Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-01-16
THE ADAMS OlGGIEGS
Rsmanilc Stog Of Fabulous Wealth
Found and Lost.
A. c. PATTERSON KNEW ADAMS WELL
prom soeorro cnleIlaln.

nIliN AFFORD no NAAliNi W hNN tNAiiraANtN
story OF the finding OF the famed
Adams dirgineH. of the tragical cir.
eumatancea under which they were
iort. and OF che money expended and
tho hardnhips endured On vain efforts
a. fnd them again. That A. v. Adams
shout iorty years ago headed a party
81 proapoctora who found some pla'
Gers diEginEB fabuloualy rich On colo
somewhere In western New Mexico
or eastern Arizona. that nearly all the
marty we're maaaacre6d by the Indians
while undertaking 10 gather the gold
they had found. and that adams him
seif and other pruapoctors by the
score have since gone broke" both
financially and physically In tnoir e.
forts 90 relocate those 0ig9nga
taoue are facts too well authenticated
to admit of question.
irobaoiy no man living 90 better au'
tnority on tno subject OF the Adams
agungs than ig q g. Patterson. an
cid and highly respected citizen or
looorro county tor the purpose of
preserving the most authentic infor'
nation on The subject aa well as toE
tha purpose or giving the readeru OF
thla paper the benefit OF the romantic
and interesting story SIR Patterson
was asked a few days ago TO tell what
he knew about the Adams diggings.
liuro ia how no tells %.
M was lu 1875 that : came Ca my
ranch 100 miles west OF socorro The
aoxt year a party OF iour men came
along and inquired for "a certain To.
cality. particularly On ash spring l
knew they were proapcctoH The
leader nnally told me that they were
original members of the A. v. Adams
uarty of California hr added tfat
Adams Was a southern man and as
BE- couldn't cuss the government az
o. wanted to m California Dee went 60
Antona ho campod az che Pima
piliagoa and there made up a party 70
- prospecting. A mcvlcau in the
village. who had been a captive among
thu Apachos. told Adams tlut Ga the
paFty would give him six horses he
would shoW them where taore waa
MNHHNNN MN MNNNNNH 4 NNN" " NA. NNN NHNN " NNAHHA
81 1860 The party consisted Of
teontytwo men. she guide took
them to a Dig mountain. g0ing north.
east through tho country 30 INV n !
learned from the leader ui the four
urnpoctorB.
IN 1876 Adams himself came to
my place We talked together all
0ae sunday I asked him what noun.
tainn he passed through after icaying
the Pima villages BE replied that
thoy went into no mountains until
thoy reached those in which thoy
found the gold lie added that their
coarse was northeast that an tho
streams thcy saw were small, and
that there were small mountains %
thoir loft an the time The party final.
by camp,d az the ioot OF a mountain
ID the mouth ot a small canon from
which the water ran southwest Il
took tho party nearly All day 10 50
fourteen miles up the canon. Il was %
rUuEh. A the summit thoy could see
two poal,a like haysRCka about days
travel from them toward the north.
eaat The party now went down on
mo east side through timber into a
valley SIX miles long in which the
Indians had planted corn. The water
Ia thia valley ran northwest and AZ
the lower end fell over a prccipico
eighty feet high The guide told tho
party thoy would find gold la this val
10y. and they paid the Indiana a horse
for tho privilege OF working Ga the
corn field.
Adams said that a Dutchmnn IN
tna party seemed % scent trouble,
Tor he said. Il tink you haf some
troubles mt; desc Indians" and asked
20 take his grub 10 himself and what
sold be wanted and so away Adams
said furtnor that this Dutchman pan.
sd out forty pounds ct sold in ten
days without making a hole ia the
Eround as big as wagon box or
reaching bed rock
According 10 Adams story the
rati0ns nov got short and ten men
atarteO Tor a fresh supply and for
tnola 10 work with The DutChman
was among the number They wore
90 SO 10 the nearest point. Adams did
not know where The party finally
Becoming overdue. Adams and an.
sgher man went TO tho top OF the
mountain where they could see over
ne trail a days travel Rot seeing
tho party, the two went 90 tho head
81 the canon. thinking 20 hear them ~
they were coming up. They soon
came upon the bodies OF tho ten men.
who bad been killed by the Indians
AZ they were coming through the
nouth OF tho oonon one az time.
wrapping paper and tools on the
ground showed that the party had
ouccoedod in reaching some peint for
proyiaions Adams buried the bodies.
10 Waa dark whom De finished.
Before Adams ana his companion
reached the camp they could hear
the Indians yelling. seeing a fire.
thoy crept through the brush and n.
hally saw that their cabin was burn
ing and the Indians dancing around
a. They thought that they could see
the bodies OF two men inside.
"rhe two companions TOW made
tholr way out OF the country, travel
has by night and hiding By day Adams
said that the marty nnnnod out over