…go to Elephant Country – prospector’s axiom
(1983)
My bosses find a new Money Man, lease an old mine down the road and invite me along. I scramble up and down a dusty, sun-baked pit, mapping, sampling, learning at the site that launched a boom as the Civil War brewed. First assays come back promising. Targets abound.
Isolated by nobility
gold and silver boil in broken stone
settle among fools
Mike Meyers is a retired geologist who lives in western New York with his bride of forty-three years, two loony golden doodles and a poodle puppy.
