| Show LOST CONFIDENCE MINE How the a Silver SUver SilverMine Mine in De Death th V Valley ey Ex Exchange Almost every etT day we of some lost mine and in each a certain J tain tam amount ot of romance appears to at attach attach tach to each tah and every one of them tiem The following ia an account of the Lost mine nil s ou other mat matters tera pertaining thereto There is the old Lost mire e in Death valley There are as many weird tales told of mine as of Uie the famous l Peg Leg in Arizona Amona It ItIs Is 15 worth while going a little into Ute the I history of it In 1 r about the time of the famous Mormon arone of the leaders of to toe had a adream adream dream wherein he was as told to te p go west westward est I Iward ward until he be came to a graven I Ion on the mountain side de above a spring There he should settle with his b brother Mormons and found a colony It was I further demonstrated to his i Von ton that the angels of t Lent guide him to his destination He start started ed saw the arrowhead In the San SaD Bel nardino mountains and rounded founded the town which today bears that name He allayed the Inquiries or of his conscience as 8 to thE difference between an arrow heat heart and a heart by Ute the statement t which an old Indian chief made to him bins that this had fonn been heen a heart hearl but that the Great Spirit In anger at some misdeed of his bin red children had changed it to a ap arrowhead Evident Iy the god W of Mormon and the Utu titular deity of the Digger India were wee not of the sam samp mind But be Utu It may maya mayI I a later party of Mormon die covered the Confidence mine It baa 1 the peculiar distinction of being the I Ionly only mine In the world e trance entrance I below sea a lev level It t Is eight I miles s from water wate r and fuel Is not ant For these lait two rea reasons ons the I mine has never been beeD pro tably worked I though the ore ni 8 riis welt weil up In t tie I hundreds of dollars per ton in ilver i with about 10 in gold Since iti Ita abea aban by the u used ed It not ro 0 much as a ithe but Dut N as fi a place for the manufacture ture tit of bullets hullet and a sort ort of retreat during the war men toned ned haS h s been held by a band bant of arid and nomad white at whose hands evy white man mag who has bee gone cone Into the valley after this mine during the l decade deede hali ha met a violent death Is more to tell concerning this spine save tt that there are thousands of acres Q nitre hills near by whiCh are Infinitely more valuable than aU the silver mines of the valley |
