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parts of the story relevant to the subject-matter of
this manuscript...
"...In
the forepart of the year of 1882, I left Lake Valley where I had been
prospecting, and headed for Eureka, a recent discovery in the Hachita
Mountains, which lies in the southwestern part of Grand County in the border
country of New Mexico.
"The
Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads were at that time working towards the
spot where the town of Deming now stands, expecting to meet there before long.
If water could be found near the junction of the two railroads it was planned
to build a town there.
"Barney
Martin, a foreman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, believing that water was
near by, put several Chinese track layers to work sinking a well. A good flow
of water resulted at a depth of forty feet, and the spot was called Deming in
honor of a vice-president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. I happened along a
few days after the discovery of water...
"...At
Cazzarillo Springs, now known as Hermanas Station, on the El Paso and
Southwestern Railroad, we pitched our next camp. The Cazzarillo Springs were
then owned by a man named Reed, of
"He
then tells of a story which he heard, of some caves in a sacred Apache canyon,
3 MILES across the Mexican border, south of CAZZARILLO Springs, from which a
man had recovered a 40-pound bar of silver bullion. Determined to see this cave
(which was called Boca Grande Cave) for himself, he sets out for the sacred
canyon from HERMANAS, New Mexico; unaware at the time that he will not get a
change to visit the Boca Grande Cave, but instead will find something more
startling:
