The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-12
SECRET GOLCONDA
OWNED BY SCOTT
Cowboy from Death Valley Has
Plenty Of Gold to strew
in Chicago.

1.-THE arrival of Walter Scott, the cowboy
miner, in Chicago yesterday a special train,
which ran thru from Los Angeles In the record
breaking time of forty -four hours and hfty-sfx
minutes, makes the following story, received
today. timely and of special Interest Goldteld
is the principal town IN the recently a1scoSeteu
Correspondence of The Journal.
Goldfeld, New, July 6:-Water
Scott has disappeared again and there's
no telling where he'll show up. next
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago or
New York. Scott has Just finished two
weeks in Los Angeles, putting his
money into circulation in large waa Is
way back to that mysterious gold mine
in Death Valley to get some more OF
the precious ore that brings him the
rolls of yellow backed treasury notes,
with which he cuts a wide swath ~
whatever city he may happen to hnd
himself.
expensive hotels in Los Angeles did not
altogether satisfy this high roller OF the
gold-mining world, SO he took suite
at another hosiery, and spent his time
going from one to the other, buying
champagne for all corners, case at a
time, "seegars'' at dollar a throw,
and putting out more money in tips TO
the n1reQ HnaHuS Gudu sGllc OAolua!y LAAAA
ionaire expends in daily necessities.
Source of Money a Mystery.
Ask Scott where he gets all his money
and he will make the single admission
that he knows where gold is to be found
in fabulous quantities in Death Valley,
but where his mine is or how ne nap
pened to find it-those are subjects on
which he is so shrewdly silent that no
| o,o hoe oxo,, 1,aon hla tO oct the SllClt-
est hint. -
tive got a big thing out there he
saws, cone of the biggest you ever
heard of. I've get rock that runs be,
tween $40 and $50 a pound: A lot OF
/ fellows want to know where it is:
Don t I know that T have been followed
several times2 ] know that desert
1 country like book, and that where
i I we got the bulge on the other fellows
live got six different pack trains in as
! many different places, from which ]
can start to the Valley, and never
make MP my mind which one I'll use
until the last minute. l don't want
to tip this thing off to anybody, but
!, the gold is there, and there's lots more
all around.
Eludes His Miner Friends.
eeFellows come to me when Tn
: around town and they say to me
, when are you going out to the desert
scotty9' l always tell 'em ITO
row. and you can bet that when | d
go, I slip away without ANYBODY fndins
, It out. There are a lot Of men VIII
! would kill me in cold blood for a min
like I we got; men who wouldn It thinl
ANYTHING Of shooting man In the bacl
! for tenth part of what have found
I But they We got to get the drop on m
before they can shoot, and that -
I game Z know a. little about myself. -
Natures most hideous spot, for. a
7 such must Death valley be character
:. lied, has no terror for Scott, and h
goes in and out with the fearlessnes
| of man walking thru the streets Of I
city. The valley lies about fifty mile
+ south of here. It is 3l6 feet below tn
e level Of the sea and is said to be tn
: hottest place in the United States, tn
!. thermometer always registering man
n degrees above the hundred mark. Their
are springs, but the water carries sc
e luton of arsenic that proved deadly i
(. the early so s to a whole train OF en-
q igrants seeking a new home an
/ wealth in the gold fields of California
) Ever deadly has it been since then, an
e the man that does not clearly kno'
his path goes to almost sure destructio
in the valley.
Once with Wild West Show.
d| Scott was formerly a member 9
IT HBuffalo Bill's'' Wild West show. II
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