Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-08-06
An Indian Sailed Down!

The Virginia Union tells of the following
sngular discovery in Nevada:
We learn from the drivers of several Nor
mon teams which arrived here yesterday from
Salt Lake, bringing with them loads of salt
from the immense fields near Sand Springs,
about eighty miles from this city, that the re-
mains of an Indian have been found there,
completely embedded in rock salt, four feet
below the surface. The body was in a com
plete state of preservation, and from appear
ances had lain in the same position for many
years, or perhaps for ages. The flesh was
perfectly dry, like that of mummy, and il
was evident that it had been perfectly satu-
rated with brine, which prevented its decay.
The Indian was about the usual size, and re-
sembled the Piutes that now inhabit the same
locality. Part Of a bear skin and rude bow
were found near by, and at a distance of sew
eral yards a pair of elkhorns of enormous
size were disinterred.
The supposition is, that this entire salt bed
was once a lake, and that the animal that mad
been wounded had taken refuge in the water
whittier he was followed by the Indian, who
sank into the mud at the bottom, and was
unable to extricate himself, and thus perish.
ed. The body was in sitting posture, and
the presence of the weapons and the proximi,
ty of the remains of the elk, point to this
conclusion. A number of Piutes who were
present when the preserved body was taken
out viewed it with mysterious awe, based no
doubt upon some superstition, and they could
not be made to approach it. They seemed
to be. aware that it must have been buried
where it was found for great length of time,
as these salt beds have been dry and hard
from time immemoral with them; and the
life-like appearance of the corpse, as it was
taken out, had, in their minds, something in
it akin to the supernatural.
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