Show HAS HAS' YOUNG DISCOVERED SP SPANISH ANISH TREASURE VAULT Believes His Find Is the Mine of Fabulous Richness Richness Rich Rich- ness Which Was Vas CovI Covered Covered Cov Coy I ered Up Years Ago by John Laird I j Has I S Phineas Young Youns discovered a alost lost 4 Spanish mine of fabulous richness richness' and fJ brought to to light an absorbingly Interesting Inter- Inter r esting s g record of or the treasur treasure hunters hunters oan of an age long past 3 i. i I S Sch Such ch would seem to be the case a and d l' l confident In the antiquity of his find fina r r. r Young has named his rich 1 tery ery The Spaniard tf Old Timers Belief tf existed 7 For many years there has a av v tradition that in the neighborhood of oft L t Salt Lake City one of these lost Span Span- i 1 Ish h mines w would be found It was once thought by some timers old-timers that John Laird In early days das had discovered f t 1 r u h a mine They knew he had f brought bought from the hills some borne gold ore value and had shown it h t t to Brigham Young The latter however how- how iver ever vel foreseeing th the the- rush that would f follow should it h become come known that gold told has been been discovered discovered- here forbade Mr r. tr Laird to extract the ore and or- or or ordered dered ered him to refrain from even mentioning mentioning men men- his discovery and the mine was covered up Nor did Mr Laird eVer el divulge the location of the claim arid his secret died with him 4 Young a i relation elation of of Brigham Brig Brig- h ham m Young and friend of Lairds Laird's s has t ways ays heard of and been on the lookIs look- look Is f p dout ut for this mine from his boyhood f V t days rs and at last his energy and perse- perse rance have met with their deserved i Toward told by The Telegram last week V r r. r Young discovered an ancient tuni tun- tun i Ii on ona a steep hillside a comparatively I r hort distance from the old Laird r It was cunningly concealed 5 r from sight by massed up brush and a aW n 4 W nore more recent growth th of young trees and andI I I bushes bushes' s. s The walls of the tunnel were V j-V s seamed amed with chisel marks maiks showing k j t that i t the work was v done laboriously r rI j rude tools by a primitive people I having none of the implements that Americans or English employ In mi ml- ml ning Inside the Tunnel T The e tunnel has all the evidences es of great age its floor being covered toa toa to toa a a. depth of two feet or more with the guano of owls and bats that have made It their habitation for many years and the walls are coated over with crystallized crystal crystal- lime Sixteen feet from the mouth the tunnel has been filled from an above either by accident or design evidently the latter The vein on the surface is twenty feet wide with a lime hanging and quartzite face and a a. strike northeast by southwest Park City is not a great distance from it and It t appears to bea be baa a part of that famous mineral minerai zone The vein and the old dump yield sensational values in gold and silver and Mr Young feels confident that he has secured a a. bonanza in the mine that he has located and recorded under the appropriate title of The Spaniard An Interesting Case Such discoveries as this by Mr Young are always of more than passIng passIng passing pass- pass Ing interest to mining men and especially especially especially espe espe- Is it so In this case They know by both experience and tradition that the mines of the Spaniards were and andare andare andare are almost Invariably rich and that Mr Youngs Young's discovery is not likely to prove an exception It is a a. well-known well fact that the Dons had iad good noses for ore Nearly all of the richest mines in Mexico and the southern countries were formerly the property of the Spaniards and since abandoned by them have been reopened reopened re reopened re- re opened by Americans I A A case in point and of local interest Is the copper mine in Peru that A. 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W McCune 0 of this city and his associates are expending In developing This his is an old Spanish mine of great antiquity It is impossible for one not familiar with the subject to fully realize the magnitude of the mining operations carried on by t the tho o sons of old Spain Th The extent of the area covered is too too no less remarkable No desert was so desolate no danger so great as to daunt them In their search for silvera silver sliver a and gold and there Is scarcely a minIng mining mi ml- ning camp of any importance in the West Yest today that does not have Its legend gend of a lost Spanish mine of lous ous wealth Ancient Treasure Vaults Nearly all of these traditions are rounded founded on fact and every now eow and then as In the present Instance one of these treasure vaults of the ancients js is opened to the tho light of day Nevada and California too have had such mines It It Is a matter of local tradition that the German once stumbled onto an old Spanish bonanza in Nye re county Nevada but was unfortunately unable ever to find it again although he be led several expeditions in search of It One company of forty men inca left Austin In the sixties In search of the hidden mine but were wee nearl nearly all killed by Indians himself subsequently subs died In Salt Lake City In ab ab- b poverty with his dream of gold unrealized Since then Uen many persons belt believe eve that Tonopah the great Nevada bonanza now ow ow boasting In sight Is th the mine the German sought and in seek seek- I ing Irig the the same same so many others perished The discovery of Phineas Young so near to this city and within the the Park City mineral zone as It Is Is doubtless an abandoned mine of the Spanish or Aztec people whose works throughout the West are slowly but surely being uncovered and utilized for the bennt benfit of a higher and better civili civili- Mr II Young is a 2 guard at the State prison |