The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-02-14
THE war correspondents still
have Mexico and Guatemala on
the verge of a desperate conflict.
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I,IE lOoT SILVER Vcms.>
How Albright Carried His Secret Will
Him to the Grave.


Him to the Grave.
Tho Lost Vein of Colorado still
eludes the eager prospector. Behind
it range the incidents of one of the
most touching love stories ever writ
ten. In the early sixties Amos AL
bright went to Colorado to seek his
fortune, leaving his wife and chill
dren on en- Illinois farm. His health
began to fail soon after his arrival in
Colorado and, to make matters
worse, came distressing news from
home, for to make the journey to
the goldields he had borrowed
money from a rich neighbor, in for
mey days an unsuccessful suitor for
his wife's hand, and the wife wrote
that their creditor now threatened
to forecloso his loan and drive her
and her children from their home.
Tho news made Albright desperate.
He sold portion of his scanty be-
longings, exchanged to money for
provisions and set out alone for the
mountains. He was sick unto death,
but desperation nerved him on. He
reached the mountains, turned from
the trail and began prospecting on
unbroken ground, but day after day
disappointment alone attended his
efforts. In fortnight his provi-
sions were gone, and he saw that only
starvation or retreat lay before him
One weary day shutdown found him
sitting on heap of drift at the base
Of great rock Re was fearfuIly
hungry, and weariness ard the cold
winds of the mountains bitterly CD
pressed him. Then came discovery
such as is seldom heard of outside
the pages of old romance. What was
it that he saw in the rock upon which
he was sittingP Silver! Not quartz
nor glace, but virgin ore. The vein
was as broad as his hand in the mid
die and dwindled away in waverinc
lines yard in length.
Albright sprang up and set to work
with feverish energy and the unim-
paired strength of giant. It vas a
bright moonlight night, and he Ia
bored without pause until sunrise
When morning came, he had mined
more ore than he could carry away
with him. lie SOW clearly that the
vein he bad discovered was a true
one AID probably extended q great
distance. Within his grasp lay for
tuno Of millions. He made q careful
reckoning Of his bearings, staked his
claim, concealed all traces of bis la
Dor, and collecting as much of the
ore as he could carry away with him
set out for Denver, which city he
reached late that night. Next morn
ing he purchased an outfit, an album
dance of provisions and mule, and
again set out for his claim. Within
month he had mined enough silver
to load q train. Moreover, he had
traced the fsSure to its origin in the
hills and satisfied himself that he
"ceo NA4O ON1AI VI Ol1C VA Au6 IlC0oSI
claims in Colorado. Then q hemor.
Thage struck him down, and il was by
a miracle that, blind and staggering,
he reached Denver alive. As soon
as he had gained sufficient strength
he set out for his home in Illinois.
As yet, though eagerly i1nportuned
TO do SO, he had revealed to no one
the location of his claim. Hereached
homo only to find that his wife and
children had been driven from their
home by his creditor and to die In
his wife's arms. The money he had
brought with him from Colorado
eerved to recover the home from
which his family had been driven,
but the secret of the Lost Vein died
with him. No one of the hundreds
who have since attempted TO search
has been able TO find it Western
mining history contains no more ia.
thetic story than that which relates
to Amos Albright and the Lost Vein
Washington Post.