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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday August ij. 1902:
ENTERTAINING
"HOT AIR" STORY
Gold Filing: Led to Finding
Rich Pay Streak.
took tile piini from lii mouth ami in tlie
mini w u liuv't' kII lining Huwiih
itbmit to hurl until ::ml uum Into the (lie,
ulicn I ftoiii him.
".Ill-t below us mi tin- liver ucie
enuiieil n half loeii voiiiil' fellow", who
knew li't itltout curfiuv iniiittitf thiili we,
ami who hiiil MUiittel for keeH at tlio
mouth of a 1 1 iv creek, eoiivlnveil, in
I then iiioranee, that a u'"ll mine wits
I r-nmewhfie lienesitll thelil. We, ill our
number of roirliiri were holding wImIihii, knew belter, but no amount of
up the Muuly nlile of a Siokane hotel ai):umeiit eoulil mow them, although
yentenlay uflernoon, talking over olil they liiul ilu u the shore for llftyyanln
tlnii'M. Tlio particular subject lor Uh- ! itlmut llinllii a solitary color. Ami
cusslon was to Just what extent the ele- ! i"'",' than that, they hail neverseeiiany
tit of luck enters iulo placer illinium, VM in it free state. .My brainy proi.
ami an old miner who hail hamlleil a sitiou was to plant that kIiI llllim.' near
pick ami shovel up in the Noithwest , the camp ami let theunlltf it up, risking
Territory told this stery: the chance, that the stuff miu'lit semi
"I'our years iiko I wits one of sexeral them i'Iimii ihift. The plan wa carrleil
tlioiisaml ileluileil mortals who attempt '"' ' the letter.
etl lo push open the hack iloor into K hue "None of our parly was at the camp
like. I was in Calvary at tlio time, when thn nuwet was. fouml in the IhiI
wnrkinu for the I'aiiailiaii 1'ncillc rail- t"m "if their pan, but of course we all
mail, ami when the rush over the I'M-1 inshetl ilown when they Imtiiii letting
11 Ion trull slarleil I caunht thu fever, "lit u series of yells that woulil put to
pulleil up slakes ami follow eil (he erowil ' shame u war party of Comanche. They
to Alhalmsca l.iiinliu)!, on the Athabasca Imcueil the iiumn-t, hiifucd each other
river, KMI mill miles acios the prairies , mul ImtSKcil the hole they were ili-hiK
uorlhfiom K1I111011I011. There I pauseil in tlicir freiiy of ilelitht. If they iliil
to sort of take ob-ervatlons anil inclilen-' not belhixe, way up to the hamlle, they
tally take in f" a ilay turning' out Hat ' wti made mllliimiihcs right then and
hull eil boats for uiilil hunters pilny there, I ilou't waul a cent. And really
down river lo the (i rent Slave lake, and ' f our crowd had the heart to -
thence to Hie headwaters of the .Mac ' deceive them. Ni after eaniet conurat-
keuie rier. , illations ami advice about staking! out
"II was al the lauiliut! I fell in with I their claim, we left them ami pushed on
Ihiee fellows who Hume In this yarn. J l river, chuckling at the cleverness of
Two were. voun men fr I'liuce Kil- our Joke, witli not a mile of pity for the
ward's island, husky, tireless ami full of j P 'or tenderfoots wo had run up against
ambit ion to (jet I hcie. or bust, but who j n old clay bank.
knew no more about unld miulni: than I . hree months later, richer in e.xtri
do hIniiiI the theory of least squares ; the
third was an limlishtuaii who hail
cure, but ooi-er In HK.'ket, we arrived
back in Kdmontoii, and the lirst tiling
worked in the mines al Kosslaud, and . ran iipiinst was (he story of the n
wlio knew noli! from copMr. We unreel imirkiiWu striko of six tenderfcet on tlio
to Kiol our prosHcts, ami after consliU I IVace, just Mow the l-'indley branch,
able deliberation to o up the Atlm- ( KverylMMly knew iilx.ut It. In foil n lays
basca, up the Lesser Slave lake, across ' tliy took out over 700 in coarse koM,
In I 'nee Itiver Landing ami proMMct
ali 11 if; the iipMT waters of the I'cace
rixcr. So the day we left the Atha
basca we launched two twenty-one foot
I'elerlsiro ciiiiih's, loadeil to thi'jjunwiilcs
with isrub ami camp and mininuucccssi
usln puns alone, then they built a rudu
sluice, workeil a month longer and
clcancil up an een f:Mi)0.
" Ml was the llnest tfoM I ever saw,'
said one of our Informants. 'Only one
coarse piece in the pile, a funny looking
ties, and faced a turbulent six mile an niHW't they found near the surface and
hour curient. which led to their llud, for they were
"Our trip up the Athabasca was uu- ( just Koin to pull up stakes ami move
eveutlul. I'or leu hours each day we
wcic, v.aist deep in ice cold water, ilr.iH
kIuk at the end of seventy-live foot roK's
the heavy canoes. Asa rule we made
campeaily al nilil, so we uilulil iset in
an hour or two punning, more for prac
tice than from any cxu'ctuiiou of a
011 when they hit that chunk. That
settled them, however, and they plumed
on and Dually struck a rattlim; pay
streak.'
"Whatexerwefour illicit have thought
or said amout! oiirseUes," concluded the
prosH'ctor, "oii can itauible that wo did
siiike. We never failed to liud colors, not tell iinylxhly In IMmonton aUiut the
allhoUKb not in ipiuntily to warrant our i practical Joke we played on those six
making 'inuiiicm camp. At the mouth 'tenderfcet." Sikesman-Kuvifw.
of Lesser Slave lake stieam we hired a
free halfbreed to ituitln us down the
lake, al the head of which other
breeds ami freetraders hauled ouroutlils
across to die Hudson II ly po-l, on the
banks nf the I'cace al I'cace Itiver Laud-
"Our journey up the I'cace wasa repe
tition of that up the Athabasca, only
stronger waters and occasional rapids
made plotless more dilllcull. Hut per
sistency dually won the day, ami after
three weeks of the hardest sort of woik
we passed throiitfh the lun:iii wiipirp's
and limited ill comparatively ohii though
swift water, within hailing distance of
the l-'iudley btaucli of the I'cace, ourob
jtvtlxe Miint. And rluht here is where
my story Is'uins.
"Dueof the I'. 1. I. men was an in
M'tcrulc clicwcr of spruce tiuiu, and, as
you all know, such iiuin riuht from the
tnvlmi mighty tenacious proMisitiou.
Well, one evening we were all seated
about the camptire when our uuiu chew
ing friend, wlioni we will call Hill, Ih
cause that Ih not Ids name, mm mured
soiuethiuK that smacked di-niccalily of
piofauity, and stcppini: up to the tire he
Use (iiaut Miwder, fuse and caps.
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