New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-30

heard strange sounds and creeping up looked In
and saw people dressed Ike Indians sticking rods
into the ground II they were hunting for money
buried Thele good many OF them they had
flesh their faces or hands. and they had no
eyes. only holes. l remember how they looked now
How long did you sayl' l asked. well, now,
not very long, he answered We no witches
during the day. but 1t was O'Clock at night before
we reached home.
Our next and last expedition followed the east
side OF the mountain again. We without guides
and went away beyond the line Of our traditions.
We went on into the mountains and found where .
up an old lead. Somebody Lad evidently worked
there hundred years before The men We're not al
work on that day, and we soon found some specimens
OF nickel containing fair percentage OF siv'r t"ue
not enough TO pay for working. We tnrnrH nom
ward and stopped at Me house OF an od acquaintance
lie and his father before Lin h1d lived there All
their lives. and he was an old man. We tod =, nm
that IS exactly where they hunting for tie Davis
mine said he A man who now lives oyer on ne
other road has been around here searching ior 'ng
last twenty years. and Las spent go9d dfal %, "i
money he has maps Of he whole region; n ,,
seen him scores OF times going over N" country Win
a peach rod witch hazel stick In hand, ana now
no las several men qnaynt over there Trre tl "n
have been. He has sprtuali,t mediums up mere IRON
the city and they stay week at a time. OnN Inst
week he told me they had ; at midnight f %"T Ea
need dig hut few feet more that thoy could see
silver bars piled mp almost undcr Them ana s. ,na
rational other subjects. ,,
Do YOU suppose there Is any truth III 'I' "I'''
legend" ] asked. ,s..
Well. | don't know" he answered IL shouldat
be surprised. Father and have spent a great many
days I'm hunting for II. and II Is pretty generally
believed especially among the old settlers
MY search for the Davis mine ended with this Trip
That We found IT, believe hut that II ever was mine
In qny sense Of the word do not believe. nor tha'
there was over silver enough TO speak Of taken ont
The lmsis of truth is covered with legend, which nat
urally grows I'm the minds Of mountain people. mat
basis Of Truth Is that lascnclcvcr'S men pro'prr'd
through this country. In 1854 Baron Hasonclevcr.
president Of the London Company, came TO America
and bought tie variOuS iron FORCES r. Northern New
Jersey and Southern New York. Among them were
the Riugwood works and those In compton. I've
was I'm enthusiast made great improvements i'm the
manufacture of iron. developed mines. ard In August
17G5 sent to London ship loaded with iron, iuT'.
timber and potash. The iron was pronounce th9
best ever shipped from America. Ev l'o' ne mo
In operation four furnaces and seven forge, ana ha
built stores and workshops and houses 10 the nnm"r
Of o35 besides mlldams and miles of roads WITHIN
4 wear he had $40 German miners ana lHhnrrrS sci
tied on his lands. and their descendant. sim hV'
I'm the Wvnockic Valley His men explored the whole
region as far as TIE iou-atonic River IN Couneccut
ON lie east ard and north no one knows where.
# i n well known fact that not nm Important nlh'
la, ever been developed in northern New Jersey i'l
that shows traces Of proviODs work ~ expiration
hv his men. And this whole country lay directly
in tier way they went back ana forth 10 distant
fields.