Show LOST CABIN tho tile romantic story of a secret of the ivind mountains A search that recently ended III a rich discovery A Dese deserted ried cabin surrounded br by skeletons and old cold IT nyana Y ban RAWLINS wyoming jan an k 8 the lost cabin aline and the romance connected therewith promise to make the feature of the gold jold mining excitement ol 01 the coming season the lost cabin stands in the mountains of F fremont remont county in this territory near tho the wind river canyon and not far from hoo doo creek it is a dismal looking affair made of roughly hewn timber with port holess fo for r windows and bearing beating evidon evid evidences of border warfare who built it waa was never known and its very locality was until last fall one of the mysteries which scores of hardy mountaineers and gold hunters vainly to unravel it has bai only recently been learned T that the cabin was found last fall bijl by a lucky prospector and the strange history of the place is now on oil every blodys tongue twenty five years ago a party of sioux indians on a hunting es ex tion stopped near the head of the big horn to abbot fishy fishi and while there discovered a fi mineral liberal which they believed to be gold several of them were busy picking out the stuff with their knives when they were surprised by a party of crows and driven away the S sioux loux carried with them three or four nuggets of great value and on returning to their agency disposed of them to the whites who tried without success to learn where they were found As hostile indians were plentiful in that locality no great effort was made to discover the mines until after the black hills were opened to settlement then dozens of ita adventurous venturous parses started out for fort the heBig big horn range and many of them were never heard of afterward some time simein in I 1 a man came into fort washakie Wash akle V and reported that he and several i companions had been mining up in in iho the mountains near wind river canyon and that all but he had bad been killed by indians he was not very bright aldno and no great attention was paid to him although he had a long story to tell about the richness rich nees of the mines and the fact that he aud and his comrades had bad bui built it a caan in which could easily be to found if any one dared ma make kd the effort he disappeared after awhile and as the indians were some nothing more inore was thought of bf the matter for the time after a little interest in the matter i i was revived and several par pan ties 66 started out in search of the cabin when they abandoned the tile search others took it up tip and at length the lost cabin became every blodys quest interest in the we mine was kept at fever heat beat because the indians in that vicinity frequently brought gold to fort Was washakie bakie but refused to tell where they found it the red men bavo have been ex es cee jealous of the whites ana though it is now discovered dis co verbil that the mins are not on the rp reserva rese servA tion at all tho the indians hayo bayo always tuo the manis nes was to leave the gold to them tho the search for the cabin had been well weli nigh given up when it was announced announced noun ced a little while ago that it had been found in the place above described and that its disco 6 were already in possess slon of the much sought mines and making preparations for work in the raring 1 the lie cabin yaa was found in ili this layf doring horn excy excitement of 1877 a party of thirteen inen 1001 we ove of whom was J 13 osborne OdD orno left wind iliner for tho stopping nl Aloun mountain tain they began hegan to prospect for placers half of the nien working while the other half kept ft a lookout fat fo in lux deans after affee digging nr r eighteen n daye their ditch caved in and hj tho ma io I 1 of the men becoming d di bour pil aged d 1 abe they agreed to a abandon an doa the place 1 an and push on osborne who was wits something of a quartz quarts maderi miner had mado observations which chii convinced him that them was gold in ill tho the vicinity and he ma made d e up h his I 1 s mind to return at conic fatu future re ti time ml aa As ab nb no settlements were enado in ill that vicinity he ho postponed action for one season and another until last summer when a man named pickles moved to hoo doo to establish a cattle ranch Osti oine r i K k ti 1 had a friend named joe jonseof jones who who was a good quartz maineri manerl and with a view to having the country well prospected he induced pickles lo 10 employ him as a herder then taking jonea Jones into int ohis his confidence he told him what ho kney knew about the land and instructed him to report to him any indications of gold that ho he aught in glit discover d moar 0 jonea jones went at in earnest and some time last fall fill came upon a weather beaten old cabin near hoo doo creak which had evidently been deserted many years before jones knew nothing of the lost loit cabin but he examined the p place I 1 ace critically in order to report hia his dis covery the cabin is s BO situated iri the canyon ato to escape ordinary observation va tion while at the same time 0 it commands of approach pr aab the entrance is by an un underground eign igind passage passage which was coverd covered by v a log log when the owners were inside A skeleton of a white man wath atha a bullet hole lil the skull was faund deax the and the we bone several other i inen were scattered about A i largo la rg quantity of giant powder was discovered un under der the floo the cabin and in iry various vatious arts tp arpi patho of the were tools used in quarts quartz mining jones at began an all investigation of the adja edja cent count country rF down the creek he be caw saw the gracd of another man and a little furl hor on op he lie came u upon pon several well in which shallow holes bolis had been sunk the remains remain of a small ditch also found the oro ore in the veins cam cari ried gold and copper in large quantities and it is said mill will assay at 50 to the ahr surface jones got and report reported fil to osborne who made preparations I 1 at once to take ake ti possession about fifty claims have bee been staked offhand in the spring I 1 t the bri e fa famous ni ous lost cabin will gill make I 1 its a gold bearing mine mihe |