The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-02

lake. about 100 miles to the northeast of
Carson City. where 1 resided. Rose was
known to have been an Intimate friend
of Winnie -Muc-ca in times past, and to
have performed some important service
for him, which had placed the chief un-
der lasting obligations to him, and rumd
said that in compensation he had dis
closed to Rose the whereabouts of the
most valuable gold mine on all the Pacific
coast, and that Rose was the only white
man who knew anything about it. The
truth of these rumorS. was fortified by
the existence of three old and abandoned
arrastras and a twenty-five foot over
shot water wheel which had evidently
been erected to drive the arrastras that
stood on one of the back streets of Carson
City and were known to have been con-
structed by Rose, and as there was no
stream in the neighborhood to propel the
arrastras, it was generally believed that
when Rose built these works he had a
mine the ore of which was so rich that
he could bring it on the back of pack AMI
mails and crush it with these machines
and divert a stream to propel them AS
* ,ite a large sum had been expended
oS these reduction works, it was evident
that they were intended to carry out
some such purpose, which had been inter-
rupted for sucient reasons. At any rate
/ caught the mine fever, and after many
conferences with Rose / and my asso-
ciates, William s. Chapman and Judge
Atwater, got far enough into his conf
dence to extract an admission from him
that he knew the exact location of the
mysterious mine. the secret of which he
dare not disclose 1t without the consent
of that chieftain, but he assured US that
it. was fabulously rich. 1t was then
learned that the mine was within the
limits of the Piute reservation, and even
If we had the consent of the Indians to
work it, we would not be allowed to do
so by the United States government.
Here were presented two formidable OBJ
stacles. but we were so well satisfied that
we had a fortune within call that we de-
termined to remove them both.
Our first operations were upon Win
re-Muc-ca, whom we proposed to con-
ouer by presents and fiattery, and sue
ceeded to the extent of eiciting from him
a promise that If we could obtain per-
mission from the United States govern
ment to enter upon the reservation and
work the mine he would disclose It's
whereabouts. All can say about this
branch of the case Is that, with a great
deal of delicate and mastery diplomacy
in which the interest of the Indians form
ed the principal argument used. we Sc
cured the desired permission and pre-
pared for an expedition to the mine.
1t is as well here to say for the benefit
of the uninitiated that all such opera
tions are conducted with the greatest Sc
crecy and mystery, because. should II
be discovered that any such enterprise
was on foot, its projectors would be
watched day and night, and followed te
their destination by half the community
The government sent out represent
ative to see that the interests of the In
dians were properly protected, and we
got ready to start. The agent of the
government was also charged to look uI
and report upon the progress of a mill
for the Piutes, for which large appro-
priations had been made, and which was