Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-01
A WORLD OF WEALTH..
The Western Prospector With a
Scheme That Outdoes Col. Sellers.
HIS HIDDEN SEA OF GOLD DUST.
Wants Substantial Company to Develop
the Rich Find.
THE SCHEME PORTRAYED ON PARCHMENT

Samuel Trumbull, young Western pros
pector and miner, arrived in Pittsburg re-
Gently and is stopping at the Arthur Hotel,
on Twenty-seventh street, Southside. Mr.
Trumbull has glowing, cheerful way about
him, and he has an unworked scheme, be-
fore which Colonel Mulberry Sellers rail-
road to the moon pales into insignificance.
Mr.. Trumbull sees almost within his reach
more money than would pay the national
debt, and he has more childlike confidence
than can be found at an ordinary Demo-
cratic convention.
On piece of heavy parchment, in all the
colors of the rainbow, Mr.. Trumbull has
painted his project, and all he wants.now is
company, financially substantial, to aid
him in its development. The scheme on
paper was developed to a DISPATCH re-
porter yesterday. The story of the rich
find is interesting.
81 am miner, plain and simple" Mr..
Trumbull said. 'T have worked claims in
California and every gold-producing State
in the Union. but have struck it rich at
last. What now want is to keep on the
inside and not get the worst of it, as the
miner usually does.''
Then Mr.. Trumbull unrolled his parch-
ment. 1t looked landscape from an old
master.
There's Millions in 1t!
'There's my scheme, sir, he said, and he
threw himself back into his chair with the
air of Mackey or Jones. ''You see those
snow-clad mountains? They are the Rockies.
Here" pointing to a brown bulge on the
parchment, ''is q valley. At one time this
was a sea of lava. After it baked hard it
bulged up, leaving hollow space beneath.
In that hollow space is world of gold dust.
Why, my friend" he went on with some
enthusiasm, 'there is this minute more gold
there than there is in the national treasury.
1t is simply inexhaustible. tell you the
wealth of world is buried there, and it is
ours If we go after it"
''How do you propose reaching it?" was
asked.
"Ah, that's the scheme See," he said,
pointing to a sort of tower painted red,
and placed with an artists skill on the
summit of the brown bulge on the parch-
ment. From the tower down through the
bulge or upheaval, to the bottom of the
painting where gold dust was literally
sprinkled on the parchment red line e1-
tended. "That is supposed to be pump
ing station, and the red line extending
down through the heavy crust to the hollow
space represents the hole to be drilled. 1t
is 1000 feet from the surface to the hollow
space, 1 propose to drill through, place my
pump at the bottom and force the gold dust
to the surface. All I want is $1,000 or
Sc, 900 to do the drilling, will take all the
chances. I will be the first to go down into
the hole, and I will guarantee to make
millionaire out of any one who will help me
out.
''Where is this place." was asked.
81 am keeping that quiet, but if you can
help me any don't mind giving the snap
away. It is in Montana. 1t is in q canyon
in the Rockies, and is just 100 miles north
west of Helena. Here" he said, pointing
to the right of the picture, "a herd of wild
horses stay.
Guarded by Band of Outlaws.
Behind that snow-topped peak the
biggest and boldest band of horse thieves
known to the boundless West are in hid
ing. Off to the right, where the horses stay.
is vast tract of unclaimed land, and the
herd of horses roam al their own sweet viii,
and probably many of them have never seen
a living being. To the left here is Snake
river. This river bursts out from under
the hard-baked lava and carries out great
quantities of gold. This gold is caught by
dippers, but it Is of an inferior quality, and
only proves my position that there is still
a rich mint in that hollow space"
As Mr. Trumbull told his story one could
almost see the great sea of gold dust, hear
the clatter of the wild horses rushing in
confusion through their unlimited pasture,
and see the daring horse thieves stealing
their way through the rugged mountain pass
to their rendezvous.
."Oh, it's great scheme" the miner con-
cluded, "and want to give Pittsburg capi-
talists chance at it"