The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-01
FOUND in A DREAM.
The Strange Story Of the Discov-
cry Of an Arizona Gold Mine.
In His Sleep kansas Farmer Locates .
Lost Brother and . Rich Claim
and Has the Vision
Aaterialixe.

Lost Brother and . Rich Claim
and Has the Vision
Aaterialize.
One of the most peculiar freaks OF
psychological phenomena ever brought
to light has just eliminated near Phoe-
nix, Arizona. In 1859 two brothers, A.
B. and Luther Elicit, lived in Nemaha
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. 3. Elicit served
four years in the union army. coming
out in 1865 completely broken in health.
He returned to Kansas and settled
down ON his farm near Sabetha, where
he remained until recently. He ac-
cepted runor 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. r. 1t seemed that they were
together in the mountains, and in pass
ing down canyon they discovered
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 letter directed to the postmaster at
Prescott brought the information that
his brother was an old resident, but was
then out in the mines. A 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-
ton to look for the mine, but was
ashamed to own it. His brother met
him in Prescott, and after staying 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 filed with establishment, but he
was an old prospector and belief in
dreams was not one of his superstitions.
When they arrived at the spot Mr..
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 exultant]y 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
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 a great piece of it fell down,
exposing blind ledge OF white quartz
Respondent with free gold. They
worked into the mass, find it to be
about thirty inches in width and widen
ing as it went down at an angle OF
forty-fvc degrees. The prospector
stayed there, afraid to leave the mine
for fear of claim-jumpers, but his
brother brought 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..
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seem disposed to talk about the mine,
saying that they wished to keep its ex-
istence quiet, and had done so for two
weeks, but finding that mining men
from that section had already told it 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, so
he counts himself as one of the crea-
lures on whom fortune has smiled The
story of the dream was published in
1889 By several scientific journals in the
east as illustrating the fact that
former knowledge and information had
nothing TO do with the substance of
dreams.