Show Salt Lake M Man an 80 Tired of Quiet Life Will R Return turn to Gold Prospecting For G. G L L. Bemis of Salt Lake City known to mining men throughout through out the west as Roy life lite begins at nt 80 BO Ive been loafing for the last three three years said Mr Bernis Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day morning morning- and It doesn't agree with me So he plans to quit loafing and nd go prospecting Rumma Rummaging a few days ago aeo through a trunk that had been stored away for years he found a handful of pieces o of quartz and copper ore speckled with fragments a of free gold old a as large largs as a grain of or wheat wheal He recognized them as pieces of float noat picked up when he ho was prospecting in Yavapai county central Nevada in the early ealy Mr Bemis was called hom to Salt Lake City CHy In 1884 by the illness of t hl hI his father and never went backWith back With his son G. G L L. Bemis Jr 34 3 Mr Bemis BemIs' will wUl leave late Inte this week for central Arizona to search for lor the site of ot his discovery The region is is' bout about 90 miles from Globe and very wild he says but buL he be- be es he can find It even e after the lapse apse of oC more than h half a century Indians were on the warpath during the years Mr Bemis was In Arizona but though he traveled the wilderness alone sometimes 50 J miles mites from the thc nearest white men he be was never molested The white Indians he says were much more alore dangerous than the red Mr 1 Bemis was 80 years old last November His cheek check is bronzed his step spry and his eyesight keen He was the original locator of the famous Walker mine in Plumas co county nty California and has been identified with many Bingham properties He drove a span of or mules into Bingham in 1870 n and d soon after alter returning to Utah in 1884 1684 he built a concentration mill mm for the old Spanish mine Bingham's Bingham's Bing- Bing hams ham's first mill for the concentration tion Uon of sulphide or ores |