Mines. Lost Mine. A report has reached the Upper Platte country that one of those legendary mining camps, which has been talked of ever since the first settlement of the country has just been found over in a basin between French and Brush creeks. The remains consisting of old sluice boxes, guns, shovels, etc., also, the skeletons of what is supposed to have been the miners, presumed to have been killed by Indians. Carbon County Journal, June 11, 1881