Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-25
WALTER SCOTTS WEALTH IS
 ..- DISCOVERED
Mine Is a Placer Proposition and the Exact Description of Claim Is Found From the Articles Filed.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan z3.-The location of Wal CT Scour-s source of
 wealth Is no longer a mystery. The l great secret has at last been revealed
 The mine has been discovered by
 placing a careful description Of the property on record in San BeIrardino county.
 Referring to the filing of rte pap CTS for record, the Index says the mine Is placer proposition Nc oth- ! CT could have brought the quick re- suits which followed Ecotty's sensa- | tlonal dives into the Death Valley country, and It's location showH that the Death Valley mystery, with char l acteristic shrewdness 90 completely covered up its location, that all the miners who. have gone ID search of l the wonderful store of wss5th have searched the east side of tsse valley in the Funeral mountains, fnsteat of the west side, where the mine Is fo- cated in the PAnamint range.
 Scotty's caves and other camps were found, but at best they were quickly recognized as only temporary affairs. The officers visited the caves at the time of the Wingate pass am buscade.
 Scotty had maintained that his mine was near 6 fine spring of water, and every convenience that could he got into the desolate country was his. He said he could sweep the countg Rr miles with his German field glass, sad could cover the only approach to tse mine with rifles for a long &stanee. The location of the Sheephead mine, for that is the nams of the world famous hole in the ground. would seem to bear out Scotty's orig inal statement, made to an Index re- porter at the height of the miners nOtriety.
 The complete description of the Sheephead claim shows that, what ever may be the real value of the claim, great pains have been taken to make it secure, as 1t has been sur veyed and Is located according to an engineers notes. This is extraordi- nary, as even the most valuable mines are located, we'll enough 10 suit the average prospector, by the nearest landmarks.
 Since Scotty leaped into the lime light of notoriety on account of the great size of his roll of greenbacks there has been an abundance of spec ulation as to where the mill was To- cated. Old prospectors said Scottty never shipped any ore out of the des- ert. Yet, at irregular intervals, he would plunge into that desolate re- zion from either Barstow or Daggett, and sometimes with only mule to carry water and provisions. Scarcely a week would lapse before he would return to civilization. apparently once frN ho al money was always currency. He has been known to make the trip, about ninety miles, on foot in three days each way, with a pack mule as sole companion.
 People doubted the mine but Scot ty always had the mazuma Some people were cruel enough to say he did not spend much money. That may be true. but he spent more than could be earned by mere idling about the desert.
 A, M Johnson, the man who for. warded the location from Chicago, is A we'll known mining man who recent ly accompanied Scotty's caravan into the desert. Johnson was also e mem Der of the party that figured in that historic affair of the desert, "The Am buscade at Windy Gap" Scotty was on the way to the desert with a par ty of mining men, presumably to show them his mine.
 They were ambushed in Windy Gap and Scotty's brother was seriously wounded. Scotty was suspected of cooking up the ambuscade fin order to turn the party back. He was arrest ed, but subsequently discharged on the ground of s-turisdiction, as the affair occurred in inyo county.
 The location notice is the first ScoffY has ever nut on record