She lost llbabre !lDine MOUNT FRANKLIN - EL PASO About a hundred and fifty years ago, so tradition has it, .Jesuit priests working a mine on Mount Franklin near ICI Paso, were expelled from Spanish America and when they left the country they left their rich mines well hidden, so that no white man could ever share in the wealth that they had uncovered. Hut the rich gold mine was not all that the Padres sealed up in their shaft. No, for Onate, the founder of the province of New Mexico, had the following hoard of wealth put into the shaft, 4336 ingots of gold, iollo bars of silver, nine mule loads of jewels pilfered from Aztec treasure houses, and four codices--smuggled from Spain! each as valuable as the Codex Vaticanus itself, and so worth their weight in diamonds. The tunnel was then filled with a peculiar red river silt which was brought up to the mine hy Indians, at the request of the Padres. 'l'hen a few of the Indians were detailed to stay near the covered mine, and as nature covered up all traces of the mine slowly, they were to help as best they could in making the place look natural and free from suspicion as to the location of the great wealth. This they did with great care, but in 1888 two men, old government packers, following a map given them hy an Indian guide, equally as old, found on or near the mountain, the shaft and so set to cleaning it out. llut their money played out and they got discouraged over hottle after hottle of vile tequila, and soon gave up the task, having gone hut ten or twelve feet down. llut the real reason why no one has yet heeu ahle to find this immense treasure is, so the legend goes, hecause Cheetwali, the great Indian chief whose outline the mountain has taken on, guards the place jealously and he avowed many centuries ago never to let any foreigners get possession of his eharge . So, until nature wears away the ever watchful face of the great and all powerful flheetwali. the lost mine of the l adres will remain lost . UCBOID is Where S2011 fitlb it.
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