Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-17

Another systematic attempt will soon be made to unrayel the mysteries of the lost Adams placers of the White Mountains in Northern Arizona. These placers have lain hidden from the dil- igent search of the intrepid prospector for over fifty years, and they are again soon to furnish the incentive for a perilous and exciting expedition.
 Innumerable prospectorS have sought this fabulously rich digging, but of no avail. They have kept unto themselves these many years, and for how long no one knows.
 The legend handed down regarding the Adams placers are many and va. ried. The one principally accepted is about as follows:
 In the year of 1853 a party of twen. ty-four, headed by Adams, left over land from Missouri for the wilds of California. They were hardy lot and used to the rugged deprivations of the west and accepted the hazardous task with no forebodings of the future. After a trying journey of several months they reached tlfe wild White Mountains that separate Arizona from New Mexico.
 AL OE ucol tLc hlSlCSA pGdtA OL bAAS range of mountains the famous Adams placers were found. The grolnd was literally covered with golden nuggets, and the Adams party collected as many as they could. Legend has it that some of the nuggets were as large as d mans thumb, and of pure god. The party not wishing to give up the 1ie.u. it was decided among them that tE'elye would proceed to San Franc.1cC dis pose of what gold they coUil carry, and return to the new camo with mon- ey and provisions.
 The twelve peYec reached their dcs- tination. They encountered, rOvlnS band of White Mountain ApdcheS. 'Hld were massacred to a mn. Shortl.' afterwards the men left in the camp shared the same fate, the Indians learning that their diggings had been discovered. Adams was the only man to reach civilization alive, after untold hardships.
 He went to California and remain ed in San Francisco and the mining counties of the North for long time. returning to Arizona in the ear lv sos. He made a duigent search for his placers. but was never able to find them, although it was said that in early days Adams made shipment Of gold nuggets from Tombstone. Where they were found he never stated.
 There is living today at Fort Ap2che, in Northern Arizona. an old mean chief who once related how the white men were killed. when they started on | their trip for San Francisco. It Is said they fought like demons, and not until they had killed double their mum ! Der of Indians were they exterminated They were probably the first white party that had ever visited that DOT 1 tion. and the Apaches did not know how to handle them.
 1 Adams lived many years following in Arizona, and passed through the vicis, situdes of the old-time Arizonan Three or four years ago he died in Los Angeles. the papers of that city giv | ing quite an extended account of hif | life and of the famous Adams diggings
 Before he died, however, he made z map of the location of his placers and | turned it over to some friends. He said that the diggings were located s< the foot of a high peak in the White Mountains. from which point four riv CTS found their sources. It is sup. l DOoSN that IilIS pCdh iS hL. The placer was reached by going up a Drecipitous river bed between two frowning walls of granite, and other. wise described the place as one diff. cult of access. Scores of prospectors have tried to follow the directions but nothing has ever came of them. i There is now being organized in Lowell a well equipped party, headed by H. H. Huddleston, who, on the frs. of September, will start overland ir search of the Adams diggings. They will go by way of Clifton. up the Blue Creek and across as wild and rugged country as lies out of doors. Many months will he consumed in the ex. Dedition. but the promoters think they nave lead on the famous Adams dig gings of the White Mountains.