Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-09
FOUND IN A DREAM.
The Strange Story of the Discov-
 cry of an Arizona Gold Mine.
In His Sleep a Kansas Farmer Locates . Lost Brother and . Rich Claim and Has the Vision
 AIaterialIze.

One of the most peculiar freaks o1
 psychological phenomena ever brought
 to light has just eliminated near Phoe.
 nix, Arizona. In 1859 two brothers, A.
 E. and Luther Elicit, lived in Nemahn
 county, Kansas. Luther chose the part
 of the wanderer and went west, pre-
 sumably to Colorado, and nothing more
 was heard of him except vague reports
 that he had been killed by Indians.
 The war came and A. E. Elicit served
 four years in the union army, coming
 out in 1865 completely broken in health
 lie returned to Kansas and settled
 down on his farm near Sabetha, where
 he remained until recently. He ac.
 cepted rumor as truth and, not getting
 any letters from the brother, regarded
 him as dead In 1889 he was afflicted
 by the breaking out of an old wound
 and was confined to his room for many
 weeks During that time he dreamed
 that his brother was alive and in Pres
 colt, A. T. It seemed that they were
 together in the mountains, and in pass.
 ing down canyon they discovered a
 fabulously rich gold mine few miles
 from an old abandoned shaft once
 owned by Luther. The dream made
 little impression on him, but the next
 night it was repeated, and even the
 trees and the outlines of the mountains
 were perfectly impressed on his mind
 He did not heed the possibility of the
 mine being there, for the smell of hay
 had never been out of his nostrils, and he did not know quartz from lava, but
 he thought it worth while to make some inquiry about his brother, which he did.
 A ln4t xl>
 Prescott brought the information that his brother was an old resident, but was then out in the mines. correspond. ence began between the two brothers, and during its course the part of the dream relating to the mine was di, vulged. Being in that vicinity one day Luther Elicit looked for the mine but found nothing. The matter passed along until a month ago, says the San Francisco Chronicle, when the Kansas brother concluded to visit his relative in Arizona, and at the same time to look at the country. He still had an inclina- tion to look for the mine, but was ashamed to own it. His brother met him in Prescott, and after staying a few days there they went to the mountains and visited the old abandoned mine
 When they approached it the Kansas man recognized the country as 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 filled with aStOniShment, but he was an old prOSpector and a belief in dreams was not one of his superstitions. When they arrived at the spot Mir. Elicit said it seemed to him that he had often been there before, and after look ing over the ground they took pick and walked westward toward the point indicated by the dream. In crossing the canyon the prospector stumbled on a very rich ledge and eXultantly ex- claimed that they had found the mine. The brother answered that it might be rich, but the one they were in search of was richer. Climbing up the other side of the gulch, they came to 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 some time talking the matter over oO pick began picking on the shelving rock and great piece of it fell down, exposing blind ledge of white quartz with free gold. They worked into the mass, find it to be | about thirty inches in width and widen ng as it went down at an angle of | .orty-hve degrees. The prospector | stayed there, afraid to leave the mine | or fear of claim-jumpers, but his | brother brought sack of the samples | O Phoenix and the assays go two thou | and six hundred dollars in nineteen | iollars to the ounce gold. Samples | lave also been sent to the mint at San | Francisco for testing. When MT. l Elicit was seen by a reporter he did not !, eem disposed to talk about the mine, aying that they wished to keep it's ex- stence quiet, and had done so for two weeks, but finding that mining men rom that section had already told it he the story as given above.
 MT. Elicit is a responsible farmer in lis home state and before September lad never seen an ounce of gold ore, so le counts himself as one of the crea- ures on whom fortune has smiled. The tory of the dream was published in SS9 by several scientific journals in the ast as Illustrating the fact that ormer knowledge and information had lothing to do with the substance of reamS-