Show GOLDEN rn 1 in A N T 01 M S fascinating 0 tales of 01 by fihs ihs L watson lost mines J JUAN CARLOS GOLD A A SPANIARD named juan carlos cal anine lie from tile the south into the san luls luis valley a long iong time ago lie ile came with many peons geons and they drove a pack train loaded with such things as books and manuscripts possibly gold was also a part of the cargo bargo for juan carlos hila had gold dust in profusion and was wag very liberal with it each year for three years acara this strange man disappeared on the first day of slay may and returned on the last day of october where lie he went and why no kneever one ever knew at last some of the mexicans who lived thereabouts tried to follow him but to their dismay he saw them and turned back ile he stayed at home after that in 1808 carlos hired some gome of the most ignorant of the mexicans thereabouts to build some large adobe houses at the side of the san luls luis takes lakes lie he paid ti them em in the usual gold dust and ordered them away as ag soon ns as the buildings were completed they went it Is said all but two of odthe the least intelligent who stayed by request these men no one ever saw again their milles families fa who came at I 1 last ast to inquire for them were told that they had received their pay and departed with the rest real but the mexican people hlll not fiot have linao it so BO they say that carlos caused the two to do some secret work and then had them killed lest they reveal it cut but what work and what secret no one can an tell then juan carlos died within the yearn year two of the mexicans in the valley became suddenly wealthy y and bought large herds of bf sheep arid and cattle they claimed that they had made this money mon ey in government contract work near niile k santa fe but n no 0 one believed them perhaps they did not even believe themselves the houses near the takes lakes were used as late as 1885 byll by hunters who gathered ta there bere iere to shoot water fowl fow apparently their walls nalls harbored no secret so it is not known what the two mexicans had been hired to do and the source of juan carloa gold that Is still a mystery it Is thought that possibly it may be d the place discovered by kit carson stewart and Arc archuleta archulete hulet a when they camped by the rio Gran grande brandeon deon on their way with to san sal cisco in a little stream which jiin ran into info the river they saw considerable gold and panned enough to sell in san francisco for 87 when johen ill the party came back they passed that way again but they tried in vain to find that shining lettla stream there 14 another story about this trip which goes into greater detail Accord according frig t to 0 tills this legend a pack k mule fell into the water and stew art and one other man nian had lo io stay at tills this place while the pack was dried out stewart saw the gold and panned some of tt it to pass the time ile he wrote the ill elo location callon down in a little book but unfortunately the book was later destroyed in a fire stewart went to old mexico and did not return until he was an old man inan afien he fie tried to revisit the scene butco but could tild not and d it whichever of these si stories orles it either if 19 the true one it Is bald further th pr that an old prospector and a buffalo hunter put their heads together later and followed out every clew to the place that they could discover they found the general location without a doubt but flood waters had caused a landslip of half it a mile in length and the little stream dij ha J vanished THE SOMBRERO mint MINE apaches apa ches were making the southwest a place of danger for white men men a band of Chirl cahuas ra raided aided janos and capt captured ureda a mexican boy whom they raised as one of the themselves ms elves years later they made another raid op the same place but tills this time they were chased anil the boy was r recaptured among other trinkets the boy voy had some bullets bulle t 9 where co could U ld tile the apaches get silver tile the people of janos asked F from rom a cave in a canyon answered tile the boy the cave hi lay y under tinder a peak which resembled a sombrero tile the high peaked mexican hot hat and there was much silver which the indians used could he chow them the place pined indeed he could he gave many directions ions lons which assured them that he knew whereto where to goso gogo several of he mexican cinq got together and with tile the boy as guide they rode into the fatchet mountains bains which lleon li eon the boundary between the united states and mexico soon they would be at the canyon under the hill bill shaped like a sombrero the boy assured them and soon they were vere indeed at the place mentioned but at the mouth of the canyon they were met by the apaches and driven away with a firm fierceness no delay dejay in leaving the apaches still probably know the location of tills this mine but others who have sought othave it have never found it |