THEY SOLD HIM A HOLE.
Ho was telling the story in the billiardroom of a Denver hotel. Said h«: " There were three of us, you see, and Nevada, waa n cold climate for us. We wore dead-broke, half-starved, and clear discouraged, when along , came a Now Yorker. Ho would'nt play cards, would'nt be robbed, and we could , nt stick him with forged land-patents or bogus pre-emptions. Ono day we trailed out and dug a hole into a hill and salted it a bit, and rushed back land offered the Now Yorker the big discovery for §3000 cash down." "And ho bit?" " Took right hold like a pair of pinchers. Why, ho never oven stopped to boat us down. Wo got a cool thousand apiece and mado for 'Frisco." "Purtycool! that was." " Well, I dunno. If there was anything cool in that transaction it was the way that New Yorker hunted up a pard, sot miners to work, bought machinery, and took over $750,000 out of that 'ar holo inside of eight months! Maybe we've got over feeling flat, but I guess not."
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 4
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182THEY SOLD HIM A HOLE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 4
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