Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-28

prospectors and others attempted to follow him on various occasions he managed to outwit them. He went in the direction of the Superstition Mountains, but he always travelled just before or during Q storm, and bis tyal. was washed out almost as soon as made. To attempt to follow him very closely was dangerous, for he was not only tough looking GUS tCmer. but was bad clear through as well, and would kill a man without very much reason. He told very little about himself except that he lived at his mine with an Apache squaw that bad been banished by her people for breaking some of the tribal laws He claimed to nave had a partner whom no one had ever seen, however On one Of the last visits he was known to have made to Phoenix he
 howed great agitation, and while in ris cups intimated that his partner had lost his life He said he was disgusted with his life and was going back to the old country to live the rest of his days, and that the secret of his mine would go with him. He was as good as his word. and he drop ped out Of sight, never to be heard from again"
 That in turn is a pretty good trump for your bandit story" l re- marked How in the world did you ever come 10 believe such ridiculous taies?'
 Truth is stranger than fiction" he faA thinking that there is something in the story. Didn't l see him blowing in money at Phoenix. and don't l re- member it as well as ii it was yester- day? I can never forget him, for if ever the devil was pictured in hu- man Countenance that face was the Dutchmans. Furthermore my old friend, Al Sieber, followed his trail right into the Superstition Mountains one time, but lost it in a blinding snow storm. Al was the gSatest of the scouts. if not the best known. No man was better qualified to ferret out the Dutchman's secret, for he read signs as we read books. and r'' mans word was more reliable"
 Mention of Al Siebler's name clinch- ed my interest in the story. for he was a practical sort of man and would never be given to rainbow chasing As Dussard had said, Sieber was one ot the greatest of scouts, not Except ing Bud Williams and Kit Carson themselves, and if he failed to keep the Dutchman's trail 1t was useless for anybody else to attempt it.
 Decide ,Uponf Search
 Dussart, enthusiasm was infec- tious. and before long 1 decided to ac company him on prospecting trip into the Superstition Range though without any persuasion on his part. l still had no hOre of finding a mine on such flimsy data. but the interest . that men who should have known better took in the tale aroused my curosity Two days travel brought us into the Superstition Mountains. 4 short reconisance, to q man with my knowledge Of geology was enough : to convince me of the futiltiy of look : ing for a mine in the Superstition l Range An ancient lava flow has GOV cred the entire region to a depth ol several feet and has made il impos ! sible to determine the character oi the underlying formation, and wheth CT there are ore bearing iedges be meath the lava is even a more diff | cult mystery to solve than that oi ] the Lost Dutchman We had hardly , entered the mountains before I point ! ed out the fact to DussaTd. but he was persistent, and refused to return to civilization so long as our supply Of food lasted
 In addition to the apparent use I lessness of looking for a Hiine among
 such unpromising geological conds- tions, my spirits were still further ! lowered by the desolation and lone someness of my surroundings. This | range has been aptly named tie Sg perstition Mountains, for it would b5 impossible to imagine a gloomier oI 2 more depressing place. The noun
 tains get their name for the awe IT which they are held by the Apache ] Indians who believe them to be haunt | ed by the evil one and his myrmidOns i and no redskin, however great hi: : courage may be, could be persuaded to spend the night within the con fines of the range. The mountain: are exceptionally rough and sparse ly timbered. The wind, blowing con tinously through lnnumerabie smal caverns in the precipitous walls o deep canyons, makes ( peculiar moan
 ing sound that at night an imagina
 tive mind might easily construe C
 be the wsiling Of lost spirits. NJ
 game, with the exception of fe" fool quail, are to be found there I Seemingly even the brutes are unabl,
 10 bear the moaning Of the wind, ana
 the general depression of anima
 spirits that obtains in this haunted
 atmosphere.
 Search Appears Fruitless
 \ week of wandering among thu
 crags and rocks wal productive of nc
 tangible results. Dussard had TO
 markable endurance and energy, an'
 though he did all the cooking an' , work other than prospecting, l va , hardly able to follow the sinewey ol' , man. During our travels we cam
 upon several old trails, which we tol : lowed and which invariably led us C . the top of some precipice where ts , trail was lost or obliterated. Thi was something that puzzled -ussaro D with his lifetime of eXpei>ence anon mountains Trails made by men ar ] intended to lead from some place | L ] fItT srs