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THE SUNSET LEDGE.
ITS’STOBY AS TOLD BY THE OLD CAL
IFORNIA MINER.
The Two Contractors Who Refused ta
Heed 8 Timely Warning—Fifteen Years
After a Blast Released a Pair of Grin
! ning Skeletous.
In Butte county there is a quartz
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 looation, dip and contact with
other formations. The Sunset ledge was
emall, 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 no
timbers. Then they let a contract to
two men—a Cornish man and an Irish
man—to 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
@& 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
tannel only when they had ‘‘finished
her upin 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.
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.
The mine was abandoned. 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
guartz and believed that any ledge
would pay if developed. They resolved
to reopen the mine. It was their opin
jon, they said, that the Sunset company
had not put their shaft down in the
right 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
ghoot.
Old men who heard of it shook their
heads and prophesied failure. They
said no luck counld come from disturb
ing dead men’s bones, but the new com
n2e ¥ ..began and finished their shaft.
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TTU% thidy excavated a funnel 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 sudden
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 Francisco Chronicle.
EC. ENTRICITIES OF DICKENS.
His Dread of Railway Traveling—Strangs
Mirror Antics.
In some interesting ‘‘Recollections of
Charles Dickens,”’ in The Young Man,
his eldest daughter tells how, after the
railway accident which befell the novel
ist in 1865, he often suffered from a
feeling of intense dread whenever he
found himself in any kind of convey
anrce:
“One occasion,’’ she says, ‘‘lspecial
ly recall. While we were on our way
from London to our little country sta
tion Higham, where the carriagswas &
meet us, my father suddenly clutched
the arms of the railway carriage seat,
while his face grew ashy pale, and great
drops of perspiration stood upon his fore
head, and though he tried to master the
dread it was so strong that he had tc
leave the train at the next station. The
accident had left its impression upon the
memory, and it was destined never to be
effaced.”’
Miss Dickens, when an invalid, was
frequently carried into her father’s
study and lay quietly on the sofa watch
ing the novelist at work. On these oc
casions she was sometimes witness of a
curious proceeding in which the novel
ist indulged:
“‘Suddenly my father would jump
from his chair and rush to a mirror
which hung near, and in which I could
see the reflection of some extraordinary
facial contortions which he was making.
He returned rapidly to his desk, wrote
furiously for a few minutes, and then
went again to the mirror. The facial
pantomime was resumed, and then, turn
ing toward but evidently not seeing me,
he began talking rapidly in a low tone.
Ceasing this soon, however, he returned
once more to his desk, where he remain
ed silently writing until luncheon
time.’’
It was not till long afterward that
Miss Dickens discovered that, with his
natural intensity, her father had thrown
himself into the character that he was
creating, ‘‘and that for the time being
he had not only lost sight of his sur
roundings, but had actually become in
action, as in imagination, the personal
ity of his pen.”’
Too Smart For the Doctor.
The daughter of a well known jockey
was very ill, having caught a severe
cold. A doctor was sent for and was
buttonholed by the mother, who request
ed him to favor her by advising her
daughter not to wear low ankled shoes.
The daughter was sent for, and, after
her tongue had been given the usual out
of door exercise, the man of medicine
said:
~ ‘‘Ah, you are suffering from what we
'medical men call a low shae cold, and 1
‘must prohibit you from wearing such
‘ghoes in the future.”’ '
- The young lady started, and, taking
i off one of the offending shoes, exclaim
ed:
; ‘‘Since you are so clever, doctor, as to
look at my tongue and tell me what is
‘amiss with my feet, will you be kind
“enough to look at my feet and tell me
whether my fringe is properly adjust
ed?l)
He gave up prescribing for smart
girls,—London Tit-Bits.
Boring an Editor.
‘‘Are there no times,’’ said a man, en
tering the office of a busy editor, ‘‘when
you can write better than at other
times?’’
“Yes' ”
“Ah, I thought so! That men who
write must consult their condition I
have no doubt. Now, tell me, when can
you write best?”’ :
‘““When I am alone,”’ the editor re
plied. —London Tit-Bits.
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cents. and artichokes at 20 for 60 cents.
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' THEJAM TRADE.
P 3
Gladstone’s Wisdom In Advising the Farm
ers to Cultivate Fruit.
A few years ago, when Mr. Glad
stone, in one of his charming bucolic
orations at Hawarden, recommended the
British farmer to turn his attention to
fruit cultivation and the making of jam,
his advice was received with a good
deal of cheap and ignorant ridicule. As
usual, the ex-premier has proved a good
deal wiser than his critics, and those
who gave ear to his counsel in this in
stance have had no reason to regret their
confidence. In an interview a famous
provider says:
“The motive that induced me to take
up the jam trade was my knowledge of
the fact that within late years the de
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creasing, while that for butter has, no
doubt in consequence, shown a tendency
rather to decline than otherwise. Cater
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nity of knowing what the public wans
in the matter of provisions.
“Jam has a great future before it.
The people are using it more and more
largely every year, and, in my opinion,
they are doing wisely, for what could
be cheaper and at thesame time health
ier than a good jam made from sound
English fruit?
I attribute the superiority of Eng
lish fruit to the nature of the soil and
to the fact that the fruit ripens more
gradually in our climate than in coun
tries where there is more continuous and
powerful sunshine. The slower the rip
ening process the better is the flavor of
the fruit.
““You may not perhaps be aware that
strawberries grown in the northern parts
of Scotland are vastly superior in all re
spects to those grown in southern Eng
land, without doubt because they take
longer to mature. Australian jams are
being pushed largely in India and else
where and may very probably come
over here before long to compete with
our home produce.
“In Ireland there is a magnificent fu
ture for the fruit growing industry if
only its opportunities were turned to ac
count. Even now most of the blackber
ries that come to the English markets
are grown in Ireland. But there are
enormous possibilities thers of which no
one has yet taken advantage. Properly
worked, its fruit trade might yet do
much to insure Ireland’s commercial
prosperity. '’— Westminster Gazette.
Lincoin’'s Liverary Talent.
Lincoln’s judgment evinced that sort
of delicacy and scundness of taste that
would honor a great literary critic. He
had formed himself by the difficult and
powerful process of lonely meditation.
During his rough and humble life he
had had constantly with him two books
which the western settler always keeps
on one of the shelves of his hut—the
Bible and Shakespeare. From the Bible
he had absorbed that religious color in
which he was pleased to clothe his
thoughts. With Shakespeare he had
Jearned to reflect on man and passions.
In certain respects one can question
whether that sort of intellectual culture
be not more penetrating than any other
and if it be not more particularly suited
in the development of a gifted mind to
preserve its native originality.
These reflections may serve to explain
Mr. Lincoln’s talents as an orator. His
incisive speech found its way to the very
depths of the soul; his short and clear
gentences would captivate the audiences
on which they fell. To him was given
to see nearly all his definitions pass into
daily proverbs. It ishe who, better than
any one, stamped the charaoter of the
war in these well known words, spoken
some years before it broke out: ‘““A
house divided against itself cannot
stand. This government cannot continue
to exist half free and half slave.”’
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