Show PHANTOMS fascinating tales of adith L b watson lost mines ow THE ADAMS DIGGING T THE HE gila alyer which seems so m much uch a part of ot arizona has ito head headwaters waters in new mexico there are three forts forks which meet before the state line la Is reached and the country thereabouts As Is known only to forest rangers and cowboys who ride th the e reaches reache of the heart bars tile the slashes the oos gos and other lonely ranches it was ln in asco thata that a party of fifteen nien men setout set out from california to pros prospect pectin la the mountains to io the east aas A prisoner of tile the yuma indians managed to catch their attention lind find this manfold man told then them that be knew where baere were wonderful wonder fu gold fields and could guide them to the place As a consequence consequence the party bought him from his ca captors pors and set out litter after him across the state slate of arizona n and up into tile the headwaters of the gila three peaks roise ruse fr from ia a val valley ae and between two of them a stream am flowed eastward at the base or of the central mountain the ill placer acer gold sparkled aud and here the party camped and went to work presently their supplies ran low halt half of the party started out for Y uma nol not realizing g that there were towns across the mountains to the south to get food and other supplied plied A month went by lynnd and no BO one returned the provisions were alarmingly low by this time so three more men started after the first party when they reached a mesa mesa top which gave a view albi of the camp the three looked back to their horror they saw their little settlement in hames flames and even ns as they watched indians killed the remaining men it would mean death to return besides their friends were beyond help frightened the three men hurried on missing theli their way and in their wande wanderings one of them died the sole survivor of the par party ty was a man num named ed adams he told the te story and added that 1000 a day could be washed out opt with a gold pan at ai the place where his comrades had died in spite of the horror of his experiences ile he longed to return to where rethe the golden phantom I 1 beckoned but ki ll 11 alls was not to be adams tr tried abd many times to mak elili bis way back to 0 o the ahr three but some somehow liow he e could never find them agal again n THE WHITE CEMENT 1 N ald man exhausted and ARt AN started arted a stampede that was once the talk of the southwest it was in july of 1 that the prospector w who ho was nam named edWhite white red into horse hors e head gulch camp near amarillo texas ile he had some peculiar looking stuff with him aln that resembled nothing so mu much ah as white clay or ce cement and this strange ore was speckled with flecks flecka of at gold xa fa fact assay show showed e a that the stuff would run a thousand ounces osgold of gold to 10 the ton whites gold find fand boua could not bs be kept secret the news hashed flashed from man to man and eyer everyone who heard it was eager to know where tile the locht location lon wasso waa so that ahe he could get some of 0 this wealth for blois himself elf white tried to keep quiet chehad he had no desire to tell when he be knew that every man who heard it would da dash shout out and stake calms but hla wish for secrecy was not respected when he refused to answer questions the men of the camp gat gathered I 1 I 1 about him and threatened to kill him if he would not show them where he found ills his gold after such threats white could do nothing but promise to lead them to the place right daway away the journey was not a pleasant one many of whites party were auspicious of him and when time yent went on and no gold god appeared they threatened again to kill him it if they found kaht lie he had been misleading them at last ane one night the party reached a blind canyon and made carlip one more day white announced noun ced would see them at his find which was thirty five miles to tile the northwest tired out their suspicions lulled by whites words the men slept soundly nil all but white himself ile he said that he was nervous since lie was so close to the mine ile he could not sleep for thinking ot ol it and aln since ce he was wakeful he be would dobli stand guard while the others slept morning came and with its first light the men awoke eager to press on but what was this ahls white was nowhere to be seen and his I 1 horse also had find disappeared 1 lie ile had slipped awny away in the night leaving them ignorant of 0 the location odthe fl the gold as they had been at first three years after this clever ruse rug white was wag seen been in salt lake city ft here rehe he spent money liberally lie loaned a man in provo in gold dust so his come cement DO mine ne was waa still producing then lie he disappeared ed haver returned to claim his money no one heard of him or saw him again |