The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-22

remarkable Indians living today" said
I Lieutenant Saultzman. at army head
Quarters yesterday. He is the hand
( soonest Indian l ever saw. Tall, 1.-THE,
/ brOnze-faced, with long black hair and
features almost classic in their outline,
/ Antonio is the center of interest Wher-
I ever he appears. In the early days he
/ was taken east by philanthropic Wo-
7 man and given opportunity of educa-
B ton and travel, extended to no other
/ Indian of America. He attended sew
Z erai schools and wound up with
I course at Harvard college and tour
/ of Europe, where he met many of the
nOtables of the old world. Antonio IS
/ a fine taiker, a good story teller, OF a
/ literary and scientific bent of mind
and at the same time d gOOd-natured
/ fellow who makes friends everywhere
! and never gets into trouble.
Antonio continued the lieutenant,
lis probably the luckiest Indian living.
/ He seems to have abundance of money
/ and spends it like a king The last
time 1 saw him was at Fort Apache,
! Arizona. ninety miles from HOlbTOOk
/ on the Santa Fe railroad, the trip to the
1 railroad being made daily in a buck
| board. Antonio came to the post at
[ tired handsomely and wearing palr
! Of cavalry boots that quite captvated
I his cousins who dropped in from diff
/ ferent parts of the White Mountain
/ reservation to meet their young friend
/ and enjoy a feast at his expense. He
/ appeared equally al home on the trail
3 in the camp with his unprecedented
kinsmen or at headquarters in the Off
I GERS quarters. always the center Of an
admiTing circle. He sent word TO the
I chiefs of the tribe and half dozen
came to the post with their retinues.
/ There they found everything prepared
for a royal reception, plenty of peef
/ and flour and warm handclaSp from
! the most attractive young buck in the
nation. A DOW-wOW Of several days
took place and ended with a grand
dance that was d little the widest
( thing the garrison had ever Witnessed.
! OF course, Antonio Apache was the
main attraction. The chiefs slowly
/ gathered their effects together and de-
parted, but they left in the hands Of
Antonio a document. evidently the main
I object of the campaign. It was regu-
larIy signed. sealed and delivered and
granted the most valuable privileges
I ever extended by the chiefs of the
/ Apache nation. It is the privilege to
prospect, discover and mine for gold
I and precious metals anywhere within
the limits of the reservation No other
( man has ever succeeded in securing
/ such a prize and the success of An
tonic. mine manager, is one of the
interesting subjects Of conjecture at the
army posts of the southwest.
ument was granted with a great deal
of ceremony. It provides that the
chiefs are to receive 10 per cent of all
the income from mines in the reserva-
ton, and that none but Indians are to
be employed in the mining operations
/ The wages of the Indians are definitely
set down and many conditions are Civ
en- on both sides, making the cOnces-
sion a difficult document for an ordi-
nary Indian to understand. A secret
Il 1-F-HTT Nw~H n1nnnnT 10
tions of Antonio. is where he obtained
the money to pay the expenses of the
Indian council and also the continuous
drain upon his own pOCketbOOk. as he
is a highly generous liver No answer
to the question has been given, but 1t
/ is suspected that a wealthy syndicate
of New York or Boston is putting up
the cash and expects that it Will be
returned many Told. Antonio has been
making frequent trips to New York
and thinks as little of the journey as
though it were merely an excursion to
a neighboring hunting field, One day
Lieutenant SaultZman was returning
across the desert from HOlbrOOk to the
army post, when he came upon Antonio
in a blackboard. swiftly flying in the
opposite direction
Hello. AntoniOi" exclaimed the army
officer. Where are you going at such
a gait?"
Making a hurried trip to Boston"
was the reply, as the Indian gathered
his reins for another dash. BE back
in a week. Goodbye.
Antonio disappeared in q cloud OF
dust. At the end of the allotted time
he rode again into the fort He is now
3 becoming known as the mining king Of
the reservation. Tradition says there
are mines of vast wealth in the IN
known region traversed by the Apaches
and he is the only man at liberty to
search out the golden treasure Stories
of old Spanish diggingS are told by the
Indians, but they never disclose the
location of the mines to a, white man.
indians are seen at the post with large
gold nuggets for ornaments. with tuT-
quOise of perfect blue and with red
stones which. in the rough, are pro-
nOunCed TubieS. No white man has
ever been taken into their confidence
Daring prOspectors claim there are dia-
mOnd fields in the reservation. No par
I ~ of pTOspectOrs has ever returned
, from the fields alive.
. In southern Colorado, at a little from
tier settlement, is a lonely grave bear
ing no name. In the. grave repose the
bones of two prOspectors who lost their
lives in attempting to return a second
Z time to a mine of untold wealth they
discovered on the reservation. The
sack of ore the prOspeCtOrs brought to
r civilization was tested 1t carried $50
- 8
? 70 the ton The discoveries of the
J treasure remained in the settlement
during the winter, nine years ago
E made another grub-stake and set out
. one bright spring morning for the
mine Weeks passed by and a TumOI
was brought to the town that the pros
! pectors had been killed. The report was
verified by a friendly Ute and a strona
r party of white men assembled and
started for the spot where the bones OF
! I the prospectors were said to be bleach
ing in the sun. At the close of five
: days journey the spot was reached ant
. the story was found to be true. In q
r shallow rife pit. which had beer
scooped hastily out of the sands b.,
hand, were the bones of one of The
men. Fifteen or twenty empty cart
2 ridge shells gave evidence that the las
r fight had been to finish. Tnree-quar
\ tiers of a mile away were found tn,
bones of the companion of the pros
! pectort he had died bravely, hshtins
I to the last. They had been attacked
( before they reached the coveted gol,
and the secret of the mine lies burie,
in the lonely grave Of southwest Colo
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