Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-03-12


gone to America, to the hot baths of
Arkansas, and thence to the pure. dry
atmosphere of Colorado, but without
being much benefited. 1t struck
GrotZner that this was Il case i'm which
the Indisn spring water NIGH! he tried.
and as he had saved three bottles of the
water. inteniinw to analyze il, he took
one flask to Cullerier To drink and an
q her to Ec<tcldt TO test wi il the spec
tro cope, after the plan adoped by Bun
sen in his experiments with The wa,crS
of Ems. The third bottle he tried to an
alyze himself. but without any more
success than detecting the presence of
magncsia and slight metallic reaction
of another sort. While he was expert
mcnting, however, Eckfcdt came i'm
and asked "Where did YOU get the
water, GIOtzncr Whv? . Be-
cause l have made dicovery concern
ing it. 1t contains new metal"
How do you know ?" :" Because in
the spec. roscope it gives the bands that
are characteristic of but one known
substance, and that, indeed, is not
known-at least not on earth. 1t gives
the spectrum of the new metal called
helium, which Lockyer detected in the
sun"
Cullcricr. having been almost cured,
wished more water, but GrOtZner'S
cruise was empty. so the Frenchman
fitted ont an expedition of four wagons
and twenty men, and agreed to pay
GrotZncr 5000 and expenses to pilot
him to the spring, and they started.
The parry crossed by way of South
Park to the head waters of Grand river.
which they descended to the wagon
route across the Elk mountains:
thence westward across San Pete. ON
Grotzner'S Old STAGE route, until they
came to where he had left the road and
descended the San Rafael. With Il lit
tie care the canyon WAS easily found,
and all the rest were much easier than
GrotZner expected. for as soon as tlcv
turned into the canyon one of the
drivers. an old trappcr. said he knew
the place they wanted to 20 to. i" 1t <
kill-1evil Sprin-r I've drunk the
water many a lime. and You must Le
kcrful how You draw II and how YOU
drink it, or il'cl make Il bad Job for
you'-and led the parry directly to the
spot, which was lower down the can
yon. III Il rocky, pocket-lil>e ravine.
and nearly a mile from where Grotz-
ncr foHnl the Indians cainped.
Will some old trapp2r turned team
ster have the goodness To tell Us
where that kill-devil Spring. is,
from the foregoing informal ion
Cullel ier WAS cured. and started back
10 France. giving Grotzner Il large
sum of money on condi ion that he
| would. once Il year. send "to his Brit
| tany Chateau a barrel of the famous
kill-leVil Spring water And GrOtZ-
ner proceeded. having no fear of the
Piute> before his eyes, to build him Il
ho;el, "a rude plank hotel, with seven
or eight rooms" OF course he got the
plank where he sunk the half million
and odd thalers. But now tor the
grand discovery:
The house completed. Grotzner de-
termined to rcnovate the spring. In
digging around it with view To pave
the margin. oie of the workmen, upon
the side of the spring next the noun
tain. when about two feet down. struck
q stone that sounded hollow. lie
stepped back and thrust Il crowbar
u"der it to rai>e it up. The crowbar
ran in and was recovered with dlll-
cul,y. When the man drew it ont
again exclaimed, "Damnci if it ain't
gildcd!' Grotzner'S attention was at
tracted, and he saw that the croWbar
was apparently yildcd all over so far
rs it had been thrust in'o the cavity.
He now had the >ton" raised and found
beneath it the extremity OF Il pipe or
channel about eighteen inches i'll diam
e!cr. and running like Il blind ditch up
into the moun;aiI:S. This canal OF
tunnel was about half full OF stagnant
fluid Of a brilliant and beautiful yellow
color. apparently not thicker than
water. one of the men thrust his
hand into ii, saying. "l'll taste i;.'
Grotzner caught his arm quickly.
"Iou fool" he said. d" it may be some
deadly poison The mans hand,
when he drew it out, was purple violet
in hue.
That afternoon an express was sent
to Dcnver-the capital OF Colorado is
evidently a couple of hours drive in II
lumber wagon from this particular
part of Utah; and that night the Hotel
de Grotzer was burned down-acci
dentallv on purpose. The house was
rebuilt oseI' the spring; and most of
the hands were discharged. One more
extract:
September 5.-The express returned
from Denver. and witlH it came Eek
irldt. "Well!" said Grotzner, making
an effort to be calm. "The piece of
metal-thc point of crowbar, il looks
like" "rfat'S what it was. 1t
weighed 1909 ounces. and as>ayed al
tineness of SOB, yielding a bullion
value of f.35. .36 30, which | have de
posted to your credit i'll the First Ma
iional Bank of Denver" "And the
fluid ," "SomcthinT, l suppose, re-
naming from your own attempts al
aSSaving; vet l do not think | would
make such a compound. | call it
well, say an auroterchloritle of sodium
and magne>iunl-the terminology is
antiqnated. but expressive enough
did YOU examine it with the spectre
scope ," asked GrolZner. NO" he
replied. "See here, then,' said Grotz-
ner. displaying diagram. why.
that's helium!' Gro,zner displayed
another. "That's gold ''They are
bo II spectra of this fluid under condi-
lionS slightly changed" said Grotzner.
"How. then, did you make it?' asked
Eckteldt, in great wonder. ~ did not
make it," said Grotzner; "but found
it," And he led Eckteldt to the spring
and showed him the mysterious con-
duit. Eckfeldt looked ON, stunned and
confused. GrotZner dipped fragment
or la,I into the 1lIlid and handed il To