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Show SALTING A MINE. 31 him all the necessary instructions as to the process of panning, and looked on with palpitating anxiety. Mr. Greeley was an apt scholar, and put his dirt through like an adept in the art. It panned out big. All the bottom of the pan was covered with bright gold particles. They slapped him on, the shoulders in regular Western style, and told him to try it again-which he did-with the same success. Then, he gathered up his gold dust in a bag, and said: " Gentlemen, _ I have worked with my own hands and seen with my own eyes, and the news of your rich discovery shall go all over the world, as far as my paper can waft it." Mr. Greeley left, believing he had' made a thorough test. As soon as he reached New York he devoted a whole side of the Tribune to an ecstatic description of the camp, headed with large, glaring type, such as "bill-stickers" use. The report was read all over the country, and caused a great rush to the land of promise. Those who had the fever took a relapse, and they trad it bad. It was a raging epidemic, and spread faster than the cholera in Egypt. He shouted into the ears of the over-crowded East until the welkin rang, " Young man, go West!" It was his glowing articles and earnest advice about "going West" that caused the first great boom in Colorado. The honest old man went down to his grave ignorant of the joke that was played upon him. Count Murat, a barber, who, in honor of his royal blood, was dubbed " knight of the strop and razor," also figured conspicuously in the editorial correspondence of the Tribune. While in Denver Mr. Greeley sat under the |