Excerpt from The Lost Lode: And Stella's Discipline And so, for many years, the great and once famous mine was left deserted, water rose um checked in its dark tunnels, from whence the value of a kingdom's ransom had been drawn and no one was bold enough to attempt to touch it. Even after the long throes of revolution were over and something like peace descended upon the ex hausted land, men were too impoverished and too afraid of risking what yet remained to them, to think of the Espiritu Santo Mine. For in this case the Mexican proverb, Una mind quiere otra mind One mine wants another mine - to fur nish means to work it), was especially true. To drain the mine and to explore its deep workings for the lost lode of fabulous richness would re quire a large capital - a capital so large, in fact, that no single man was likely to furnish it, and the only hope for a renewed working was in the organization of a company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.