Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-12
LOST BoNANzAS.
SEARCH FOR HIDDEN TREASURES
ONE DISCOVERED.
Geld Mines of Fabulous Wealth
Known to Exist, but Which
Cannot be Found.

expeditions in search OF wealth IL IS iouhu
that the legends and traditions of the busl-
ness are kept well in mind. The Adams
diggings, long celebrated in this region, are
now the goal of more than dozen pros
pectors. some of whom are thought to be
on a hot trail. They are thought to be sit
uated somewhere in Arizona, Just over
the Mexico line. but wherei Is the mystery.
Adams found them twenty years ago, and
proved by more than eighteen years OF
persistent search that he was no dreamer.
Year after year, as the old mans golngs
and comings became familiar to the PEG,
pie the conviction that he was IN search OF
no myth grew upon his acQuaintanceS, and
when he died, little while ago, others
took up the
HUNT WHERE HE LEFT OFF
Adams was led to the deposit in 1866 by u
party of Indians with whom he was. on
good terms, and with three or four 1rlehus
he worked the lode until they were driven
off by hostiles In his eagerness TO get to
the diggings and in his preelpltate night ne
| took no account of the country through
which he passed, and when he undertook
TO return to the mines he found himself
hopelesslv lost. When he died in Los
Angeles he left several valuable charts of
the country that he had traversed IN his
patient searches, as well as plans Tor FUR
Their campaigns, which he said he was con-
fident would bring him or anybody else
upon the lost treasure in time. The be-
lief in the Adams diggings is SO strong
that they will probably be discovered in a
year or two, now that the danger from In
dams has been almost entirely removed
The Mexicans have legend about a
lost gold mine which is supposed TO have
been handed down from the Aztecs, but i'll
which a lively faith is still placed. Ac-
cording to this story Montezuma will one
day return to earth, and some OF his faith
fui followers are keeping guard over the
mine with the view TO delivering it into
his keeping, when he shall reappear.
THIS FIssURE OF GOLD,
Said TO be so rich that all other mines
would sink into insigniiicance i'll compari-
son with it. is located somewhere in south
western Arizona or northern Mexico. Ira
dition says it can be reached only through
beautiful valley, and that it is protected
by Indians, three of whom only are, from
generation to generation, in possession OF
the secret. When one dies the other two
select a third, and thus the trust is handed
down. Although it is known that the
natives will defend the treasure with their
lives. various Adventures have attempted
to find the place in times past, and several
prospectors are even now i'll quest of the
deposit.
Another lost mine is that which is said
to have been located in the eastern part oi
this Territory in 1860, but which was aban-
doned in the course of time, owing to the
hostility of Indians. From records of the
amount paid in tithes to the Roman Catho-
lie Church, it is estimated that the product
of this mine during the few years that il
was worked was more than 1000 coo
San Antoine set out at the beginning OF
this century to
FIND THE LOST TREASURE,
And actually came upon the mine in 1901.
Not being prepared TO work it, he and his
followers got together what gold they could
carry and set out for mission on the
coast, with the idea of getting assistance
To guide them back to the mine they drove
stakes on the plains, but San Antoine fell
sick at the place where San Antonio now
stands, and died there. Indians and des-
peradoes murdered his companions fol
their gold, and as the stakes which they
had set were not cared for they soon fell
| In the old Mexican palace in this city
are many records giving an account of the
| fabulous richness of this mine. In one o.
them priest gives in detail description o.
a visit that he paid to it, and almost eX.
hausts the language in describing the vir'
gin gold as it appeared to him. Several
prospecting parties have left here in time:
past in search of the mine. but they have
all returned footsore and weary with long
| journeys over arid plains, and destitute o.
| information of value.
KIT cARsoN's LOST PLACER.
| In the same way Kit Carson's lost placer
| the Dutchman's Gulch, and the Lost Cabin
i have been the objects of years of fruitless
search on the part of thousands. Some
people believe that the Dutchman's Gulcl
| has been found, and old Tom Edison is Of
| the number In 1864, two Germans came
into Denver with large amount of coarse
| gold, but they would not tell where they
got it. Exchanging it for supplies they sci
| out again toward the North, and that was
| the last that was ever heard of them. As
almost anything would bait the gold hunter
| in those days, scores of men started ou
and explored the country near and far tC
| the north, but they come upon no trace o.
| the "Dutchmen." Tom Edison never gave
up, however until he satisfied himself thai
| he had found the gulch. He began his pros
pecting in the southern part of Wyoming
and went north into the Black Hills, unit
| he found traces of mining operations. Be
| lieving that he had come upon the place
where the Dutchmen had secured theil
dust, he went to work and would have
made his fortune if he had not been driver
out by the Indians. On returning to Den
yer, in 1873, he told of his discovery, and
was laughed at, but he now asserts as 9
| fact. and challenges contradiction, that the
| lost Dutchman's Gulch was near where
| Deadwood now stands, and that it is the
place out of which SO many millions have
since been taken.
| THE LOST CABIN NINE.
Although much speculation is still in
| dulged in concerning the general location
| of Carson's placer and the Lost Cabin, the
great majority of prospectors have settled
down to the conviction that they are botl
| in the Big Horn Mountains in southern
\ Montana or northern Wyoming. Not ONT
of the lost mines has ever been so persist
( emily sought for as that of the Lost Cabin
and each year finds new and more numer
Gus parties on the hunt. Poor old Pancak,
Comstock, the man who gave his name e
| the great Nevada silver lode, and who wa
once a hundI ed millionaire without know
| ing it, killed himself at Bozeman at thl
| conclusion of a profitless search for tn,
Lost Cabin. He started out with higl
| hopes of success, but when failure staret
him in the face he gave up the hunt and Isl
life together.
i The evidence in favor ofthe belief in th'
| Lost Cabin is too strong to admit of doub
as to its existence. Ii has beeR found lost
found again, and then finally lost, as al
sagree and it cannot therefore be myth
| The discovery was made many years ag'
by three men who were prospecting in wha
is now called the Big Horn country. Ate
satisfying themselves OF the
! RICHNESS OF THE MIXES.
They started back after supplies. aere at
tackled by the Indians, and only on,
escaped. BY the time the survivor reached
| a settlement he was so exhausted thai be
fell sick. and on his recovery thesprospec
of great wealth was more than he ecult
| stand, sIsd be went insane. Prospeeters
| tried, with the assistance of this unfortG
nate imbeysle, to relocate the cabin, bSi
tailed, aud giisce then. year and year, men
| from almost every State and Territory
| have taken up the searoa. An army officer
operating In the Big Horn country few
years ago came upon tie cabin and the
gold, but he has never BEEN able to return
| to the spot, though ne has tried repeatedly.
Among the hundreds CT wei known pros
pectors who have spent years IN the search
for the Lost Cabin are Bart Beckley. Jack
Mcdonald, Jack Nye and Joe Sweeney.
The latter once announced by telegraph