Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-05-23
MEAIUO'S LOST CITY.
Tao Fem 7riSab!a Discovery of C.
Prospect 'ag Ei.ner
Thjio Rambling TIL .oa~a tao Tud7 of
the Durango III auntal ~ tao Pros
psstor Uar? M Jppn tho
Deserted IOWA.

The finding of ruined and deserted
city recently among the will1 of the
Durango mountains by Malvern ".
eca'"orth, an En-lisa mining man,
as hal the effect of renewing the in
,ege t in the lost city long known to
.,ist somewhere in northcra central
.c,,ico, says the st. Louis Globe Demo-
rat. Thu claim rnede that iir. Crcs-
worth Is the first ,aaa TO see The city /,
perhaps erroneous, rs it IL pretty we'll
.aoNn to have been discovered by
lose Bauesa, n Mexican. over half q
(, .itury arc, while the Indians OF the
Sierra NIadres have lone referral to
ueh city in their traditions. On the
strength OF Harresa S statements three
different parties have baen outitted in
late years from san Diina5 a mining
camp GA tac west side of the range. In
the effort to locate the deserted city
nnd sccurc the treasure which the Ie,s-
,enn sa Il it contained
ihc story OF Barrcsa, who was alive
up 10 n few years AGO. IS that whcn q
vopng man OF twenty-five years of age
h. was imDri ionc1 in the clr:al in the
>
tlo-. tealing. Whether guilty or not
ho declined to say. but ut any rate he
uccecded in making his escape FROM
Jail and ilco TO the mountain wilds Of
tlc north i'll the effort to reach his old
homc at San Himas. The Sierra
Nla.,res in the state OF Durango are
,mong the Widest mountains ia the
..'orll AMI arr almost impossible. The
fugitive soon became lost and for many
lays wandered in an almost dcmented
condition over the rugged businesses.
one day il coming out upon = precipi-
tons bluff locking down into deep
valley lie saw far below him what ap-
pearel to be populors city. After
rsat difficulty he succeeded in dc
cendinT the lrecipitous wall which
icnlIncl in the settlement from the
outside worl !. but found. to his cina.e-
mert not M inhabitant in sight. Tx
plorin,r the city. he found TIE houseo
ecert,d and the courts OF the dwell
,ag5 grown up wit rams weeds and
ropicul planti. ESplorln.s further, he
found signs whieA toll him that the
city bad been deserted or It's people
.wept au denly ont of existence while
pursuing the ordinary vocations of
life. The place coull caeily be rccog-
NiAel as Al oil Spanish mining town
by the wor!.B which remnirol. and,
Ding into the oil tails Ana arrastraa,
- found large stores of silver ore left
R.lile in the process OF beng worked.
The discovsrcr took samples of his
IL and alter many more days Of wan
acring finally found his way to san
Dras. wh4ro he had the samples
.i,,.ayol. They proved to be ycry ri,A
IN SLY I, itA some gold, and the story
told by the Mexican created large in
teicst. \ party. With Earresa as it,
aide, soo;l set ont to locate the place
tad sac 1t OF its riches. But Is the
mountains were without trails and the
5tintl'y il rcncral one OF the toughest
II The world he WIS unable to again
,ind the place, the trail to which was
ut lea t very obscure ard intricate.
Two otller attempts to find the hidden
city under the direction of the Mcx-
lean were made in later years, but
were no IlOre successful tAa tho hrSt.
As there Wa ever raascl - believe
the story II t:ly of the Il associates of
l:arrc d, who lived to be over ninety
years old. ut variou, tiincB have cs-
s.agel to reii cover thu nncient city
and it, wor .iur3. Many OF thon have
come t. grief and have aeYer been heard
OF since trying 10 unravcl tae mystery
OF The 5i2rras.
Richard T.. Chisn, of the City Of
Me.sico. Il well-l1no1yn mining man and
at present editor OF the Mexican Miner,
was personally aequaint d with Bar
re5a when he va: IN cal man, and gaya
{ lcre can he littls doubt that the late
finl ma &c is bat an accidental discov-
CRY of what has been searched for
through many years. Mr.. Chiorl is en-
t.rAly familiar with the country in .
general way and says the Spaniardo
three hundred years ago had large
mines worried by native slaves in the
rc'Fion. If the fresh efforts which will
be shortly made to locate the city sue
coed il their purpogc he thinks some
of the richie t silver mines in the re-
public will probably be reopened to
the lipht and 10 WORK.