SOLD IT.
He was' telling the story in the billiard room of a Denver hotel. Said he : .^*_*,LThere were three of us, you see,-and. ~ "Nevada was a cold climate for us. We were dead broken, half starved and clean - - discouraged, when along came a New Yorker» He wouldn't play cards, would n't be robbed, and we couldn't stick him with forged land patents or pre-emptions. One day we trailed out and dug a hole into a bill and salted it a bit, and rushed back °sand offered the New Yorker the discovery •"' for 3;000 dollars, cash down." ' "And he bit?" " Took right bold like a pair of pinches. Why he never stopped to beat us down. >' We got a cool tnousand apiece and make for 'Frisco." " Purty cool that was." ,"/T* 1 Welljl-dunno. rlf there wasanything ** cool in that transaction it was the way .that New, Yorker hunted up a .pard, set miners' to 1 work, bought machinery, and took over 75,000 dollar's out of 'ar hole r , .inside,of eight months ! Maybe we've got 1 over feeling fiat, but I guess not.*'
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4745, 22 March 1884, Page 4
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182SOLD IT. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4745, 22 March 1884, Page 4
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