Show LD COLORADO PROSPECTOR WILL BRAVE DEATH IN ilk I SEARCH FOR LARGEST GOLD GELD NUGGET IN THE WORLD r r ango ngo Man T Tells o of f lit a reparations preparations of Denver Miner to Recover Fortune Fortune For For- tune une From Bottom of Grand and Canyon r IS a gold nugget somewhere of Colorado river in the I rayon of Arizona and It has been ten years yeal's It weighs or did Q Oa t to 1000 pounds and is worth 3 poo 90 to or from lom to toI toire tore I re ire than the famous Camous Australian worth north The Do above ho figures lr r are are e only obtained by ra third one of oC the rock is solid tied led at per pound i said nt lm Thomas of ot Durango Cola COlo In the city today en route to I fountain Ii or the Nugget m Wilcox at present In Denver u 01 thirty years a a. prospector in ino daa Io o Arizona and Montana says 1 i to find that lump of ot t gh jh many men have hunted it id d not a few have lost their theire is e e attempts continued Mr 11 t Since e the day Wilcox heard of this wonderful hidden ast ast fortune he has saved his til now nou he has enough he supply him until he can make that tha t J portion t Ilion of the can canyon on in t nugget is said to be About le e of July the journey journe will willIp hips Ip ss and Adventures irs ars rs ago this month G. G Otis 11 his lis is Finch Finh Albert Rutherford p nd t 1 the two vo former of oC d ind nd the two latter of Arizona ting Spec n in n Arizona near the lido lorado 11 river ii 1 w lich vl ich runs e Grand canyon anyon in the north north- I I t if the State They had often I j t native gold could be found th i rims of th the can canyon on and they o try tiT their theil luck W With pack rid d enough h visions provisions to last a three months the four foul laJe well fare ell to civilization and which was destined to hardships hips and adventures or our lour weeks nothing was to lead learl the men to believe e kind hind of oC mineral was to beay be bely CLay ly ay nothing of f native gold n 1 Rolled ned Away Y while th they were eating ear e. the rim of the canyon at ere iere the wall i is about to ove the river and where it ible to make lake a descent nt es up stream 01 or down v stream ered Bred w what wha hat t appeared to be a t f iron weighing pounds each To Tp pass time tim before Ie beginning beg an- an 6 journey they pried up a aid d id rolled it over the rim it t tumbled to the rushing low w Another and another 11 down with th the same delight- delight I Near Neal the thC brink was one Iced ed as if it would weigh from pounds pound It w was as pried pled from I balanced on the e edge ge of the While the hug thing ng stood f oln drina ready to make its its its-aw- aw- aw 1 i e fIlI m men n chanced to look at the bottom that portion portion which had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been exposed to the weather and they were delighted to find that for which they had searched had native native gold Just for or a a. little while did they haeth ha e th the chance to examine It for tor it was gradually slipping from them The discovery dis dis- dis- dis elY covery I U S made mad too late for tor before they realized what had happened it ws vi rolling and tumbling In space and soon plashed into the river Pierce who tells the story says ys the boulder was composed of gold and quartz That portion exposed to the weather re resembled rese rusty iron For five dye minutes the men seemed stupefied and dazed then for the first time they realized that they had k ost st a t fortune Another look into the yawning m chasm b bo below low V convinced them that an attempt t to go down meant certain death There was only one thing to todo todo do and even then the odds were against them then and that was to get a I rope or cable The nearest place to to se- se evre C e. e one was 9 miles mils away and n that meant ten days days' travel Pierce and I Finch set out ont on an the long 5 journey urn y and Rutherford and Smith remained behind to k keep p watch The cable was brought and arraJ arranged ar- ar I raJ ranged and Rutherford went down but the trip was a disappointment There was a shifting shirting sand at the bottom of ot the slyer river and end he concluded that either I th the rock was buri buried d or had been beeri washed further on m Until darkness drove him bun away the tc man searched but butto butto butto l I to no avail Next morning a band of In Indians ians the prospectors I In In the encounter Rutherford and Finch were and Pierce and Smith were taken prisoners Many I times S since his escape scap Pierce has attempted attempted at at- tempted to relocate the place ar and ard until un un- until un- un til recently was unable m e to do o so o but buthe buthe I Ito he had nJ no money nse and many n o of those h to whom he told the wonderful story i accepted it with a great deal of cau cau- tion Some believed him and went in h of the tre treasure ure but all returned empty Thousands of dollars have been expended In equipments and two or three lives have tave been lost Now comes conies Wilcox who says he can and will find that wealth But few men in the West Nest have ave gone through as many experiences as has hes he and few have had as many narrow escapes from death Six years ago he was prospecting near Leadville in Lake LakeI county when he was WIS caught in a snow snow- w- w I slide which carried him down th the tha mountain fret feet He was badly hurt and end for weeks his life hung ir Jr the balance bal bal- I ance While vs working in a deep mine mineI mineto in to L he was caught by a cave- cave In In and was entombed for lor fourteen days Food w vas as sent to him through I an iron pipe In Routt county last summer ummer he be had an encounter with v-ith a wounded be bear r A friend killed the anImal animal an an- imal imai just In time to save av Wilcox's life Such a man plight to be brave enough I Ito I to un undertake a I- I journey which may end In ht death I hope hop he heill will ill succeed |