The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-03-05
OUT IN the WOOlLr WaD WORLD
Prot Lsonidas Tyre. Of the Kstchum
Observatory, OF on . Vacation
and Tour Of Inspection.
He Resumes His Explorations In the Land
Of the Aztecs, and Searches for
the Buried Wealth Of the
Montezuma Kings.

Describes the Famous AppaAa Way u tn,
Prshistorics, and Malgss Diseeveriss
| for the Farther Enllghtsnmsns
| Of the Civilized World.
[KEYsrosE Correspondence
The world was not made in day
We have heard; neither can one GO
around it and over i. and under i,
in a day. / have not been idle il
my journeyings. Ihave been layini
up valuable information FOR my
lectures to the outing classes of thu
Observatory the coming summer
Old Time moves rapidly, although
he takes but second at . stride
but be never stops; consequently
he never fails to get there on time
This Christian nation of ours la.
entered upon . new year since my
last instructive lecture. We arr
now in A. L. D. (year Of Light and
Democracy 1898, and year / o.
Greater Prosperity. Another year
like the past one and every body
will be prosperous and virtuous and
happy; and by the end of this cen
fury the millennial days will b.
fairly on and all the inhabitants Of
this favored nation will huve become
rs living angels; and there will be
no more sickness, no more sorrow
no more death. In brief, every body
will be rich, everybody will be happy,
every body will bs sweet as angels
at least for 4 thousand years to
come. ALI this has been promised
and propheeied Us by the great
seers and revelators at the nation g
headquarters, and it must come to
pass.
l believe I left off somewhere
over the Rio Grande on the trail of
Montezuma's lost gold mines and
the buried quarries where the Aztec
kings carved their statuary from
blocks of solid gold. also expected
to take in some Southern Klondike
placers that were covered up during
the wars Of the Conquest, and which
are distinctly marked in yellow on
the tracings | bought of = guide
whose father $50 he said was son
of old Montezuma, and who helped
fill up the pits and drifts where the
gold dust was ankle deep on bed
rock.
I have tracked and traced up and
followed out every map and line
layed down in Spanish and Mexican
history that / could get, ancient
and modern, and have had guides,
old and young-some of them SO
old they seemed and acted antede-
luvian and prehistoric-and thsy
couldn't help me, or didn't.
l thought l had the place sure
in the Jaqui (Yakie) country, on
the head of the Yaki river, a long
way inside the lines of Old Mexico |;
but the guides said the Yakies
would kill US if we unearthed the
mines. The Yakies, as you may
know, are ruled by ali ambitious
and warlike young queen-a verita-
BILE Joan of Arc, as it were-who IL
out on a lark of some kind this
winter, and all other LINENS" and
Mexicans are afraid to venture very
far into her country. Even the
Mexican soldiers fear her and dread
q conflict with her body guard, and
of course l couldn't afford to risk
life, and pack outfit of great *.
pense 1.-TWO or three old burros and
several skeleton cayuses) in the
camp Of , rampant Aztec queen |
wearing war paint on her both ears. |
But the Yakies are a race of their
own-great stalwart fellows and |
rather fine looking-independent
and brave, wear moustache and
beard, and claim that they are the
original man and all other races
are mongrels. They till the soil
where it is tillable, raise some stock,
and are industrious-so much 80 |
hat they generally manage to raise
;wo crops of hell each year. But
while others curse the Yakies, l
have no complaint to enter. They
'reated me we'll enough, and when
hey kindly invited me to leave l
lid not wait to be urged.
But coming back to the old Span.
h-Mexican gold dreamers, they
IRE full of all kinds of romances,
egends and traditions, that have
'een handed down for generations,
ind which are enlarged upon as
hey 60 along, until they seem to
'elieve them. Their hope is to find
omething somebody lost or some.
'ody hid and forgot where they
lid it.
All of these old liars can tell Just
bout where these awiulIy rich gold
mines are, but not the exact spot;
'ut they will 60 with you and help
earch just AZ long as you put up
he frijoles beans) and chilicolora
red peppers) or any other redhot
tuf.
Prospectors and mining syndi-
ates are all the time endeavoring
o locate the fabulously rich mines