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Show II Death Va uey By Tom Tiede DEATH VALLEY. Calif. The Panamint Moun(NEAi tains, gray and lonely, are some of the most forbidding hills in the United States. They sit on the western edge of Death Valley, stopping the flow of moisture to the region, and they look for all the world like overcooked duff in an oven. Yet they have at least one decided fascination. They may contain gold ore of extraordinary purity. The Panamints are said to be the sight of one of the richest gold deposits ever reported in the nation, a deposit that was misplaced soon after it was discovered, and has thus never been worked. In other words, it's a lost gold mine. It's not a lost mine, however. It's not just hoary legend and rodomontade. The West is salted with tales of gold strikes that have been buried by circumstances, usuaHy bad actors or bad whiskey. But the lost deposit here in Death Valley historically has been considered real; the story, by doggies, is true. The story began accidentally, as good stories do, when a silver rush started in the Reese River area of Nevada. The year was 1862. A Pony Express rider had fallen from his horse near the river and landed against a large silver rock. The rider verified the find in Virginia City, and the word spread. When the word reached California, a man named Jacob Breyfo-gl-e listened with great interest. He was a German immigrant who had come to America to seek his fortune, but who had also never found it, and so he formed an alliance with a pair of friends and iL'p-dood- f f Kzoia set out to prospect for a Nevada claim The trouble was. Brevfogie as broke. So were his hapless comrades They didn t have the wherewithal to finance their expedition, they only had supplies fcr a few weeks That meant they had to take a short cut to the silver fields, straight across the dreaded Panamint Mountains of Death Valley. No doubt they were warned against it. Death Vallev was unfriendly to say the least. The temperatures, were in excess of 100 degrees, and the water holes were not reliable. What s more, the place was a hangout for small bands of Indians who were irritated by increasing encroachments on their lands. .f M ti was determined. November . ills m 5 19R4 THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. The trees indicated an uasis an oais indicated water Breyfogle stumbled on. crawl.ng at tirr.es. and. then, just before he got to the oasis he sa several gold nuggets on the ground Thev were laying by a creaked mes-quittree. He grabbed them, hap-piland tied them in a handkerchief Alas, the delight was short lived The water hole in the oasis was dry. The German was rich, but he was also dying of exposure, it was a classic contradiction of fate He wandered for And e ddvs in the hills and along the desert The result was that he !ut purl of his rnuid and all ol his bearings Fortunately. Brefog!e was eventually rescued by a rancher I nturtur.atelv he could not remember everywhere he had been The nuggets he had gathered were worth $7uu ,000 a ton. and were probably just a hint of the deposit, but the dumbfounded immigrant had been out in the sun searches And he even felt he got very dose But when he recognized some landmarks, he could not coordinate them with others, and. meanwhile, the oasis he had seen had been dried and obliterated by the Death Valley heat , Hence modern prospectors say the gold is still there, somewhere, out by a crooked mesquite tree They think there is a vein, secreted m the mountains, and it too long Oh. he looked for the gold cer- He organized tainly. chips off and washes valiev sand Small wonder, too. The German s lost gold might be remarkably valuable. Even more than is normal in these cases. When Jacob Breyfogle made his find, the gold market was fixed at $22 an ounce Today gold sells for about $300 an ounce. 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WASHINGTON, election day four years ago, Re- - .n publicans rode the conservative wave that swept Ronald Reagan into office and captured 12 seats in the Senate, thereby wresting control of that body for the first time since 1952. a That same year, Republican candidates managed to gain 33 seats in the House of Representaan exchange of power tives that allowed the minority party to team up with moderate "Boll Weavil Democrats" in passing President Reagan's sweeping economic package over the objections of the Democratic House leadership. In 1982, Democrats regained full control of the House, recapturing 26 of the seats lost in 1980 to gain back a commanding edge. 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