Golden City's Boom

He had been lost for about f our hours, and was riding along the trail, hoping to meet somebody who could teil him the way, when he carne to a house, with a settler sitting on the fence in front, says the Detroit Free Press. Good day, " he said, puiling up along side. "Can you teil mehow far 1 it is to Golden City?" "You're right thar, stranger," was ; the boastful reply. This is Golden City." "Great Caesar, man," exclaimed the visitor, "this Golden City? Why.thia : isn't any town at all, and the advertisement said the population had more I than doubled in the last three months, and every man in torn had more than he could do. "That's right stranger. Three months ago there wa.sn't anybody here but me and my wife; now, there's me and her and the tripleta - you ought to aee those tripleta stranger - and l've got all I can do to provide for family j contingencies. The advertisement is the gospel truth, stranger. VV'oo't you git down and look over some of the lots? Shan't costyouadurn cent." Th o stranger invested 25 cents ia a íeed.