Show olden fascinating TALES OF L OST LOST ru flu edetha X L watton 11 alson INTO THIN AIR HAT became of the buckskin bags bag W VV full of gold that george A jackson burled in the corner of ills his cabin jackson lias has been dead for many years and if 1 anyone else who knows the secret la Is alive he has kept his knowledge carefully hidden jackson himself was a man ot of prominence it was he who on december 31 1853 1858 went up clear creek alone his two companions had gone after a band of elk found hot springs camped at the place and a few days later panned gold in a tin cup and made the first gold discovery of importance in colorado the place was the present town of idaho springs where mines still operate and gold Is still to be taken from the ground it was this man who went to middle park in 1807 to prospect for more of the precious metal he and his companion on the trip found gold in buffalo park but they also found unfriendly indians and little or no water so they drifted north along the top odthe of the range r four our or five miles from rabbit babbit ear peak they found gold again in a little creek and by traveling upstream they came to a bar that held considerable value this was what they wanted after doing some work at the location they went to georgetown and organized a party of ten men returning to the bar in the spring of now they built a cabin and a corral for ten men mea needed something in the way of comfort and convenience it if they were to devote their time to gilcin taking out gold they worked pretty steadily but jackson took a little time out for whimsy and carved his name on a tree at the corner of the cabin after a while in gold dusts dust packed in buckskin bags lay hidden below the earth in a corner of the cabin that meant a thousand dollars apiece not very much as fortunes went but still a neat start and then colorow and a hundred lively utes decided to discourage the white men they dropped in on an unfriendly call and when they departed three men lay dead and the rest did not drag their feet as they headed for georgetown in fact the seven who survived with the exception of jackson seemed to feet feel that the peaceful east held a lure that surpassed that of the golden phantom and shortly they left colorado jackson being somewhat accustomed to such turns of luck had no idea of oe leaving the gold in that deserted cabin ire ho told a friend about the cache and the two started out to get it but heavy snow turned thein back and they were forced to delay the trip the next nest spring they planned would see them at the cabin digging up the gold but that winter jackson pulled his gun bar rel first out of a wagon and the accidental discharge of the weapon caused ills his death fortunately his friend knew the location of the cabin lie he shared the knowledge with another man and spring saw them up tip in the wild country where jackson had found the gold on walton creek near where the old steamboat road crossed they found the cabin and the corral they also fount found the tree with J jacksons a name cared caned on it this was the place without a doubt and so they dug in the corner of the cabin among the rubbish which remained nial tied is as souvenirs of the ten energetic miners they dug in the other corners too and in the corral and outside and by the tree gold does not vanish into thin air unless some one aids it in its disappearing act but who had been there since colorow and his band just another mystery to add to the many strange happenings which make dramatic the history of the festl GOLD TO THROW AWAY FOUR OUR men stood on the heights above salt river and looked down a thousand feet below them to where the water flowed between the bluffs one began picking up stones and throwing them into the space below the larger they were the better splash they made A good sized rock lay near the edge of the chasm what a splash it would make cel the playful one tried to husn it but it was too heavy and one of his friends went to his aid at last they dislodged it and it rolled over the brink it fell down into the river below and the mighty splash it made cause caused the water to dash madly away from 1 it 1 for a moment then it disappeared lost forever below the ripples in that inaccessible canyon As it had bad rolled and slid toward the edge of the bluff the rock looked yellow As it hurtled downward the sun caught it and it gleamed the four men watched it until it vanished then they turned toward towar deach each other every face wore a number of tangled emotions they had learned too late that the rock was gold 1 |