A NEW MINING STORY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8200, 13 August 1895, Page 1

A NEW MINING STORY.

I Here J3 a good mining story from I California. A mine owner who had | failed to " strike ile " determined to I dispose of his shares and return home He accordingly'started for 'Frisco and ! arranged with his manager to wire a I few days subsequently to the effect "We have struck a good lode; we j have struck a 'good, lode !" Aceidently the wire was left about, ' with the result that news of the find was noised abroad, and at once the shares rau up a fine figure. Our friend bought at the start by way of a blind, and then quietly unloaded, retaining only anominal holding. On the following day a second wire arrived : "We have struck the finest lode in the country." On the strength of this, which wes also carelessly left about the share went up still higher, and the owner sold the remainder of his holding. That very day who should he meet m the street but the manager himself, and then as the saying goes, the fat was in the fire. They had struck a grand lode and the repetition of the words [in the original message was intended Ito warn the owner. He had made, I it is i-'ue, p. fair pile, but not a tithe |of what would have b:en the case had he been in a little less hurry and a little more honest. _ ■ ;