Show GOWN GOLDEN i PHANTOMS I 0 Fascinating ting Tales of t by Mm Walson wi Lost Mines o a xu e THE FRENCHMENS FRENCHMEN'S HIDDEN TREASURE l I-l j N Y SOUTHWESTERN so WI Colorado near the tha summit of ot Wolf Creek pass may b be seen a finel finely shaped hill known ns as Treasure mountain It guards a park where gold has been concealed and many thin have happened In Its shadow shallow To ht begin in at the known beginning he along about 1821 1527 a n hand band of ot trap trappers trapper pers per gold hunters and adventurers most of ot them Frenchmen left St St StLouis Louis and made lle their n way to this section They ranged about looking for a n place suit suited Ill I'll to their wants and finally settled down They sent to Taos for supplies and stayed on for several years ears Then late one summer they grew lonesome for Cor the pleasures or of St Louis and packed their accumulated accumulated gold for Cor a trip to that city I Just as time tile pack train left camp a aI band of extremely unfriendly Utes came by attacked the men and killed about half haU of them The rest entrenched hed themselves to fight and nt at the same time they managed to bury the gold and make some maps ps showing where It was hidden At last they managed manac to get away from the Utes when the they separated separated separated ed for Cor greater safety ty and nOlI agreed to meet at St St Louis Only two or of them ever er reached the lie rendezvous ous Some time later a 0 Frenchman appeared In a n small Mexican dean set set- settlement settlement set settlement In the thc region relon of or Treasure mountaIn lie He said that he lie was merel merely prospecting but he hall had some maps which those who caught o a glimpse of them said sale looked Queer Indeed Presently he left the regIon regIon-at region any rate he disappeared and never returned But ut the maps came to light In the possession of some Mex Mexicans Jeans cans not those however who knew the Frenchman What these men did with the maps Is hard to say Certainly they kept them well out of ot sight but the story leaked out and the general location became known A man named Asa Poor heard or of the strange map maps and the marked marled cache lie Ill recalled that there was wasn wasa wasa n a park where the trees bore just such blazes and nOlI he hc went back to tile the place to make certain The signs were Indeed there thre but I where they pointed Poor did not know In hopes hOles of ot getting some In- In information In Information formation on the general subject he then asked the Indian agent for information from the Utes the trIbesmen professed to b be ignorant fhe They had hall heard of or such a happen happen- happening happening ing InS they said but they Uley remembered I nothing noth lag I Poor and a party of or friends then tried to work out the puzzle them them- themselves themselves selves They followed the thc blazes one way and another They looked all about At last they discovered a mound of or but earth earth but on openIng It there was nothing to be bc found Then rhen a n visitor came Into the park who claimed that he had seen sten one or of the maps It lead hall directions writ written ten tau out he be said and one that he be remembered read like this Stand Standon on this mound mood at six o'clock on n a September morning where tails falls the shadow of or the head bead there dig Illg for time the burled buried treasure the men did as ns the visitor sug sug- suggested sug- sug suggested suggested but their hopes hopt's died when no gold resulted The next summer a man from Durango came cam with a divining rod It showed shoved no Indication of ot gold at atthe atthe the place where Poor Ioor and liLs friends had hall labored so long And so the search has lias gone on from time to time lime as ns confident seekers hunt for tor the Treasure mountaIn gold S a a a a a IN SACKS |