Casa Grande Dispatch from Casa Grande, Arizona • Page 9

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934 THE CASA GRANDE DISPATCH PAGE THREE Mountain Range Rich In Romance Many Lured To Death By Hidden Gold Probably no section better epitomizes the romance and allure that is the essence of Arizona than for Christmas and the Holiday Season Fresh Arizona Dates packed for giving. Wrapped for mailing. Send some to the folks back home. Special assortment of and champagnes in Christmas packages. A wide range of prices.

and whites for Apache. Others say that in the mountains, where they sought refuge, a whole band of Pima people was exterminated. Some say that the thin line of pinnacles standing jagged along the southern rimrock represents people who disobeyed and were turned to stone. Others have it that from the highest walls leaped a whole tribe of people rather than submit to the indignity of surrender. Whatever legend may have the closest parallel to the truth fact remains today that the desert Indians regard the mountains with more than superstition and awe.

There is a real dread in their minds and almost any fate would be pre- ferable to necessity that they pay a visit to the range. The still more modern fact that the last nine men who have tried to solve the secrets of the Superstitions have met violent death has served only to heighten the fear that constantly fills the minds of the red men. Above is shown the entrance to the new Phoenix City Han, one of the most beautiful structures in the southwest. Imported cheeses. An- choves, Olives, Antipasto, Sardines, Caviar, hors d'oevres, liver paste, etc.

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Dead Men's Gold Chief lure of the Superstitions is the deathless leprend of dead men's fanciful and particularized but undocumented, account of the Lost Dutchman mine. Fabulous weath is popularly sup- to have come out of the rocky 'astness of the Superstitions; more is credited by legend with still being there. Nine men, in modern, recorded episodes of varying dramatic quality, have lost their lives in the pursuit of gold that sane thinkers declare cannot be in the range at all. Some of these have simply vanished from the sight of men. Their skeletons have been found months or even years, later.

Some have ifid when mysterious bullets cut hem down, without ever sight or iound of the mountain marksmen. Some have died the slow and agonizing death of thirst. For in all the thousands of square miles encompassed in the Superstition mountain area, there are Dut four or five places at which fresh water can be obtained. The Superstitions figure in modern Indian legends in quite a different light. Where physical evidence shows them to have been at one time a refuge, legend now paints them as a peculiar Rind of curse to the dwellers of the desert Land of Legend Many are the legend's of the mountains threading through the verbal history of the Pima, Maricopa and other desert Indians.

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