New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1923, Page 3

- LOSTMINE GUARDED BY HARMLESS BATS Sudden Interest in Lost Tmsni*e Brings Out Strange Tales —~A sudden in- Mexico Wa terest in buried tre lhington, Nov. 2. sure in probably is only a variant of the pas- slon 14 lost mines that continually srips certain optimists of the southern 1epublie, especially on the west const, according to a bulletin - from the Washington headquarters of the Na 1al Geographic Society. veryone on the coast seems to| have at %east one lost mjne,” says 1lerbert Corey in & communiestion 1o the society on which the bulletin s based. “Some rest on tradition only, while oth have a tary foundation Entrance Concealed by Friars, “There is the tale of the mine near Arispe, for instance, the entrance go led by the Spanish | ey on of ancient form. A century or so later in the monastic archives in found the story. Ry this time very existenee of the oid mine had heen forgotten. ‘One can see the opening of the tumiel from the door church,’ the priestly writing sure documen- | were their wipes converts te { a searcher Madrid | the | of the ra , “Seorey prospeetors took s from the doongay without Then a bit of plaster fell away from nd revealed a forgotten door, bricked up and covered over, “The one old-timer who hered the legend brought glasses and searehed the hills. up on the side su ¥ an old wal remem- out Sure cnough, far canyon sometl cemed the gat | A “Sure-Fir ‘Not long a papers to fire friars’ mines “A friar mine is that worked hy the pricst-congquerors the fine days of ol and choose in those avere good pickers and choosor bne has ever heard of a sultad mine being worked off oy frine, The very best mines in Mexico toduy ar those that were opened hy the sturdy gld churchmen, “S0 when the Awerican mine he looked on himself o mant ‘I ohly have to unwater sald leking his lips, “Then the hard luek west coust begun to operate, one must have brokei a series of mirrors | on the west coast, Thing pen there- thut could happen anywher “On the west coast arc bats—inil- lions, billions, numecrical lm‘v"HlliH-i Mine am got the Priavs Am veritable » an ric one of the in They could pick and they No days fonnd his ©made it' he of the Som can hap not possibly | fendant; o Frank his | ties of bats—which live in caves. One |ant; W. 1°. Main against 8. Malowski,| what {hey found cver came back to the [ judgment, M. D. Saxe for the plain-|th world, of the important industries of coast is the gathering of bat guano from these dark holes. One sees the burro trains come in, day in and day | Demos, judgment, D. L. Nair for the | the brain-child of a noyelist in a re- out, the little animals pattering re- flectively under feather-bed-sized sacks of ihe fertilizer. “Some of the caves contain enough guano to load an entire freight train. | Maietta, pleading by defendant, I, 1,/ bulen and many more Such a cave must contain the accu- | Rachlin for the piaintiff, J. G. Woods| mulation of centuries. “Well—and here is the hard luck —the bats had succeeded to the friar, his heirs and assigns, in the posses- slon of that mine. ¥or almost two centuries they had lived in it, until all the lower reaches were filled with guano. “Then the water came in and a light odorous quick-silvery mud was produced. Tt was too thick to be pumped and the water ran in too rapidly to permit the unwatering and unguanoing of the mine by buckets. “So there you are, A perfectly good mine, so far as any one knows, has been made impregnable by the most harmless creature on the foot- stool.” Seventeen Cases Listed in Short Calendar Court Seventeen cases are listed on the 1 { !docket for the short calendar session of the city court at 2:30 o'clock next Monday afternoon, as follows: Jan Humaj against ‘Joseph Owsisk, judg- ment, Judge W. I, Mangan for the plaintiff; Feinblatt Tobacco Co. against P. Rematti, motion for more specifie statement, Alfred Le Witt for the plaintiff, D. L. Nair Vietor Werdelin - against Dow, judgment, M. A. Sexton or the plaintiff, M. D, Saxe for the defendant; New Britain Buiek Co. against John Majka, judgment and hearing in damages, M. A, Sexton for John F. Mehan against Tumilias, administratrix and Joseph G Woods for the David 1. Nair and Tudge Mangan the defend inst plaintiff, Wilhiam ¥ s Wael Joht for He plaintitf, R, K nt Baldwin for Hayes against indgment of foreclosure, Roche the plaintify. Edward Pachiin against Ger mpson, and oth fudgment, hlin for the plaigtiff; panski against Willlam pleading by defendant, S, for the plaintiff, Harry Milkowitz for the defendant: Albert W, Bell admin. istrator, against Harry Haskins, hie heirs, creditors and representatives, statutory continuance, 8, J. Traceski for the plaintif; John Schauer and other ainst John Bkybba, answer, Judge B, ¥, Gaffney for the plaintifg Charles 17, Conlon for the defendant, Murtin Bartusewiez against Walter B wid others, pleading by prlantif Praceski for the plain- LU A I8 for the defendants; Harold against the Varmers Milk o, ¢ sure of defense, Dunn N Me Doy for the plaintiy, Judge 1) iffney for the defend- the de James Tormay Henry P, for T G.w Mel? for the de.! James | " [to have icd to vanish in vapor. KW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 192 e tiff, 8. J. Traceski for the defendant; | Henry Morans against Mrs. George plaintiff; H. H. O'Neil and others against Willlam Swanson, judgment, .Henry P. Roche for the plaintiff. Salvatore Malictta against Jennie for the defendant. HYSTERY ISLE BLOSSON'S GoAL “Bouvet” Most Intriguing Spot o + Be Visited hy Little Ship — Cleveland, Mention mariner, tighten, | whiter. For “Bouvet,” mystery island of the | mysterious South Atlantic ocean, has baffled, =0 far as is known, all at- tempts at exploration, all efforts of civilized white men to plumb its secrets, On or about the coming Oet. 16 adventurous souls will point nose of a three-masted toward Bouvet, and the myriad of othe romantic nooks in the Atlantie and India oceans, which folks know so little. These men, commanded by George Iinlay Simmons, recently left New London, Conn,, in the interests of sel ence, Failing under the colors of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History they will be gone two long vears. They will visit many places, gather imagination as thetr contemplated and determined exploration Bou vet, mystery island About two ye 0., Nev. 2 word to a ‘Bouvet.” that hardened Watch the lids of his eyes Wateh him grow a shade the schooner about Paul Mar 1 greater museum for this city. Ilis id so rapidly, reudy £100,000 panded e came to undertake a expedition in a vessel that costs 335,000 merely to insure something the Ohio metropolis. A new building will be finished hy the time the expedition returns in two ¥ And Cleveland promises an institution rivaling its ta- mous “competitor”—the Museum of Natural History of New York City What the 18 men will tind on Bou- vet they do not even profess to guess, Whether they will find it is in itself u question When others aproached 1t, 1t seom. And yet de. spite the repeated failure marin ers to land on Bouvet, geafaring men such a place exista, a thousand miles routh of Good Hope. The goes that the Frenchman, for Island is and two the only ones ever to 0= And it is not ceriain they to land, for no record of worthwhile for of are positive It is about of Cupe legend whom the others arc cate it were ahle west named, Stewart’s 151 MAIN ST. 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