Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-26
The Dream Mine

In the very interesting story of Judge Duncan in The Review of last Sunday. there was introduced the name of l.. Elicit, who with George Eddieman aud others was a locator of the Iron Clad, sanord and Gray Eagle mining claims in this district early in 17ss The name of Elicit re, calls to the writer, the most remark. able incident within his experience, and so remarkable was it that it in volved him in a correspondence in the early nineties with the London Society for Physiological Research, of which at that time, the Rt. Hon W. E. Gladstone was an active mem Der.
 Beginning of Strange Story.
 The relation of the story might as well start at the beginning: At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lew Ellet and his brother Ahner, lived in Ken lucky and they. early allied them selves with the union side. They fought through the war and after the lighting was over, Lew Elicit who was then stationed in Mississippi, left the army before the mastering out and 50 became, technically d deserteT. This was probably late in 64. No word was received from him until 1868 when he wrote a letter to his brother Abner from a mining camp in Montana. h this letter and su ceeding correspondence he described his wanderings which had taken hun over the northern part of California and nearly all the northwestern ter ritoTies. He had been engaged as miner, prospector. stage driver and common laboreT.
 Letters were received from him with some regularity for the next ten years and all that time he was in California or in the northNest. At en-ih ne was heard of no more an
 ter four or five yeas had passe4 with nc word from him he was gty en up as dead.
 The Dream Visit.
 Jn the meantime, his brother Alb ner had moved 10 Kansas and settled in 3 small place called Goffs in the northeastern part oi the state One day he drove to Wetmore, the couuts seat and soon after his arrival. iIe was suddenly stricken on the street and was carried into a hotel where
 
 of the time in a coma aud part of the time in a delirium. This was in the spring of 1888. Abner's Eliett's re- covery was as sudden as his affIictiog had been, but 1t took his friends near- ly a week to convince him that he had been i'll and that he had not been out of his led at the hotel. He was pos itiVe that he had been on q journey, to a place called, Prescott, AriB, Of which he had never heard before but where he had met his brother Lew But finally he yielded to the prepon derant testimony of his friends and agreed that he had had long ana vivid dream.
 First Development.
 Then, the next remarkable thing happened, letter was received from lew Elicit, who was at Prescott. IL will here te observed how the num- Der 'S'' figures in this story. It was in 1S6S that Lew Elicit was first heard from after his assertion. His correspondence ceased at the beg ming of 1878 when he was preparing to come to Arizona, perhaps, not moIe than a month before he appealed in the Warren district. It was in 1883 that the correspondence was reopen. cd. So extraordinary was the coinci- dence Of Abner Ellett's dream and the receipt O. tie letter from his broth CT that tbe Kansas City Star at that time devoted much space to it.
 Golden Discovery.
 Among the things dreamed by Alb ner Elicit at the hotel in Wetmore was that his brother WAS the owner of a silver mine sixty miles south Of Prescott Tn his dream he had wis. tied the mine and to his friends he described the location of it in 6etall He somehow dreamed also that ne had himself discovered a gold mine by going 660 yards east and 4Gh yards south from the mouth of th> silver mine, (by mouth he mean the shaft. for the cid man had never seen any sort of a nine.) These dis tsnces, be dreamed. brought him on top of large flat rock on the edge of a deep guich and somehow he knew that there was much gold un' der that rock.
 He wrote about his dream 10 his brother, who replied that he and man named George Sine were the owners of d mine about sixty miles south Of Prescott Regarding the gold mine, however, he wrote that he had not much faith in dreams, beside thai was not a gold region. He said he had stepped off' the measurements given him by his brother but they did not bring him to large fiat rock on the edge Of a gulch.
 Had Seen It All Before,
 In the early fall of 1s9Z, AbneE El lett, who was then past seventy and his wife, were in ill health and a'