| Show big dorn horn cold 0 buffalo burato tayo echo it is not unusual but quite the contrary for an interesting story to be coupled with the discovery of big deposits of mineral wealth and find hence a relation of the actual facts surrounding and interwoven with the recent finding of a free milling gold ore in the big horn mountains wet west of buffalo which haa has created the greatest excitement and enthusiasm among the representatives senta tives of every walk of life in johnson and sheridan counties will now be accepted as timely at di different Terent times the adio has published portions of the facts as they occurred but it has been left fa for r the put few days to bring together gether to the threads of the tile narrative which we will now upon the authority of responsible men weave into an un resE unbroken fabric in the summer of 1889 three men equipped with prospectors paraphernalia rode into hyatt ville on paint rock creek northwest of buffalo and stopped over night they were pretty well along in years to be beating about the country but explained that they had bad come from montana and were going into the mountains they left early next mornine and were gone two months at the end of that time they returned to hyattville Hyatt ville worn wora out and dejected and told their story to the men whom hoin w they happened to spend the evening e v ening with at the stopping bt bopping opping i place p I 1 see th they e y said aid that eighteen years be before f or they in in company with a number of others went into the big horn mountains on a prospecting tour they were well equip equipped p edwith with mules carts afine a fine outfit of 0 f prospecting tools etc and it was nok not long before they found alenty plenty of coarse gold timber being ein 9 plentiful they constructed a 0 number of log cabins and made themselves vex generally comfortable at the close of the season being possessed of enough dust to take them east and keep them in fine style all winter they stowed their tools t away and taking everything ever i fi else but two dirt carts with withy them t he in went east and had a big time the next summer the indians were hostile and fearing to venture back to their camp the party arty I 1 went the their ir several ways with t the le mutual understanding that aa as soon as the coast was clear they were to return to their el dorado the three who related the narrative at hyattville Hyatt ville went to montana and an d there became interested in paying mines it was eight years before peace a C e again settled over the big qa horn r n region and the three forgot for the time the camp that had paid them so well now they had just returned to the big horns and after hunting in vain for the old landmarks were forced to turn back they could find no trace of the carts and a very tall mountain but sparsely spa sp reely overgrown with vegetation from which they were to take their bearings could not be located the trio left the following morning for Alon montana tana on the evening of that day lum williams a resident of paint rock creek came along and was told of the experts ence of the prospectors the narration made his heart leap like a flash came to him the remembrance that ten years previous while rambling over the range with a com companion panion he was a surprised d t to 0 run across two two wheeled carts car in in a IL sort of gulch in the bed of one which stood on a side hill squirrels had bad evidently held possession for generation after gen generation aeration era tion for it waa was filled with particles of their nests the other was lower down the gulch and great weeds and shrubs manifestly the growth 0 of f years had sprung up through the wheels and an d cracks in i the bed after a great deal of difficulty the wheels were removed and ono of them doea does duty in this way aa as a spinning wheel in the house of his CO companion 1 nion 71 williams 1 liams said nothing to anybody about the carts but disappeared the next day and commenced search for the place where ten years before he had foud them during the intervening time nature had been busy changing the appearance of the candac landscape and the undergrowth and e shrubbery h ru ate hid the location from h him i M as its successfully as it had those who prec preceded d him in the quest aes ues t di disappointed 8 le page t ed in that ne began prospecting and found placer gold where now the bald mountain camp I 1 is flourishing williams is as the head of the active and enthusiastic thusia hunters for deposits of coarse gold 0 one of the party of foar four buffalo citizens who returned from bald mountain last saturday learned tho the whole story of the montana prospectors and williams find while e away aw a Y and since since coming back has stumbled across a person who knows where about forty five miles from buffalo are the crumbling remains of half a dozen cabins they illey are in the midst of a ver very Z r rough u q country and will b be definitely located by our informant within ten days the truth of the pieced preceding ing particulars tic ulars is vouched couched for by well known citizens and while the story reads like the dinv inv invention antion of a writer of fiction it is unquestionably true |
