Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-07
FIND
RICH Lost NINE
IN hOGOLLOKS
Secret Buried With Former
DiScoverer Unearthed Again
By Lucky Miners DoingS in
the MogoIIon District,
Especial correspondence to MornIne JournaIl


Especial Correspondence to MernIne JOurnaIl
Silver city, N. NJ, Dec Sc. L.
! Whidden, who has been employed at
the drilling operations of the Savanna
Copper company, in the Burro noun
tains is in town recovering from the
effects of some injuries received
while he was underneath the machin-
cry of one of the drills for the pur-
pose of oiling, says the Silver City
Enterprise. In crawling out he was
struck in the small of the back by Il
revolving pitman and thrown violent
ly out and away from the machine,
otherwise he might have been fatally
injured. AS it was, he was pretty well
stove up, but is thankful that it was
no worse. Mr.. Whidden relates an in
tcresting story of the finding Of a lost
mine in the NIogollon district by him7
self and his mining partner, Jack
Case. The two were out scouting
around through the mountains about
six months ago ana finally landed in
BLIND vale or cleft in which is a
cave, a well known landmark to the
prospectors of that section. While
sitting in the mouth Of the cavern,
talking. Mr.. Case volunteered the in
formation that there was lost mine
somewhere in the vicinity of the cave
but that no one had ever been able
to locate it. despite the most diligent
search on the part OF prospectors. The
mine was located some fifteen years
ago by young miner employed in one
of the Mogollon mines who brought in
specimens taken from the outcrop
pings and set the camp wild with eX-
element when the returns were re-
ceived. They ran away up in the hun
dreds of dollars. The miner refused
to divulge the location of the property
and managed to elude detection when.
ever he visited the scene of his rich
find Not many months afterWard
he was killed in a cave-in in the prop
erty in which he happened to be
working at Mogollon at the time and
the secret of the location of the Lost
Mine as ii came to be known. was
buried with him. PROJECTORS search
ed every nook and corner Of the
mountains and finally stumbled upon
the "blind" valley and the cave where
remains of some of the dead miners
effects, such as blacksmith's tools
We're found. They were identified as
belonging to tho dead miner but there |
wasn't anything in the neighborhood |
gave prospect Of ever having been /
one. When Mr.. Case finished his talk |
he and Mr. Whidden strolled down
to whore the remains of the dead |
miners camp were still visible but /
nothing that looked like ore.
Mr.. Whiddcn suggested they go in the
opposite direction. This they did and
while walking along, Whidden noticed
3 blaZed tree. Pretty soon he came
across another one and calling Mr.
Cases attention to it they soon traced
he boundaries of the claim by means
Df the hlazed trees After further
search they discovered one of the
of the claim built of a
mound OF stones on top of which was
IN empty tin can. II had evidently
contained the original location notice
# the unfortunate miner. Having
raced the claim the problem was to
ind the ore. They went over nearly
very inch of the ground before they
inallv located it and then they
weren't at AL certain about it. They
ook The rock that looked most likely
q contain values. Quietly they re-
urned TO Mogollon and sent samples
o Denver for assaying. Returns on
he first sample ran S165, on the sec
nd nothing. on the third over $1,000.
{ IS needless 10 add they lost no time
n locating the claim and Mr.. Case
as been holding it down with his [
resence ever since. They are now ON
deal for its sale to eastern people.