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The following report, titled - 'A MILE OF LIGHTS', appeared on page 7 of the Fall, 1980 issue of SEARCH magazine (a magazine created by Ray Palmer of ‘AMAZING STORIES’ fame, and therefore contained many articles on subterranean mysteries, as an outgrowth of the ‘Shaver Mystery’, which became popular during Palmer’s former editorship with ‘Amazing Stories’):

 

     "Four teenagers, quite ‘shook up’, drove up to Deputy Sheriff Trotta in Putnam County, New York State, about 1:30 a.m. one morning, and said they had seen an ‘eerie sight’ at an abandoned iron ore mine in nearby Brewster.

     “Trotta thought their explanation did, indeed, sound rather ‘eerie’, so he got another police officer to accompany him.

     “They went to the mine shaft which was on a dirt road, off from another road, known as ‘Lover's lane’.

     “Going into the mine, they found two ‘long rows of lighted candles as far as the eye could see’. The two officers followed then for about a mile. Then the trail of light suddenly came to an end, and that was that. There was nothing more, and no noticeable reason for them to be there."

 

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The next article, titled 'TREASURE CAVERN OF KOKOWEEF MOUNTAIN', by Howard D. Clark, appeared in the Spring, 1973 issue of the magazine "TREASURE TRAILS OF THE OLD NEST", pages 47-54. The cavern in question is same one described by Charles H. Gesner and Sparks Stringer in Part 1 of this volume (#7):

 

     "Is there a wide, deep river, its banks rich with incredible placer values, flowing through a cave under the Mojave?