Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-06-27 | Page 3 | Lost River of Gold to be Sought out by Adventurers

LOST RIVER OF GOLD TO BE SOUGHT OUT OUTI I BY ADVENTURERS Expeditions Fitted Out in Alberta Will Make Dash I Into Peace Region I ED EDMONTON 1 Alta AUa June 27 Search Search for Cor a lost river river river-a a river of gold will gold will willbo bo be undertaken this year by several prospectors including from the Yukon and Alaska who are now nowhere nowhere nowhere here outfitting for the long Journey into the north country This lost river riverbed riverbed bed where the Peace river once flowed is somewhere in the big bend of the Peace bisected by a line drawn from Fort St St. John to the mouth of the theBa Ba Battle riv river r. r Some years ago an Indian brought into Fort St. St John a fair sled gold nugget which according to the tale told by old timers of ot the north he discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered in a stream in the country to the northeast of the post Soon after this an old trapper a white man who made mado Fort St St. John his headquarters came Into the fort with a quantity of coarse oarse gold which he had washed from some stream in ina ina ina a similar direction to that from which tho the Indian hailed DIED ON TRAIL He never visited his trap lines after this living on the fat of the land in carefree Idleness ss at the post He often otten disappeared whenever his supplies of necessaries ran low and would be away for a few days always returning with a fresh supply of gold This aged trapper lived in this manner manner manner man man- ner for a number of years He died lied as ns many trappers and north country countrymen I men have on the trail His body was found froen With him went his se secret secret so- so soI I cret he never having told to anyone the location of his find The books of I Ithe the Hu Hudson son Bay company compan still contain a large credit account in the name of the old trapper PUT UP MONEY who tell telI the story of the I 1 mystic El Dorado north of the Peace declare that the gold was only onh available available available avail avail- I able after a heavy fall of ot snow with which the old fellow apparently washed his mineral From an analysis of ot the circumstances generally it is I I thought that the place from which the gold was taken was some old river bed where the Peace once flowed but I whether the story etory is correct or not re remains remains remains re- re mains to bo be proved Prospectors however are putting up good mone money to test the truth of or t the e theory that the precious metal does exist somewhere to the north of Clear Hills In large quantities