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Show GOLDEN ; PHANTOMS Fascinating Tales Of Z&Vha L. Watson ; Lost Mines wn.u. ..-.".".....v.v:-.y THE LOST CITY IN 1S79, near where the town of Aspen, Colo., now stands, a stranger staggered Into a ranch house, ill, tired, and crazy from privation. When he had recovered sufficiently suffi-ciently to tell his story, he sioke about the ruins of an old city in Utah, near which were an old fort and ft rich mine of gold and silver. The mine, he said, seemed to have been worked centuries before his discovery of the place. He had about 20 pounds of ore to back his story, which he had managed to keep throughout his journey over the broken country. As soon as he had regained enough health to allow him to travel, the stranger set out again with his load of ore, saying that he intended taking It to Leadville to sell. He expected to devote the proceeds pro-ceeds to furnish a modest outfit, when he would return to his find and work it. But he disappeared from all knowledge when he left the ranch, and was never seen again. A party was gathered at Meeker Meek-er to go into the Ute reservation where this mine was supposed to be, and it started out on the trail of the golden phantom. The party was headed by an old prospector who knew something of the country, coun-try, and this man, as they neared the place where the mine was said to be, decided to go on ahead to scout the lay of the land. He was gone for some time, and when he returned he had with him two sacks of ore which were from 70 per cent to 80 per cent pure silver and also contained some gold. He came with bad news, however, for the Utes were not feeling hospitable. hos-pitable. Later on this same prospector met a cowboy who claimed to have considerable influence over the Utes. He was persuaded to join this man in a hunt for the lost city treasure, but first he made a map of the country and left It with friends, as he felt uncertain whether wheth-er he would live to return Time went on, and no word came from tho prospector or the cowboy. cow-boy. They seemed to have disappeared disap-peared as completely as had the stranger who started for Leadville with his ore. At last the prospector's prospec-tor's friends, who had been keeping keep-ing his map, decided to go in search for him. They followed the trail into a .desolate country where no human seemed ever to have lived. At last they met an old Ute who appeared to be friendly, and told him that they were hunting for the two men. The Indian understood them, and ' led them on to the foot of a cliff. Here they found the body of the prospector, who had been shot and thrown off of the height, but no horse nor pack was to be seen. Several Sev-eral miles farther on the old Ute showed them the body of the cowboy, cow-boy, also shot to death. The two men were buried where they fell. In 1904 the location of these graves was still known, but the site of the mine has never been found. BEHIND THE WALL TN 1900 two men named Murphy 1 and Thomas came into a little town in Sonora, Mexico. They had some ore which they took to the local assayer, an American, for a report. It assayed $00,000 to the ton. The newcomers said that they had been prospecting up in the mountains to the west, and one day their burros got away. It was while they were hunting the animals that they found a wall of masonry which aroused their curiosity, it seemed very old, nnd yet was well preserved. pre-served. Its discoverers thought thnt there might be something valuable behind such a wall, nnd accordingly accord-ingly they broke through to investigate. inves-tigate. Crawling Into the hole they had made, they found themselves In the mouth of a tunnel. There were peculiar la delta stofi,utto other evidence of ancient tribes In the long-hidden place, but what these men wanted was gold, and It was with a vast thrill of joy that they found It, at the end of some loO feet, a two-foot vein of the yel- i low metal in the breast of the tun- , nel. ' The assayer heard their story . with great Interest. Then he proposed pro-posed thnt the partners let hl.n I" on the mine, n was Yaqul country, coun-try, and throe men would be stronger strong-er than two. Then, his greater knowledge of ores and minerals would also servo them well, lie waS able to convince Murphy nnd lhonias that they needed him as a h rd partner, and they agreed to take him back with them Two days later they started for the mine. o . , y '""""shed (he trio, and the two Prospectors were killed. The assayer as-sayer escaped, but he had not found '" where to .search for ,. M(.ent 1, and ,h ,, m '-'t to (his day. |