Rejected Manuscripts

Lost Spanish mine

"Do the Spanish have old maps?" The sheepherder showed him the map. The big man asked for it and recieved it without trouble. On his way home, the stockman, stopped to look down at a hole; he thought is was funny looking and rode on.

Gor onezn Have seen in Haures My grandfathergrandfather long ihat does 1t say Pedro The fast erowng chune were becoming pals Akin common thought Pedro ot outpaper bag emoothed i1 ad drew He drew an oval saying laguna Another sayine Laguna two andhalf days west Then he drew peaks say Peake maybeso thie movntain senor vht you think Darned funny-Fish Lake east two mdhalf dars west Sevier Lake Notch Peak mountain right here Float south end And panning gets gold high up in the gulch What do you ind here Pedro2 hunt Care 1fkeeo this Fedro asked the big mm half amused for he thought Map me eyel Half poppycock but -eoldarnit these very mountains md rold in fem 4nd when he rode away he had the map tucked in the sadle hag alongside the float 11 get the boys all hetupp Wikh that map They ll be swarming over the hills like anmts on sorshum On his way he stopped looking curiously Funny looking hole that and role on That was all the notico he gave to What later became The Lost Josephine Joe NielsonLost Spanteh Mine hole S0 now we havacopy of an old Mexican map drawn onpaner bag owned bystockman in the town of Deseret That is Stase Humber One as the tradition is handed down And what a8 Jater tooLost Spanich Mine passed upth the cursory remark funny looking hole thati It took another AP to arouse dnterst 2004 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved