Rejected Manuscripts

Lost Spanish mine

"However, Joe didn't find a thing, not even color."

-6He studied for secret hidings on the sides probing every cuspicions soft spot in an effort to findcache But to no avail Fimlly financially embrassed but Wi th faith unAimmed he ceased operations The hole 1o the haven for the curious of today No earth heaped up arownd 1t no tell-tale signs butmdden hole in the alluvial fan not visiblo to the searcher beyondhundred fest distant from it Boy Scouts are taken to it Otherboys 7o and taking chm ces descend-sometime with nearaccidents res 1ting Alva worked on The Lost Teabel and clearel it out Plain1y a11 his dieeing wae informer hole keeping incentive to push on tohieh pitch He struck bed rock athundred and efehtesn fest Joe never Teached it at eiphty-two At bed rock he drifted north struck three fissmres or eracks in he ook floor acting ascheckand holding the placer gold He recoverad several viale of the precious yellow stuff But Withhundiredand eiphteen feet of over-burien and limited funde eventually he was forced to suspend operations al hie faith in wlsimate results uld he work it undimmed flash looi down the canyon filled this hole on the very edze elear to the top with debris washed down from He gave up in disgust Today all vhat remd ne of the mlch 1sbatrered up his shack on the hich lmd acr cook stove warped bed springs and the usual flotesn of housekeeping Fach man felt that the Spaniards had mined there that hen he rebellion of 1640 occured they covered unbest coult be eached the gold Tecovered then on hmand FLED thoueh Thencanyon ahove 1f Pedro rspoke for tha he wuld have said But the map Digital image 2004 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved