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Lantern Left for a Lost Promise: Light Over Harrow Shaft

Lantern Left for a Lost Promise: Light Over Harrow Shaft

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Lantern Left for a Lost Promise: Light Over Harrow Shaft

A single amber lantern burned inside a locked, dust-covered assay office that had been sealed for 28 years - and it was aimed precisely at a sealed mine shaft 400 meters to the southwest. Who climbed into a locked building, lit a lantern, and left it oriented toward a shaft as a signal to one specific man?

In this episode, we tell how a decades-old promise, an abandoned copper mine, and a hidden set of assay logs intersected to produce a deliberate, visible signal - and why one light mattered more than any official record. How did a photocopied envelope, a daughter’s choice, and a remote surveyor come together to finish what one man began?

Person: Grant Hoffman
Date: June 11, 2019 at 6:14 a.m.
Location: Harrow Copper Mine assay office, Vester, Colorado
Event: Lantern found burning in locked, sealed building
Person: Cheryl Young

- The assay office had been locked, sealed, and abandoned for 28 years with undisturbed mud outside the door.
- The lantern was oriented precisely toward a sealed mine shaft 400 meters to the southwest.
- Dennis Young worked in the assay office from 1978 until the mine closed in 1991 and died in March 2019 at age 81.
- A batch of assay logbooks documenting a larger, deeper secondary copper deposit was left inside the office in 1991 and never officially recovered.
- Cheryl Young found photocopied assay pages in a shoebox under her father’s bed and chose the assay office as a visible signal to reach former surveyor Harold Vance.

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