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A MINERS SOLILOQUY. i
Bow Uieenhorn Oot Its Name A lodel
Lore m.tter.
Golden Eagle Mine, Dec. 12, '97.
Editor Chronicle
v In my last letter to The Chronicle I
stated that why thia section was called
the Greenhorn' was unknown. I was
mistaken. In early days there was aii
old fellow came out to toe old camp of
Robinson ville, representing himself as a
miner. His experience in mining had
been acqnired in digging potatoes in
Missouri, xr pryinK a wagon from the
abysmal depths of mud on the Pike
con nty highways. He was given 'em
ployment and sent down a thirty. foot
shaft to pat in a blast. After considera
ble time be managed to get a three
cornered hole drilled into the rock and
the powder securely tamped therein.
He was slow of speech, and when every
thing was ready he song out to be
hauled up. He had been given a fifty-
foot coil of fuse, so that he could cut off
as much as was required. As the boys
at the windlass started to haul him out,
he drawled out "Haul me up slow eo I
can unwind the fuse." He was going to
use it all. This was only one of a
long series of like bright thoughts on his
part, and the nick-name of Greenhorn
was saddled onto him, and finally as he
worked all over the camp it came to be
applied to tbe district, and the mount
ain. There is something pathetic ic a de
serted mining camp, especially ' a de
serted placer camp. The old workings
look desolate and forbidding, and here
and there a forlorn, but determined bush
or bit of weeds finjja place for its rootlets
and grows solitary and listless. Oat of
the pay-streak at some convenient spot
is a little cemetery holding the remains
of the few lockless miners who got
caught beneath a falling bank, or suc
cumbed to an extended dose of bog
meat, bad bread and beans. The rough
cabins have rotted, the roofs become
sway-backed or fallen in, the paths
xlown to the spring near by are over
.grown, and the white boulders gleam
like they were indeed the skeleton of the
old camp, left to bleach nncared for and
i tinburied by those who washed from
- them their golden store. Snch a town
- is Robinsonville, though in the paBt
: year the searchers after quartz have put
. np a few new cabin?, and living beings
.now take the place of the long-time
- ghosts, if ghosts they were,' who stalked,
"iblue-shirted and be-whiskered, through
tfhe silent by-ways.
What a history was made when these
old camps were still alive with the hum
of the hydraulic, the click of pick and
the sturdy ring of the eledge hammer.
What romances have been woven by the
hardy delvers after gold. What motive
power of love has driven pick and shovel.
.What blue-eyed "sweetheart" in the
elates has moved the dauntless young
coiner to labor from daylight to dusk, to
face the inclement weather, and to feel
it not, warmed by the knowledge that
way back across the plains some loved
one waited the day of his return, pa
tient, hopeful, true. What dreams of
what was to be when Fortune smiled
and the gray gravel yielded up reluct
antly its stingy horde 'of - gold. What
dreams of a night; what idle fancies of
a day, conceived in the God given hope
that springs forever in the breast and
alas! in most case's, withers like . any
other blossom, whether of the field or
heart, from the cruel blasts of icy disap
pointment. ;
Recently nn old miner, who knew I
had a penchant for ecribbling, brought
me a letter he found sticking in the
chinking of one of the old Robinsonville
cabins. It bore neither date nor. signa
ture, but the writing was that of a girl,
and it was undoubtedly written to the
occupant of that cabin, who, ro the
etory goee, now ' rests under a big pine
tree a few rods distant therefrom. I
found myself wondering if that letter
was ever answered ; if its author ever
knew what became of her "dear boy,"
and whether she yet waits patiently for
some word from him whose lips grew
dumb and fingers moveless at Robinson
ville thirty years ago. ' It is not likely
I may be dreaming, a miner's dream,
bat if so it is a modern one. I fancy,
somehow, that some other' fellow, who
stayed back East and looked after tbe
pigs and chickens on the old farm, ia the
grandfather of her grandchildren, and
THE DALLES,
that they, poor little dear?, do not now,
and never will, realize how Hear they
came to being litle Greenhorners. It
was,' perhaps, best for all concerned, for
he at least died with a sublime faith in
his best girl .and the knowledge, or be
lief at least, that he was going. to mike
it rich in a few days and go brunt- i old
Missouri, corn bread and hom ny, pos
sum and sweet potatoes, and his best
gill. , '
.
I was going to give you that letter in
full, but I - fear your space will not per
mit now that I have rambled through
nearly a column to say nothing. As 1
have saiJ, it bore neither date nor signa
ture, but began : '.
" v At Home, Monday.
My Own Dear Boy :
Of what crime do I stand accused that
you pnnish m with the cruel penalty, of
silence? What pin of commission or
omission do you lay at my door that my
eyes are no longer permitted to follow
the bright lines of your versatile pen?
It is eighteen months einee, down by the
old iate, where the big red rose bueli
alone could know, you held me to your
heart and let me sob out my grief at
parting. I told you then, my own boy,
that there were treasures richer than
gold, and that I preferred you and pov
erty to all the wealth Of Ophir. You
drew pretty picture of what the future
was to bring, and kissed away my tears.
For five long months I . have not heard
Irom you. . I have stretched forth iuy
hands, but they return unto me empty.
Has your love grown cold, as I am told
man's love does, chilled by time and
distance? Or has inordinate greed
gained so firm a hold upon your min 1
that the tender lover, my own dear Ikjv,
has become a miser, whoseonly thought
la gold ! gold ! gold 1 God forbid ! Oh,
my boy, when your blessed love stole
into my soul it wrapped ItB roots around
my. heart and filled my life with the
fragrance ot its divine blossoms. My
heart was a dove cote, where' every hour
some white-winged messenger of peace
fluttered in to find abiding place. Be
fore you came I had not lived, because I
had not loved. Why then destroy the
creature 'you have made? Take from
me your love, and I will' no longer live.
This poor body may exist, but existence
is not life. Oh ! my own dear boy; aban
don your dreams of wealth. Throw
down the goiden castles that encumber
your mind. .. Come back to me, and here,
poor though we may be, we will at least
be together. The . roses still bloom at
the gate to give you welcome, and she
who pens these lines loves you ; lores
yon. If your feelings have changed tow
ards me, my own sweetheat, tcil me so.
That blow., were death ; but preferable,
aye! , blessed in its suddenness, to the
lingering starvation of heart and soul
and mind that your silence inflicts.
Torture me no longer with the thumb
screws of silence or tbe rack of neglect.
But this subject is getting pathetic,
and I find my eyes growing nioisl and
my throat dry. There is whole lots
more of that letter, but I don't desire to
give every. girl in Tbe Dalles the dog
gastcd sentimentalities, because if I did
I should indeed be A Greenhorn.'
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Bread, Pies and Cakes. Also
all kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries. '
GEORGE RUCH, Pioneer Grocer
REMEMBER
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Maple Wood
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Phone 25. J- T. Peters & Co.
UascoU
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