| Show GOLD DIGGING PRIESTS the discovery of the gold mines near the san ban bernardino mission recalls the traditions the indians indiana tell of the priests and friars who brought civilization to california and who reared the cross in its fertile valleys and on smiling hill sides ere the stars and stripes had been borne across the mountains nearly eveia every mission has its legani of hidden gold and mines sealed by the hand of time for years the people about san bernardino searched dar ched with never failing ho hope for the treasure that tradition told aid of and last week the boilers toilers were rewarded ded and rich veins of gold quartz were found twenty miles east of the town a trail was discovered up a cany canyon every evidence was there of a mexican road up to which th padres and the peons geons had gone ta work the mines and down which they had come loaded with the gold that had embellished the al altars ta r F ft ala and enriched the general church or made wealthy the god felxi fearins priest it seems strange that the US trail escaped the notice of the searchers so long three ree qu of mile from its a origin a calay canyon branches off at right angles and na a few hundred yards further 0 on U t afi abi 1 first of the old mines is in view tunnel twenty feet into the open tain 9 proves ro ves that the padres did la not spend all their time at prayers T moss and great trees growing gro artl the ex excavations c a ah show ow th the 0 una 2 has elapsed since the original origin alpo worked the claims sors A tow f blows of the pick display displacing g the moss and fungi have reveal revealed 1 l d A rich ein of gold quartz that will make the second owners wealthy b some time ago the tunnel of t mine that had bad been worked by ts padres of the san LUB obiah bits mission was discovered the V veins extended through the sugar 1 si peak in the santa lucia range great oak barred the mouth of tunnel but did not de deter r the eg hunters from making their w inside they were rewarded finding rich ore conta containing inin aih jl in paying quantities when t secularization of the state began lh thai e 5 priests returned to spain car 1 1 with them gold worth a fab fabulous U 1 OW sum g A mexican woman w who 0 is in the household of a rich spa spanish a I 1 S b f a of san luis obispo tells the sto stoby xi a young padre who staggered un under the weight of the bul bullion 0 h he was carrying away he called hor her SS one day and had her make a einink aad for his coat in it were qui nuggets of the precious preciou B metal AJ different times during the work WI 3 1 quilting the ambitious padre tried on the coat to try whether he be co could j bear the weight then b he ea go forth and walked bravel bravely A the ship that was to bear V h him im toasa to home hame 1 l the traditions that were tol told of the gold about the mis missions siong of sap santo barbara san juan capistrano ago gabriel san diego and ban araw cisco have kept many men b busy for years and fiddes c cheats e not been sought for with eagerness than are those in e treas treasures ures everyone knows S story of the mine of the mission f san francisco it is loca located teI be 41 4 1 tween the house of correction asi the ocean elac exact t spot capo t UX 01 there was good reason for fo S 01 efforts the priests made to concil their wealth heedless of th the e ell of the church of rome borne regard for the laws lawf j of the moura the desperadoes who had driven from civilization by afee strong hand band of the law take from the missions wb what lift inmates had gathered by tou too sacrifice the mission of sap briel in los Ack angeles geles country the scone scene of many a bloody it was in the midst or of ama where might was right and w the strong did no work that make the same returns as f ta k M might ht be taken from the rich time scalf arid again was san gabriels Gabri ePs pillaged by the desperadoes but one night the ruffians were slaughtered in ambush and peace reigned until soother another band arose the mission was reputed the richest in the territory and the robbers determined to raid it irl twenty wenty of them left los angeles one night their designation the adobe houses the ruins of which still stid show near the mouth of the jn gan timoteo canon they arrived tike the night of the second day met r and defeated the indians and servants of the priests and looted axie the mission in the morning they started back on the road to los Alm angeles geles but they never reached thelt that settlement the indians who had bad been defeated the night before stirred up their companions and an ambush was made in in a narrow file one man escaped the y slaughter the plunder was rett covered and returned to the mission A short time later the padres beard of another expedition against them and they determined to con oka beal their treasures where they f would be safe until the troubles were all the valuables were loaded oil burros and accompanied by a of peons geons one of the mission officers started for a high mesa overhanging the santa anna river wre tine fie treasure was to be buried ahola ahole was dug in a locality known the cl greens green spot t andin and into it were aced the folgo gold and ad silver then the mooed elead e leader er told his men to lie down dow D d 1 rest as their walk had been and nd wearisome they slept and i tradition that tells story says thoy they awoke no more and only the af ficere knew the hiding place of the W apu epu h the attack was made on t the men who had the it staret of the treasure fell and there many who yet search for the metals f jt jet is quite likely the mines of the V will all be discovered and cwb them the treasure trove of gab babriel riel beside which may be IK A fiend the bones of the peons geons guard 11 idoga a the secret of which they we not considered worthy of ng as |
