Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-10-14
IS THE LOST sQUAw" FoUND2
Probable Re. Discovery of a Mine From Whence Game Fortunes
 of Old

Probable Re.Dtsoovery of a Mfnt From Whence Game Fortunes
 of Old.
 The arrival in town lsst week of
 couple of pFospeotoFs with ore literally
 yellow with gold, and with tales of th,
 re-discovery of what is known as ths
 Lost SquRw mine, has get the tongues o
 old-timers wagging and stories of loe
 mines msy be heard on every hand 1
 Hundreds of years SEQ when the Spauisrds were operating this country they worked and abandoned, after ex-
 trRoting, socording to legends, hundreds
 of thoussnds-yes millions, ot dollars
 worth of golden ipgoss, what after
 watds osms to be known as the Lost Sqagw.
 The wonderful mine was deserted, and
 the old workings In the course of msny
 decades beoame partially obliteFated. but the native inhabitants knew of the place and handed down the
 golden secret from generation to gen.
 eFation.
 h the year 1851 sn Englishmen by
 the name of Reginald Grey, attracted to
 the new world by the California gold
 excisement, wandered into this section
 and in true story book fashion soon be- came enanouFed with a dsrk-eyed
 bssuty of the tribe Of Yuma. His love
 was recipEoosted, and ss there was no
 0H1 r.R I,a
 hearts, desire of the loving pair they considered themselves welded ard
 wandered away to enjoy their honey moon. Then it was that the young wife disclosed to Grey the story of the
 wonderful mine, where yellow rocks, by which the SpsnisFds set much store, lay buried in unlimited quantities, but beseech her as be would the dark ms- tron stesdfastly refused to tell where the treasure was, knowing full we'll sbst her people would kill her lover if he found the place.
 The honey ymoon Of she couple led them to what is now known as Bakers Tanks, in the Adonde rsnge of noun tsins, where they csmped. Grey con- sinued to urge his beautiful Yuma wife to lead him to where ths yellow rocks were cached, of which, in 6 moment of since repsnted confidence she had told him. Fearing fog her beloved lords safety she presisbed in her refusal to tell, but finally consented to go herself and get some of the precious stuff. Grey agreed to khis arrangement, hoping to be able, sitter 8 few days, to follow her tracke and thus find the fortune he sought. The determination grew she greater and his exoitemenb knew no bounds when his faithful squaw return ed from the first trip with sack of ore so rich that visions of peeFage in his mother land arose in his minds eye, and scenes of lordly castles and palaces all Lis own were conjared up by his gold- imagination Trip after trip Grey's dusky wife made and the white man remained at camp and mort sred out the gold, thousand dollars to ehe sack of ore. Finally the faithful squaw failed to return st the accustom- ed time. Another day and still enothsr | went by, and she was still absent. Be- l coming alarmed St She unusual oceuE- l rencs-Gnd having mortered ali the ore | in cRmp-ssartsd out to seek her. l Legend does not say which he sought | most zealously, the mine OF she squew, but suffice is to say that Hfter weeks | aud months of scouting the country he | was compelled to reliuquish hope of | finding either. He vent 50 she Indian l people with whom she had lived, but | 5hey knew nothing of her. She had l in completely covering heE | racks from the camp of her English | groom 50 she spot from whence sue got ] he gold, aud Grey was forced to give 1is squsw up as lost.
 It is part ot tho leg-nd that sha wss zillsd by her ogu people. who learned hat she WAS carrying tte gold to the white men. From that day to this ths oss mine aae been krown se the Lost Sq aaw, and hundreds of prospectors lave speat months and years searching or #, only to meet with failure and dis ,ppointmsnt.
 W @ refrain from giving the names of be prospecsors who ars now confident hey have discovered the marvellous nine. for it Is osraly possible that they re mistaken. If so, wa do not care to 'ublish their dissppoiu nent to the Yuma Bee.