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Show MAN DIGS FOR $85,000 CACHE i Hid the Gold In Dutch Oven In 1833, but Fire Destroyed the Landmarks. Kellogg, Idaho. Edward Cornelius, an old resident of Murray, has been working on the Kellogg sewer, apparently appar-ently for $3 a day, but in reality, he says, he has been working to locate $S5,000 which he buried in a Dutch oven, and which he has never been able to find. In 1883 he and his partner left Montana Mon-tana for the new gold country around Murray. They loaded their packhorses, he says, with $85,000 in gold, all in $20 gold pieces, planning to use this money to buy up all available placer country, which was reported to be unusually rich. They came down the Prospect Creek trail and over the Mullan road, down to what is now Kellogg. They there heard that the country for which they were, headed was nbt as rich as first reported, and as the country was full of gold hunters and was wild and rough, they decided to cache their gold, Cornelius says, and go into the Murray country to investigate investi-gate before making any bargains to buy the placer ground. The gold was hidden in the flat; which extends-from the Kellogg depot to the Bunker Hill and Sullivan millB, it is asserted, and the gold hunters marked the spot by blazing a fir tree and two pine trees, burying the gold in a Dutch oven in the center of this triangle. Cornelius and his partner remained in the Murray country for a year, and on their return to dig up their money and quit the country they found a fire had Bwept the district and eliminated every landmark. The pair searched for days and finally gave it up. On several occasions Cornelius has returned and made a hunt without result. re-sult. It was when he learned that the sewer excavation would extend through the ground In which he buried his money 30 years ago that he came to Kellogg, took up his pick and shovel, and kept his eyes open. The work along this section is completed, and Cornelius Is ready to return to Murray without having found the treasure. |