Camp Zoe Memories
The Lost Silver Mine of Sinkin' Creek
As told by Charcoal Willie
Menny years ago, a sartin St. Louis docko' by th' name of Tyrell treated a man who was injured, cuss it all t' tarnation. In th' patient's delirium, he spilled his guts about a lost silvah mine an' claimed he knowed jest whar it was. Next thin' yo' know, old doc Tyrell is buyin' up lan' near th' Sinks lef' an' right. He built hisse'f a house near th' sinks an' set out in search of th' lost silvah mine. Ah doesn't believe he evah did find th' Mammy lode of silvah he was searchin' fo'. They o'ganized searches an' digs an' sunk a shaf' into th' hills at great expense. Th' fine docko' died an' his son Ole Man Frank took up whar his Pappy lef' off. His son was a larned man fum th' Rolla skool of mines who believed thet th' granite po'phyry of th' sinks corntained su'phite of silvah. Ole Man Frank Tyrell died in 1955 at th' age of 90. No one's evah foun' th' lost silvah mine of Sinkin' Crick. Shet mah mouth!..an' no one evah will, ah reckon. Hee hee hee.