Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-12-09
FOUND IN A DREAM.
The Strange story Of the D-scov-
cry Of an Arizona Gold Nina



One Of the most peculiar freaks 0f
psychological phenor1ena ever bruu<ax
20 light has just eliminated near I acr-
nix. Arixoua- In iS59 tVr0 hratAere. A.
Il. and Luther Elicit. lived In Ncr-aha
county. kansas luther chose The part
Of the vvandercr and went west pre-
sumabIv % Colorado. and nothing more
was heard ~ him except vague reports
that he had been killed BY Indians
The war came and A. r. Eilctt served
four years in the union arrny. enEatnv
out in iss,S completely broSen in hs2ith
He returned - kansas and settled
down on his farm near Sabefha. where
he remained until recently Tie A.
cepted rumor as truth and. not grttsnx
anv letters from the brother. regarded
him a. dead In IsS9 he WAS afflicted
by the breaking out Of an oii wound
and was confined 20 his room fer many
weeks. During that time he dreamed
that his brother was alive and i'm Frrs-
colt. 4. II II seemed that they were
together in the mountains. and in pass
ing down n canyon they discovered a
fabuiously rich gold mine few miles
from an old abandoned shaft once
owned by Luther. The dream ma2is
little impression on him. but the next
night il was repeated. and even the
. q AMI The outlines of the nountains
were perfectly impressed On his alind-
ilr Gid not heed the possibility ~ the
mine being there. for the smell Of hay
had never been out Of bis noStrils. and
he did not know quartz from lava but
he thought IL worth svhile to make some
inquiry about his brother. which he did
A letter directed 20 the postmaster at
Prescott brought the information that
his brother was an old resident. but WAS
then out in the mines A correspond
eucc began between the two brothers.
and during its course the part Of the
dream relating 70 the mine was tii-
vulgcd Being in that vicinity ono day
Luther Elicit looked for the mine but
found nothing. The matter passed
along until N month ago. says the san
Francisco Chronicle. when The Kansas
brother concluded TO visit his relative IN
Arizona, and at the same time 20 look
ut the country He still had an inclina-
ton to look for the mine. but was
ashamed to own it. His brother met
n1El IN ErH~A1OTN. anu 1EIeT STAY Iii ~ AWNN
DAYS there they went TO the mountains
and visited the old abandoned mine
When they approached il the Kansas
man recognized the country is the one
he had seen in his dreams. and told
even how the shaft was situated with
regard to the mountains and canyons
with such accuracy that his brother
was filed with astonishment. but be
was an old prospector and n belief in
dreams was not one Of his superstitions-
When they arrived ut the spot Mr-
Elicit said il seemed to him that he had
often been there before, and after look
ing over the ground they took pick
and walked westward toward tina point
indicated by the dream In crossing
Tic canyon the prospector stumbled on
a very rich ledge and exultantly ex-
claimed that they had found the
mine The brother answered that Il
might be rich. but the one they were IN
search of was richer. Climbing up the
other side of the gulch. they came 70
the spot where the dreams had located
the lode. but there was nothing in
sight but half-decomPosed granite
The perfect resemblance Of the land
marks had so excited their hope that
they were disappointed and stood for
some time talking the matter over
While so standing the one with the
pick began picking on the shelving
rock and great piece of IL fell down.
exposing a blind ledge of white quartz
resplendent with free gold They
worked into the mass. find IL 10 be
about thirty inches in width and widen
ing as it went down Mt an angle OF
forty-five degrees The prospector
STAYED there. afraid TO leave the mine
for fear of claim-jumpers. but his
brother brought n sack Of the samples
to Phoenix and the assays go two thou
sand six hundred dollars in nineteen
dollars to the ounce gold Samples
have also been sent to the mint at san
Francisco for testing When Mr.
Elicit was seen by reporter he did not
seem disposed TO talk about the mine.
saving that they wished to keep its ex-
istence quiet. and had done 50 for two |
weeks. but finding that mining men
from that section had already told IL he
narrated the story as given above
Mr.. Elicit is a responsible farmer IN
his home state and before September
had never seen an ounce of gold ore. sd
he counts himself As one of the erea-
lures on whom fortune has smiled The |
story Of the dream was published In |
fsSo by several scientific journals In the |
east rs illustrating the fact that
former knowledge and information had |
nothing 20 do with the substance Of |
dreams