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Show HIDDEN HOLDUP LOOT CAUSES .COLOJSH Member of Gang Who ' ; Helped Bury Treaure -iT. Digs in Barn COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, ' An, IS (By V. P.) Tales of 0.00 la cold aaflea. burled on th rockl slope oi Devil's Heed peak, hav caused a gold rush which Is focusing- Interest. Th bidden (old ts supposed to be part of the loot of a Union Pacific Pa-cific train, which was hsld op by the aoied Joel Collins gang In th early void days of Colorado. A self-confeesed self-confeesed member of the gang, mbo claims he expiated hie part by a lone prison term, started th rltement. He says hs helped bury the $tO,0v, which was too heavy for the gang to carry as they fled. Th former outlaw due for day before he confided to others th object of his search. H got prompt reinforcements.- Hla story Is that ths canf marked th trees In th forest that one covarsd th slops-Tears slops-Tears later, while most of ths cans; 1 wars In prlaon. firs destroyed ths ' forest This mad th hunt nor difficult. Night after night ths old outlaw due, th days being devoted to tabor ta-bor for food. Alter while bis voluntary assistants fall away. They talked about ths eld mas having a "leaky roof," or an "empty attic" Finally a Spanish dsggsr, burled to th hilt la a charred oak, rsstorsd Interest la th search, and one more th peak's slopes were covered with fortune-hunters. Almost disintegrated dis-integrated with axe. th relto was unmistakably aa object - left by wanderers of aa early day. For hundreds of fsst on every Id of th "dsggar tree" Devil's Head peak resemble a riant ant hill. Hue boulders, rolled from thlr resting place of centuries, have stolidly refused to glv up th secret. - Night after nlcht th dint llcht of th "outlaw" may to eeen quarter Inc th mountain, foot by foot. Day after day, -sporadic ssarchers boy scouts, buslnsss men, farm ere and laborers, men from ail walks of Ufa ascend ths peak. Occasional faint proofs that ths mountain waa visited msny years aco by white men Is keeping up ths fever of th hunt. |