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his back he carried what seemed to be two bags, 

 that were in reality his trousers. He had tied 

 up the bottom of each leg and filled it with 

 the golden fragments of the boulder which by- 

 some means he had broken to pieces. He had 

 also brought with him a small portion of the deer, 

 upon which they made a hearty breakfast. Then 

 taking his small son, Sisto, with him, and better 

 equipped than on his first expedition, he revisited 

 the scene of his labor. By twelve o'clock he had 

 again returned with all of the remaining portions 

 of the boulder, as well as the carcass of the deer. 



I shall now go on with the narrative of what 

 ensued as he recounted it to me ; and the strangest 

 part of the story is that, whether or no he had the 

 vision, the reality was actual. The cashier of one 

 of the banks in Tucson assured me that the insti- 

 tution had paid to Castro twenty-seven hundred 

 dollars in gold for the results of his half day's 

 work. Many of the fragments were kept by the 

 discoverer as specimens of " gold in the quartz." 

 Even at the period of our friendship Castro still 

 held on to a few of these. 



But to go on with his own story. He said he 

 now realized what it was to be a rich man, and 

 he began to consider what his duties to himself 

 and his family might properly be. Among these 

 he conceived that the education of his children 

 was paramount, and decided to make this his 



