The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-19
HE DRASK TOO Much WATER.
A Rrotpector Paraiyzsd by the At
traction OF a Mineral Ledge.

t,o11fa tCaL,3 Euion-Dennorrat
a party oil quartz PROJECTORS passed
through Sonora recently en- route to
San Bernardino county, and being
acquainted with some parties here they
told in brief their successes in the
sierras. One thing they realized was
so entirely foreign 10 their trip. 80
strange in nature, and so deiicatefy
relevant 70 the phenomena OF magnet
ism, that an account Of 1t viii b. OF
general interest. There were four
parties IN the expedition. and being
well supplied with provisions, PACK
animals and assaying apparatus, they
reached the eastern size OF Mount
Lyeii on or about the 9Th day OF July.
There they found considerable mineral
In siraiiiied formation, and remained
several days.
In the party was a young man Of
about "a years Of age. He had light
hair, blue eyes, a delicate frame and a
nervous temperament. Prior to Join
Ing the party he had been living in
inyo county, and for a year hal been
using water from a spring which by
quantitatiye analysis showed CON
siderable amounts OF iron and copper.
II appears that on the ssth Of Judy, at
aFRAA ~ IL ~ A&Aif llAG PETTY Hal
reached a lofty eninence on the
mountain, they discovered a big reef
Of mineral, much resembling manga
nese and chrome iron. They
took sample pieces from the
belt, and were returning 70 their
camping place when one OF them.
missing the young man heretofore al
luded to, looked around and found
him standing on the reef OF mineral as
straight as a rod OF iron, and almost
as rigid. In moment all hands were
up to him and piled him with ques-
tons. He could not move. nor speak.
nor fali-neither could his feet he
loosened from the mineral beneath
them.
Every available meanswas used TO
extricate him, but they we're OF no eff
feet. He remained erect, immoyable
and rigid until the sun went down.
then gradually he assumed physical
government over his condition. When
finally he was able 10 move. faint cleo
trio sparks seemed TO issue from the
earth around him. lie said subse-
quenily that his sensations on APP
preaching the spot were those of weak
ne IS and trcmor OF the nerve ceuters.
lie knew everything, yet was incapa-
Bile OF moving.
II was noticed by one OF the parties,
who was n surveyor, that his position
while in the mineral was in line cor
responding with a radius of the center
of the earth. The theory that obtains
in general respecting the strange
event is that the man himself is using
the water OF the mineral spring where
he had been lin Inyo county, for some
time last past. had become largely
mineralized, oarbunized, and coming
on the mineral zone at point
where the magneto-electric in
tluences we're actively at work,
the magnetism of the earth being
negative and that Of his system being
positive. and his condition being more
chemical in influence than ply steal In
nature lac became polarized by the cur
rents OF the mineral and readily yielded
TO their powerful attraction, after the
manner IN which particles OF iron are
united together and held in a right
line by the poles OF magnet The
gentleman feels none the worse for his
fearful experience, but millions of
money would not tempt him back to
the spot