A LUCKY FIND

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1935, Page 4

A LUCKY FIND

GOLDMINE IN CELLAR. Because Mrs M. W. Kessey. of Cripple Creek, Colorado, demanded a larger basement for storage purposes she and her husband to-day have a goldmine.

Kessey, who is deputy county treasurer of this famous old mining camp, runs a theatre on the side, so he didn't have much time to dig a basement. Cripple Creek is built on solid rock, and it takes a lot of chiselling and sledge swinging to excavate for cellars, so when Mrs Kessel became insistent, her husband decided to use a little dynamite.

There are about .1500 hard-rock miners in Cripply who know all about dynamite—and they give advice freely. So. from these men who were drawn back to Cripple Creek during th? past year with the revival of mining brought on by Roosevelt’s boost in the price of gold, Kessey was told to use two and one-half sticks of dynamite.

Not wanting to break a stick. Kessel used three sticks —with great success. as far as loosening the rock was concerned, but not so good in other respects. The concussion shook the house, rattled the windows—and then tlm kitchen cabinet with all the family dishes, landed face down on the fluor. When the smoke ami dust had clear-

cd awav all of the neighbours arrived—and some of them are miners. Thev examined the rock that had been loosened and said it contained gold. Assays showed it to run about £4 to •the ton in gold, which is about twice as much as the average for Cripple Creek.