Show GOLDEN fascinating 0 tales of by edithe I 1 whon watson lost mines dw THE LOST CABIN MINE S SOMEWHERE in the pig big horn mountains Is a mine richer than tile comstock lode it was found in 1863 and lost in but some day a lucky prospector w will I 1 I 1 I 1 il find nd it again open up its neglected d tunnels and build a new cabin where tile the old one stood three men allen alien hulbert ulbert II cox and jones wore were the he first to discover this bonanza they had gone out on a prospecting trip from walla walla and some time in the spring of 1803 they found thease themselves ives I 1 in n tile the wildest part of the united states they had bad been going through terrible hardships floating on a raft down the big nl horn and traveling c at night to avo avoid ld hostile indians men I 1 in u their senses would have recoiled at tho the bire bare idea of such an lid adventure venture but these men were bewitched by a golden phantom they kept on prospecting as they went at list last there in the big horns they found a vond wonderful erful pay streak which panned nil all the way from five cents to one dollar each trial this was their rainbow end and here they planned to stay through the next winter by the time water froze overnight each had something like half a bushel of gold winter passed all too slowly As soon as the first spring warmth came to the little valley they were on the job again what their plans were no one can tell perhaps they expected to go to walla walla that summer laden with treasure or they may have decided to stay on until elther either they or the nuggets were exhaust exham t ed but these plans were destined never to be completed for indians suddenly fell on cox and jones killed and scalped scalded them and rifled the cabin hulbert who had bad gone some distance off saw the horrible sight but was powerless to help his partners As soon as the marauders left hulbert hurried down don to the cabin the gold was wag still there and he packed a knapsack full burled buried the rest and struck out in the appos opposite tie direction taken by the indians after 18 days through 11 wild unknown country he reached the north platte river and found the old trail to california here he met up with a large party of gold seekers heading toward the northwest on hearing his story part of the enormous crowd decided to return with him to the mine and more than people with wagons accepted him as their leader pow jiow was a man to retrace a trail like his how could be remember every landmark every dl direction of those terrible IS days of night flight nul 11 1 bert thought lie he could but all summer long he be tried in vain to reach that abandoned cabin where the bodies of his friends guard guarded ed the golden treasure at lost last lie he was forced to admit defeat and the angry crowd after even once gathering 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 Cott stock grubstaked grub staked by nevada men searched for it in ra rain 1 a then during the sioux apri uprising sing when the big horn country was alive with indians three men made their way to the head of 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 I 1 the newcomers built a boat loaded it with vill gold and planned to float down the river until they reached a settlement here they would outfit and return to where fortune had bd smiled her golden grin at them but death lurked downstream the sioux sious camp stretched along the river was more than three miles long ion and COW warriors waited and longed for a chance to spill white mans blood it was midnight when N hert 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 littie big horn reached for the boat in haste the miners grew a moment more and the boat overturned another and they were captives of the hostile sioux in ill tile the scuffle that ensued one 11 man managed to get away he hail had no DO food no weapons and his clothing ing had been torn until only a few rags raga covered bilm but ile he hall hail clenched his hand over a couple of 0 nuggets and these thesa he kept during the days when he wandered in search of a settlement at last he stumbled into a little town what happened to sitting bull ouster and the rest ls Is history the country became safe from indians again but the one man who could have trailed the golden phantom back to the lost cabin lode sat in the sunshine aud and bab babbled bled of immense wealth of hunger of indiana indian of his beautiful yellow nuggets a garrulous senseless idiot |