HISTORY OF THE AMADOR MINE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 176, 19 July 1872, Page 511

HISTORY OF THE AMADOR MINE.

A San Francisco letter says:-—Al-vinza Hayward is the hero of a story equal to " Monte Christo." He is a Yermonter, who operated with a man named Chamber] aine in a gold lead, which was full of indications, but yielded nothing tangible. Chamberlaine at last went away disconsolate, giving Hayward all his interest. The latter worked at the thing for months, and was buried deeper and deeper into the ground : but at last his family was next to starving, all his laborers left him, and he knew of no friend* in theworld except Chamberlaine. "My Grod!" he said to this man, who had meantime been engaged in stbek-rais-ing, "I am on the verge of a great strike. 1 know it. Can't you give me a little money ?" Qhamberlaine had been on the verge himself several times, and he shook his head sadly. But he had 3000 dollars—bis all —buried under a haystack near by, and he went and dug it up. "Take it, old fellow," he said, with Californian heartiness ; "do your best." With this money, Hayward recommenced, and he had worked until it was all spent, and his men were reduced to a bag of beans for nourishment, when to the gleam of hope, the precious ore blazed suddenly np r smdk the Amador mine was the richest in the world. When this mine was paying 40,000 dollars a month, Hayward made over to his friend one perfect third of it. Chamberlaine retire*! up? on 1,500,000 dollars, and moved east to educate his children, Haywardt buying back the whole. Finally," even, Hayward grew tired, and he sold out the mine to a stock company, of which. General Colton is president. The min£ will make 450,000 dollars nett thisyear, and Colton said Amador mine will hold out longer than> we will."