Dead Man's Claim

Among the riuh mines of Leadville is one called Dead Man's Claim. It seems a certain popular miner had died, and his frionds, baving decided to give him a good send ofï, hired a man for $20 to i acst as sexon. It was in the midst of , winter, there was ten feet of snow on I the ground, and the grave had to go six feet below that. The gravedigger sallied forth into tfce snow, depositing the corpso for safe keeping in a drift, and' for three days nothing was heard froru him. A delegation sent to find the fellow disoovered him digging away with all his niigbt, but found also the intended grave converted into the entrance of a shaft. Strikiug the earth, it seems he bad found pay rook worth $60 a ton. The delegation at oncestaked out claims adjoining his, and the deceased was forgotten. Later in the season, the snow having melted, his body was found and given an ordinary burial in another part : of the