| Show MINE LURES MANY MANTrO TO GRAVES Has Been Located Four or Five Times Only to Be Lost Again t GOLD IS ON THE SURFACE Yields Peculiar Nuggets That y Will lil Mean F Fortune to tos s the Finder The P 1 is one olle of oC the Uie best authenticated ot tall t all the lost mInes mine sa says an ex- ex x-I x f h l ft ha has s been hen located four o r 0 or i 00 I miring trI tile past seventy five years year and Its is whereabouts is pretty well known to 10 within a i rau of less lej than ml f Hut it ILls Is Is in the ml midst st o of the he most Got God forsaken desert s 's rt on the face of oC the th earth and In f fw nv I people ople who h have vc f ever r cen on It have able ahle to go JO buck huck to It Tho Those e who dd 1111 ucro erl cre always 1 killed in one WIl way ci or 01 an another t without r revealing their secret and the Ule PI still remains lost to th the at lt largo lf f an any anone one wants to 10 Ionic look for foe it ho lie 1 i lI d om oni to o n the lIH following directions 1 It I l lays y R som oil olY the fo Ios A Angeles ngI Ira trail b h liLwen lw n I Io os anti and Yuma It II Is adry n a rl dry placer located on the hi highest h t of on one c of oC th the tlC l peaks presumably no not far from rom the turn oft oll to Warners Warner's pas pasi Th The sold ohl is i on the surface and id t I Is of pe pe- r appearance daiker than most pin pia- crr er and known among the tho mining mon of tho the w west st as ai f gold There ar arl spi n of rr It in ln a J. J number of nil nin- nin ing In mu And any tny one on who ran can find fim It Ii and Jn got It out again all alive has a n. fortune made JI It g Smith a n gentleman with ono one OIN prop was vas Its or original discoverer r way hack haek in 1 7 Ho Tie was wn clo crossing tint thiat lon Ilc of t the h Il desert desort rt between JOlt Fort Yuma anil c nil nil- Los Ios Angeles n Ifs If's when he ho tiled to take o a oft cut in t the e neighborhood of Warner's Warners pass 5 Quite naturally ho lost his way and and 1111 camo- camo near dying yin of thirst before he got ot ba hack hiack jk to the tho trail Gh Smith Drain Brain Fe P I Tie picked up a. a lot of looking curious u. u nuggets gets on his wa way out but b was ignorant of their v value until a year or more afterward after after- ward when he showed th them m to a I. I man In Los Ios Angeles He lie later Inter got sot excited over o S tho thio find and aral when Smith realized re how near nir he came to io making his fortune he had hid a t lit It t of oC fe fever r. r k rho The fever fe did not have h much to operate on In n according to those who knew him but hut Il It killed Smith somehow and of oC about men inen who followed his trail into Inlo th the desert rt trying to locate the tho famous placer pla lacer la- la k nearly nearh all an died of thirst or went craz crazy or broke r 1 nn years later Inter a 3 miner Who Tho had drifted rl into the same desert country countr came out onto with nu about ut in nu nuggets t of the camo rame 11 gold old lie He had struck truck thet the r t game ama ame mysterious placer pincer hut but he died privations and exposure and his secret him Jot t mm many years ears car ago an In Indian lan squaw three quarters lf dead ad from thirst drifted Into inlo a c construction camp mp on the tho Southern Pacific not int for from the cd edge e of oC the theS the'S S 'S Salton Uon sea that great at dry lake lako of oC the southwest so t that has be been n full run of or water for about lb t three years Can within th the memory of man man- She Sho and her het man hn had sot got lost In Int In int t q s rt and climbing clImbing- a n. l p iak ak to tr try d al cl their bearings the they ran onto the g placer The Apaches know what sold gold I enough and arul the squaw w had halt about 10 Jun pounds s of It in a n han handkerchief kerchief aha ho hail had seen the smoke of the construction construction tion ton train tran from the place where she Bhe found ti the gold ROld but JUt s he refused to load lead an any of th th workmen to it f I S Mexican kan With ith ili Mint The latest t discovery iSCO H of the r le on record Vas as In m. m when n a a. Mexican vaquero ro ro O on a a. a ranch near San Bernardino came l In itt with about IO lOO worth of nu nuggets ets He lie Ie had hotter helter luck than his pre predecessors for r r he hent nt went hack to lo the pl pa place e time after time lime mo H lie He r Rambled and drank made mul loef love lo f in ahi all the tho girl In the re region ln and he lie sn sp spent nt money as though h he had the treasury of 01 the United States behind him When hem h he wi-nt wi nt shy h on 0 sold gold old ie e would disappear for fora a few w days clays and come back hack loaded ll with It It- Tell T lI win hrc ro h he Rot got ot it if Not much Hut Bitt BittI l I ia was gold oM all ri right ht and just from fron fromI I I the re region ion where tIm Iho mine mille was wn known I i id i'd to be hc located Ot or course he wa was trailed I anti and followed followell 1111 but t h ho h had bad bettor better sense ui than n to over ever take lake tIn thc samp sanie trail twice 01 oi Ho himself lf to lo be he to lo his lin endue cache An n easterner ml may think that Dial this shows y a. a L lack lal I of enterpriSe on th the the- part of th thi people popl Who ho wanted the tho M hut a I co cowboy cow cow- Ita boy sl skilled in di wrt cra craft ft can cm come near ulear losing a ii whole settlement h ho lie gets It tile llio brt of into inlo lilt th- rt M country tonally tho the Mexican ol got l cut cill uL to 10 pieces x In Ina Inn ina a n I knife light ut nt at a a tahl and since then the tho Pe Is I's ho has boon been undisturbed l though there are ore hunting for 01 It cv I C every ry year lIr Tho h had 11 in gold on deposit at it a I. 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