Three Feet From Gold.

                                       Now I am gonna tell you about the story of a Mr. Darby and his partner how got caught in the fever of gold. And tell you that nobody should stop by a temporary failure. One of the most common cause   of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by the temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

Mr. R.U. Darby was caught by the “gold fever” in the gold rush days, and went west to dig and grow rich. He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the thoughts of the men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel.

After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of shinning ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors of the “strike”. They got together money for the needed machinery, and had it shipped. Mr. Darby and his partner went back to work the mine.

The car of the ore was mined and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved that they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big killings in profits.

Down went the drills! Up went the hops of Darby! Then something happened. The vien of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of  gold was no longer there. They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again—all to no  Finally, they decided to quit.                                                                                                          They sold the machinery to the junk man for few dollars, and took the train back home. The junk man called into the minning engineer to look at the mine and do little calculation. The engineer advised that the project had failed because the owners was not familiar with “fault lines”. His calculations showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! That is exactly where it was found

The junk took the millions of dollars in the ore from the mine because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.