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Show ANOTHER VERSION OF THE ELUSIVE BRYFOGLE. ' The stories of the fabulous mines which have ' been found, lost and never again discovered can jH be numbered by the hundreds, and there is al-ways al-ways a horde of fortune-seekers who wear their j lives out in to find' these lost treasures. Per- J haps none of the lost mines are more notorious or more eagerly sought for than the famous old Bryfogle. 'H One version of this discovery runs some- 'H thing as follows: In 1862 a government surveying fl party was working through eastern California and southwestern Nevada. Connected with the H party was a Dutchman by the name of Bryfogle, who was in the habit of exploring the country in his leisure moments. One Sunday Mr. Bry- 'lA fogle started out for his customary jaunt and for one week wandered about the country, lost from his comrades. When he was finally found he had with him fifteen pounds of strawberry honey-combed quartz which was nearly half gold', and which would assay $100,000 to the ton. But, much to the 'M chagrin of his companions, he could not tell from where he had taken it; he had completely lost his reason and became a raving maniac. His associates then placed him in an asylum and tended him night and day in the hopes that, in his ravings, he might disclose the location of lH the find. In one of his lucid moments he told 'D them where he had left his pick and canteen, and directions where to find the ledge. A wild scram-ble scram-ble immediately set in for the distant mountains, but the place was never found. Later, Bryfgole was released from the asylum and returned to jJ find his treasure, but is reported to have died jJ in the vain search. It is thought that the ledge is in the Funeral 'H range; probably on Coffin mountain facing Death !H valley, from the number who have lost their lives 'iH in searching for it. Ever so often an alarm is sent out that the great ledge has been found, but 'S nothing equal to tne specimens of Bryfogle's .H have yet been produced. jfH |