Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-05

death Ill camp pOrtends misfortune. In thls mountain they made a per ment camp.
 One day Dr. Thorne went out with his two youthful companions to hunt with bows and arrows, and the boy with willow leg that the doctor had made for him, accidentally stepped into a crevice and broke 1t. The h. dians thought it to be bad omen and at once moved camp eastward one days travel, and camped in cotton wood flat where the Indians planted beans. At this camp the running wa ters of the Salt river could be heard at night. The doctor went out hunting almost every day with one of his com panions and on one of these trips the boy picked up a nugget of gold from the bare bedrock in a wash west of some small, very red hills. At this place there might have been perhaps five thousand dollars in gold nuggets in sight. Dr. Thorne was so disgusted with the Indians that he didn't want to have anything more to do with them than was possible and he told the boy that it was of no account. The young Indian replied that it was good, and that the Indians could get powder and caps with nothing else. Dr. Thorne told him to throw it down 1t was of no value, and walked away 1 apparently unconcerned, but from that time forward he took close obser- vations of the surrounding country in | order that he might recognize the place again if he ever got free.
 After long residence with these Indians the Apaches and Navajos had | succeeded in making treaty of peace between the two tribes, and the h. dians with whom Dr. Thorne dwelt | journeyed to the eastern side of the | Mogollon mountains to participate in the grand ratification of the event and | to complete it's conditions. Navajos were to give the Apaches eight hun dred sheep for the return of some of 1 their squaws held in captivity, and to forever remain at peace. The meet | ing was pleasant one and the ex- change was fully completed when, to make the event more memorable a vast quantity of tiswin was brewed | and the Indians all got drunk and be- gan fighting. The Navajos succeeded in whipping the Apaches and took away the sheep they had just given them. In the confusion of the melee Dr. Thorne got among the Navajos and subsequently, escaped to Cuvero, little town out from Fort Wingate, and to civilization. He afterwards settled at Casa Blanco, near Socorro, where he married, raised a family of children and finally died in 1882 or 1883,
 He made several efforts to find the place where he saw the gold, and bankrupted himself on two different occasions in outfitting expeditions at Socorro to find it. The first time he become snow-blind in the Mogollons and was taken back to his home; on the second attempt the party became disgusted because he could not find 1t in the White Mountains and would go no further. Some of the old Mexi cans in the party contended that they had already gone close to the borders of California and so they turned back when they reached Cibicu creek.
 Since that time Dr. Throne was never able to fit out another party in New Mexico, and when the Apache troubles became settled he found him. self too old to sleep in the hills and prospect, but was willing to give any body such information as he could that might assist in its discovery. lie told MT. Hart that he never made an affidavit as to the quantity of gold that he saw he was familiar with the value of gold in California and to the best of his judgment the amount exposed was worth about five thousand dollars. He never faA Cooley, Woedoa or Franklin, as has been stated, that lie could load a burfo with gold in a day.
 This is the story of Dr. Throne. Vi ell isssr rssax siayss sstssE the golden treasure he described, and are still hunting for it. but it's exact hiding place is still as great mystery as ever.