The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1916 Page: 5 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 22 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
VOLUME XXXIV, No. 45
SUPPLIMENT TO
fp Sexas iHesquttrr
MESQUITE, TEXAS
MAY 19, 1916
(Continued from page 1)
bring him to the assay office in Main
street, hurried back to the bank.
Bill reached the assay office almost
as soon as his employer. Seagrue di-
rected him to go get the car, and as
Bill left Seagrue's assay expert, an ld
chum of his in Oceanside. came out of
the Inner office.
To him Seagrue explained as hur-
riedly as possible what had happened.
"Will you go right out with me to the
mine?"
At the mine the foreman was still
examining the walls. He showed Sea-
grue the lost seaui. The latter exam-
ined the spot carefully and turned to
question the head driller. This man
pointed to the last spot at which they
harl got high grade quartz.
T e expert stooped and took up a
handful of rock from the ground. An-
swering Seagrue, In reply to a hopeful
question. he shook his head. "I doubt
▼ery much," said he, after the two had
canvassed the matter from all sides.
"If It is possible to recover the vein."
At the entrance to the shaft Sea
grue dismissed his own two men and
turned to the expert. They talked to-
gether a few moments. The mining
man saw what was in Seagrue's mind
and was not surprised a moment later
to hear him say, without further beat-
ing about the bush: "If I can get a bid-
der for the mine, I'll pay five thousand
dollars for a good report on It.
Each understood the other as they
left the scene together. And summon-
ing his men, BUI and Lug, and getting
into his motor car with the expert,
Seagrue drove .away toward I.as Ve-
gas. The machine was stopped a little
distance from Rhlnelander's camp and
Seagrue on a scratch pad wrote a
note to Amos Khlnelander. Giving
this to Lug, he directed him to deliver
it. He then told Bill to drive back to
town.
Helen, cut to pieces over the disclo-
sure of Spike's complicity in the death
of her father, returned with Rhine-
lander and Storm to the construction
f n t" r r> +• f} pv/
as ne couia, out this was very little, j
And it was almost a relief to him when |
Rhlnelander directed him to see about |
getting the men to work.
Rhinelander himself was watching
the progress of the construction a
little while later when Lug handed him
Seagrue's note.
Dear Rhlnelander:
Without a cut off we cannot operate
the Superstition mine profitably. This
would make a good Investment for
your company and I am giving you the
first chance to bid for It.
Yours, SEAGRUE.
Rhlnelander. somewhat puzzled, read
the note over two or three times. He
dismissed Lug with the verbal mes-
sage to Seagrue that he would look
Into it, and, calling Storm and Helen
Into conference, Rhlnelander road
them the note and Its contents were
put under discussion.
"Do you suppose," asked Rhlneland-
er, "that he means what he says?"
"It might be," ventured Helen, re-
flectively. "Certainly we know ho Is
about defeated In his construction
race. And if he's beaten on the rail
road proposition, why shouldn't he
want to get rid of his mining prop-
erty?"
"The Superstition mine," observed
Rhlnelander, "has always been a good
producer."
At the mine matters were being
pushed rapidly forward for the selling
campaign. Driving back with Bill and
Lug, Seagrue had summoned the fore-
man, bidden him dismiss the men and
dispatched his own two worthies to
the surface for bags of ore. In the
meantime he and his foreman began
to get the rock ready. Bill and Lug
returned presently from the bag pile,
each of them bearing a sack of ore.
Lug was sent for more, while the oth-
ers deposited the rich quartz in readi-
ness for Rhlnelander's examination.
At the assay office in Las Vegas,
Rhinelander, accompanied by Storm
and Helen, was looking for the expert.
Rhinelander held a brief conference
with him, telling htm what was want-
ed and asking whether he could ac-
company him on a trip to the Supersti-
tion mine. The expert raised some ob-
jection, professing otner worn on hand,
but was finally Induced to yield and
Storm was sent to procure a motor car
In which the party embarked on Its
return. The orders were to drive
straight to the Superstition mine.
Seagrue was almost ready for visi-
tors. After an hour's hard work wtth
his men, who had been distributing
the sacks and rolling the rich ore in
among the worthless rock, he directed
them to get ready for a blasting. The
foreman took a single charge and put
Bill and Lug to work on it.
Seagrue left the tunnel, the foreman
remaining under his orders to hurry
the Bliot. The moment Bill was ready,
Lug got the dynamite, set the fuse and
completed the preparations. Outside,
Seagrue, to his delight, saw Rhlne-
lander and his party driving up. Greet-
ings were exchanged, somewhat stiffly,
after the recent encounter of the par-
ties, but without dissension in the
presence of the expert, and all started
together for the tunnel.
With Rhlnelander asking questions
every few steps, the expert explained
as they walked down the tunnel, the
character of the formation and recited
something of the history of the mine,
with which he admitted he was famil-
iar it all sounded encouraging, liy the
time the group bad reached tho end it
the main tunnel Rill and Lug had dis-
appeared from sight. The t'oreuiau
called In a couple of men and wu<mi
Seagrue asked Rhinelander if he would
like to have it fired, and upon Rhine-
lander's assent, the party got Into safe
.y and the shot was discharged.
Coming out of their retreat, the dil
'erer.t members of the group picked
,ip specimens of the shattered ore and
examined it.
"Certainly, Helen," said Rhineland
nr In an undertone, "this looks good."
'1 he expert was at hand with a hand
fill of quartz, "That Btuff," he said,
■il,owing it to the prospective buvei
with an air of certainty, "will average
two hundred dollars to the ton."
Helen and Storm consulted together,
Seagrue watching In a moment lie
isked them and Rhlnelander to follow
riim outside. Leaving the shaft, he
look the three to the bag pile.
"These sacks," said ne to Rhine
lander, "contain high-grade ore, ready
for shipment to the smelter. They
ire to be included in whatever deal I
make with a buyer for the mine."
Rhinelander, Storm and Helen con
Clnued to discuss the purchase apart.
They counted tho number of bags.
Rhinelander made an effort to roughly
reckon the value of them, Seagrue
and the expert talking together tho
while some little distance away. A
further conference with Seagrue dis-
closed that the price he wanted for
the mine was one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. After the usual bar-
gaining, Rhinelander proposed to take
the property, including the ore ready
i for the wagons, at one hundred and
Men thousand dollars—twenty-live
i thousand dollars to be paid down
i Seagrue accepted, Rhinelander made
out his check and the transaction was
1 complete, Rhinelander only requesting
that the foreman keep the men at
work until ho should have a chance
to get started This was assented to
and Storm was placed temporarily in
charge of the mine.
While the negotiations had been tak-
ing shape, a freight train had pulled
In a few miles distant at Valley sta-
tion, where the crew set out an empty
!>ox car for loading. A teamster from
'.he mine was summoned by the agent
who handed him a note for the mine
i foreman. When the teamster reached
j tno mine, the new purchasers were
| taking possession. He handed the
i message to the foreman. The fore-
1 man read:
Have empty bo* car here for high-
grade ore. Send it down right away
and local will pick the car up this
1 P. M. LEN.
He turned to Rhlnelander, showing
him the message and pointing to the
sacks ready for shipment.
Rhlnelander was willing to ship the
ore ready for the wagons at once.
"All right," he said, nodding to tho
foreman. "Send what you have to tho
smelter right away."
Storm was given authority to put
this part of the Job through as quick-
ly us possible. While the details were
being talked over between Rhlneland-
er and ins assistant, neither of them
noticed that they were overheard by
Seagrue's tools, Bill and Lug, who now
decided that there might be a chance
to breuk into the mining business at
their own proper risk and for their
nwn private account. When Seagrue
called them from the discussion oi
their ambitious project, he gave or-
ders to Bill to drive back to Las Vegas
Reaching the station he took tho train
for the city.
With their boas out of tho way, his
two worthies thought tho moment op
portune for their own plans and tuk
lug the machine they started back for
the mine.
Wag:)iw—convoyed by two guards
carrying sawod-off shotguns—had been
loaded at the mine with tho vu ihlo
quartz ore. Thev had reached \ulley
and while the teumsters were loading
the sacks into tho box car the two
guards found a shady stmt under the
car doer.
The wagon had been under surveil-
lance for some time by tho Seagrue
crooks. Rill and Lug, who were secret-
ed a mile away In the bed of a wash.
The two waited patiently until the
wagon had been unloaded and started
hack to the mine. Then scouting tholr
way cautiously down the siding, the
thieves, creeping under the farther
side of the box car, surprised the
guards, disarmed and bound them.
Having done this without loss of time,
they went to work loading the last
of the quartz into the car.
Rut the guards, though taken un-
awares, proved no fools. One of them,
working quickly and quietly with his
bonds got his hands partly loose; In
the next moment he had freed tils feet.
Without betraying himself, he rolled
close to his companion a fat niun—
bade him turn to him back to back
and was releasing him when a shout
from Hill warned him iia had bet n
*een.
There was no tine fo- hesitation.
Springing to hlr feet the free rcitard
lashed down the road Hill opening
Ire on him as he tic!
(Continued on reverie *ide.)
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1916, newspaper, May 19, 1916; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400106/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.