The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 July 1935 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935.

I Golden I Phantoms I FASCINATING TALKS OF LOST MINKS I C« ji.o. CrffrAw A. W’siMwas HIDDEN “STONES OF THE SKY” THE late Charles F. Lummis, fa* mous roamer and chronicler of the Southwest, relates in one of his articles that the Indians knew how to hide springs of water so well that they were found only by accident He bolstered this statement with an account of the experience of the. Hon. Amado Chavex of San Mateo, New Mexico, who found that a small space of ground ■ near some ancient ruins seemed springy under his horse’s tread. He had this strange spot dug into, and excavations revealed a layer of cedar bark at some distance beneath the surface. Below this were pine logs laid close together, then more bark, and these layers were repeated for a depth of several feet When the last of this material had been 3 removed, a little spring was found which bubbled with clear water, aa fresh and limpid as It had flowed centuries ago. ' With such success In concealing a spring. It Is only natural that a mine shaft could be hidden equally as well by the wily natives of the country. So, somewhere in New Mexico, there Is said to be a turquoise mine which was hidden by its primitive workers, and would never have been found In " the ordinary rtin of matters. The “Stones of the Sky” were precious to the aborigines—so precious that they tried to conceal their source. However, fate decreed that a cave which was conveniently located should be enlarged as a storage place for ranch supplies. The cave was not deep enough in its natural state, but a charge of dynamite would attend to that without much trouble. So It was planned, and so it was accomplished, but when the rancher looked, in to see the results of the shot, he was surprised to find that a tunnel extended back into the darkness. Nothing of the sort had been suspected before, but evidently the mouth of the tunnel bad been filled up to form the back of the cave, and afterward all traces of human work had been neatly obliterated. The tunnel led into the ancient turquoise working. There were smoky marks on the walls where torches bad leaned. Stone tools had been left lying about, and a shaft'led up to the top of the hill, although no trace of it could be found from the outside. It proved to have been covered in much the same way as Amado Chaves’ spring —with fallen trees and earth, and the growth of centuries had covered the spot equally with the rest of the hilltop. • • • Ona of the most famous turquoise, mines In the United States Is the Mount Chalchlhultl (Aztec for turquoise), which also Is located in New Mexico. It was worked, for themselves long ages ago. and later j under the harsh Spanish rule after the ] Conquest. At one time twenty of the tribesmen were killed in a cave-in. and this is said to be one of the many events which led up to the rebellion of 1680, in which all the Spaniards were driven* back to Mexico. After the reconquest by de Vargas In 1692, an effort was made to reopen this mine, but the Indians refused to enter the old workings. It was not until 1855, wlien other such mines had been found and the hostile Indians who kept white men from their locutions driven away, that Mount (Chalchlhultl was again* allowed to produce its stones of the sky. • • • In Arlxona, George Simmons, riding through the Crescent mountains in the Mohave desert, saw a small artificial mound. It was too large for a grave, and its peculiar location made It seem like something worth examining. So Simmons got off his horse, went over to the strange mound, and began to dig In Its center. He dug Into what proved to be a fortune for himself. The mouqd marked the hidden shaft of a turquoise mine, worked long ago by the Indians and then concealed from the encroaching white men. Since Simmons could not afford to patent the ground at the time, he kept hla find a secret for years. He built a stockade around the place, and kept an armed guard on duty day and night Many persona attempted to follow him to the source of the gems, but they soon found that thia was dangerous business. Simmons went on the old principle of “finders keepers.** It Is said that he used to come to Denver with a traveling bag full of fine turquoises. That they were valu- I able la shown by the fact that ho sold one 32-carat stone In New York for ' >I,OOO. I It seemed Impossible for Simmons to | get money enough in the United States ' to patent and develop his mine, so at | last he went to London. Ho put a I value of 8700.000 on the property, although it was easily worth three times as much, and floated It with English funds r Wltbout doubt, the mine that Simmons found was one of those which were worked by the Indians in prediscovery days, and often later were taken over by the Spaniards. Some of these mines were worked up to the end'of Mexican Independence, bat all of them had been abandoned before the American occupation TachnicalitUs of Law One of many esses la which petty technicalities of law bate been carried to absurd lengths occurred in Illinois in 1919, writes Winslow Williams Los I Angeles. Calif, tn Collier's Weekly. A man was Indicted on 9» counts and con- i ▼tried under all of them. On appeal. | however, the judgment was reversed and the case remanded because, on one of the 80 papers. «•**» defendant’® name which would hardly seem to have been . • very vital error.

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