The Parker post., 1917-02-10
SEEK AND YE
MAY FIND
AN INQUIRER FROM COAST ASKS
QUESTIONS BRINGING OUT LEG
END OF QUARTER OF MILLION
IN LOST GOLD DUST.

r Men young men, and boys, all of
you who pussess an adventurous dis
position there is a quarter of a mil
lion dollars somewhere in this state,
which belongs t. the person who
finds ruin SO years old, and mark
ed only by two stone chimneys, says
hte Republican.
A quarter of million dollars is a
hugesum. Arizona is a big state, and
that quarter of million, which is,
after all, not in cash but in gold dust
is @ mighty small speck on the map,
and no one knows where it is. 1t is
known beyond the shadow of doubt
that the quarter of a million exists,
and as long as there is Life there is
always hope-of finindg that quarter
million
For years there has been legend
told in Arizona, New Mexico ,and Cal
Norma, of a party of miners who left
Tucson in 1862 or 1863 for the north
vest Only one M an of the party
ever returned alive from that trip.
He was picked up year or so later,
Iby soldiers scouting from Fort Baird.
which was located in what is now
known as New Mexico
That man spent the remainder of
his lifeinSilver City, New Mexico or
rather such part OF his time las he
did not spend i'll attempting to locate
the quarter million worth of gold
dust which he claimed the party had
washed prior to the time of a raid
by Apaches in which all of the party
but himself pershed. He made several
! attempts to go back to the camp He
told ofthe two log cabins which the
Darty built,of the fact that the cabins
were burned by the Indians, and that
underneath a stone fire place built
in one of the cabins, there was the
hidden treasure.
When he was driven from the coun-
try by the Apaches, he left in such a
hurry land was so crazed for a part of
the time by lack of water, that he
was never able to tell the soldiers
just where he came from.
Nowcomes the up-to-date part of
the story.
Colonel Harris, adjutant7general of
the National Guard of Arizona, re-
ceWed aletter recently from Califor
MIA lin which the writer called to
mind the above story, and asked the
colonel if he could in any way sub
stantiate or verify the tale. Colonel
Harris has heard of the affair for
years, but Captain Temple, assistant
adJutant-general, who came to tris
country with the regular asmy, when
the Indian trouble was at it's merriest
stage, stated that he had heard the
tale yoars ago and that he was inclined
to believe that it is true.
According to Captain Temple, the
party which left Tucson on the trip
from which only one man returned,
went northwest from that place. That
is the only clue a woauld-be searcher
would have
The first heard of the fate of the
expedition was report from Fort
West" that one survivor had been
picked up, almost dead from exposure
and unable to tell from whence he had
come. The other details such as the
gold buried under the stone fire places
corresponds with the story coming
from California.
Captain Temple claims that Fort
West" was something of a myth.
there was a General West command
ing the department of the southwest
at that time, and wherever he had his
headquarters was liable to be called
Fort West" Fort Baird in New
Mexico, Fort Defiance in the northern
part of the state, and smull post at
the Pima villages, or at what is now
called Sacaton, were at various times
referred to as Fort West"
The captain is of the opinion though
that the survivor was picked up by
soldiers from Fort Baird, though he is
at loss to know why, if the party
Travelled northwest" from Tucson, the
lone survivor should have wandered
all the way over into New Mexico. On
the other hand it is possible that he
might have been picked up by men
from one of the other two Fort Vests.
1t is pretty certain though, that the
camp which was raided by the Apaches
was among the pine-clad mountains,
as the cabins were built of logs.
If with the above direC tions, that the
party went northwest" from Tucson,
aud that tie survivor was picked up