Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-02-28
usxIcAN PARADISE.
ID discovery Of a Gorgeous A
ma Alteb Tat Temulo.

n. Alleged n "1Snt Temple.
!, one side Of Gold avenue IN Alamo.
hVns the Montezuma mine, may
rs' aD. an old Mexican dry-washer
10 se'A non Mariana Salazar. He IL
papnsu, nanstrious, thoroughly UNDER
very !, tho business of dry-washing, and
'lanas, a as during the six or eight months
bis GIN hsen at Alamo must have been
DO n ,sorsble. During the summer he
''ns'u 0Ssr to Mexican gulch, but says
ssn' o' dome much better In Alamo,
30 naI 10 Is now, by scraping the bed
EDe' sa a running the dirt through his
rock , ans making from $3.50 to half
D a'sse per day He made his dry
ounce . which is small affair. himself,
s' s.as really the parent of that kind
sna ' "t here. He never goes near
q uD. aater to clean up, but simply
u lnnti les his machine into a blanket, and
sn " his gold pan Sits his dirt out in
WIN .n,o than it would take an ordinary
s =, 10 carry out the operation with
| water. 40 4. ro+;va -
s,uora. was years ago a miner In the
M S, del Castillo, Zaragoza, Yuma and
asa, noints north of here, making and
'~ u.ar many machines to the Yuma In
n n.as About five years ago he made a
VIM VIM down the peninsula on the ocean
u iia returning by the gulf, and his ad-
NV" ..,uros If he should reduce them to
Vino .i,iro which he is capable of doing in
sa,nisb. would make an interesting
'f,nme A day or two since he told q
.o,derful story about finding the ruins
,,.n ancient temple on the gulf side,
s,mowbere in the vicinity of San
s u.ria three Or four hundred miles down
.ss PENINSULA. He says he was placer
=. at Calmilli during the first ex-
.i,oment there, and in company with
',~o Frenchmen undertook to pass over
.h;rb range of mountains which was
.Dnosed to be impossible. Owing to a
. ,m of water at Calmilli they trav-
.lA ali day and the next night by moon
i,bt and when nearly exhausted they
.srountered what appeared to be two
mall lakes of clear water, and plunged
II Il 10 ouench their thirst. The water
VA, salt but they were so thirsty that
hey drank until they vomited and were
n,@trated by exhaustion. Afterward
hpv recovered sufficiently to make
their way back to the mines. and the
rpnchmen did not care to make any
trher explorations in that direction.
Don Mariana afterward returned to
In Boria and from a ranch called Ell
asy started out to cross the gulf range
ranOther point. This time he says he
ms successful beyond his expectations,
and after passing the divide came into
irritable Garden of Eden on small
vsle In valley mile or so wide and
three OR four miles long he found grow
ing wild in the greatest profusion
oranges grapes, pears, guavas, dates and
triS the like of which he had never
bund in Sonora Near the center of
he valley were the ruins of an ancient
emple one side of which was standing,
Nth arches and style Of architecture
iaerent from any thing ever found
bout any of the old missions. In the
aurtyard above stone platform were
suspended three large copper bells and
great deal Of metal, some made into
eSels and some in a crude state, was
pa,tprnd about Salazar th / n lyc I h q m ataI