The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-11
LED BY MYTH
Virgin Gold and Silver by the Ton
and Findings Keeps"
Lost Mines Of Cntold Weelth-Many of
Them Have Been Found Repeat
edly Only to Be Lost
Again.
ICoPYRrGET, 1891


A remarkable story, touched with
mystery, tragic in detail and filed
with the pathos of remorseless fate,
came the other day from the Utah peu-
itentiary. Enoch Davis, under SEN
tence of death for wife murder, to save
himself il possible from the gallows,
had broken a silence of years and told
a singular tale of lost mine OF fabuA
lous richness hidden in one of the deep
canyons Of the Wasatch mountains,
as to whose whereabouts he among the
living alone possesses the secret
Years ago when Brigham Young wa
stin a1-powerful in Utah, he was in
formed By an old California miner
named Edward Rhodes Of o rich
mine which the latter had dis
covered and which he craved per-
mission to work. However, 1t was
the answering policy of Young to
prevent the opening of mines with
in the domains of the saints, and
Rhodes was ordered by his leader
not TO attempt to work his claim nor
divulge the secret to anyone. Being a
devout Mormon, he faithfully obeye-d
his command until his last illness,
when he told the story to his son.
Twenty years ago this son, John
Rhodes, resolved to visit the mine. He
never returned, and was supposed to
Davis, the wife murderer, discloses ttlat
he accompanied the younger Rhodes to
the mine and found that it confirmed
in every way tho description of its Dis
coverer. On the return journey Rhodes
was killed by a band Of wandering n
idians, and Davis, escaping, kept silent
as to the fate Of his companion through
fear that he would be charged With his
death. Davis has offered, il his lie fs
spared, to guide party TO the mine.
His story has caused great excitement
in Utah, where many old miners are
settled, and Several parties have already
set out to find and work the mine.
The manner In which Davis story
has been received In Utah striIdngIy IL
illustrates one of the most interesting
and remarkable features OF mining life.
Wherever miners congregate in these
later days, mines of great richness,
winch nave Deen discovered only to De
speedily lost, is a subject sure, sooner
or later, TO come up for discussion, and
scores of hardy and resolute men have
worn out their lives in weary and fruit
Less searches for these golden win o.
the wispo. No story Of this kind ia
more thrilling or familiar to miners
than that of the famous Lost Cabin |
Minis. Many lives have been tost and |
years wasted in searching for It, but IT'S
mystery, after the lapse OF thirty |
years, remains as batting and perplex- /
ing as ever. Ia the spring Of 1853, AL /
len Huribert, miner who had gained |
much experience but small profit in the |
gold fields of California, found him
self in Walla Walla, where he fell in |
with two miners bearing respectively |
the names of Jones and Cox The trio !
secured an outfit aad provisions for an
trip 30 the eastern slope /
of the Rockies, and after a long and
difficult journey, reached the banks of /
the Yellowstone. Here they built
raft on which they foated down to the |
Big Horn river. AS the country through |
which tfloy were moving swarmed with
hostile Indians, they We're compelled to