Bisbee daily review., 1912-05-21
THE LOST MINE OF THE
 SIERRA ANCHAS

cabin. which place was thought most appropriate. one of the men picked up a peculiar shaped piece of rock and being attracted by its weight, struck it sharply against the side of his pick, when the mould aud ashes of years fell away. disclosing a gleam of gold. 1t Is safe to say that the grave was well dug and the surrounding earth worked like an onion bed, but nothing more was found and the bones of the departed white men were put away out of sight of their trag- ic dissolution of so many years before.
 On taking the gold specimen home and carefully washing it. it was found to be wedge shaped piece of quartz and the regularity of the surface as we'll as the weight had attracted the cowmen. It had been round on stone, and one side. a perfect surface of gold appeared about 3-i ul an inch wide by 1 Si inches in length, and there was plainly engraved on this gold surface, as with the point of knife or miners candlesticE, the name Sanders"
 One of these human frames, and no one but the recording angel knows which, the one about which had Clung the mortal cerements of San. ders. One was Sanders-Sa lders. the soldier-Sanders the discoverer-- Sanders, whose light went out in gust of tragedy just as his prospects were brightest; just as his heart was stirred with the prospect of incalcul
 able wealth. And if We could again mt [ oh h,, that sightless skull and d tongue be tween the ghastly jaws, this is the story that tongue would tell
 Sanders Discovers Gold
 In 1879 he was .. private in the United States service in Arizona. He was mainly stationed at Fort Apache, but was almost constantly in the sad de after renegades and marauders among the Apache and Apache Mo. l hayes. In the month of September. | while his company was camping on | the headwateTs of Salt rlycr, he was ! detailed to do some scouting service, | his duty being, if possible. to locate a band of Apache Mojayes which had | stolen some stock from the settlement 1 on Salt river. He proceeded to the { settlement, where he obtained all pos. { sible information, and started on the | trail which led toward the Sierra An, ! cha mountains The trail ed across
 the mesa country and skrted around
 the east end of the mountain for about 3s miles from the settlement when it scattered, when he returned to camp. In returning ne dropped into Coon Creek near it's head anC
 not knowing the country directly be
 tween there and camp, be concluded
 to go down the creek to the settle
 ment, and rturn to camp :be way he
 came. He had travelled rown the creek bottom about eight or nine
 miles as nearly as he could judge when he came to falls so deep thai
 he had to climb out of the creek bet up the side of the hill about 300 feet
 hen cross little ridge. and descend
 into the creek below the falls. Thi!
 ridge. where he crossed it, proved C
 be a large quartz dyke. He had walk ed and led his horse up the hill, anC being tired, sat down on large blocl .l of quartz which had been detached |. from the ledge or dyke, and had Dt . more than sat down when he discoy |. cred gold in projecting point of th' | UlOCh Ol UudiAI. Ilt was q man VI some experience in minerals, and tn sight set his heart to jumping witt ] the thought that from a poor depend [ ent soldier with nothing but curse [ of his failures and silence for hi ? good deeds, he might in lev shor
 months be a giant in this money-loy
 ing world.
 5 Riches Nearly Crave a., 2 A few minutes infesf igatoni depoI [ strated that there we're p"ssibilitie | within his reach. so far bey Ond all hi 5 plain imagination, that he was frs i bewildered and then delirIOJs. As U | came upon specimen after specimen f rarer than he had ever seen in cab ,. nets. as he picked up the nuggets i q the dust at his feet with o'lly 5uggei T. tions of the mother ledge adherin le he was stunned by the realization, bu