The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-28

| is rightly named Loon" and that Lost
! Locoe" would De more appropriate than
| Lost Packer" or other lost lead IN
! terest in Loon Greek in chiefly centered
; in the fact that some rich leads lately
are found beyond likelihood OF losing.
But let us tell few stories OF lost mines
that seem authentic and thereby may De
gained some guidance TO their discovery
As far back as 1855. party OF Eastern
ers. coming West il quest OF wealth.
made their way from Bannock, Mont,
into the strange and wild country OF
Loon Creek and for some time campe1
at what seems to have been the meadows.
or mouth of Warm Spring Greek. eight
miles below the subsequently famous
Place camp on the Main Loon. In the
party was a man named I j. Cleve-
land, For sake of the narrative We hope
he was no kin to Grover He was thought
too much OF tenderfoot 10 do any pros
pecting, so was appointed cook for the
party. The story goes that he played
pranks on his companions, once By Diac-
ing rushes under their bedding. SO that
the bays thought they were lying on
nest of rattlesnakes He so incurred their
displeasure that when he afterwa.d
showed them collection OF yellow pan
nings from rock he had found in the
nearby mountains. they cursed all said
they would not be fooled by his pranks.
The party broke up and returned east,
where subsequently it occurred 10 Mr..
Cleveland to get assays on the ore con
tanning the yellow substance. To his
surprise. il went 81 coo in gold. He clos
=, 4. nd we IN
expecting TO be the possessor OF for
tune But search as he would, the vast
mountains concealed it from him. He is
now old, feeble and gray. but recent
finds on Loon Creek have refreshed his
memory. He has gone to the vicinity
with full equipment. TO renew the search
and feels confident he will succeed. II
others ind it through the tip hereby Civ
en-. they should present the writer with
a ton of that S41,010 ore as mark of
esteem and reward for veracity. But
there are others.
1t was about fifteen years ago that a
man named Hagerty, while preambulat-
ing the mountains with small pack
outfit. struck the real stuff, and sack
ed up sufficient of IL that he was mind
ed 10 go back and buy up old Ireland,
and make himself emperor of the same,
but by adverse fate he held himself down
TO Utah and fell 10 celebrating in Salt
Lake City with the several thousand
dollars received for the few sacks Of ore.
Bad cess TO him and his boots and unto
this day not even a single son of Erin
knows the secret where Hagerty got the
ore. But some people who know the cir
cumstances think they have a pretty
good clue that it was close to Loon
Creek. They are Quitting for the same
at the present writing.
A story more authentic and containing
less of romance is that of the Lost Sink
err. Peter Albert. an old-time placer
miner. now on Loon Creek discovered
the snksr some years ago, in company
with a man named Marshall While go
ing from Loon Creek 10 the Cape Horn
and Sea Foam country with pack ponies,
they crossed a mountain side piled with
heavy pyrites of copper. Being placer
miners, they paid little attention to il.
but since the discovery of the Lost Pack
err" with its pyrite ore carrying hun
dreds of dollars per ton, Pete has eonclud-
ed TO investigate that pyrites PROPOSE
ton. He made a mysterious trip in that
direction last summer and likely will
go again when the snow gets out of the
mountains. The boys had better watch
him if they want to be next There
sno Use trying to interview him. He
may indulge, but he won't divulge. So
much for the Lost Sinker" Now for
the Lost Swim
In the boom Gays Of Bonanza, Idaho, or
about the latter seventies. a man named
Swim came and recorded a claim, de-
scribed as fifteen miles southwest of Bo-
nanza Assays showed 500 a ton. II
being already late. he went TO Silver City.
Idaho. and wintered. He returned in the
spring by way of Ketchum with a part
ner an da wagon load of provisions.
Swim in order 10 search out the road,
kept somewhat ahead of the team, arriv-
ing on the Upper Salmon River in Stan
ley Basin. He rode far ahead to make
a reconnaissance. but, sad TO relate. he
never returned. His saddle and equip
ment were cast up by the swollen Salmon
river. but Swim was seen no more Of
men. and the exact whereabo Of his
mine is still a mystery.
There is a lost placer mine near Robin
account of Indians. but said to be equally
as good as the Robinson Bar. which pro-
duced a quarter million. There are lost
placers on Loon Creek. from which bot
ties Of gold Sere displayed ~ Salmon
City years ago by the discoverer on his
way to Colorado. where he died without
diyulging the secret Salmon City peo-
pie have searched for this placer several
summers \ mold Chinaman OF Custer
City claims TO know OF a lost rich placer
near Loon. found by himself and another
the way from Idaho City 10 ORC Grande.
one 1854 nugget was secured and BE-
tween fear OF Indians aud Of white men.
the Acknowledged. opium-eating sons 81
the Orient abandoned their find In fact.
their fears were not gToundIess for three
OF their comrades about that time were
murdered near ono Grande. Others were
driven 10 the snow-clad mountains where
theiy persisted. and thirteen were subse-
quentiy massacred BY savages. IN the
words OF one Celestial -Chinaman heap
sable. white man heap Taid Indian. Chin
aman heap faid Indian heap faid white
man" With al this. they left the placer
They could not handiy find IL Several
parties have this placer spotted with in
tent % bring in a few burro loads o. bull
Hon this summer.
II pace permitted We would give
dissertation OF BIT ThompSon's on BIZ
Thompson's lBue Lead. on the east fork
q Navfeld Creek eighteen miles rom
Custer CITY which assavesi s20l bat =