Show GOLDEN PHANTOMS fascinating tal tales of by es ui edithe L watson lost mines THE LOST CABIN MINE in inthe the big horn SOMEWHERE S mountains Is a mine richer than the comstock Oom stock lode it was found in 1803 1863 and lost in 1804 but some i day a lucky prospector will find It agalli open neglected ted tunnels and build a new cabin where the old one stood three men allen alien hulbert cox boox and jones were the first to discover this bonanza they had gone out n a prospecting trip from walla walla and some simein the spring or of 1803 1863 they found themselves in the wildest port part of the united i states they find been going through terrible hardships flouting on a raft mft down tile nig big torn horn and an trav eling at night to fly avoid old ll 11 hostile indians men alen in their senses would have recoiled at the bare idea or nf such Wad an adventure venture but those these men bere were bewitched by a golden lhnn torn tom they kept on oil prospecting as they went at la filet st there in tile the tog big horns they he ronnda wonderful aldy etreal which c h fa panned i n r te d all I 1 j the t ah way from born ore centa ta 6 one dollar leach trial 11 this was their r rainbow end and here they planned to stay through the lie next winter bythe by the time water froze overnight teach each had bad something like half a bushel of gold winter vinter passed all too slowly As soon as the first ali st spring warmth came to tile the little valley they we were e on the job again what their plans were no one can wt tell perhaps they expected to go to walla walla that summer laden with treasure treasur or they may havi have decided to st stay ay on until either they or the nuggets were exhausted but these thes e plans were destined never to bo be completed for indians suddenly fell on cox and jones killed and scalded scalped theme them and rifled the cabin Hk albert ilbert who had gone some distance off saw the horrible eight but was powerless to help his partners As soon ns as the marauders left hulbert hurried down to the cabin the gold was still there and he packed a knapsack full burled the rest and struck out in the opposite direction taken by the indians after 18 days through wild unknown country he reached the north platte river and found the old trail to california here be met up with a large party of gold seekers heading toi ward the northwest on hearing his story part of tile the enormous crowd decided to return with him to the mine and more than BOO people with wagons accepted him ns as their leader how was a man to retrace a trail like his how could lie he remember every landmark every direction of those terrible 18 days of flight hulbert thought he could but all summer long he tried in vain to reach that abandoned cabin where the bodies of his friends guarded the golden treasure at last he was forced to admit defeat and the angry crowd after even once gathering ering to lynch their bewildered leader started westward since then many a good prospector has spent years in the effort to locate the lost cabin mine old pancake comstock grubstaked grub staked by nevada men searched for it in rain then during the sioux uprising when the bis big horn country was wag alive with indians three abree men made their way to the head 0 of f the little big horn and here they found what must have been the real mother lode of the lost cabin gold it was the largest known body of rich quartz in the world 1 the newcomers built a boat loaded it with gold and planned to float down the lie river until they cached a settlement here they wa louia adf return to where fortune hod had smiled her golden golde grin erin at them but death lurked downstream the sioux camp stretched along the rh river er was more than three miles long and warriors waited anil and longed for it a chance to spill w white alte mans blood it ans ns midnight when the awkward boat started past this gigantic camp A dog sniffing the air barked excitedly A sentinel peered and listened the rapids of the little litile nig big biorn ajo rn reach wil for the boat in n haste the miners grew panicky a moment more and the boat overturned another and they were captives of tte tile hostile sto sioux ox in the scuffle that ensued one man inan ai managed to get away he had no food no wea weapons lions and his clothing find been torn until only a few rags rafe covered corned him but he had clenched his hand over oer a couple of nuggets find and these lie he kept during the davs when he wandered in search of a settles settlement nent at last he J into a little town what lint happened to sitting bull custer and the rest lest Is history the country became bacani e safe from indans again but the one man who could have hae trailed the golden phantom back to the lost cabin lode sat in the sunshine and babbled bab bledl of immense wealth of hunger of indrani Ind lani lawt of his beautiful yellow ellow nuggets a garrulous senseless sens pless idiot |