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Bennington was treated to full an lode without th with

less, for the simple reason that its course lay over the round brow of

a hill bare of trees He also discovered the "Northeast Corner of the

Crazy Horse Lode" plainly ht in a pile of rocks Thence he confidently paced south,

and found nothing Next trip he ca the "Miner's Dreaainst the

"Golden Ball" and the "Golden Chain Lodes" Bennington reflected; his

a little heated

"It's because I went around those ledges and boulders," he said to

hiht line This tiht

line and keep it"

So he addressed hi of obstructions Work of

that sort is not easy At one point he lost his hold on a broad, steep

rock, and slid ungracefully to the foot of it, his elbows digging

frantically into the s straddled apart As he struck

bottoh So real was

the illusion that he gripped two handfuls ofThe laugh was repeated

He looked again, and so beca just