A Miner's Secret

Denver Bepublican. A nuuibor of old resident of Denver reincuiber a venerable Scotch mountainocr b_v the uauta of MeDonalj, who camo to tho city threeor four tiine.í during the war with a small donkey, earrying hia effects and sevcral buckskin bugs well Ulied with gold dust. Ou sueh occasions lio woukt Ueposil iu ayme oi the l:iukn not luss tlian froiti $I5,U00 to $18,CMO. McDonald was ft vcry ocul and talkativo oid iellow, but norer would reveal vrhere ho got his gold. Scvci-al men undertook to Ioüovy him secretly to leara wliore he vras goinf, but all cauie back without kuovriug auv more than wlieu tliey started, lor McDonald euch time contrived to tlirow thoni ofl the trail, and the mou reported that they invariably lost all traces of hiiu neur tlio Wliite JUiver, after lollowiiig liini tlirough tho Uto l'ass as lar aa the Middlo Park. Whenever McDonald carne to Denver Ixe would stop with a i'renclmian uanieü. uaptiste, ana tne two wcro grcat friends. Oue day the Scotchnian disappeared on one of his sudtlujj trips to tlie inoumains, which üe took so ïuuoli paiiis to keo secret, and it waa ïioücod thut BaptisUl liad goiiu too. Uut they liad iiot departid in coinpaiiy, and Jienoc it was surniisod that tliu Fvenckiuiiii had lollovred JtlcDouuld witli a view ot' upoii tlie inovcnioiitH ot' tho old man and ascertaiuili ti-om Wht sccrot mine ot' the mouuuiiiis ho drow his wcallli. - The tJouLchinan nuver relurned, and tliouyh eiht ycars have since passed uway none ot' his Denver iridias ever learnud what bucoine ol' him. Tliu recent uiarvelous reports irora North 1'arK, taken in conuoctlon witli tlie abovc laets, lorni Btrouger ground ior tlie belief liiat McDonald passed tlirouyh the Ute l'ass, througli tho Middie Park and into tlie ííurtli l'ark, and years ago discovered the rich deposits the existence ot' which is ouly uow begínuin to be suspected.