The Forrest City times., 1910-05-13

helght rise one on either side of the main crater then sheer drop of several thousand feet of sul- pHuI-eoated rock to the highest signs e yegeIa- ton. Below this the Pacific slopes stretch beautiful rolling llanos or ateppes. lower and lower. on down to the pam-fringed coast line
 Somewhere on these immense slopes lies the lost mine of the Indians "Tisineal" known to and worked by the early Spanish settlers who ehanged its name to La EstrellA" or Mine of the Star.
 During the year 183334 in going through the archives at Cartago Costa Riea, some official doe uments pertaining to this mine were found and permission was obtained from the Costa Rean government for their publication Shortly there after company formed in Cartago to send out exploring parties, and although considerable time and money were wasted and several lives lost In an endeayor to locate this mine no indica- tons of its whereabouts found
 Reprints of some of the documents referred 10 nave come into the hands of the writer in which IS preserved the old style Spanish in which they were originally written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Transactions of these pa pers have been made and the information con t2lned therein summarized, 10 which have been added data obtained through personal acquaint. ance with the country described During last year an unsuccessful attempt was made by the writer to ascend the highest crater of the Chiri- gni volcano for the purpose of verify fna certain NFFlTPd the year l6o5 from fhis point and pertaining to the Tisingal mine During the dry season of this year second attempt will probably be made
 Among the documents consulted Is one that. literally translated. reads as follows
 Within the limits of the department of ehiriz qni contiguous to the Republic of Costa Rtca exist places rich in gold. known by the names of Tisingal Quebrada Ancba Quebraaa de Gro and others quite important. The first of these places was explored some time ago by a Spanish colony which in the year 160l founded the city Of Con eepeion de Ia Estrella, near this mine of great wealth. The excessive stinginess of the conquer. DTS reduced the Indians of the locality to the con dtion of slaves they being forced by the Spanish to work. mining the gold of the Tisingal These Indians became tired of the excessive work and bad treatment and became desperate In the year 1911 they revoted against their oppressors and exterminated them; but other Spaniards at the place of the mutiny again compelled the Indians to resume the working of the mine and made harder for them their state Of slavery This al- most eliminated the Indians from this stretch of country
 "on the tTenty=eighth of September. some years after these happenings the Indians re- turned and without pity or consideration took inc life of every foreigner living in the country: and not only this, but carrying stones from dis. tant localities. they covered up and destroyed all traces of the workings of the mines. and they
 
 the Spaniards The only traces remaining of these ancient buildings today are the foundations of the church and bell belonging 10 tt
 At last the news of the new rebellion reached Gartago in Costa Rica where immediate prepa- rauons were made for revenge T. is known that at the beginning of the year l5l0 the government at Cartago sent 2o0 men by the way of Boruca and fuis to san Jose Cabecar. town 10 the east about l5 leagues from Conception This expedt ton took 800 Indians of both sexes prisoners and reduced them fo state of slavery and as such consigned them 10 the inhabitants around about Cartago upon their return 10 that place These prisoners and all other Indians they met along the way were massaered shortly thereafter
 From that time all Indians living in the mountains in all directions up to distance of 10 leagues turned bitter enemies of the foreigners and up to few years ago would have nothing to do with the white races. Due to these events all traces of the villages of Turrialba Tuis. Atirro San Jose Cabecar and other places that lay on the route 10 Concepcion de la Estrella and Tsln. gal lost and the trails of communication Shh the mines were covered with brush and completely destroyed that after fl years in Cartago knowledge to be obtained as to the locality of the Estrella and practically no person living knew or had seen the mines at