The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-17

ing spring where Schrimsher and ms
wife had left it in the fall The sum
mer's search took them z74 miles
west of their home in Springfield
and instead of returning, they De
cided to work on a farm through the
winter and continue the search in the
spring. This is the procedure when
Schrimsher says he and his wife tol-
lowed until they reached Coloraoo,
three years later, when they began
to make their home in Denver anu
Pueblo.
difficult to follow as the couple con-
tinued in Colorado, where snow anc
rock-sIideS combined to remove
many of the markers or obscure
them from view by coverings 81 o.
earth ana rock It was not until the
fall of 1911 that Schrimsher, after
having covered thousands of miles
in relentless search for the trail When
it was lost for periods OF seVerai
summers ultimately reached the Spot
where he was destined to unearth
prehistoric relics and mine rlcn IN
mineral ore.
Schrimsher and his wife were not
in search of gold, he says. Tney mad
become students of hieroglypnlcs'
led on by the hope of advent IRE
That treasures beyond relics or that
a rich mine would fall to their lot IN
the lengthy quest, they did not con-
slider.
Found New Kind of Marker.
They reached a marker at last
which bore a circle within when
were inscribed two crescents. 1t was
a new inscription, and Schrimsher
with a shovel proceeded to dig out
the rock which bore it. He struck
wall. then a sunken roof. He dug
through it, and beneath 1t he FOUND
the skeleton of a man. About the
body were numerous marked STONES
and a large quantity of charcoal
The stones bore the same inscriptions
which markers along the traif had re-
Vealed.
on succeeding summers, Schrim-
sher says, he and his wife returned
Their search revealed other skele-
tons, each packed in charcoal and
surrounded by the inscribed stones.
Schrimsher told no one, hoping, he
says, to finish the investigation be-
fore he made it known to the world.
More Buildings Uncovered.
Two buildings and a lookout,
Schrimser says, were uncovered last
summer. Within them he claims to
have found crude hammers of stone
and tempered copper and other i'm
plements used in prehistoric masonry
and building. He carried a copper
sledge on his return to Denver. A
blacksmith examined it and was IN
of its hardness. The discovery, he
says, is considered significant because
tempered copper is ranked today with
the lost arts"
Toward the end of last summer
Schrimsher cut into a sunken hole
and found mineral When he re-
turned to civilization he brought
samples of the ore he found An
assay, he says, showed it to run in
values from $1,84S to $11,272 ton.
He proposes to return to continue
development.
Schrimsher is not a Mason, but
believes that the markers which he
says led him in his twenty-year
search to the pot of gold meath the
rainbow are of the order because of
their. close resemblance to Masonic
insignia. Masons have said that the
numerals Schrimsher claims to have
found are probably those of prehis-
-torlc Indians.
My sole reason for not disclosing
the place where 1 have found these
relics" says Schrimsher, lis that SO
far have feared that the mine which
I have discovered might be taken
away from me. 1 feel certain that
there is little danger of any one
finding it in the meantime"