Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-26
An Arizsna Incident Once Discussed by London Scientific So- ciety.

they were weilto-do. they deter mined to como to Arizona for the win ter They first went to Prescott anu early in the winter the writer mel Elicit at Phoenix, lived in the house with him. and first heard of his re- nlarkable dream and the realization of it up to that time.
 He said that when he arrived a' Prescott, it seemed as familiar to him as Goffs or wetmore He even remembered people he had seen in his dream and going out to his broth CTS silver mine, he said that almost continually he was eneountering land marks which appeared to hare been seen by him only yesterday. The mouth" of the mine was just as hs had seen it. So certain had he been that his brother had made a mistak' in his measurements that were [, disclose tho gold mine that he tool a measured rope. He discovered then that Lew Elicit had made a ms take. Instead of going 690 yards cas- and 400 yards soath. he had gone 40e yards east and 5U0 yards south. The directions being revised, the Elletts and Sine, who had gone down with them were brought out upon large fiat rock on the edge of a deep gulch. It was the same rock. the same gltlch, the old man had seen while he lay as dead at Wetmore Gold Was Real.
 Next, gold was discovered. It was in a little thread of decomposed granite which ran across the gulch. By this time, Lew Elicit and Sine were infected and location wa made. The property was called "rB Dream Mine.
 About that time. Mrs. Elicit wh was a sufferer from an afeotion of heart, was compelled to seek a low altitude ard she and her husban went to Phoenix. where from time C time Abner Elicit received word from his brother of operations on the Dream mine. An early and violen, winter stopped work and a little latcr Lew Elicit also went to Phoenix talk ing with him samples Of ore which he said that he had taken from the mine. This ore showed values rang. ing from $500 to $700. This ore, Lew Elicit said, had been taken from . depth of less than sixteen feet.
 1t was at this stage that the storl was written which provoked the cor .respondence with the London Society for Psychological Research. Subse quent developments. while they might have dui'ed popular interest in the story, would not have had that effee' upon the investigators of the society. But they were disappointing.
 A Disappointment.
 It turned out that Lew Elicit was a drunken vagabond. He spent the winter in Phoenix, supplied with funds abundantly, by his brother Along in March of the following year when the rigor of the winter had had abated even in the mountains Abner Elicit began importuning his brother to return to the mine They were getting old. he said, and the earlier they could get the gold out Of the mine, the better Lew Elicit de- layed his going from day 10 day but al length he yielded to the urging of his brother and consented to return Co the mine.
 Abner Elicit bought a team and wagon, stocked his brother with pro visions and supplied him with funds for the hiring of help and went with him to a corral to see him oil i A day or two later, while passing the corrall he was astouudcd 10 meet his brother staggering out. Lew Ellet vas drunk enough to be frank. Re plying to the objurgations of his bro'h 1 CT, be said that there was no mine there, that the ore he Lad brough' down in the winter had been taken from mine ten miles away.
 Unshsken Faith.
 ADner Elicit was heartbroken 10 the moment cut he quickly recovered himself. His faith in his dream shone out above the unfaithfulness of even a brother. He knew tho gold was there. A little later iu the season or his way back to Kansas, he stopped at the mine and employed small force of MexicaHs iu the sinking of shat. They found ore which shove fair values but business called the O
 man back to Kansas. He return
 the next fall badly broken in healt
 and Was unable to resume the inyes tigation of the property. Beside, go'' did not seem so essential as it had seemed the year before. Nothing was done with the mine that year, be yOnd some formal assessment work and the old man did not revisit th" property in person. The succeedin9
 winter hc returned to Arizona iIs
 proved in health and he organized the Dream Mine compary,' in which several Phoenix meu were induced t'' take part but 90 far as the writer knows none of them ever visited th
 property. The next sumner Alone Elicit died Lew Elicit was drowne four years ago in Bill Williams Fork