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Show PAGE IT MINING EDITION HEAVER COUNTY NEWS TMNAL Tine Lost Mime of IPa dm mrn Jr ' JeyZA J3a T IS not improbable that during the dry season of iome trace 1910 of the once famous mine of Tisingar will be found, as by Law Third of January 2, 1909, passed by the national of Panama, the Immense savannas and selvas of the Pacific slope of Panama are thrown open to acquisition on very favorable terms and already a number of Americans, especially of the Canal Zone, have taken up land there. TWO WW AOAffO -- when thawa three and s half and breaking up time comes,ice turns its arrive. The fuelling four million poles, most of streams into the ruls during the day them of cedar, are purchased and the tank are kept going wagons and used by the telegraph and all to furnish Ice In place of night of the telephone companies that which the sun has melted. When United States each year. The average the weather gets too warm the road life of these pole Is from twelve to soon disappear and that puts an end fourteen years. to the hauling add likewise to thn Three sources of supply are open. cutting. When this happens earlier northern the the white cedar from than usual the first indications of a lake region, Idaho cedar from the break-ucause a general hustle and a Rocky mountain country and red pretty race ensues to get out the timcedar from the Pacific northwest. ber before the roads become useless. Cedar le used because of its straight Not withstanding the good pay It is growth, although In some regions red- difficult to keep the men at work ail wood, chestnut, fir and cypresa ara winter. From the cedar aavage down employed. to the road monkey, the man whose The cedar Is the most durable and duty It is to keep the ruts frea from rod The timber. lit is the preferred ail rubbish, there are among tbe logcedar grows to a greater height than many nomads who drink heavily, the other varieties, and almost all the gers snuff and smoke strong pipes chew extremely tall poles are from the and unconcernedly throw up one Job, tates of Washington and Oregon. knowing they can get another Just an Twenty feet Is the minimum height good at the nezt camp. These roam-er- s (or telephone poles. are known as camp Inspector crojrcvxcj? metThe pole getting industry is dls-- from their making the rounds during tinct from general lumbering. It baa the winter. Its own special rrews and ita own C PANAMA As the renewals are estimated to The eawlog pecial nomenclature. a year, man la a lumberjack, the pole cutter require nearly 3,000,000 polee new the not up, put poles ruuntlng le done t cedar savage. The cutting the end of the cedar aupply Is In In the fall and winter months, and the The forestry department figure! hauling season Is from the early sight. that It will not last longer than fifteen freezing period till the spring thaws. and the most optimistic supply Cruisers pick out and mark the years men think there Is more than n don't timber that is to be cut, and a com twenty years aupply ahead. pass man runs the lines. After him Considerable damage la being donq crew that come the foreman and the to telephone, telegraph and electric the and the put out camp lay woodmembers of accessary buildings to houserihe men light poles by Theaa birds the originally tnd horses and store thel supplies. pecker family. " thfl ,,U nr llvllut Inillt ilfftlr Than rnmpi the rosdmsktoA Roads are laid out as nearly direct trunks or limbs of trees, but for some s possible from the standing timber reason best known to themselves have j&e- jpjw&zj to the landing place nezt the rail-- i come to the conclusion that the s he border line o Costa Rica sua Chlrlqul have ul road, allowing for grades and peeled pole offers batter conditions for been hosti e and In several Instances have dona. Trees are cut down close to a home. f riren against the whites and massacred them. The u,e ground and a smooth bottom Is They have become so ravenous of Talamanca Indli is. who still Inhabit these parts prepared for the road, which is In late that their depredations are atwere especially lelllcose. variably of Ice. If snow precedes the tracting considerable attention among The exlstenci of the Tislngal" mine has never comlng of lhe road gang ploughs are (hose who are compelled to use quanbeen doubted, n r Is it considered the product of utlljzpd t0 get 1t out & tj way an(j tities of wooden polen. Their sctlvl, the fertile imagl .atlon of the nativee of Chirlqiil the fr0t chance at the ground. tics spread over a wide portion of the At Cana, in the province of Panama, at the pres United States, notably In the south, ent time there i being operated a gold mine for southwest and central west Cedar meriy worked b, the Spaniards. Several years Wa"tCTon 'the Kmdway are'kept ron" poles seem to be the ones most freago. while blaatlig In one of the galleries of thel, machJne quently attacked. The birds bore Into ,n at(,rgtan wlth Cana mine an ap rture was made into what V which cuts deep ruts them at any height from the ground, a called rutter, to lx burled the remains of a gold mine worked and the holes which they make are Leather buckets, with several tenturlep ago. often two or three Inches In diameter strap, that fit artund the forehead and around the . entlrely of ,ce a foot or , In thick- - and four or five Inches deep. Such an shoulders of the mine workers and Instruments of amount of wood drilled from a stick steel mere found in a good state of preservation of timber which la carrying a load of . The mouth of Ibis mine had been so completely. , . . , wires naturally weakens tbe strength f"r of purporo hidden that mining operation, had been carried of the line. to of the sled, runner, on for year, almost paralleling the entrance shaft. de hro,'h and ,hua n,ake haul,n It would, of course, not be s diffiwithout the engineer, suspecting its proximity cult matter to exterminate these Records of the old Cana mine are in existence, but an easir lBHaPole rutting Is done usually by piece birds. However, this is not desirable, its exact location had never been fixed before. Gold can be found In almost all the rivers of work, but In order to prevent the aa they are among the most beneficial Chlrlqul. In 1859 there were discovered the first cedar savage from hunting out tbe forms of bird life native to this counIndian Rraves. from which were taken gold orna- bunches of timber most lo his liking try. because they destroy large numments, stone figures, arrow points, etc. Since this the foreman causes the strip for each bers of Insects which seriously damtime Ihere have been found In Chlrlqul hundreds pair of men to work In to be marked age forest and food crops. It seems, of these Indian graven, known to the present day off by a line of blazes along the trees, therefore, that methods should be unnatives by tbe name of guaens." The writer him-- He must coniine his operations to dertaken to compel the birds to retimber, avoiding tbe vert to their former habit of boring self opened up one grave from which he took 18 merchandise rather than to exterminate them. crooked trees. pieces of pottery. na- It Is a fact that the As he goes he must make a path Frequent Inquiries have been made lives of Clilriqiil. knowing the whereabouts of a through which the trees may be rolled by the forest service In this connecrich "gtincnl." prefer to work it alone and to sell or slid down to the road or so that tion, but the only information to date the gold found only in such quantities as their the horse and chain that snake them which the government has been able needs may require. They are suspicious of the i hither may be able to work with to obtain is that on a casual Inspeo white man. this suspicion and distrust being Inbred rase. This is Insisted upon by his tlnn of treated and untreated pole In them and handed down In tradition from their bosn He must exercise skill In lines In Ixiulslana. In that region It ancestors, who in truth had cause to bate that the cut trees fall In such a way was round that poles which had been race. A hunting and exploring party that recently that they ran he easily handled with Impregnated with creosote oil were returned from the vicinity of Buenos Aires and branches and tops removed. not attacked by the birds, whereas Boruca. In the heart of the Indian country to the Hauling beglna as soon as the road untreated poles under the same conwest ot David, reported that although they were Is completed and the cutters get a ditions were very severely injured. not openly attacked by the Indiana yet they were sufficient supply stacked up ahead. Whether or notcre6sot e will conscious of being constantly watched; that food The peeling Is usually left until arter vent such attack is not definitely was scarcely obtainable, and that on several orra the winter rush Is over and the men known, but the service Is Investigasinus they found the water of (he springs muddied are brought Tram the woods to tbe ting this problem, and should this oil apparently but a few minutes before their arrivsl yards. The bark Is removed either prove a preventive it will fulfil a If lids report be true, and there Is every reason to with a heavy draw knife or a 4 by purpose: It will protect the believe tlifit it is. Inasmuch as It Is but a repetition t chisel with a four or I Kites from decay and destruction from or former ones of a similar nature, then It Is quite handle culled a spud. animal life. In southern Indiana some evident tbnt tbe narty were not cognizant of the The pole cutters ara usually aup members of a traction company and customs, likings language of the native with plied with list showing the sizes thought that they could prevent furwhom they had to deal. Long experience enables them ther destruction of their poles by filland decorations are found accurately to Judge the size of a tree ing the holes In lhe wood wlih stones. Odd inscription on volcanic bowlders In many parts of Chi pt a glance. The smallest cuts are The birds, however, simply drilled rlqui. and these Inscriptions, according to the In jeven feet tall and are sold for fence around the stones and made tbe condfans. indicate the burying grounds of thecarlques posts linger sticks are used Ru- ditions much worse. This apparently Many of these decorations appear on the pottery shed timber. All over 20 feet go Into does not seem to be a means of found in the grnvcs and In the ethnological report the pole class. This practically Intheir depredations. referred lo nre classified sures the cutting of all the stands. KTWKKN In the westernmost part of Panama, bordering on Costa Rica, lies the province of Chlrlqul, the richest of the seven provinces constituting the Republic of Panama. Its north coast is washed by the Caribbean sea, known to the Spanish conquerors as the North sea, while the island-dottePacific, or South sea, washes its southern shores. Twenty miles from the Atlantic side and 40 miles from the Pacific is the highest crater of the MPIOMT AT fHAWfOAfAy "Volcan de Chlrlqul" or Chlrlqul JV?trV- - (WWCM1 volcano, rising nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. Two other craters of lesser Tislngal. "Due to the hostility height rise one on either side of the main crater; then a sheer drop of several thousand feet of sulphand cruelty of the Indiur-coated rock to the highest signs of vegetaans, together with the tion. Below this on the Pacific slopes stretch dangers of the trails and beautiful rolling llanos or steppes, lower and the unhealthlnesa of the d lower, on down to the coast line. country, people graduSomewhere on these Immense slopes lies the ally began to forget about these mines and loet mine of the Indians, Tislngal," known to whoever spoke of maand worked by the early Spanish settlers, who king an expedition for changed its name to "La Estrella," or Mine of the the purpose of discover Star. ing these mines was in going through the During the year 1833-34- , considered to be comarchives at Cartago, Costa Rica, some official documents pertaining to this mine were found and mitting suicide. The slopes of the permission was obtained from the Costa Rican are volcano Chlrlqul government for their publication. Shortly thereafter a company was formed in Cartago to send traversed by numerous out exploring parties, and although considerable rivers, in many places time and money were wasted and several lives not more than a mils apsr4-wlld, lost in an endeavor to locate this mine, no Indicarushing monntaln torrents that tions of its whereabouts were found. fbrtn navigable rivers Reprints of some of the documents referred to near the coast, many of which are constantly have come into the hands of the writer, in which changing their courses. Along the banks of these is preserved the old style Spanish in which they rivers the Spaniards found the richest Indian vilwere originally written during the sixteenth and lages. The Indiana extracted gold from the seventeenth centuries. Translations of these pasands of many of these rivers and worked it into pers have been made and the information contained therein summarized, to which have been weird figures representing alligators, frogs, birds, turtles, fish, snakes, bells, plates, images and added data obtained through a personal acquaint which it was the custom to bury with the flee with the country described. During last others, owners thereof In the tombs In which an unsuccessful year attempt was made by the their dead were Interred. writer to ascend the highest crater of the ChlrlAmong the documents referred to are found qul volcano fbr the purpose of verifying certain Information purported to have been secured in the records of an expedition that set out from the x In Costa Rica, in the year the year 1605 from this point and pertaining to city of the Tislngal mine. During the dry season of this 1563. for Quepo. Couto, Boruca and the valley of An extract from this document literCuHyuil. year a second attempt will probably be mode. ally translated reads as follows: Among the documents consulted Is one that, "Going up the Guayml valley one arrives at a literally translated, reads as follows: place called Couto, where much gold has been "Within the limits of the department of Chlrlfound, and the natives have it worked into all qul, contiguous to the Republic of Costa Rica, and on being questioned as to where they forms; exist places rich in gold, known by the names of it they stated that they had gotten it obtained do Oro Ancha. and Quebrada Quebrada Tislngal, in big very grains from a river four days' Joiirnev others quite important The. first of these places from that place, in the dominion of an Indian was explored some time ago liy a Spanish colony, . Not one day's march cr.clqiie called Ucarac-Iwhich in the year 1601 founded the city of Conof Tiirucaca. the inCouto from the lies village cepcion de la Estrella, near this mine of great that of which stated habitant they had obtained wealth. The excessive stinginess of the conquergold in the same river a the Inhabitants of Couto ors reduced the Indiana of the locality to the conThe provinces of Couto nnd Turucaca lie 50 dition of slaves, they being forced by the Spanish at the beto work, mining the gold of the Tislngal. These leagues from the city of 10 leagues from of of the valley Giiaymi, ginning Indians became tired of the excessive work and the South sea in front of the Golfo Dulce. ft is bad treatment and became desperate. In the year known that following up the Guayml valley to 1611 they revolted against their oppressors and exterminated them; but other Spaniards at the the mountains toward the north there are to bs found numerous villages, such as Quepo. Couto. place of the mutiny again compelled the Indians Boruca. Acl. T'rinba. Xarlxaba. Yabo, Duba, of mine and to resume the working the made Barerto. Tabicte. Arabora. Cabangara. harder for them their state of slavery. This almost eliminated the Indiana from this stretch of The following year. 1554. a not tier, expedition country. set out from Cartago. Costa ltlca. to explore this On the twenty-eightof Sepi ember, some same country, and the rhronicler. writing of their rethe these Indians happenings, years after discoveries, says: turned, and without pity or consideration took Crossing the province of Ara and passing the the life of every foreigner living In the country; of Coaca, we arrived in the province of vuliey disand not only this, but, carrying stones from tant localities, they covered up and destroyed all Terbi and made our camp in the village of which lies in the valley of Uuy. And the traces of the workings of the mines, and they Indians having brought to the leader a great also razed all houses and churches belonging to the Spaniards. The only traces remaining of quantity of gold, he sent the slaves to explore, these ancient buildings today are the foundations and they brought back such large pieces that he leader himself decided to explore. We then arof the church and a bell belonging to it. rived at a river called La Estrella, which Is the At last the news of the new rebellion reached principal one as In the quantity of gold found. from Cartago the expedition ret'artago in Costa Rica, where immediate preparations were made for revenge. It is known that turned to the province of Terbi. to the village of at the beginning of the year 1710 the government Cururu, in the valley of the Duy (Indian name it Cartago sent 200 men by Ihevay of lloruca for Quequexqne); and from there we went to the and Tuls to San Jose Cabecar, a town to the east big river which bad already been named Rln de about 15 leagues from Concepcion. This expediIs Estrella." tion took 500 Indiana of both sexes prisoners and Since the sixteenth century the land bordering reduced them to a state of slavery, and as such the Slxicla river, which lies to the north pf the consigned them to the inhabitants around about Clifrlqui volcano and which empties into the CaCartago upon their return to that place. These ribbean rea, had been In dispute between the met Indians all other they along prisoners and of Costa Rica and that of Panama governments the way were massacred shortly thereafter. At that time it was claimed by both the governor From that time all Indians living in the of Costa Rica and the governor of Yeraguas. The mountains in all directions up to a distance of 70 province of Chlrlqul adjoins Sixlola and formerly formed purt of the province of Yeraguas, now one leagues turned bittpr enemies of the foreigners of the seven provinces of Panama. After the and up to a few years ngo would have nothing to do with the white races. Due to these events all Indeiiendenre of Panama tn 1903 this dispute traces of the villages of Tnrrlalba, Tuts, Atirro, again arose, due. to a great extent, to changes in the names of many of the rivers of this part San Jose Cabecar and other places that lay on of the two countries, some of which still retain the route to Concepcion de la Estrella and Tislntheir Indian names, while others have been regal were lost and the trails of communication named. The question was finally submitted to with the mines were covered with brush and 40 years in after so that President Fallleres of France for arbitration and destroyed. completely was to be obtained as to au entirely new boundary Hue was traced in acCartago no kinwl-dg- e cordance with his findings. he ty f i tie Estrella and practically no . Tbs Indians Inhabiting the country lying near i!iiv or had seen the mlDea at (.r, d palm-fringe- ..." cr rnck-walle- d Garci-Miino- Garci-Muno- x Ca-bar- ..." h Co-cur- "... p I . jb arxMM I eleva-way- I I , I , ,u - - 1 well-know- n half-Indla- n ms-kin- pi-- 5 two-fol- d five-foo- As each pole is cut it Is marked with the rutter's number and checked task It Is to keep .ip by a man whose tab on the work. For defectives be ,ets no credit. the railroad Sometimes at landing ilace. but usually in the assembling rards. the poles are sorted according to size and decked, which means piled up. The greatest activity follows l be Christmas season, when civilization nnd the earth will give up another ol each crew Is working at (op speed to her treasures so well hidden for centuries by na- keep ahead of ths next crew that tures barriers aided by the avenging hand of ths kHndlez the poles. This top speed Is again reached as vsnqulshed American copper ore has been found In many in Chirlqui. especially In that of nugaba. In which Tlhingiil is In all probability located, the analysis of which has shown 15 per rent copper bearing two per cent. gold. The Fanamnniun government Is at the present time planning tbe construction of a railroad from David In Chiriqui to the city of Panama, which, when built, will greatly open up this part of the country and make It more Accessible. The Indiana of Chlrlqul will give way before the advance of Gold-bearin- districts Argument for Simplification. The reform spellers are always ready with an answer. Since they dropped the final g" from "egg" some ons told Prof Brander Matthews that no hen would lay an egg with one g and that no cat would ever begin to purr with one r." I answered. says the professor, "that on the other hand no hen would ever stand on a leg with two g's and that no cat would allow anyone lo stroke its fur with two |