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Show LOST GABlV IS FOUND Famous Mine in Wyoming Rediscovered. DISCOVERY WAS ACCIDENTAL Vnluablo Property Which for More Than Thirty Years lias Been Sought for, Located on South Branch of Otter Creek, Sixty Miles South of Buffalo roar Men the Discoverers In Addition to the Elch Lend Two Other Finds Aro Reported lu Same Vicinity. (Monday Hilly ) Cheyenne, Wyo, Aug 17 -The cele-litated cele-litated Lost Cabin mine in central Wvnmlng, about which volumes have lieen written nnd which newspaper writers have heen locitlnk' for the pnst twenty yems, hns nt Inst been rediscovered. rediscov-ered. It Is located on the south brnnch of Otter creek, nbnut sixty miles south of IlutTnln, nml within a mile of a well-trnveled well-trnveled fiedght load Lading to Casper Pol nioio than thirty yeuts tho senrch for the mine has been In piogtess without with-out success, mid jet during the latter half of that time fnlghl wagons nnd travelers hnve been dally passing almost al-most within sight of Its location WHO DISCOM.P.mtS AUK The discoverers of the mine nre Albert Al-bert Ij, Sutton, Ilm ties C. Ilurrls and ltoy .1. Peck ot Huff tin. Win und V. Van Wngnen, a mining expert of Po-entello, Po-entello, Id i Tho first Iwn mined hnve been prospecting In lhe locality for a number of yenrs, but falling to nnd whit Ihey wanted enlisted the aid of the latter two. 'Ihey were looking for gold prospects nnd fell upon the old workings of the Lost Cabin mine by accident The Lost Cabin mine Is n drift In tho side of a perpendle ular bluff nnd pene-trates pene-trates for a distance of forty -rive feet The btea.it of the drip which is about six by six feet In dimensions, Is In a snlld body of carbonates so rich tint a dollir's woith of gold can be picked out of a space an Inch sqtt ire. In the fnce of the lire lal nre cut two nimea, Oomnn ind 'Wllliem Arbich with the elate, 18C3, following Onrmin'a Hrst name has been oblltcrited by time The old dump nt the mouth of the drift has heen nlmost entirely washed nwny, hut It l pecullnr that the mouth of the drift should have remilned unnoticed so long HIRTOIIY OP PltOPPIlTY. The history nf the Lost Cabin mine Is like an extract from n novel. It wns ellscovereil nfter the war by a party of men en route ucross the then little known plilns of Wyoming nnd was worked bv them until ISO when nil mysteriously dlsnppenred nnd were not liennl of until years later nnd then not nuthentlcnlly. None of the men ever divulged tho lociitlon of their property, though their frequent visits to civilization civiliza-tion with loids of fibulouslv rich ore attracted widespread curiosity They would dispose of their treasure and then strike off Into the wilderness ngaln Thit their ore enme from some, where ln what Is now central Wvnmlng wns known, but the term cenlril Wyoming Wyo-ming Is even nt this date very Indetl-nitn Indetl-nitn und their seuct remnlned safe. simvivoit op pautv. Prom the time that the bnnnnza owners own-ers quit turning up with their gold until seven yents ago their fate te-malned te-malned as deep a tnvatery na the loci-tlon loci-tlon of their mine Then nn old man, he claimed to be 71 turned up In lluf-falo, lluf-falo, Wyo nnd raid he wns n survivor of the party and th it he could go to the place where the mine wns situated In two days Ills companions, ho slid, had been miirdited by Indians, but offered of-fered no explanation of his escape or why he had not returned and clilmed the property long ngn Though his ap-penrenoo ap-penrenoo nnd story created no am ill nmount of excitement his n ime Is not now even remembered With htm wn?n no stnrteei out to relocate tne proierty were three young men from the Hist Thev spent some time in the vicinity of tin tecent dlainvery nnd then started to return tn lluffiiln SPCP.PT DIPD WITH IIIM. At Wells postolllco tho old man fell dead while ge tilng Into a wngon nnd hla secret died with him He hid not Informed hla younger cninpnnlons of tho result of his suirch nnd they returned Hast no vvlsei und with less money thun when they came Though tho Incident reivlv.d Interest In the tnle nt the mine and gave a temporary impetus to the elesultoiy search that hid been In progress for yenrs. Interest again relaxed In tlnn and the story of tho mines discovery ten days ago brought the next revival OTIinit UICII FINOS. In ndilltlon to tho rich lend disclosed In thn drift Siitmn, Ilurrls, lVek nnd Wngnen hnve inndo two either tlcli finds In that imnieillite vicinity At a depth of four fet t from rrans roots they I ltd bare four fei t of gold-sprinkled iiuirtx, nnd close at hind another eighteen-lnch stteak Pollowlng the announcement of the discovery of the Lost Cibln prospevtots from northern Wvonilng nnd bniith l)i-kota l)i-kota honied for the ellatrlrt and a thriving enmp bids fair to grow up |