The morning times., 1897-01-02
Her VISION OF A MINE
Saw the Shaft in Dreams, and the
Gold Is There.
Mrs. George Law = respects As She
Sleeps and Then Stakes
Her Claim.

Mrs. George Law of Kansas City is a
dreamer who dreams to some purpose.
When she lies down To sleep at night and
her soul leaves her body, as some dream
theorists declare that souls have way
of doing i t does not go chasing around after
other intangible souls. 1t apparently
has business of a more practical nature
TO attend to, and it disposes of it we'll
1t was in the course of such business tha,
Mrs. Law was made cogniZant OK the
richest gold mines in all Cripple Greek.
Here is the story which began in dream
and ended in u reality.
Mrs. Law is the wife OF real estate
broker in Kansas City. One night last win
ter Sue dreamed of gold mine near Grip
pie Creek In her sleep she saw spot be-
tween two mount aims, where ravines
formed a triangle, inclosing a hard bed OF
sand. SIZE stood upon this spot and scooped
up handful after handful OF the sand, gilt
tering with gold. The dream made deep
impression on her, perhaps because she re-
called every detail So wildly, and she re-
peated it to her husband at breakfast. He
laughed at her She Went TO bed a few
nights afterward and saw exactly the same
scene i'll her sleep, even more vividly than
before. Every outline OF The country was
distinct in her mind. Three more times the
dream came to her, and each time with in
creased distinctness. In one OF her last
dreams she decided to sink shaft and
located one near an old stump in the bed OF
sand. Her husband still laughed when she
told him Of her dreams. she urged him to
take her To Cripple Greek and be jeered At
the suggestion.
At about this time, Mrs. Laws best
friend Mrs. Harvey Rhoades, moved to
Cripple Greek. The two, of course, cor
responded, and soon Mrs. Rhoades con-
vinced Mrs. Law that she would find the
mine of her dreams there. After her
fifth dream, which came in August, Mrs.
Law could stand it no longer, and set out
ostcnsibly to visit Mrs. Rhoades. Early IN
September she drove into the old part
of the town. Everything looked perfectly
strange TO her, and she did the WON anly
thing-she had good cry over her dis
appointment.
That night, however, consolation came
in the sixth dream, and again the towns
outlines were strongly impressed on LEI
mind. The next morning she drove 20 her
friends home on the hill, and from The
front porch she looked out on the Lew
Cripple Creek, the city of her dreams. Both
women were beside themselves with ex-
element. With two companions they set
out in a light trap to look for the triangle
and the bed of sand Something, they
knew not what, led them across the hills
to the top of Grouse mountain, then down
toward the ravine which separates it from
Beacon Hill. Mrs. Law rushed ahead
breathlessly. Down the hin she flew, and
there she found the gulch, the ravinc, the
triangle, the bed Of sand even the stump
as she had dreamed of them SO often
''No going halves,n she called out merrily
as she drove her stake and claimed the
mining rights. 1T is mine, mine, all
mine.''
Some placer miners happened to be near
and they told her that gold was in that
vicinity. They were looking for water
with divining rod, and it turned as the
party walked over the ground. 1t turned
again where gold was known to be. The
happy woman's dreams came true.
Although Mrs. Law cried mo going
halves when. she first located her mine,
she thought better Of her impulse, and
proposed to establish a woman's company
This was done as soon as she found that
she could get control of the property, and
the corporation is known as the Dream
Lode Mining Company. The mine has
been christened The Dream. Mrs. Law is
president and treasurer; Mrs. Harvey
Rhoades, who owns a fourth interest
vice president; Miss Frances Carr is tile
Kansas City secretary, and Miss Naomi
? Granger is the Cripple Creek secretary
The Cripple Greek office of the company
is at the home Of Mrs. Rhoades, and there
is also an office in Kansas City. The
company is capitalized with 800 900 shares
Of which $50 900 are treasury stock the
proceeds from the sale OF which will be
applied exclusively to the sinking of the
shaft.
This has been located Just beside the
old stump, as Mrs Laws dream directed
Mrs. Laws lease takes in the whole OF
the triangle of her visions and much val
liable territory is covered by il. She was
much disappointed at Intellectual attempts
to secure a lease on two other adjoining
areas, but in another dream she learned
that they were valueless and explorations
since have proven that she was right
The lease is for four years.
The Dream is situated in one of tbs
richest localities in the Cripple Creek
district. About goo feet distant is the
Prince Albert mine, from which ore av
eraging $75 a ton IS taken at the rate OF
$4,000 every week. Just a little further
on lies the famous Gold Dollar mine anl
w. S. Stratford's celebrated Independence
mine is only mile and a half away. II
is said that the same lode on which it IL
| located extends to Grouse Mountain, and
that these other mines tap it. The rich
| ness of the ore thereabout is proverba
and placer mining has been followed
profitably. Mrs. Law has the ore IN
| abundance, and she already has an off
cial certificate showing that the s,1rfac,
ore runs $3.50 to the ton. This is said K
be one OF the richest surface assays ever
made in the Cripple Creek district.
Operations are being pushed with pri
vate means. a force of men is at work
and 5000 shares of stock have been sold
A preacher was one of the first investors
| taking 1000 at five ece1ts, the figure al
which 1t was quoted at first. Letters pou
in to the officers OF the company from
| persons in all parts ofsthe country, asking
| for stock in the new mine Mrs Law solo