The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-13
INDIAN SILVER
 MINE |S FOUND Gives Promise of Marvellous
 Richness IN TALLADEGA COUNTY People In the Community Have Sought This Treasure For Years-lt Is Found at Last Through an Accident.

Taladega, June 12.-(Special.)- 1.-The lost Indian silver mine has been found!-and found in Talladega county.
 A plainly dressed red-headed farmer named Wright had his pockets bulging with silver ore on the streets this morn- ing, and to every one who would listen lie poured out the story of finding the mine that has baffled the search of half century Our early settlers found silver trinkets among the Indians, and the story of an Indian mine was a familiar one to them.
 Kelt Lackey went to get a drink of water. He was blowing and when he stopped to get drink he saw spike driven into a rock-the spike was shaped like an arrow. Lackey looked at the rock ana saw that it was carved or roughly shaped into the semblance of a bread tray. Close by there was a row of rocks. big fiat rocks that would weigh from 100 to 300 pounds One of these rocks had turkey tracks cut in it, the others had hand cut on it and the picture of a man dressed like an Indian, on another rock was a picture of a tomahawk. Accident discovered these rocks, wagon ran over one of them and the driver in moving the stone out of the roadway turned le over and found the turkey track cut on it. and then upon turning over the others he found the hand the Indian and the tomahawk.
 When Kelt Lackey saw the spike in the rock he procured stone. and at tempted to break the arrow-shaped spike out of the bread-shaped rock, and in doing so broke off a fragment of stone which he found was full of metal. Ihen he procured dynamite and blasted the rock. and under it he found two six-incn tars of silver, about one inch wide, crossed. and a flat, round silver plate about seven inches wide, with two holes through the plate on opposite edges or the plate The holes were about half an inch and had evidently been drilled through Under these treasures G W..
 Wright, who was with Lackey, found q vein of silver about two feet thick It IS Assure vein and runs almost perpendicu T. lar. MT. Wright sent a specimen Of the ore to an assayer at Bellingham, Wash
 
 se2 il to the ton. The bars of silver were
 brought to the city and shown to the local jewellers and various chemists all | of whom pronounced them to be or pure silver.
 The spot, where the ore was found IS one and one-fourth miles norteast of lronaton,
 at Lackey's old mill on Horse Creek on
 the site of the old Indian town, where Mohoc, or Morhawk, sub-ehlet hVeo' At this point the Indians had smeiter, and cinders are yet lying about the piace where the ore was melted A neighbor- hood road runs by the spot and gener- ations have passed these overturned stones with the Indian inscriptions on them With out noticing them.
 All his life the Rev. John Seay, Meth odist preacher, had sought the location of the lost Indian silver mine, ana III ms last will he left specific instructions rel atiye to the mine and it's treasures Wneh if should be found. Such was his falth in its existence that he incurred the ex- nense of bringing some old Indians, who had formerly lived in that neighborhood, al lthe way from their new homes III the Territory to locate the mine, put altef Ic olxing over the homes of their boyhood these Red men answered that time lao so altered the landscape that 1t was lihpos- sihle to find it. This MT. Seay some- times thought was merely a subter1uge
 aS 1t is said that the medicine men bind the tribe with solemn oath never to re veal the whereabouts of treasure to the white man. ., Dr. Pugh of Ironaton has procured samples of the ore, which will be assayeo by the company's chemist at lronatoh' Both Mr. Laclkey and MT. Wright are plain honest farmers, and thelr std.e-
 ments can be depended upon. There IS no doubt about there being silver at this place, notwithstanding all the scientific men say that it is impossible. The scien- fife men have said that about nearly every valuable mine in the country