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Show • Page 10 While she was waiting trial ~ e of us officers set out to find what we could of their stolen stuff . There was Charles Culverwell from Lincoln County , Nevada , and five Utah men , Karl Theobald , Millard County , Nels Jensen , Beaver County , Lew Fife , Iron county , and John Cottam ancl I from Washington County. Even with her maps it It seeined wasn ' t so easy, the caches were so far apart and in such isolated places . like he worked alone , except for her, and made it a practice of working at night and hiding up in the hills during the day , unloading his haul and leaving it for months at He always worked in the country , too , and in little tovms . a time . trained for city life nor lived there much . his trade there . He ' d never been I imagine he ' d a been lost to carry on But when it come to out door work he sure was keen . Knew just where to strike and how to hide, and there wasn ' t a road nor trail in any of these states that he didn' t know . We found five sacks of wool dumped into a wash in the hills between Pioche and Pony Seven sacks and a couple of tapJrn of gas was ditched in the cedars eighty- Surings . five miles west of Caliente, whioh would make these two 125 mines apart . The biggest lot , tho , was at their main hang-out at Oak Springs . This was just a little seepage of water , not hardly enough ~o support a cattle trough . It ' s five miles from any road at They had three cabins all, and at least 20 miles from any other spring or settlement . or boarded- up tents here , fixed on a leveled off side hill . home life here , had lived here a couple of years or so . They had fixed up auite a The place was ni ce and clean , the stove , cupboard, dishes , and all arranged well , even oil cloth and a little ~iece of linoleum. They had a good bed with the best kind of bedding in another tent , and trunks and a mirror . read: Another thing that interested me was a note on the table which "Have gone out for supplies, chickens . n And ano·ther beside it which said: and a half eggs and left 35¢. " table . Will be back tomorrow. If you come in , feed the "I tended the chickens . 'J.1ook a dozen Sure enough, there was a quarter and a dime on the Outside there was a chicken house and run with two or three dozen hens , also some wheep. They must have ju.st killed their pig, because they had a whole barrel of fresh pork in the brine , and their pen was empty. They had done some prospecting in the neighborhood because there were several fresh diggings . Vie found their stolen stuff under the floors of the tents . All three were dug out like cellars and filled with big steel barrels , every one full of supplies . They had the heads cut out and were covered with wire mesh , so it would keep forever almost . I made a careful inventory of every bit of it . I ' ll give you a little idea of it . 1here was It ' s too long to quote in full but 5001ulbs . of flour , 100 lb . of coffee , 60 lbs of lard, 40 of crisco , 40 of baking powder , 10 cases of milk , and all kinds of canned vegetables and meat in nroportion, as well as cured meat . There was plenty of |
