Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1898 — SECRET OF INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

SECRET OF INDIANS.

Recalled by a Eady Over a Centur/ Old—Search for Lead. Just without the precincts of the little village of Morgantown, 0., that nestles so snugly among the rugged hills of Western Pike county, tradition for 75 years past has located a valuable and prolific lead mine. A pioneer of the village in the person of an old lady 102 years of age recalled, in the presence of a Cincinnati Enquirer correspondent the other day. that 70 years ago she, with her parents, often watched the moving lights of the Indians from their cabin door as the red men moved busily about the brow of the hill intent upon the acquisition of some valuable find. She remembers also that an Indian once talked to her father and gave him to understand, though he was not at liberty to divulge the secret, that somewhere on the side of the mountain was a treasure inestimable and wonderful. Just now- interest has been revived in the tradition and the recollections of the old woman, and a company will be organized to prospect for the hidden mine at wealth. The country roundabout is fearfully rugged and precipitous, thousands of acres being covered with the primitive forest, where is yet to be found an occasional wildcat and deer.