The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-22
Miners Stampede in Hootch Search,
 Forgetting Gold
Sourdoughs' Care Naught for Nuggets With $10O,OOO Liquor
 Cache to Be Located.

Alma, CoIo,, April Something like the fcvcrish activity that followed the discovery of big gold nuggets in Tarryall Creek 45 years ago is reported from various mining districts in Park county. ProspcCtors are but awaiting the melting of the snOWs that now man tel the eastern slope of the main range travcrscd by Georgia Pass into the Blue River placer mining field. The word has gone forth that priceless golconda lies | buried near the surface about 10 miles west and north of the town of John son.
 Hundreds of persons many of whom are old prospeCtOrs, are about to search for nearly $1OOO0O worth of 60-year- old Whiskey.
 There are oldtimers in Park county who still remember Jim Haley. The latter frcighted from the placer mines along Tarryall Creek a half century ago. Early in the spring of 1875 Frank Leonard, who owned a stage station and tavern near Buena Vista, purchased
 IS barrels of the best whiskey to be had
 in Denver in anticipation of a rush to what is now the Tin Cup district in Gunnison county, where some rich silver veins had been discovered.
 IeOnard'S tavern was on the highway | yer Hence the need of a plenteous stock. Haley loaded the whiskey at Denver and when he reached Lake George group of prospeCtOrs, who had evidently been tipped off, held him up and he was forced to go on toward Breckenridge on foot, on penalty of death. Haley went as far as the stage station at what is now Garos where he
 found the dtputy sheriff, to whom he communicated the news of his hod-up.
 A posse of five was immediately or oanized and made for the scene of the robbery. In the meantime heavy snow had fallen, ObsCuring all trace of the robbery, but a few weeks later, when found and they led straight to the Lake George road, to the broken slide rock base of the peaks crossed by Georgia Pass, the direct route into the placer district.
 Further pursuit of the robbers was abandoned, but late the following fall, Haley received an anonymous letter from Georgetown III which the writer admitted he was one of the robbers and said that he had been dOuble-crossed by one of his pals in a mining deal. He expressed contrition for his part in the robbery and gave directions as to where tlC lo DdIIclS Had DeS1l CdCntQ, III rear that the robbers might be momentarly overtaken by a posse and lynched to save court costs.
 Haley, however, never searched for ! the booze. He fell down a mining shaft, suffered fractured leg, received inter nal injuries and was taken to a hospital
 in Colorado Springs, where he was con- fined for nearly year. When he recov- cred sufficiently to be taken to the home of relatives in Kansas he apprised Leonard of the letter he had received from Georgetown, but Leonard had sold out and left the country.
 Haley died several months later, after cOnfiding the secret to a nephew. This nephew recently wrote to a friend who has been prospecting in this district, and the news of the Whiskey cache spread.
 It is expec|ed that half-hundred old prospect shafts, sunk in the vicinity of Georgia Pass near Jefferson, will be thoroughly explored for the Leonard whiskey, now worth at least $1OOOOO.