The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-17
LOST MINES0F
 PACIFIC
 ARENUMEROlyS

Every mining state has had it's story of one or more fabulously rich mines, which have been once located and then been lost forever Driven away by hostile Indians, or forced to seek some town for provisions, the lucky, or rather unlucky, prospector has either died or been prevented by some other cause from returning to his find and has left rude map of the location of the strike which no one else was able to use successfully. | Or, if able to return himself, had been so weak from hunger or from wounds on his journey from the mine that he wandered off the straight road, and became so con- fused that he was never able again to locate his claim
 Witness the Tin Bucket Mine of Oregon, where some immigrants, nearly out of food, and pushing for the coast with all speed, stopped at a creek to water their stock. The sands of the creek were literally plat ed with nuggets, and the immigrants filled water bucket with them be- fore the craving of hunger compelled them to move on toward the nearest town. They reached it in safety with their bucket of nuggets, and as soon as they were able started to return to this creek with the golden sands. Others joined them, and for many years the search has been carried on, but TO one has yet succeeded in finding it.
 The Pegleg mine of California, with it's 'black' gold has been the sub Ject of many newspaper story, and several have claimed to have found it, but if so, they kept their secret well, for it's location is unknown to- day
 l Alaska, too. has it's lost mines, and the tales told of these lost BOnauzas are no less interesting than those of the states. Every prospector who came to the Copper river district in '9S knows of party bound for the 1 Mud glacier supposed to be To- l cated somewhere along the Copper; of the map they had showing it's To- cation, which they so jealously guard ed; of the tales which were told of the rich placer deposit near this glacier, which had been found some years before by a prospector who could not, for some reason, return But no one has yet succeeded in find in gthe place.
 Then there was the party who had the map showing another rich find near Spirit mountain, but it is still numbered among the lost mines.
 Probably the most interesting tale of the lost mines of Alaska is that of the Lake of the Golden Bar. The richest of all the rich mines lost to the world. According to the story, three prospectors, Gait, Ulrich and Ole Stanford, in August, 1884, crossed the St. Elias range near the Yukon river, and one evening came upon a small lake. The evening sunlight, shining full upon a bar in the lake but few feet from the shore scintil- lated back thousand golden rays. Al hasty examination showed the bar to be Utterly paved with golden nuggets, tnd throwing down their rifles and packs the men plunged into the water and swan to the bar. The first nugget they picked up weighed about ten pounds, and pres ently Ulrich secured one which weighed all of fifty pounds.
 For several weeks the three pros- pectors remained at the lake, picking out the golden nuggets and slowing them away in cave nearby until they had accumulated half a ton or more of the precious metal. They also built a small cabin, intending to winter near the lake, but hostile Indians attacked them, killing Stan ford and burning the cabin. Gait and Ulrich escaped the Indians, but in do- ing so became separated, and desti- ute of provisions, started for civil ization. After untold hardships they succeeded in reaching the coast and eventually the states.
 Galt became paralyzed as a result of the hardships he had undergone l during the fearful trip to the coast, l but the next year Ulrich started for
 Alaska to recover the gold the party had accumulated. He YVES never heard of again, and his fate remains 8 mystery. Nor has anyone else suc- ceeded in finding this fabulously rich
 'eposit., Not that 1t has not been searched for as many prospectors have