Arizona republican., 1901-05-13
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GHCsTLY sENTINELs
Guard a Treasure Vault That Harry
 La Paz is Looking For.

There Is an old prospector camped in the cool shade of some willow trees down by the river who tells an interest ing tale of lost gold mine. His name is Henry Lapeche Hayden, although he ir generlly known as "Old Harry La Paz," a name that he probably picked up down on the Colorado river in the early days. His only companions are a dog and two ancient looking burros with shrill voices.
 He relates that during the time that the old Vuture mine was. being worked by the first company he drove a team for John Lutgerding and Crede Bryant. and on one trip he saved the life of a Mexican named Antonio, who was be- ing chased by the Apaches. In return for this the Mexican told him of a very rich gold mine that he knew the loca- tion of which had been worked a great many years ago by the Jesuit fathers of that time. who came up from Mexico. He said that this mine was down in a very deep canyon in a very rough broken range of mountains.
 The ancient padres had built smai, stone chapel near the mine in the can yon, and lying in and around that the Mexican had seen their whitened skele- tons ghas'ly reliHs of a final san guinary battle with the relentless Apaches
 The old Mexican said that he hap pened to be coming down the canyon when he found the place and thus saw the mine first. else he never would have seen 1t. for when he came to the chapel and the skeletons he saw aeverai espan- tos, or ghosts. which scared him aplenty and caused him to get out of there mucho pronto! And until Hay den met him he never returned to that rich. ghostly region.
 After much persuasion he agreed to show Hayden the place on condition that Hayden go blindfolded and that he must not bring away any of the gold, which old Don Antonio said was there by the burro load. Hayden agreed to these conditions, thinking that if Don Antonio could show him a rich gold mine bllndfolded it was more than he had been able to show him:.elf with his eyes open for some time past. and as to bringing the gold away. what was the matter with going back after it
 
 next trip?
 Hayden says they made the trip. he blindfolded. and after three days trav- cling came to the mine, just as old Don Antonio had described it, skeletons and all. The mine was a placer in the bed of some ancient river that ran diagon- ally across the present canyon. and in this bed of ancient sand and gravel the old-tlme miners had run several tun- nels and done great deal of work The bed of the present canyon and of the ancient river is of slate, and on this gold was deposited richer than Hayden had ever seen in the placers of Cali fornia or the north This was made more evident from the gold that the padres had dug out and then had to leave behind them in one of the tun- nels.
 Don Antonio would not stay long, and about all that Hayden could see was that the canyon ran north and that the upper formation was a volcanic con- glomeratc of light coior Then he put on the blind again and after nearly three days, came back into the valley.
 Old Don Antonio had been predicting bad luck for himself as a result of the trip and, sure enough when they came to the canal he got down to drink and as he was doing so was bitten by a rattlesrake. This proved so serious that Don Antonio was a dead Mexican within an hour.
 Hayden found an old sheepskin map in his pocket giving a rude sketch of where the mine was and how to get to 1t. This Hayden kept when he turned the body over to some other Mexicans to be buried.
 That was twenty years ago. and since then. Hayden says. he has spent most of his time looking for the lost bonanza. but all to no purpose. as he has never been able 10 find it. During the hot