HOW FORTUNES ARE LOST AND WON.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 153, 11 June 1879, Page 3

HOW FORTUNES ARE LOST AND WON.

A Colorado mine operator and a ranchman discovered a large deposit of carbonate of- lead and zinc blend, near the South Arkansas river, about seventy miles south of Lead villa. A dispute arose between them, and the ranchman agreed to sell- out to hm partner for LG,500 dollars, it the whole amount of money was paid within eight months. The mine operator actually stinted himself and family the common necessaries of life to get the money, and paid 4,000 dollars out of the 6,500 dollars, but having a large number of unpatented mines to work out the annual assessment required by law, could not meet the last payment in time. He went tu St. Louis, and tried" for three months to raise the money by offering one-half the mine to any good business man that would join him and pay the 6,500 dollars that the entire share when fully paid would cost, hut failed to raise the money. On his return to Colorado, his ranchman partner coolly told him that his time was up, and that it Avould take just about 100,000 dollars to get his share in the mine. During the miner’s absence in St. Louis the ranchman had worked a few feet further into the mine, and uncovered as great a deposit of carbonates of lead with silver as has yet been discovered. These gentlemen now hold their property at the snug little sum of a half million of dollars.