Southern California . n** ;-??,. what perils ami privations will not be endured for gold It is the glitter of this talisman which has lured manyan unhappy prospector to hi^ death on this waterless wilderness. Today the road to the Rose Mine leadsaround Dead Mans point where, years ago, the bodyof a man was found who had perished of thirst withintwo miles of the Mojave River. The mining prospector is a product of this sterileland. His whole horizon is hounded by mineral. Thegolden sands are ever just beyond his grasp, and after alife of toil, privation and disappointment, he is still san-g
Southern California . n** ;-??,. what perils ami privations will not be endured for gold It is the glitter of this talisman which has lured manyan unhappy prospector to hi^ death on this waterless wilderness. Today the road to the Rose Mine leadsaround Dead Mans point where, years ago, the bodyof a man was found who had perished of thirst withintwo miles of the Mojave River. The mining prospector is a product of this sterileland. His whole horizon is hounded by mineral. Thegolden sands are ever just beyond his grasp, and after alife of toil, privation and disappointment, he is still san-guine and contented with his lot which is just on theverge of realizing the fondest dreams of his he was rocking the sands of the Sacramentoin the days of 49, and digging for silver in some darktunnel in Colorado twrenty years later. Many a timeduring the fifty years of his toil he has had a vein ofgold which was to make his fortune, until, alas, ittapered off into the thickness of a sheet of paper a few-feet below ; b
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