The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-27
Gold Deposits Found In
 Panama.

New York, Dec. 27 - After forty three years of prospecting, and with the lure of gold still running srong in his sixty-three-year-o veins, Sim A Shea has just arrived here from the tropical jungles of Columbia and Panama with the light of success in his eyes.
 After months of lonely struggling through the jungles of Central Amer ca. after being thwarted from stalk ing out a rich claim ha Colombia, and with his hand and body still swollen from the bites of tropical insects, Sim Shea, of Norfolk, Va, arrived here on the steamship Pastores carrying in his pocket the concession from the Republic of Panama for what he claims is/ one of the most valuable gold deposits he has ever seen.
 Many months ago Shea felt the call of gold. Leaving his wife in Caliuro County, Texas, he sot forth for Central America At Colon, Pan anna, he purchased a seagoing launch, went through the Panama Canal and sailed down the coast to Buenaven- tura- Here he announced his 1nten- iion of going into the Colombian jun gles in search of gold anL platinum. Everyone told him that no white man had ever penetrated the jungles he proposed to enter. Shea, despite his sixty-three years. was undaunted.
 Enters Wilderness
 He secured an Indian boatman to
  San Juan river. Here he found set dement's and he sought a country where there were no settlements. So when the high tides flooded the jun EIes he sailed his launch straight into the jungles through trees and un- derGrowth, tying his boat up when the tides went down.
 After many months of this lonely fighting he finally discovered deposits of gold and platinum. Then he found more and more deposits of gold and platinum. Convinced that the jun gle was "1oaded with metal" Shea madeS his way back to the coast to seek a claim. Here he was advised, that his thirty-four-year-old wife had come seeking him tnd had gone into the very jungle where white wo- man had ever been before.
 Shea set foCth again in search of his wife. From the natives in the interior he learned that she had gone back to the coast. Returning to the coast. he learned that she had again gone into the jurgles, with a negro packing her baggage. Warned that q woman might safely meet the na- lives of these jungles but that no man could meet them and live, Shea plunged into the jungles again only to finally hear that his wife had re- turned to the coast again.
 In Forbidden District
 Once more Shea went to the coast but again his wife had gone into fur ther jungles to seek him. Shea plunged into the interior again and his travels brought him into Panama and the San Bias country where it is said the San Bias Indians have al lowed no white man to stay over night. Shea met the San Bias In dians. he fought single handed with them and he came out of the. San Bias country only to find that some one had complained to the American au- thorities that Shea had been rough with the San Bias Indians.
 Tramping and boating through the Panamanian jungles, almost frantic in his search for his wife Shea found valuable gold and timber land. He came out to the coast and staked out his claim and finally met his wife. His weary fight was ended He had his wife and his claim, but being a good prospector he could not forget the rich deposits of Colombia so he went to that country seeking tC file a claim, only to find that hi: struggles had been for naught anC that the laws of Colombia forbid for eigners from mining concessions and that this law was most strictly enforced against Americans, fol whom Colombians have held no low, since Panama became a republic.
 With his Panamanian claim as tn, reward Shea is now here to arrange for financing and working the claim When the claim is worked out, h, has plans for more jungle prospect Ing.
 ''I can't stay put. and I expect t be prospecting for twenty years yet, said the aged adventurer.