The St. Johns herald., 1893-06-22
The Pegleg Mine Found Again.

itive that he has found the long lost
 Pegleg mine. If not. he has prop erty. he claims, of equal richness, and the name will not make much difference in the value of the bull lion.
 The history of the famous Pegleg mine is we'll known to every person who has been a resident of Califor- nia for any length of time, and the failure of many expeditions to To- cate it has caused the story to be believed a myth, and the very exis- tence of Pegleg himself is doubted.
 The prospector referred to is Jno. Ingram, aged sixty-three, and his wife is a woman of ffty-three. The couple are pioneers of southern California, and Mrs Ingram remem- bers having seen Pegleg in Los An geles. After his death she met a French doctor who cared for Pegleg in his last hours, and from him se- cured a good general idea of the To- cation of the mysterious bonanza.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ingram made seve- ral intellectual trips to the desert, and finally decided to make one more thorough search, and if un- successful give it up. They outfit ted for long trip, and they had it, having been away, all told, three and half years, nearly all of which time was spent on the desert. They were provided with a stout double spring wagon, canvas covered, and made a thorough search of the en- tire eastern portion of San Diego county, from the Cocopah country to the San Bernardino county line ard from the Colorado to the Coast mountains.
 Mrs. Ingram talks Spanish fluent ly, and after months spent in gain ing information among the Indians in the eastern part of the county, decided that the mine lay to the west. Indians who are familiar with | every rock and brush knew nothing of it, but said white men had search ed for it in that locality. Disap- pointed and discouraged, the old | couple turned their horses heads to the west and began the toilsome journey homeward across the sands
 The old man will not tell just where he received the first authen- tic clue, but from conversation with him it was learned he must have been nearing the range of mountains on the west of the desert when he came across an Indian sick and nearly dead from. thirst. He picked him up, put him in his wag- on and nursed him, ,and in the course of a day or two the Indian had nearly recovered.
 Ingram says they were camped near the base of a mountain, which he estimates to be from 1000 to 5000 feet high. In conversational Spanish with the Indian, Mrs. In gram told him they were looking for the Pegleg mine. The Indian knew nothing of Pegleg Smith, but said there was "mucho orc" much gold) on the side of the mountain, and if that was what they were looking after he would guide them to it. The old man said he looked up the mountain, and what the In dain said were bodies of ore ap- peared to him to be nothing but black rock, and he refused to make the trip. His wife, however, took careful note of the surroundings, and the more she looked the more she became convinced that the To- cality was that described by Peg legs French doctor. She at once informed the Indian that she would | accompany him, and the two made the ascent.
 In continuing the story of the find, the old man said: 'I laughed at my wife for making the climb, but when she got back in the course of an hour or so with lot of rock !