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From the April 10, 1897 edition of the Silverton Standard: STRANGE LIGHT REPORTED OVER SILVER LAKE MINE. From several gentlemen of veracity, we learn that at about 9 o’clock Sunday evening flashes of a reddish light were seen in the sky hovering over the vicinity of the Silver Lake mine. The wonderful phenomenon was apparently a thousand yards square, and lighted up a vast ar...