Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-04-08

years. The dispatch says:
"W Il. Gooding, formerly of
this city proposes to locate the
mine by means of some celebrated
clairvoyant. A party of eleven,
including Gooding and the CLAIR
voyant, has been organized, and
will next month set out prospecting.
The men are putting considerable
money into the wild scheme. "
There are stories Of several lost
mines in Nevada, and the adjoining
desert regions of California on the
east side of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, but most of these are
legends of merely local fame. We
do not know the particular lost
mine in search of which Mr. Good
ing and party are about to set out.
The lost mine, fame of which has
been most spread abroad on the
Pacific coast is the Breyfogle, sup
posed to be situated either in or
near Death Valley. Briefly told, the
story of this lost mine is as follows.
The man Rrevfogle was one of an
emigrant party that early in the
SOS, took the Southern Utah route
to Cahfornis from Salt Lake,
passing through the Mojave desert
and striking for San Bernardlno,
IN the Golden State.
While passing near Death Val
ley, Breyfogle went ahead of the
train to look for deer or mountain
sheep. While hunting he came
upon vein of deeomposed quartz
in which an abundance OF coarse
gold was visible With bis hunt
ing knife he dug out number of
large chunks of gold He then
FASTENED back to the road in order
to stop the wagon train when 1T
came up and make known his great
find. Much to his disappointment
the captain of the train refused to
halt. He said they were in re
gion where they were surrounded
with waterless deserts and hostile
/ Indians, md he would not endan-
ger the lives of the people; ana
besides, he did not believe that the
chunks of metal shown by Brev
fogle were gold : they We're "brass
or some other base metal.
When they reached California,
Breyfogle exhibited his nuggets to
many persons, and all told him
thay they we're pure gold. Brey-
fogle spent the rest OF his days IN
vain search for the mine he had
once seen, going out alone at times
and again heading parties OF men
who had faith in his mine. Also
many parties who knew the story
of the discovery went out on theil
own shook" and for forty years
there has been more or less search
ing almost every year for the lost
Breyfogle. La all it has cost oyel
sixty lives. Either the skeletons
or mummles of men are even now
found in that region avery season.
Last spring prospector named
Montgomery found mine which
by many persons is supposed to be
: the long lost Breyfogle. This mIn'
= is situated in the Death Valley re-
r eion naar the eastern edge of Asl
| Meadow, in Nevada, not fur iron
, the California mine. The vein il
| of large size, is decomposed, ant
i when found by Montgomery, coarse
) gold was plainly visible. ID
s. gathered from the surface of th'
+, vein yeast powder box of speci
/, men nuggets. The vein is near tn
| old emigrant road. 1t may or ma
+. not be the Breyfogle. There ar,
8 several other veins in the SAM
o neighborhood that show free gold
: also lodes that assay 100 ozs II
:, silver, veins of copper and of lead
r with large deposits of pure alum
: borax and similar minerals.
Another lost mine in this sam
region, about as famous rs th
BreyfogIe, is the "Gunsight."
also mas been the cause of man
= good and brave men leaving thel
bones in the desert regione abou
: Death Valley The Gunsight vein
$ nor nothing like it, has ever bee
u found. The man who found tn
e uunsight vein WAS one OF part
!. that took this same route throug
u Southern Utah III 1850. The part
Is of which he was member sutfertH
# ,'sLipwreck" near Death Vale
1T place since called "l'os
{ wagons. There the wagons c
# the train were abandoned, an
e those left alive struck out on foe
o and on OK x.back for Callfornlf
u Soon, however, they scattered, sev
i eral leaving the main party an
D wanderinF away IN various dlre'
ii tions on fot's,. Two or three {
these straggIers.92ng afterward
/. found their way inse> California
1t One of these found vessshowin
h metal, sample Of which Re*oo