The Junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up. His calculations showed that the vein would be found JUST THREE FEET FROM WHERE THE DARBYS HAD STOPPED DRILLING! That is exactly where it was found! The engineer advised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with fault lines. Some junk men are dumb, but not this one! He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. Then would come the big killing in profits.ĭown went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! Then something happened! The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer there! They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again-all to no avail.įinally, they decided to QUIT. The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. The first car of ore was mined, and shipped to a smelter. The uncle and Darby went back to work the mine.

They got together money for the needed machinery, had it shipped.

Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors of the strike. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.Īfter weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel.

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. Darby was caught by the gold fever in the gold-rush days, and went west to DIG AND GROW RICH. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

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