Show ANOTHER LOST MINE STORY C C higgins veteran prospector who has wandered over most of nevada in search of hidden bonanzas tells of f a mystery mine in southern esmeralda county that some old timers vowed did not exist it was in 1905 dur ing the he kawich boom that higgins scouting b there for W H dad dark clark was summoned hurriedly t to 0 goldfield by clark who told him that a prospector had discovered the e lost breyfogle mine clark had a short time option on the pro property r perty and asked higgins ins to go take a look at it and report pronto higgins started was delayed by a series of uncanny happenings and finally reached reache d the mine one day after the option had expired after wandering for several hours up a blind canon in search for a spring the ml mine ine he found was in the grapevine mountains which form the east boundary of death valley about 20 miles south of old camp and aej approximately h half alf way between old camp and bullfrog the workings were extensive and the ore had been extracted by working from a tunnel up to the surface a height of some 80 feet the queer thing 6 about the mine was that there was no dump indicating that all the ore mined had been milled but the closest search failed to disclose the ruins of old arast ras or mills of any kind and the only water in the vicinity was that from a small spring which yielded only enough for domestic purposes there were two small piles of ore on the ground higgins hi ta ins took a sample from one pile and the ore when assayed later in goldfield gave returns of per ton in gold hig higgins ba ins stopped at old camp on his return and camped for two days to rest his team and bathe his under clothes old john anderson who had bad spent years at old camp asked him where he had been higgins told him about the mine and anderson declared there was no such a property higgins insisted that he had bad seen it but anderson claimed to have prospected the entire country in the grapevine and said he knew the location of every spring in that locality the property was sold for two year ago while prospecting at Horn silver higgins ran across the frenchman a desert character of that country and asked him about the mine frenchy also denied knowledge of it and was sure there was no sich scicli animal nevada mining press |