Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-20
IS The LOST TOP
SAWYER FOUND!

richness had been found by a pros
pec;or. while climbing over the sur
face Of Mount Gilcris, In Lnndy. This
prospecior was an early day friend of
he late James Townsend. when iun-
dy was an infant. Old Jim had often
told TO him the tale OF the Lost Top
Sawyer and SO often had the tale
been told by him, that the hearers
were inclined to treat 1t as fabrica-
ton of his inventive mind. The
Drospector. who made the recent dis
eovery, has left the country and will
not return until the coming spring,
when, perhaps, this rumor of his find
will be proven a golden fact. So
secretive was this prospector, that his
presence in the vicinity of Lundy was
not suspected by the inhabitants and
perhaps some episode of the days of
Jim Slack, caused him to hide from
those who might have known him of
old. We have searched through the
old files of the Homer Mining Index
and in the issue of August II, 1889,
we find the following which is per-
haps the last known until the recent
discovery, of the Lost Top Sawyer.
The snow and landslides of that
section were supposed to have buried
the mine from sight. Whatever
doubts of it's existence were ever felt
have been dispelled by the writings
left by Mr.. Townsend who was the
original discoverer, and who died la
menting his great loss. So, too, is it
a matter of tradition in Lundy, that
Billy, once so well known, and his
boon ompanion-McKenz - both
passed to the great beyond with a
firm belief in the realty of the mine.
They, in the proof of the story that
Townsend told, often showed the
pick with which Billy did his SUM
bering work.-The Editors.
Zone of our most energetic pros
pectors is in trouble, but, contrary to
the usual run of things, there is
much money in his trouble. \
1--WE will call him Billy, because ii
isn't his name. For the past two or
three weeks he has been all broke
up mentally and physically, but not
financially, for he is accommodating
wealth daily, and this assuages the
pain of the puzzle. He is working a
wonderfully rich mine, and--a start
Ming remark to make--he don't know
where his bonanza is, though he is
getting 5000 to $500 day out of it
This may seem improbable but gilt
tering facts are stubborn and con-
vincing.
1.-TWO weeks ago last Sunday he
awoke in the morning late, stiff, sore
and all broke up in the profoundest
depths of nervous degradation, so to
speak. The first thing that attract.
ed his attention was well filled can.
vas sack. He recognized the sack
but how it became filed he couldn't
tell. Opening it he found that il
contained the richest quartz he evel
saw-two-thirds gold and the rest Of
it worth dollar an ounce, he said
There was fifty or sixty pounds of it
and how it got into his cabin was be
yond his comprehension; but think
ing that some friend of his had beer
foraging around the May Lund,
dump and uncovered a portion of the
treasure said to be hidden there anC
had placed it in his cabin during the
night for safe keeping, he said moth
ing about the matter during the day
Next morning he found another sacl
Of ore near his bed, Natural,
enough, he was puzzled and at th'
same time all broke up, as we have
said before.
The following morning there wa
another sack, and so it continued TO-
week-fifty or sixty pounds of thu
richest kind of specimen quartz eacl
day Not being inclined to fly in tn,
face of Providence, or to turn up hi
nose at what appeared to be mann;
from heaven, he set to work with hi
hand mortar and beat out more golt
in one day than he had ever pos
sessed before, all the while woEkin:
in thick fog of mystery. Day af
ter day he pounded away, and eacl
morning another sack of specimen
was deposited in his cabin by unseel
hands.
Billy was now in state of per
turbation over the mystery
condition of nervous sensitiveness-
that he feared to sleep alone with hi
rapidly accommodating wealth, and S
he impaired his secret to Constabl
Mckenzie, who consented to occup
bunk in his cabin last Wednesda
night. They turned in about
o'clock, as We all do in Lundy, an
all went smoothly until midnight