Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — Tenderfoot’s Investment. [ARTICLE]

Tenderfoot’s Investment.

Mr. Doah went to Leadville, and, after several days of back-breaking work, succeeded in heaping up a large pile of iron pyrites in front of the lode. Becoming convinced that it would continue bearing pyrites forever, he, with misgivings of conscience, sold it to a “tenderfoot” for a horse and saddle, which would at least take him out of the accursed country. “ Tenderfoot,” thinking that he had struck a bonanza, Continued to throw up iron pyrites. At last, deciding that he had enough to make an assay worth while, he took a sack of it on his back to the assayer. Then it was that he discovered what he had been buying. When the assayer told him that it returned at the rate of SI,BOO a ton, and the next load at SI,OOO, he sold it for SIO,OOO to a Denver capitalist. This proves, first, that all that glitters is not gold, and, second, th it the proof of the pudding-stone is in the heating.