Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-21

A CALIFORNIAN announces that he has re-
n Gently discovered Spanish mine that had
been lost for 120 years. I'VE found the tunnel"
he says, full of poison gas and great stalactiteS
of pure arsenic were hanging from the roof.
There were the skeletons of five men. Then
came the location OF 16 different veins OF
bonanza ore aSsaying from $500 to $31 900 q
ton" Yet not satisfied to stay and work this
glorious find, the Californian wants a little
information one of the lost mines of Mexico.
The great lodes of tradition like the San
Saba mine the gold left hidden by old Ben
Sublett out in the Guadalupe Mountains and
Yuma's gold Of the desert-lodes that form the
chief themes of "Coronado's Children"-eome
in for additional tales and comment.
Charles H. Shamel, an elderly gentleman now
living in Taylorville, Ill, tells how in 1889 he
was engaged by Prof. Comstock to help make q
geological survey of the San Saba, Tex, region.
"One evening" he recalls, while the teamster
and cook were away Prof. Comstock took out
of his pocket piece of rock half the size Of q
mans fist and showed me embedded in it q
nugget of pure gold about as big as a radiSh
seed He told me to keep my mouth shut, but
to keep my eyes open for such specimens while
tracing outcrop lines The rock was a piece
Of what biologists call float and had probably
been carried away from the mineralized vein
by flood. So far as I know the gold-bearing
ledge has never been discovered.
after being put on the watch for it wrenched
my back and was disabled. That was one. Of
the great disappointments of my life, for get
ting to prospect in a mineral region with ex-
penSes paid and salary besides, was as good
as the job of Government hunter for preda-
tory animals, who is paid to do what many O
sportsman spends hundreds of dollars to get q
taste off,
And here is another geologist from FL Paso,
He once went with friend of Old Ben Sub
let's to a sink in the Guadalupe Mountains,
where queer Old Ben got his gold. He offers
to take me there again. I'm going. Then
maybe I can answer the man from Washing
ton who says that if I will tell him where
Sublett crossed the Pecos River he can work
the rest of the trail out alone hear that the
Guadalupe Mountains are lousy" with prospec-
tors these days. AS an Illustration of the can
righteousness that made Old Ben refuse even
on his death bed, to disclose the whereabouts
OF his gold mine they say he ordered his body
to be buried naked. He wanted to go out of
the world in the same garb he wore when he
came into it. And thus he went
AS the story goes about Yuma'S gold out in
the Arizona desert the Papago Indians killed
Yuma and thus frustrated development of the
mine. But maybe that is not true dyed-in-
the-wool proSpector from New Mexico who has
twice been in bonanza and expects to find the
Lost Adams Dggings yet, is coming to see me-
He writes: Ramon, chief of the Papagoes and
now ITO years old, has been my friend for SO
years. Once he directed me to a vein from
which I took $4,000 worth of gold. He him.
self has more gold than the Hindu prince It
Is in 1.116 mule skins buried somewhere On
the Arizona-Mexico border, and his people 90
tfeTe regularly to Get enough for their need&