OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, NOV. 6 1913
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TENTH AND MAIN STREETS
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HOW THEY TRIM THE SUCKERS
IN ARIZONA
AGENTS FOR STANDARD PATTERNS
WATCH OUR BUSINESS GROW
THE TRICKS OF THE GAME
Men Who Live by Wits Often Find
, Easy Pickings
r. Carter, the owner of The C. C. Store, who has been
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I c.o.n only think of one proposition
thiit may be bigger than the mining
gambling game, and I doubt if even
Wall Street is greater.
' In Arizona and New Mexico it is
simply a contagious fever, and it is
generally epidemic. Ihe big business
man and trie livery stable cnamoer
maid, both have it alike.
There i3 a wonderful fascination in
mining and mine hunting prospect
ing and I care not who the man is
or what his training or education may
have been, if he will listen, if, he will
allow himself, he will get the fever
and will have to fight hard to break
it up.
I have seen preachers, mining en
gineers, farmers, lawyers, men of al
most every pursuit, who have spent
years in the mining country, never
made a dollar, but who keep at it
year after year always firmly believ
ing that "next year" they will "strike
it."
"Hope springs eternal" when one
gets the gold fever.
But this letter iu to tell you a little
of the "inside" bunco deals that have
been and are being worked off in Ari
zona tile "blue sky" games that hard
pressed prospectors and the shrewd
bunco steerers frame up and often
get away with.
In every mining locality are plenty
of men who will take a chance on a
"prospect," men of means who have
caught the fever, and who "stake" a
prospector to a "grub outfit" and send
him out in the hills, under a contract
for a h,alf interest in any "find."
This grubstuke proposition is a
long chance, for it is simply a matter
of honor with the man who is staked,
but men in the mining game will take
the longest chances.
I dropped into Williams, Arizona,
for a few days, and looking for story
stuff I mixed, or tried to, with the min
ing and railroad men. After the rgc-
ond day there were obvious indication
that something was wrong with my
mixer, and alPI could get out of any
one was simply a civil word, when I
could get one to stand long enough to
' answer.
The next day the hotel porter tip
ped off to mcwhy the boys were giv
ing me the Bhivers. I was a Santa Fe
railroad spotter, and if there is ever
a job and a man held in contempt by
the sporting men and railroaders it is
the spotter. -
I got next to a newspaper man, who
put itto rightafter which the wind
blowed from the south again.
But the gold brick games:
The hotel one night was crowded.
A woman and two children came in.
There was no room for them. I wa
talking with a telegraph operator
over the tip of my being a spotter.
He asked if he might share my bed
and give his room to the lady.
And sitting up long past the mid
night hour he told me stories nf tlio
fake mining deals he had seen worked,
mm nuu neipea to steer. One of the
most successful, but now an old one
was this:
Some prospector, pretty well known,
would rig up for a three months' trip
in the hills, and the nii'hr.
ing he would make the rounds of the
saloons and sporting places and ad
vertise ne was ott lor the summer.
In a week he would
would give some weak excuse that he
was taken sick, horse went lame, etc.
He would sit around the saloons, re
fuse to drink, look wise, and refuse
to talk about his trip.
Then ho would send a telegram to
a "frame" partner in Colorado about
like this:
Bill;
Struck it thick. Cut everything
and come. Bring some kale. Alfal
fa for us. Answer.
Sum. '
And hero was where the operator
came in for his part of the game
and a rakeolT if it went through. lie
goes to one of the men already spotted
and gives him a copy of the message,
the understanding that if it
should work out he is to get $100 for
the Western Union leak.
The speculator falls for it. Ho hunts
up Sain. He proposes to grub stake
an ouuit ami both go out for a hunt.
Nothing doing. 110 tries to draw Sam
out, and finally gets him to take a
drink. Another follows, and Sam loos
ens a little and drops mysterious hints.
More booze and tongues wag, and
finally when tho "confidence" stage of
the jag tomes, Sam tells his friend
he has found a mine of great richness,
and ns soon as his partner conies with
a little coin he will file the claim and
open it.
The .speculator offers to advance a
little money. Nothing doing. He offers
to buy a half interest if the prospect
ooks good, hut Sam siniplv won't lis
ten, lie has found a prizt. ,uul Bill and
nu are going to keep it.
'"rn.rSrun along for a few days,
then a wire comes Hill h-is married
bought a ranch and has all the gold
mine he wants in Colorado.
This telegram is given to the spec
ulator. Sam has the blues for a day or two.
ivuiuKus to iirinu or talk
many letters in the rear
saloon.
TiVn tho speculator butts in nTym
l n wants to see the "strike" and if
It n'irs he will buy a half interest.
Now when Sam was on his wook
out in ha hills he went to an aban
doned prospect hole, took with him
a a tit As tF .J..li , i .i . ..
oiivn 'i i 11 ii uif umi 1)111 III Pi 1! urn
away from home and confined to his bed for some
months, is again able to attend to business, a
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Materially Increase the business of the Store 6m
" ing the nest TWO MONTHS
Realizing that these instructions inus be obeyed, we are going to offer EVERY
POSSIBLE JNDUGEMENT to Drygoods and Shoe Buyers from now until Christ
mas. We are going to offer many staple goods at
And many odd lots will be sold at a sacrifice
GREATLY'
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DryGoods
'Light and Dark Outing Flannels, yd . 5c
Heavy Weight Outing Flannel, yd..?. 8 l-3c
36-inch Outing Hannel yd. .". 10c
While and Cream Outings, short lengths, yd. 8 l-3c
3G-inch Percales, 5 to 20 yard lengths, yd. 8 l-3c
Best .Galitea Cloths, yd .'. 12 l-2c
Serpentine Crepe, G to 20 yard lengths, yd. 12 l-2c
Duckling Fleeces, 6'to 15 yard lengths, lie
10c Dress Ginghams, short lengths, yd 8 l-3c
12c Heavy Ginghams, short lengths 9c
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Large size cotton Blankets (f A fl
63c to $I.Z0
Australian Wool Nap Blankets, 4 QQ
gray, White and Tan, $223 values... ,uO
3 pound stitched cotton Batls ....TT. '. 85c
Ordinary size can Talcum Powder 3c
1 pound can Talcum Powdor : 10c
Assortment Cloth and Hair Brushes, choice . .... .. 5c
SI)0c Department
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In order to make room for
much larger stock of New Spring
Styles of Footwear we are going
to offer a lot of broken sizes and
odd lots of Mens, Women s and
Children s Shoes at A GREAT
SACRIFICE.
Broken Assortment of-Ladies Fine Shoes
Worth up to $1.50
Special Price
Broken Assortment of Ladies Fine
Shoes worth up to $-i.00
Special Sale Price
JL
lrokijn Assortment of Men's Shoes
.worth up to $4.0)
Special Sale Price $2.45 and
98c
$2.19
2,
Underwear
LadiesV Medium Weight Vents and Pants...,.,...'.'.. 25c
Ladies Heavy Fleeced Vests aud Pants 48c
Ladies' Union Suits worth 50c to 75c
Special for this Sale .t.;.. ::. ... 45c
Ladies' Medium and Heavy Union Suits .. 9flc
Children's Fleeced, Vests and Pants-
Sold according to eize. 18c to 35c
Children's Fleeced Union Suits.: 25c to 75c
Men's heavy Fleeced and Ribbed Shirts
and Drawers, gray or brown ; 45c
Men's Wool and Mixed Shirts and D.awers '
Sale Price....;.;.; 48c to $1.25
Boys' Heavy Fleeced Shirts and Drawers '
Sale Price.. 25c to 35c
Men's Work Shirts, sale price....! 33c
Men's Wool Mixed Socks, Sale Price .. 12 l-2c
Men's HATS worth $1.25 to $1.50 . fin
Special Sale Price. HBO
95 WHY PAY MORE THAW WE ASK?-
pities that iuo worked by tho men
who make more money selling worth
less mines thnn finding good ones,
livery week there is it new one, and
whon n fellow really does find a prize,
it is often very hard to get money to
develope it.
and writes
room of tho
At the little sition where tourists
leave tho train to go to the petrified
forest, I met and talked with a mine
owner who no doubt luis had the
stinnjrest luek in history of Arizona
mining.
1 have every reason to brliove the
story is absolutely true, for I had
heard it told Ionic before i saw tha
man who RieK or loruine smueu on
when he was down and out,
As a young lawyer he came into the
mining camp and tried every way to
get a start, practicing law, teaching
school giving boxing lessons and pros
pecting, and failing in all he tried the
'ioo:'.e and "hemp" games.
After a prolonged debauch, from
which he nearly died, the physician
told him he must get away from the
booze and sober up or ho would die,
lie related to me how he took a
i-;;.-ueu ine rymgs ot two or three gold Ion ' and rode with a freighter 20
""i",""" caiinuges, wnicii He shot nines hack into the mines. The third
day there his bottle was nearly empty,
:iml he was in a terribly nervous con
dition. lie said he walked over a mountain,
so the people he was staying with
wo'dd not catch on, and was going to
phone from the adjoining mine to
have some whiskey sent out by the
mail carrier.
Exhausted by his climb he sat down
to rest.
A ground squirrel came out and
played near him, and in sheer nervous
ness he threw a rock at tlte little an
imal. With the jerk of his arm a signet
ring on his finger flew off and when
flying through the air, he said he
caught the giltter in tho sunlight as
it fell into a cldmp of bushes in a
little gully. lie hunted for it in vain,
and after ordering'his booze gave it
up.
The next day he met the carrier at
the same point and got his goods. He
brought an ax with him to cut the
brush, as the ring was a present and
ho did not want to lose it.
"I searched for an hour, and cut
nearly all the brush in the ravine, but
could not find the ring, but by chance
I saw a brown, soft rock sticking out.
I broke it with the ax, and though not
a miner it looked like rich ore 1 had
seen. It was soft, like sandstone, and
almost a black-brown in color.
Columbus, O., a man well educated,
well bred and he had a diamond ring
en his finger as large as a pea.
He was entirely alone, and had un
der the tents a stock of general mer
chandise. He told me that through his
congressman and the Interior Depart
ment he had been granted a permit to
open an Indian trading store on the
reservation, but after he had pur
chased his stock, some complaint was
made, he did not know just wnat, and
the permit had been held up. H had
stored his goods under the tents and
was waiting. He had been there three
months and had no idea how much
longer he might have to stay before
he could build his store. And in the
meantime he could not even sell a
package of tobacco. The stock of
1 filled my hat with it, carried it to: goods had cost him $1,000 and the
the mine bunk house, pulverized it, 'store building, the lumber for which
panned it, and before the tond had ' he had ordered would cost SSOO more.
ooen halt worked out 1 saw the "color
into the hole and into the locks. This
method of "salting" has separated
nnny a man from his coin.
So finally Sam takes the
to the mino, and explains if the man
who abandoned tho hole had dug a
vprd further he woold have found tho
ledge and the wealth.
Sam will pnly sell one half the
mine, and not that if he had money to
doyelope it. And he sells a half, nuikes
the price high, and will put part of
it in toward a stamp mill.
Then the next train out.' .
This is but one of a dozen different
and knew I had "struck it.'
"Investigation showed a ledge and
contact. I nave already taken out sev
eral orange groves in southern Cali
fornia and I guess there aro plenty
more rancjies in the mine."
And how's that for a "luck story?"
He said he never found the ring, and
never wants to.
The lure of the wcirld old south
west draws all kinds of people, but
one of the most singular instances
I found up in the lonesome Navajo
country, (0 miles from a "railroad.
A tire blew out and while the
driver and his boy were repairing it I
walked on up to the head of the can-
f.w, niiil n litflo Ku..b 1... . J
v..., ...v, (. iivvis Lllilll U1C
1 fftaw three large new tents a
strange sight m that country-
hoon a youmr fellow walked out to
where I was sitting and we were
soon getting acquainted. He was from
And I wondered why a young man
1 with $2,000 at least, a man of educa
tion and refinement, would ever con
ceive the idea of burying himself in
this lonesomest spot in Arizona, and
live a life so foreign to his raising.
These trading stores are usually run
by grizzled old prospectors, trappers
or Indian fighters, men who are more
at home in such a location than in
the towns, but to see this young fel
low taking the chance seemed almost
pitiful.
No doubt there was a reason, but
he did not tell it. .There are many
bright men in the southwest who do
not tell why they are there that is
do not tell the truth.
Aniccidcnt in a coal mine just out
side of Gallup, N. M., a few weeks ago
smith shop took told with the two
doctors, set broken limbs, helped am
putate and wrote out prescriptions,
lie was at once recognized as medi
cal school graduate by the physicians,
but he would not answer any questions
or make any explanations. The next
day the mine manager offered him the
position as--mine physician, but he
declined.
There are many out of place men
and women in the southwest. Some of
their stories would be tranger than
fiction. But this class don't tell stories.
M. J. Brown
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Income Property Exchange for Farm
We -have the following property to
exchange for farm nronertv of eau.il
value:
4 good houses and more than 8 lots
of 50x100 each with 3 acres adjoining
that can be cut into lots. These houses
are all occupied and will bring a rental
of $35.00 per. month. They are well
situated, having a sightly outlook and
located on a car line close to a fine I
school. Their water supply is from a
large spring tnat is absolutely pure.
Come and look at our property. You
win rind it a snap.
Dillman & Howland.
Opposite Court House in Weinhard
tfidg. ...
Final settlement, of the estate of
Joseph Koenig, Deceased.
Notice i hereby given that the
undersigned administrator of the es
tate of Joseph Koenig, deceased, has
tiled in the county court.of Clackamas
county, atate or Uregon, his final ac
count as such administrator of said
estate and that Monday, the 1st day
of December, 1913 a the hour of 10
o'clock a. m., has been fixed by said
court as the time for hearing of ob
jections to said report and the setWe
ment thereof. -
F. F. JOHNSON,
Administrator of the estate of Joseph
ivoemg, deceased.
U'Ren & Schuebel, attorneys for ad
ministrStor. .
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