The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06

/ ism. They have lnNS5teu al itSN HluihS
properties by spirit guidapcefa en-
| trely for several years. There are few nin-
| ers who profess belief N spirit1alism, but
] there are many, so far as my experience
| goes. who do believe in dreams, especially
! if the dream is repeated several times The
/ Glinting mine near Phoebe, New. was To-
Gated by little boys dream. / know the
/ people who located the mine, and have
heard them tell about 1t.
| christopher Newlins and his brother
Daniel had been mining in Nevada for ten
| or twelve years. They were laborers IN
| the Ophir mine for several years. Then
| they went out prospecting. l believe they
went all over the Phoebe Mountains, while
their wives and children lived in shanties
| in Carson City. The men found nothing,
| and when they could get no one to grub
stake them further they We're about 80 90
| 10 work on the Union Pacific Railroad as
| track laborers One day when things were
bluest and Chris Newins was telling his
Wife about how he had looked everywhere
| for gold or silver mine of some sort, his
l0-year-old boy heard his talk. The next
morning the child told that he had dreams
ed his papa had found gold rock under a
live oak tree near where a COW stood.
| Several days later the boy said he haG
dreamed the same thing again. Chris and
! his brother who believed in dreams, kept
quiet and walled for the child to dream
The same thing third time. Sure enough,
it was not week later before the boy re-
ported having dreamed about the gold
rock under the live oak tree near where a
COW stood.
Live oak trees grow in Southern Ne
vada only along the mountain sides, but
cows are common there. Daniel Newlins
was sure he knew where there was live
oak tree in a COW ranch, and he had pros
pected through that region for gold. After
weeks he and Chris found the tree but
there were no COWS near IL at that time
| They looked the protruding rock over and
found not a trace of gold in il. For a
short time the miners camped there in a
| Quandary. They went over the ledge OF
the Phoebe Mountains to the west for Gu
riosty. They had no sooner crossed the
backbone of the mountain than they saw
down in valley a stray steer from a cat
tie range standing beneath a live oak tree.
| The men gave look at each other and
down they ran with their hammers in
hand.
ITO make long story short they found
an outcroppng of pay gold ore not half
a mile away from that steer and they
named it the Glinting mine. The prop
erty was worked out a half dozen years
ago and was abandoned. 1t paid about
$50 600 over and above its last working.
The boy who dreamed the mine for ills
father and uncle is young man now
and he would be very g.ad to dream OF a
mine for himself"
The romance Of gold mining is not con-
fined to lucky discoveries. Some of the
most interesting tales among miners con-
Germ bodies of ore of fabulous richness
that were once found and then lost
Through two or three decades several
thousand miners in the Rocky Mountains
have at different times been set wild
with reports or a rehnding of The lost
White Cement" mine It took its name
from Yankee named White. He was
white-haired man of about co years when
last seen. He was a middle aged man in
the California gold fields in 1850 and was
a friend of such men as Leland Stanford,
George Hearst and James c. Fair. AS
gold seeker he was known and talked
about in every mining camp on the coast
and stories were related of his phenomenal
luck. He no doubt made several for
tunes but was always poor, and tranped
about with a lean mule and half-breed
Indian boy, getting grubstake supplies
where he could. Many people thought
he was slightly demented, but he I'M
doubleday knew more about the gold re-
gions than any other man.
One day, in 1863 White came into Horse
Head Gulch from Northern New Mexico
driving his mule and hooking utterly
used up. He got something to eat and
then took out of his pack a number of
pieces of what looked Ike hard white clay
or cement, glittering with speck of met
al These he took to an assayer named
Helyat. Somehow the secret of the as
say leaked out. Such wonderful rich ore
had never been heard of then Every
one in camp was crazy to get up and go
right to the locality. The specimens as
sayed $4,000 to The ton. The miners meant
to know at any hazard where White got
such ore. No one In camp slept that
night When morning came a committee
woke old White, and said he must lead
them to where he found his specimens ;
he should have the pick of the claims
and help to work IL, but go he must.
On his refusal he was warned that his
life would not be worth a dogs bark If
he stood off" the camp. Then he
consented,
The trail led down across the Rockies.
, 1t was very arduous journey even for
the old miners. The first day was a race,
and two-thirds of the men broke down.
Old White led the miners. He never
spoke, but went straight ahead. BY the
end Of the second day the miners were in
, the heart of the mountains, In a desert
where no human being had ever been be-
fore. Half of the animals were lost and
the men were haggard with fatigue and
excitement. White was told that If he
. played them false he was dead man,
, but he still pointed West. For four days
. White led the weary, footsore. and half
) sick miners through the wilderness. One
evening in camp he mounted a boulder,
and pointing to a canyon, he said with a
frenzied shout that the next day he would
, lead the men to their fortunes. Every
one but White was utterly worn out, and
slept soundly on the mountain side that
night When morning came White was
nowhere to be found For a week he was
sought, but he knew the country and
where to hide. A few miners went to the
canyon he had indicated, but found moth
ing there worth mining. After weeks the
discouraged miners made their way back
to Horse Head Guleh to talk of the mar
velous specimens old White had found
and how they had been tricked.
Three years after White reappeared in
Salt Lake City with his cement specimens
; as before incredibly rich and then he
disappeared again. 1t was thought he
! was killed by the Piutes. From that time
to this he has never been heard of. but
: still men wear out their lives IN seeking
! his lost white Cemenr' mine