The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-02-26
Lu- an a-pah.

The Humboldt Register tells the following
 tough one of hot spring in Nevada
 Some sixty miles south of this place is hot or boiling spring, to which the Indians have
 given the name of Le-an-a-pah CT the haunted
 spring. It Is situated at the base of the Cinns-
 bar mountains, and IS a natural curiosity. The
 waters are boiling hot, and dense elOnds of s cam ascend from it, so that in cold weather It may be seen for miles. IL is located in . de- pression or basin in the rocks and bears such
 a striking resemblance 10 8 well, that casual
 observer would imagine 1t work of art rather than of nature. The volume of water in this well varies at certain periods of the year, and
 increases and diminishes in an unAecountabls
 manner and without any perceptable cause.
 sometimes 1t overfows, and the water forming
 quite rivuet escapes in the valley below where, as is usual with streams in Nevada, it siuks or evaporates, while at other times. with- out apparent cause, 1t is lowered in the well from ten to twenty feet below the wall which surrounds it, and thereby hangs the tradition of Lu~an-a- pah, as handed down from father to son among lhe noble Flutes, which is as fol lows; A great many years ago, long era the existence of the pale faces was made ap-' pa rent to the Red man, an Indian and hig sqn aw, in search of the nu; of the pinon, which con stitutes at certain seasons of the year. one of he staples of the Piute commissary, in passing by the spring or well at it's lowest stage dis covered crows nest containing several young o@ss in creyice on the side, few fset above the boiling water, but quite beyond their each Anxious to secure the prize which the nest contained Lo. which IS Latin for Indian, l.axed his inventive DO sers to their utomst ex"
 tent to evise ways and means for obtaining IL. At length an txpedient suggested itself which was immediately pat in execution. Stopping over the brink of the see;hing cauld- ron, h:ssquaw took hold cfhs? pedal extremities and lowered him down on the side of the spring until the coveted prize reached. Twist jng his 1.-the body halfway round, the crows were handed one at time to his dusky ate, NlO, WlLu OiS i.GaIN GISeA1 tlSCOJ ClAAea'OlGO tO retain them in her grasp until her liege lord succeeded in deropulatng ihs nest. The luuseular atron having her hands full, found it no small undertaking to secure the crows which were struggling to escape and retain the "old man, in his perilous position at the same time, and in an unguarded monument, one of the former escaped, and forgetting the respon> slbilty of her position in her anxiety toiecap- ture it, severed her connection with her lord, quicker than an Indiana court could do the job, and was n lone widow in less than one minute her husband being boiled in her presence. The spirit of the unfortunate Indian even unto this day hovers over the spring, and is said by the present generations of "warrors" to assume fantastic and groteSque shapes while sporting in the vapo-s which escape from 1t, but with that natural dislike for the pale faces inherent in his race, disappears below the surface of the water when a white man appears in the vicinity. The Indians look upon tke plscs with reverential awe, and neither love nor gold will induce them to approach it.