Weekly journal-miner., 1918-09-25
RAINBOW RICHES LURE AR|zONAN
 ID RETURN
OLD STAGE DRIVER OR CANNES FIX XPE OPTION, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW THE TRAIL TO THE LOST FRENCHMAN CACHE.
(From Saturdays Daily)


 As long as the Lost Frenchman dives in memory, so will some eager pioneer endeavor in this late day to take the weather beaten trail to dis cover the .fancipul cache of gold ga- lore.
 In this line of mythical millions credited as stretching from the elusive Nigger Ben, the Pegleg, the LaPez, Adams and a score of others, hardly a year passes but what the dreamy romanccr does not appear on the horizon with a 'cinch' on holding the key to unlock the big Fl Dorado which is invariably located on the desert somewhere In harmony with 90 many exploits organized regularly since nearly a half century ago, another one beams into life in the action of a pioneer named Silas c. Webb. who has formed an eXpedi- ton at Stockton, Cal, and with four others takes the field sometime dur ing October. A letter from him, with a press account, is quite interesting and among other things the newspa- per interview says:
 "Mr. Webb is Sl years of age, and gives the date of his residence in Ari- zona as far back as 1866 His mind is clear. his memory is lucid, and his physique is remarkable. He dwells vividlv on his life as a stage driver out of Wickenburg to Ehrenberg in the early eos and his story is con sistent from beginning to end in pre- senting his claims for others to take up in financing his expedition, which has been accomplished. Details of this trek are lacking, however, which Mr Webb states should be known only to those who are backing him. Broadly, he states the foundation IS based on what he knows pertaining to the Lost Frenchman, and so far as other desert caches figure, is not in clined to dwell too exhaustively on any of them Mir Webb in vein of romance unfoIds himself and his pie ture of the golden reality no doubt has led to his receiving financial as .sistance for which he has been striv- ing for so long. He talks reasonably and in a tone which is relieved of any mental bombast His dcmeanoi also is steady and fixed, inpresslng one for its sincerity. He drifts into first the Rich Hill golconda. which is his magnetic attraction. Then he follows the road of the Frenchman from the time he left the big strike until he disappeared on the southern slope of the Harqua Hala range. One thread and another is wound around the mysterious situation until, ac- cording to his version, there IS but one solution to the location of the cache. He had been informed by one person and another of such an oc- curence. and in this peculiar miXup of the beliefs of SO many, Mir Webb hcsitatcd. for a short interval, when hc said: The honest Indian scat tered along Cullen's valley knew the secret, and it is mainly on this rcvela- tion that I am so eager to again go into that country to seek and find. Now listen, he continued: Do you know from what source came the dis covcrv of the Bonanza on the liar qua Hala range? It was squaw at CuIIcn's Well who pointed the way to three prospectors. They went out and came back with several hundred dollars in gold nuggets picked up on the surface. I propose to do the same thing, but will admit the job is a bigger one, as we have to contlnc our exploration to a certain zone To find the spot is the problem. It is worth the game"