The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-19
CAREY HAS a DREAM.
Apparitior of a squaw Points Out a
Hidden Treasure.

Joe T. Carey has struck rich ore in
the mountains near Golden, says the
Denver News, &aC is SO sanguine that
his claim is a valuable one that he has
asked 81, 900 000 for ii and has refused
a Slightly less amount, which was Of
fered by syndicate of Denver capital
lists. AT least, that is the story that
comes from Golden and is sworn to by
some OF the friends of the fortunate
prospector.
But the strange part of the story is
not in the finding of a big streak of
pay rock near Golden, but in the man
ner OF the finding. 1t is dream mine
and Carey claims to have discovered it
through the medium of a dream. Tween
ty years ago, when Carey was a farmer
living near Rockford, H.. he had a
strange dreams In it an old squaw ap-
peared to him and described to him the
location of gold mine of fabulous
richness. The Gre was located near the
top of a thickly wooden gulch and near
the top of high and rugged and very
steep mountain. In the dream Carey
followed the squaw to the place and
there had pointed out to him a boulder
of very peculiar shape. He was told
that he must measure off twenty PAGES
from the north corner of this boulder
and there sink his shaft and become a
modern Croesus. The dream impressed
the farmer and he thought of it many
times, but did not attempt to follow the
directions which the squaw had given
him.
Ten years elapsed, when Carey had
the same dream again. He saw the
same squaw and followed her again to
where the gold mine was in the noun
tains near Denver. Once more the
dream was ignored and eight years
passed away, when Carey's squaw came
back to him with the same Instructions
He was so impressed this time that he
came to Colorado and trusted to luck
to find the place. Instinctively he went
direct from Denver to Golden This
was about two years ago. Upon arriv-
ing there the mountains seemed famil-
lar to him. They We're the mountains
of his dream. The day following his
arrival he walked up a nearby gulch
and in a few hours had found the pecu-
liar boulder. stepped off twenty PAGES
to the north, as directed, and set his
stakes.
Carey worked for months with an
abiding faith in the dream sGuaw's
truthfulness. Finances finally ran low
and he went back to Three Oaks, Mich.
where two OF his wife's brothers, H. P.
and William Noller. resided. He inter
ested them in his dream mine and they
organized company, capitalizing it at
$4,000. This was divided into twenty
shares Of 500 each, of which Carey re-
tanned eleven. CT q controlling interest.
while II. Z. Noiler took five and VIII
Noller four shares. Work was again
started by Carey and he soon struck
ore which ass2yed way up. Amen &
Graves became interested when it was
noised about that Carey had struck it
rich, and presented q claim that they
had the land leased for two years and
that Carey's claim was nil. Litigation
followed and Carey won, and now he
claims that he is in a position to de-
mand s2,O00,000 for his share of the
dream mine. Last Wednesday, Carey
says. he received an offer from Denver
capitalists and his answer was that he
would sell for the above figure only.