Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-08-25
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

The past two weeks has witnessed many secret wbisperings and much un
 lsrgrouni preparations 10 take Dos session Of fabulous mass O' veal, b that, for generations untold has been been lyIng unowned, uncalled for and unclaimed on the dry and barren mesa of sonora. Tarselgreas esrshern pots hesred with gold one thousand. one nuudred and two fue, and pilo of sil. yer bigger than the waste dump Ot the Peerless mine and a mine itself-the very core of the earth's riches awaited but the coming of ths hardy adventur- CT tn say Tt IS mine" Bat at length the faseiul words were said, for at 10 o'clock this morning. sun tune, tbe Ollss of gold, that had soiIdifird under pressure of their own cohesive weight, wss look
 ed upon by strangers eyes and thsir to possession filed.
 On Monday morning last, this year ef grace, Don Willis F. Haynes, Don Herbert B. Dodge, Don LsopJllO de Oarillo and two other DJ1s 10 the lali
 ot maDsna bo-n, armed esca with s re- beating rifle. colts revolver and uE- shesthed knives and provided vilh Liyh
 top boots to tramp over the had Un- even nuggets of gold in the day time snd velvet slippers with their ini,isls worked near the toes. to rest their bill
 icn gire feet in when night drew on space left by special conveyance for NJghles which town they expected to reach -Dear ;he waning of the same GaF; thsuce they went by rail to Hern0silif, where L.- n k,, Al of tte rising moon, traveled due sou h. east by eRst 4I miles ard camped for thr night. Tais would bring them within
 iust two milss of their qresi EIpecis- tons which they p1rposed 10 reach 6t the time stated. How they first soqlis
 ed a knowledge of the whereabouts cf this favored spof, is a tale too full of romance to be told to-day, tut urich vIth a scrupulous regard for truth will be given to our readers On the return Cf the frgonauts wilh the golden haece- Fuffice to say that the mine bss quite a history. From it the veal h Or &sEioJ
 Ehs drsSn ID the days Of Nj uteEuma.
 It was afterwards voIksd by rhe Span iaris, bus abandoned ss unprOtitsble, 1t
 being necessary to blsst through tive feet of silver before the SuId could te
  was placed on the m.re 10 remain uE- broken tIll the days of obetptr tr8us- DOT. RsiOn shOuld make Its working again prOfitsb le. But IT the mesnsIme an Empire went down srd Reputl C rose co it's crumblirg ruins, men died, records were lost, the keeper of tbs ky Lad made hls last cross ard the memory Of the iron door passed into HOthlngn-ss
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 secret and the lOug lost Vas found bg favoted son of 6 COL quisit dcEe of old Weighed down by tke terrible secret. VII sni emRcIated he succeeded in reaching Tucson ID quest of a trusted relation fer hOm be sought in vEin for two long years. blt meeting hIm at length b. told his story, snl died as he hsd righ; 10 do. This Loz keeper of he veighty secret with s hbsrslty worthy of 70 R.est a- ceu-e offered tu divide" with the AmsrIcln D0ns ID COL sIderstion of the wherevI.h to ID ke tbe tTip. A few hundred dollars chang. q hands, SD spple was given here there Eas sB co a'd and ihe journey of re elamstion wEs undertaken Es above re- lated.
 This inform stion was confded to the CITIZEN man, ID order that ''in case he gos oD to ii'. as hs in s,l likelihood would he would be prepared aghins say ing anything about II until the party hsd pa: sed Nogales as it was feared that people from that point would hesd them of The writer quietly waited till they hsd reached and secured the prIze be. /. fore making the above vouche1 for facts known. They expect to be awsY about l 10 days,