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THE SUNSET LEDGE. Its Story As Told By the Old California Miner. THEY DIDN’T HEED THE WARNING. •Fifteen Years After a Blast Released [a BOOk [ Pair of Grinning Skeletons On ten a Pile of Rocks. ( In Bntte county there is a quarts mine which has been abandoned for many years. Only the oldest residents of the vicinity remember the names of the locators, and scarcely a trace of the Shaft and buildings remains. The ledge was discovered away back in the early days, when quartz first attracted the notice of prospectors; when many worth less ledges were worked because the miners had not yet learned how to read the value of such ore by the minerals in it, its location, dip and contact with other formations. The Sunset ledge .was small, flinty and absolutely worthless, but the men who discovered it thought it worth development. They put down a shaft 100 feet in depth in wet and treacherous ground, and they used n<s timbers. Then they let a contract tc two men—a Cornish man and an Iris’ man—Wo construct a tunnel 100 feet in length from the bottom. Sometimes untimbered ground will stand apparently firm and safe for a time, and then, with no perceptible cause, suddenly get shaky and fall or close in. This was just what occurred •at the Sunset mine. The two men in the tunnel had almost finished their contract and were “squaring up the face” of the tunnel when one of the men employed on the surface was low ered rapidly, ran to them and told them to leave the mine instantly -because the shaft was closing in. Why the men refused, in the face of a certain horrible death, to heed the warning is a mystery. The messenger begged and threatened, but they were obdurate. They laughed at him, told him to sit down and smoke a pipe with them and said they would leave the tunnel only when they had “finished her up in shape. ” Perhaps they imag ined the man was playing a joke upon them or that it was a scheme to get them to leave the mine before their con tract was fulfilled. At any rate, they refused to leave the mine, and the man who warned them returned to the sur face only just in time to escape the fate of the men below. The shaft, with a roar, closed in, and they were entombed. I No effort was made to rescue the bur ied men. It was impossible to save them if they were not killed by the cave, and it was supposed that the tun nel had also collapsed. To sink a shaft 100 feet through treacherous ground would take a long time even in these days, when all the “modern appliances" for such work were at our disposal. I The mine was abandon _d. Fifteen years went by. The story of the mine and the buried men became an old one. Their names were forgotten. They were like men who go down to the sea in ships and perish in sight of their homes. Their friends know that somewhere in the sea their bones are bleaching, some where in a great sepulcher upon which they may look, but into which they can not see. . Fifteen years after the caving in of the mine some prospectors overran the locality. They were told the story of the Sunset ledge, and they went to its croppings and to 'the dump where the shaft had been and tested the ore they found there. Whether they found any gold is not known, but they found something which encouraged them. Per haps they were not well versed in quartz and believed that any ledge would pay if developed. They resolved to reopen the mine. It was their opin ■ion, they said, that the Sunset company had not put their shaft down in the tight place nor sunk it deep enough. They (the new company) would choose a better. spot, sink their shaft much deeper and tap the ledge on the pay shoot. I Old men who heard of it shook their heads and prophesied failure. They 'said no luck could come from disturb ing dead men’s bones, but the new com pany began and finished their shaft. Then they excavated a tunnel and rais ed an inclined shaft, hoping and ex pecting to strike the ledge where their judgment had led them to believe the pay shoot was. | One day, when they fired a blast, there was a rush of water down the in cline, and the miners were driven out. After much trouble and expense a lar ger pump was put in and the mine cleared, and the cause of the suddei flow was explained. The upraise of the new company had entered the old tun nel of the Sunset company about 20 feet from its face. And there on a heap of rock, leaning against the walls, were two grinning skeletons. The bones of the dead contractors who had sat there grinning at their fate and for 15 years patiently waiting to be found were re moved from the mine and given decent burial. The mine was again abandoned and will probably never be again open ed. —San Frcncisco Chronicle. EUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE. The best salve in the wo rid for cuts raises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever ®ores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by D. W. Curry, drug gist,-Rome, Ga. NOTICE. ’ I want every man and woman in the United States interested in the Opium and Whisky habits to have one of my books on these diseases. Address B. M. Wolley, Atlanta, Oa., Box 33, and ; one will be sent you free. d-w6-ly- Sunset From Shorter Hill. Vpon thy broad, commanding crest I watched the dying sunbeams quiver, Flung from the rare and radiant west On wood and fl M and winding river! Far floating through the fragrant dusk, There came the south wiud softly sighing, Sweet wildrt e scents and woodsy musk From bio-dsn-embroider, d vales low lying. I thought of all the varied dreams, . Vague, vanished, prospects b ight and golden; Born of these scenes on myriad themes Hallowed heart secrets sweet and olden 1 • How oft br ght eyes wh»re lay the dew Os God's own ber is»n upon th< m Have shone on that enchanted view With all the light that heaven had won them ! While soft the west wind stole along To breathe upon their shining tresses I And tauzht them many a mystic eong With purest, tendereet caresses 1 Old Shorter, may thine honored walls Long shelter innocent endra or; And may thy memory.haunted halls Kciio with their g’ad songs forever! Wbeu go d Georgians die they go t > Walker county. Tbat is a settled fact. Os all rhe bospi’able, clever and generous p-ople that G d ever made, the folks who inhabit the valleys of Walker stand • unsurpassed. I went up there the other day, and the train took advantage of the snowstorm, as usual, and got behind. When I got off, to snow you ho v ac commodating they are, Smith, the livery man, who also carries the mail, took it upon himself to pilot me up town, and would have roused up the whole place to make me welcome if I had have said sc. The latchstring always hangs out at the Foster house, and Foster throws an other log on the fire every time a fellow I comes in. It is just like him, and if i there if abetter man in Georgia than Ex- ■ Sheriff Foster it is Mrs. Fosse-. j I came very near taking up with those folks, I tell you, and when I listened to the sweet voices of their lovely daughters singing below it lightened my labors while I was trying to write a story for i Tribune readers in my ro< m ups-airs. I As .er warming myself well I counted “one, two and away we go,” and hopped into a big warm bed aid whispered to myself, like I used to when I was a bov, “Now, if the B a Man gets m->, bt’s we'erme to mi !” Walker county was once as big as a ' German principality, and even as it is, it is a lots better place to live in than Baden- , Baden, Wuss-and-Wuss or Weiner-Worst, or any of the rest of those places. Traversed by three ranges of moun tains, it is hard to c -me across, but in the valleys between those hills are some of the richest agricultural lands in the South. Take, for instance, the celebrati d Dougherty farm, McLemore’s cove a d others that I could mention.; why, starva tion stands aghast, in the presence of their plentitude. Then the mountains are full of valuable minerals of various kinds and rich veins of coal and even in dications of petroleum are found there. The Durham coal mines and the iron mines are now being operated, and over on Flintstone is the largest tannery in the world. As for LaFayette, it is located on a gentle eminence, surrounded by Pigeon I mountain and Taylor’s ridge., with pure air, delicious water and health that is unexcelled on the face of the earth. There are three handsome churches, | Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian; and Capt. J. M. Jackson, the efficient, principal, has a flourishing school of | from a hundred to a hundred and twenty five pupils. I have done told you about Captain Steele’s celebrated Union Cotton MiJs, I and I could mention many more things that wou'd make you want to go to Li- Fayette; but you wait till I go b >ck when •he springtime comes, Gentle Annie, and I’ll show you a sight to behold. They treated me mighty well up there; Sparks, of the big dry good* firm; S iaw, the grocer; Jackson, on the cornel; Fer guson, Thurman, Kuby, the enterpris-1 ing liveryman; Col. Glenn, Col. Copeland, \ Cols Lumpkin and Shattuck, the law- ' yers; Capt. Napier, the acjomolished I editor of the Messenger; Capt. Dicker sou, clerk of the cour-; Judge Foster,: the ordinary, and Brown, the attentive I colored barber, and all of them. The only thirg that worri* d me was the last night, when I had Brother Weaver snoring on one side, and Brother Harris snoring on the other, and I wished i hit I might have a Gatling guu for a pair of minutes. But the least said about that the bet ter, as Ya-dwide Kipling would remark, j i M. M. F. | 1 Ladies, if you want a pure, delica'e ' . s >ap for the complexion, druggist . will always recommend Johnson’s Medic inal Toilet S >ap. For sale by J. T. Crouch & Co. C. L. JAMISONI No. 24 Broad Street, i 1 HAS OPENED UP A CHOICE STOCK OF ‘ FRUITS, CONFECTIONERIES, — | ] NUTS, NIC NACS, AT HOLIDAY PRICES ] Housekeepers and people gen erally of Rome make yoir purchases here and avoid fancy prices. TOE HOSIE TtttEtfrfE, THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1895. ‘ This I S Picture > C and that” C For a long time Hr. J® Sa John Barbee, of 117 jgffi Main St., Durham, Or N. C. was a victim Vjft w to Dyspepsia He vi ; Jgy was advised to take %|t C Brown’s I 1 Iron fl ™ Bitters. u ft On July JO, 1804, he 'wrote a grateful letter in Lj wk which he said: Xn “‘I have used Brown’s Iron Bitters for two fcs jgV morths for Dyspepsia v? KF and it has cured me.” O iMk He does not mind W it’s being known— W perhaps his letter Vt may help YOU to a cure! This remedy fei has helped thous- X./- W andsduring the past WB 20 yrs. Will you try it? It does not constipate and it WON’T INJURE g THE TEETH. Brown Chem. Co. Balto. nd. J. B. LEWIS CO.'S Wear Resisters I For the Best Shoes for the leastmoney, buy J. B. LEWIS & CO.’S WEAR RESISTERS. For sale by all first-class dealers in Shoes. Don’t [forget E the trade mark, Lewis’ Wear Resisters,” and don’t buy any other. tu sun CHICAGO ? 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