Show golden phantoms fascinating S TA TALES LE OF LOST dy ally edatha L calson THE MISSING MUSKETEER WHEN a london syndicate employed nerbert herbert hoover then an engineer to hunt for a lost mine it was a rather good sign that there really must have been such a mine its name was the musketeer it lay and surely it still lies in the fraser river region on the border between the united states and canada it was found by jacob henshaw an old prospector and his partner the two men had lived with the indians tor for several years perhaps they first heard ot of the mine from these humble friends or perhaps they stumbled onto it as they followed after the golden phantom but they found it rich enough to stay their steps they built a little cabin and went to work in september 1873 henshaw came into vancouver then a small place just beginning to grow with a donkey which carried two sacks ot of ore lie he took this to an assayer and presently word spread about that here was something which assayed the richest north of the comstock lode there would have been a gold rush in no time had any anyone one known where t to rush but henshaw who could neither read nor write had a deep rooted suspicion ot of his fellow men lie he felt that no good would come ot or it it if he gave out even the faintest of clues lie ile knew that he be should file his claim but that would place on record the exact location of his find in the meantime men bothered him continually asking all sorts of questions watching e very every move he be made to get rid ot of them he invented various stories hoping that they would believe his tales and go away but somehow there lacked the ring of truth and no one bothered to take his stories seriously henshaw was being driven to desperation pe ration at last he figured that it if he could go back and consult with his partner they could work out some way of filing the claim in secret but here was another problem to get away without detection how he managed it no one knew but somehow henshaw turned up missing one day everyone thought that he had eluded his annoyers and that after a while he would return to vancouver with more ore or else that his parner would show up to try what he be could do in henshawe Uen Hen shaws stead weeks went by months years neither of the miners came no one heard of them no one knew what had happened everyone guessed perhaps henshaw had been caught in a blizzard perhaps his part partner r had been killed by indians perhaps and perhaps some day the musk musketeer 1 teer will be discovered again so tar far it has managed to stay a mystery men have hunted for it certainly time and time again those who have faith in spirits have often been told by these unseen influences just where to search but something must be wrong for they hey seek but never find a 0 a |