Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-10-13
INTERESTING STORY
OF FINDING GOLD
How Mexican PoOn Became
one oftho Richest Mon in
All Ills Country.
FOUND BIG GOLD MOUNTAIN
Would Rather Keep Ills Cold IN
the M0unt0ln than Have Il IN
vested Ia Enterprises.

NHiH IN NN" "i"iNH WHutr WAhn'
Iaiua iwo ia i0dfnrg 0n mule hack
f1m Culnclu. t1e capital oi slnalaa.
Ncvcp sold mine uf wonderful
nchnea uanel hg o. farmer poon,
named uDen Mnidnnaio The mine is
an HHtann. mamie given Ny iAe Aeg.
leans to Che old abandoned Spanish
mines fo frequently uncovered by
lNnannctow iu lhnso days uf frongiol
Hoi hnuHuf and previous Or llH re-
discovery by ihUru be hnd lain idle
ior two hundred years or more.
IhiH Diego was n lHhuror on great
memoy nlanlatl0n and as Dee WAS al
ways in debt to hla employer no was
practically "a slave. Tor GO owe money
| lB Mexico makes the debtor a bond
man aud be- helonga body and soul 90
/ hla creditor 10 he De Unfortunate
enough to holong OBJ The pQon class.
For twelve years Diego iahurod IN
The hacienda for few centavoa per
dag going and coming at tho viii Of
/ hts mnsior. half starving la his hut
on the hlil bot happy when he had
plenty of coffee and tobacco 20 exc
out bic diet of corn cakes aud beans
Bot Diego lonRod Tor better things
and, like oliver Twist, be haukur0d fnf
meat once ho stole a piece of dried
goat flesh that hung On q string ON
/ the patio of his masters house bul
/ the major domO gaW ihe horrible
crime and broke the thiofn shoulder
With q erubbng hoe
I Then Diego had to llo in the hut
/ on the bon and smoke cigarettes while
| hla vito laborod in che field nut he
hankorod Tor nosh. end while he nan
| korci fho bills called him and h.
wunt to them Every morning ho went
abroad with nia piokawoe and pecked
Toe iho rocks iu sotouirlono canyon
I He bad a bunch that sold might bu
\ hidden there. and with gold be coum
I buy meat ana freedom, So he packed
away 40 The rock whllu iho liitlo brown
wife tollod among the maguoy plants.
/ The sun cursed 81 him from bfaasey
| SKY and the cactus tore nt hla ioah,
l but ho fnbercd not and then one day
a thing happened
fle had been following a blind trail
that ied him 20 mesa and had sealed
II i"dRo ai the risk Of bis life when
/ bchtnd a vast growth of cactus DO div
covered an old eump pile. purauing
/ this isad be- found the entrance 10
"a mine bu, u was walled up with rub
bic ana cement Meat was now iu
aIghi. for Diego WIS wise Ia hla lgnoF
ance and know that no had found q
rich antigua. Tor the old Spanish min
ofH didn't wall up worthless minea.
The next day BIO borrowed from
his master money euincicnt tO pay
] "Don0unolng' Ealing his claim 0nl
enc land surrounding tho end thereby
onalaFlug himself and hls wlfo for
/ years. bat ho said NOT "a word 90 any
one about tbp mine Then be- ran
away go Cullaran. nlCd hlB papers pf
I announcement and bought "a pick
/ n hammer and some drillgi
lu september 1908, nu English
IFyndlcnto headed hy the duke OF
Westminster offered Diego Maldunndn
Ihtiecn million dollars Tor has gold
mine iu iho Sierra Madro. hut he caly
laughed
What DO want with Your gold. =
InEkod Diego a have a mountain fun
lnf % and can help myself when ! Ike
llf took your money then my trouble
would hegiB. ! would have many Law.
lyera ~ look after my fortune many
iclerba t0 care for my business. much
distress 10 keep 10 from leaving me
aad my hair would blanch wilh tho
caro oi Investments SO ! VIII keep
the mine
Ito built a stout keep % stone al
h.s mines entrance. had a steel vault
door hung there and armed men "a
lguard h day and night When Diego
wants money be- takes hiB men Into
the mine and breaks out sufficient
ore. which "a immensely rich. The
amelter man hhnus him a check and
he goes 20 the City Of Mexico where
the iHtio brown wiio lives in g palace
~ Is this man who Offers t0 build
war ships FOR his native country ~
Tray 06 national debts and tp 40 other
great things Ho owns the fastest
yacht "a Mexico ana viii enter hal
Tor competition in the great inter
national regatta 90 30 held 10 Hamp
ton Roads at tie jamestown oXpoaio
ti0n near Norfolk. Virginia GA 1901
u O. not necessary 20 add that IA
these latter days Diego Maid0nado has
moat iO cat