Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — Too Finely Drawn. [ARTICLE]

Too Finely Drawn.

The Hamilton (Nev.) Inland Umpire tells the following good story: “Mining claims sent to the East tor sale are usually Sjtnied with well written reports, forth In glowing colors the great of the property offered. Lately ,wc beard of a case where a well known tuning expert! and as well a collator of news, was engaged to report on a Treasure Mill juine. Which was to'be put on Ike Chicago market. Everything else being in readiness, ye “ local" put in his biggest lick* on bis report, and succeeded, doubtloss, in getting up the most voluminous and highly colored document that over descended from Pogonip. In due season the papers were dispatched to the agent "In the lake city, who, unfortunately, was a gentleman that had never seen the Pa-ciAc-ooa*) elephant Op examination of our local expert’s report, he weakened; saw in imagination immense mountains of the shining bullion going for a mere song, as it were, and after jpature deli aeration utterly refused to act. He wrote to the owners of the property here that to sacrifice it for Jhc nominal figures ■demanded would be a piece of •wanton recklessness, to which he did not desire to be a party, and for this reason dismissed negotiations, which otherwise wohld have culminated in the early sale of the property. In fact, he would like -tobitvT a tinner In the pie himself. and if the proprietors would only AcJdJSn' «nt|l next tfummenm- fall he wiJula come but hmT takri a look Mghe mine, with the view of purchasing iVat greatly btoriasefl rates.- ‘prtin) a moral’ln a single line, our local friend’A report‘struck’him, and in this manner an important eale was defeated."