The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-06-24

worth aud Smith were to have brough
ont with them on their return trip
considerable nnansity Of gold dust TO
certain Idaho City merchants; thu
merchants became uneasy; hoId-np
and robbers were not uncommon in h,
early days; day after day passed and nj
word from Orc Grande two week.
pass and still no tidings. The storml
having snbsided, two experts on snow
shoes, who had been through the coun.
try hat fall on horseback, were started
out from Idaho City to acertain the
cause of their non-arrival. We will moi
follow their trail Suffice it to say that
they arrived in Orc Grande inst twenty
one days after Adams had disappeared
around the point of rocks above that
town. Eager inquiries were made to
learn if they had seen or knew anything
of Adams. They reported hat they had
seen no one on their way in but that
one hundred miles back, aud frequently
thereafter for distance of 6fty miles,
they had crossed snow shoe tracks, hut
that the person who made them must
have been lost or insane, as he seemed
to have been WANDERING about in an
aimless way. The freshest of these
tracks were not more Than fifty miles
back, showing that the man no made
them was drifting towards Orc Grande.
Upon nearing this, The men in the camp.
probably ashamed OF having let adams
start out alone, speedily organized a
party to 90 IN search of him, and started
out early the next morning. About the
middle of the afternoon of their first
day out, one of the men, looking toward
he top of ridge some two miles away,
saw black figure in silhouette against
the white snow. The attention of 9th.
srs being called to it, II was discovered
10 he man, and, a field glass being
brought into requisition, it was an
bounced to be the man for whom they
we're in search. A shout of joy went up
rom the whole party, such as only
oarty of hearty westeners can give. 1t
vas almost loud enough to have been
heard, in that clear, qniet mountain at
nosphere, by the person for whom it
vas given. Adams soon espied the
'arty, and they were not long in meet
ng and shaking hands. Questions we're
lied TO him so thick and fast that all |
y could do was merely to answer thai
lis friends had both persisted in ava
anches, and that he had located the
laces where they had met their fate.
lie ask ed for something to eat. stating
hat the day before his supplies had
en- reduced to few Jumps Of sugar,
nd he had made his break fsst that
Forming on the last OF these and cup
alter.
Finding how tired and worn out Adj
ms really was, the party al once sought
place 10 camp, cooked and ate their
ipplies and made things as comforta-
lie as possible for the night. The news
the discovery of Adams was, how
YER, too good TO keep out of Loon
reek, so two Of the party made their
ay back that night to tell it; aud when ,
le Others arrived home, abont noon the (,
X day. all, even to the four women,
o girls and half-a-doz4n children, were
II to welcome them. Adams was lond- /,
called npon to tell all abont his trim
1t one old man in the camp who liked
an attic effect the man who was bv
mmon consent made leader in all :
cir meetings, and whom they had
Ibhed with the little of 'Jndge,n see
g Adams exhausted condition, an
unced to the crowd that it would be
irritable to let him rest nndistnrbed =
Til about 7 or O'Clock that evening, :
zen there would be meeting held at =
e "Lycenm," where he could tell the
lole story 10 all at one time. The "Ly- t,
1m" was log heuse which had been Il
lit for pnblic meetings, where the 81
ners often met to pass pleasant hours "
ring the long, idle winter. ii
W hat next follows is substantially the "
ny as told ny Mr.. Adams at The meet c,
, that evening: b,
Hirst day out; stormy had never ia
IN on snowshoes before that morning.; 81
veled all cay mp hill F.; worked hard la
down in the snow fifty times o,
nped that evening, very tired man, in
a forest of big pine trees on the 40
nnfain side about Ten miles ftom the er
ring point. One large tree in tn. ar
We had fallen, leaving tall, splin- so
ed stnmp; these splinters were fnll sn
itch, in which il vas an easy mat on
to start fire, hich soon couunni- Fl
I'd with the trunk Of the tree IN sti
ich il was still attached by the adj W,
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