
from it on every side. He estimated its Fargo & Co. draft, on San Francisco,
value at fully one hundred dollars. He for 70,000.00, and took his departure in
ootied the paxr, and read, with deep- the stage. The gold paid for the draft
oned interest and astonishment, the fol- was coarse, and a portion of it was mixed
lowing letter: with quartz, showing conclusively the
T'i th' tiittmtii rurwui .. ijfiiiifiiiiiniti ( iti:fn character of the diggings from which it
.. lUfyiiir, m Mntm,; nwmiM, Chkkt- came. This, combined with the fact that
'x,.': .. . , , , . , no robbery was reported, and that no
V III miillilianre Willi Volir extremely klllil . . ... . . .. . -r, , .
.n4.nl.invii:,.iol,,i,u(WaUIl1;.v...Mli1le claim 111 th vicinity of Betsyville pro-
MMiiih in the ..t frw week t lut inr the duced any such specimens as that the
Utw 4 my iiay, lo I take my departure ami stranger had left as a witness to his deed
J.av. ,,thi.(ar..,.iiH.K,ap.. To yon, joint- 0f gift, was conclusive evidence, to the
Ijr in I wvernllv, I i.rewnt mv lede of (leeom- 1:i t . iu i il 1 j i
ll ,,rU.,hi,h ha, ma,!,, me ri.h, ami mlnds f 6 ledge of decom-
h ill make yon all anally ri.h, if yon liml p08ed luartz had an existence in reality,
ii. In uw hereof, iive hereunto atiixe.l an(l that patient search would surely re
do j.Tjmen of it content, ami mv name, on veal its locality.
o.,. ..... thiM ..ay ... s. ,,r, inW year of The most enthusiastic and persistent
' . ,., MMKK"AW,N- prospector was Wabash Joe, whore-
As , m he airly comprehended tained possession of the specimen nug-
li h Tr i , " 601 88 the Per(lui8ite of literary ge-
l ei 1 t! n 10 "covery, until, at last, hav-
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lH hi. interview with I '0llUHf,nre; hl8 tahsmamc specimen to procure the
itwMdi y "grub" upon which to live
, wap. while prosecuting v.,-- Bflnr .w
m O wu VUI
",D """"twin in the vicinity of tl.A ,1 i UBjr lulB ul
moli.hM hut, Moed to the t, , yearhas pa88ed that Bome one has not
.houuoftheener l5eUvZ- " an effort to discover the "hermit
dUlit Lch met t he,r let 8" b it is known by "old-timers,"
r,L o ir.A .1.. i , . . re 'et uJr the new nrW nf offoira nA
'lH cwll b, u,i ... , er 11,8 citementa of more recent
...II k.,,.5 Lw ":; "i6 o gold, find.
-.ill,b,miu,0t will r 10 relats it, and fewer still to
"-VreUt'eacdenoe.
Henry Laubesz.