Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1893-01-14
TALES OF the PLACERS,
Some Stories Of Early bays on
the San Juan.
The rate ~ the FRS, Men Who I'm.
tered the Now Famous Eldorado.
MANN rKOsrECIONs kiLLEp.


warfare IN tue banks ~ thr san Juan
river where the gold discoveries are 10.
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biNu'Nu y" ''I"' adventurous 'Wh.r
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.n, lu-uYlu'-. nr.'nrr'e vr father, -ut.r
A,- to-. sulru.u NrI.h naie ltr Laply
...ni u.- ,.ur.S aru lur barrier againrt
want and -uU-lns
Iurtr are moo IA DItaugI to-day Whr
wears hgl rode " walked among the
! luuuiaIu fnniurg@cr, through the tan
yrf,.d cauuur, ana ruUght tut Ih" wealth
shIrh II concealed "a that almost ~.
AZ. rsatbl- toSlIu, 80 long the unlrHm
mr!rd haunt Il tue lndlau, tlc coyote,
hr muuu'hiu hon ANA other Kindred
spirits Yesterday the Herald mnu uei
Mr. Bar BuiWelI, a grut,ruau ut pleas
my address aud Il fund ui information
concerning the great san Juan, Whu II
well known To most u our rca irfH.
prresri 90 tell sbruethIng cDuc"ruiu. the
region winch In ni ptrseut causing ~
much ait,ut.uu tu be devoted To- It, he
rutrrtaIrd tur writer Tor MI hour.
Il prurpr,irl through the ac'tiun,. lac
sand. LNrk iu =. went along the south
side ~ the san JIau river, winch IN,
ul,tre the route the Herald urges the
.lR I lltiHNs I went lihIll lltNl 7 ~
/, ia. I'p.utniu RIVER. There N.,astpfy
uf at at tpa, tine. gathered FROM tue
N,yaIpr, that PMS ,r III DNhltr mrthIl
: nb1uIdrd IN IN, NayaJr mountains. Al
.u.d ,tmr pro. p-rtur, Who's. uam. W..
MlrIck, Nae Il wu Through that country
La - and - Il was claimed that he
had discp,er-d a rIcn mrue aud hr cam.
: up 10 k,cI and made arrangements to ur
, game . party to accompany hjm ou he
, return trip IL. rIhtuIted some valuable
spec mems tie had breh ira, pun. auI
auntIug through the country, aud ac-
, cprd,hg To hiz story had Natchrd three
. Indians whom h. had uotr-d with yalu.
ab . ore, trnll,d them e. their dis ,u,rry.
aud only wanted assistance t. lpcate tn.
, greatest nine ia the country Well.
. the story srt the camp attire aud h. had
TO trouble IN getting hIs party organized,
, they had hardly got started. however,
Whcn human nature assorted itself, aud
there wAs II general quarrel over thr
shares which etrh were u rrr",N. ~ the
mlue Myrck lult the party IN dls
gus and yuururSp,i alone To- M,tchrtI'r
. store On the San Juan, aud induced
y Suuug Mitchell 10 follow nIm. 10 the
uld man, father uf The boy, he savea val
II iblr map, which showed the Topography
' u the country, and WAS t. Uc used 10y
= the latter, IN event ~ the boy aud Ny
rIrk not rrturriug after u certain leugtt
IA - time. They did not return, and Nit
, cneil organized search party consisting
. IT about twenty meu. Following the III
= ions gwen on the map they travelled
Tor several days ami Liualy came across
a ghas,ly SIGHT In n small TavIur Ia,
the RAPIDLY dec IN posing bodies az My
rick aud young Mitchell. They had cvl
!, IDENTIFY made u desperate light but ia,
Il Indians had vanquislel then,
70 Both bodies we're buried IN Monu
mrnt VA ley, close to where the meu haI
7" fallen. Thus valley IL IA grand aud I'm
u pr-.sive work ot nature. Towering hlgi
z above thu grave Of each ~ u grand, a no
a tile mon uinent IN the shape Of u s,santl,
un"lisk. when rises into the mr. Tor Owe
y sbO feet and ID fully III feet in diameter
q There are over twenty miles ~ thes,
q monuments. the highest being hbpu
, l,;Op feet They ar. mass, -, IN pr-ss V,
y plles ut black sandstone, TINS culOrlng b.
my IN part atttibutabl. 10 the iron Tor
q nation. They look az though IN SOU,
. -ruptive course ~ nature t.ey wer.
, spouted heavrnWsrd like ge,se an,
suddenly the sub-larce became hAr,
while hlgh 10 the AR and has since 10
main-d 80.
!. "Some q th-sc mon uments ARE crowne,
with obJects which resemble different at
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