Show LURE OF SILVER DAZZLES MINDS MIND S OF prospectors silver tipped indian arrow heads picked up along the old sioux trail have leave inspired lany many prospectors to hunt through the canadian bush for the lost mother mine wa which I 1 ich Ni elded chunks of pure sliver silver to one jolin john cummings nearly years a ago 0 the aie death of his companion through exhaustion as these hud flud sons bay companas comp anys employees tolled toiled over the old sioux trail in those pioneer days sent cummings out of the bush temporarily during liis ills absence a forest fire obliterated all traces of ills his lost mother mine 11 as he later named it to this day its location remains a secret many battles were fought along the old sioux trail a century ago indians swept in from tile east driving the sioux and Clack feet before them in turn ali these e tig tiger e like red ned men drove them back either way the trail was well traveled in peace time or in war fur trappers and their followers came next they found arrow heads with tips of pure silver the tale went abroad john cummings born in orkney scotland in it 1812 came hither to enter ali the hudsons Hud sons pay bay service with a companion lie he set out in the canadian bush hunting the old silver mine that had been worked by the sioux and the they found it they cut off 11 chunks of the silver as the rec of cummings show and started back to civilization travel aliro through ugh the canadian bush in those days was no picnic cummings companion died from exhaustion ha cummings burled buried the silver too heavy to carry and went out to report the tragedy before lie he could return to bury his companion a fire had swept through the forest lie he found his silver but all traces of the min were gone it has bas never been found a again ain my lost mother mine he called it 1 in his records tourists who come to port arthur with lake superior at its feet are told of the old sioux trail and the mystery of the lost silver mine occasionally casio caslo nally an old prospector with eyes agleam with hope will slip away into the wilderness Perli perhaps aps some day one will rediscover it it IE lie he does the zest of life will be gone for ills his greatest joy is in the quest detroit deto 1 t news |