The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-17
WAR GOD FOUND
IN LOFTY CAVERN
Strange Stone Image Brought From
the Buekskin Mountains.
is NOW IN SALT LAKE CITY
EVIDENTLY NOT MADE BY CLIFF
JEWELLERS.

RON the Buckskin mountains that
range Of mysteries in the midst OF
a mysterious desert. comes the
story Of strange carven image. sup
posed tc be the war god of some an
cient race W L BachteII. an archaic
ologist in the employ of Dr.. George p.
Merrill. curator Of the national mn
scum, brought both story and carvirg
to Salt Lake. The latter is in the win
dow Of the Colorado Midland offices.
Il West Second South street. and at
tracted the gaze of passersby an day
yesterday The story, as Mr.. Mitchell
told II, is given here
W L. Bachtell is Wen known 20 rail-
road people and to some government
oIHclalS- For ten years he has been
seeking minerals and archaeological
relics through the west. Most of mis-
work was done in Colorado. Of late be
has been along the line Of the Salt
| Lake route and along the north rim
Of the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado.
HIS journeys have taken him over
deserts and into uneXplOred mountain
ranges He has never failed TO come
back well laden with strange remnants
or races who peOpled those waste places
centuries ago Railroad men and others
VINO have dealt with him say ne Is re-
liable.
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Lake Is apparently of granite rock. is
about twenty inches in height and If
teen inches wide at its base The bow
and spear in the hands the amulet on
/ the throat and the peculiar Caucasian
caste of the features are remarkable
points. As TO who made it and when
those are points for archaeologists 10
discover
Found 10 Ancient Gaze.
But BachteH's story of The finding OF
the image sounds like a chapter from
one Of Rider Haggard-s rOmauees he
said
I got it i'm the Buckskin mountains.
where the range reaches an altitude OF
10000 feet An old-time prospector
( found il when he was following some
copper float He brought it from the
cave where il and some old stone cook
ing utensils were hidden.
The BuCkshin mountains rise from
the desert They are near the rim OF
! the Grand Canyon OF the Colorado. In
this part OF the range is no water. We
had to bring IL for miles in barrels
and then take it with US on our horses
| There is 10 timber on the mountain
sides, only thOrny growth whose
/ spikes tear through your clothing and
1 leave bleeding flesh.
Prospecting in this country is hard
| dangerous work But good mineral is
| there, and several old prOspectors have
/ been at work. The man who got the
J image for me was looking for "copper"
I He found some good float He followed
I it up the mountain side. At an aItf-
/ tude between 5000 and 10000 feet hR
| came to a steep cliff Its sides slope6
! almost sheer several hundred feet. But
/ the float at its base was so rich and
/ the prospects OF an OutcrOppfng so
/ bright that this man assembled the
| pTeCiDice-
Finds Natural Cave.
He made his way by cracks and
crannies in the rock and came on d
! seam where the rock was mineralized
He picked at it and it fell away from
the sides of a little rift Before him
opened the mouth of a cave. He went
into this. 1t was apparently a natural
cavern. From il opened a larger one
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