Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
GOLD FOUND BY A DREAM,
THE STORY 4 CEUR D'ALENE MINER
 TELLS OF Ills LUCK.
seeing While Asleep a Valley GIistening With tue Yellow Metal and Then Find- InG it when Awnke-The Tale of Drenm Gsulch.

A letter from Eagle City, Idaho,
 says:-Many gold hunters believe in dreams. Like the gamblers, they nave Q great respect for luck, and anything that partakes of the supernatural finds
 with them the most ready credence. To dream of finding mine is to them con- elusive evidence that such mine exists exactly as seen ill the vision. If they fail to locate 1t that is their misfortune.
 They never doubt for a moment that they have been made the medium of the children of men. The Dream Gulch,
 one of the few paying mining properties
 in the new Occur d'Alene district, was so named because its owner, one David,
 claims to have been led to search for gold in these parts by vision. A year ago he was farmer up in the Palouse region, having no thought of riches,
 and well content to grub out living on
 his not oyerproductlve claim. He took no newspapers, and had no means of knowing anything about the rumors
 then in circulatIo2 to the effect that the Occur d'Alene country was rich Ill gold.
 He put in his crops last year as usual,
 and awaited the harvest.
 One insutlerably hot night in the latter part of August he had his wonderful dream. He went to work as usual in his field, and thought nothing of his nights experiences until nearly noon,
 when something brought to his mind the
 first fragment of his dream. It seemed
 to him then like some half forgotten
 story, and he seated himself intent upon
 recalling it all if possible. Slowly the
 whole dream was revealed to him with
 marvellous distinctness, and he went
 over 1t again and again in his mind as
 something that he was loath to dismiss.
 At dinner he told his wife, but she, a
 matter-of-fact soul, was disposed to rally
 him a little for his folly in paying atten-
 ton to it. He said no more on the sub
 ject to her. He made up his mind that
 the first chance he got he would send
 for some newspapers and see if they
 contained anything which would helE
 him to solve the mystery. In the mean
 time he committed his dream to paper
 even to the minutest detail, and made
 drawings of certain localities which he had seen in his vision. In talking abou 1t since then he has said: 'I have
 dreamed many times, as everybody has and some of my visions have been Very vivid, but this one was uHearthly. l } made such an impression upon me tha 1 could not begin to make you under stand my feelings if 1 tried. I could } think of nothing else. Something seemed , to be urging mo :di the tim3 to do some thing, but what to do did not know 3 I actually began to fear that my min'
 was beginning to totter."
 2 David's dream, as narrated by him ? self, was as follows ''I found mysel = in most desolate locality iD the noun t taiDs, where, to all appearances, Il
 human foot had ever been. Somethin - impelIed me on, and fought my wa l through thickets that were intensel r dark even at midday, over rocks an d through raging torrents. My cours
 was upward, and though could see n g end to my journey, and my feet wei @ bleeding and my clothing torn; 1 we | remember that I was not in the lea g discouraged or alarmed. At lengtl 'f when nearly exhausted, reached tL y top of the mountain, and looked dow 'f for miles into the valley below. As
 see it now it was not an inviting sigh 1 but pushed on regardless of the pal 1T the exertion gave me. When I got of the bottom found myself in a vast sol g tude, shut in by the mountains on eith' p hand, and not 8 human habitaLion % sight. It Is so real to me now that lg tremble to think of the condition l WI Ill in, but at the time know felt no col t. cern for myself. 1 lay down and dreame 'g agaln-a dream within q dream. 1 sa at the adjacent mountain peaks surmouute to by palaces of the most gorgeous descril D. tion, some of them of marble, others nt pearl, and still others of gold, silver, ar 'u precious stones. Their lofty spires al 1r domeq pierced the sky, and the sun m rays were reflected with dazzling bri tt liancy from their resplendent column ;h Out of their great gates came procession of of magnifcently attired horsemen, VI H. n 4- An..