The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
Prospectors Still Hope to Find the
Famous Lost Claim.
WERE SURPRISED BY INDIANS
Four Lives Have Already Been Sacri
feed. but the Surrey Gold Hunt
ers Are Undismayed.

Garfield. April livery mining coun-
try has it's traditions. more or less OBJ
scure. of vast sums discovered and then
lost, and many are the men who spend
thetr lives searching for these hidden
treasures. The renewed interest in
mining has brought these old stories
prominently to the front at the present
time.
Perhaps the most widely known OF
any of the stories of this class-certain-
ly the most widely located-is that OF
the Lost Cabin. The searcners for this
mysterious place. where miners were
surprised by Indians after burying thou
sands of dollars under the dirt floor OF
their cabin, makes but few proselytes
owing to the wide divergence in the APP
proximate locality assigned to it by
different tellers of the story. different
parts of California. Oregon, Idaho.
Montana and British Columbia being
the proper place according to the vari-
Gus chroniclers.
Walkers Nevada cement mine. made
famous by Mark Twain, who tells in
"Roughing It" how he lost a cool mil
lion by tracking off after Walker. still
has many believers, all of whom ex-
pect some day to find that treasure and
flood the world with a supply of gold
exceeding in amount all hitherto
known.
A party is being organized here to
search for the blue Buckets" said to
have been discovered by a party of i'm
migrants coming to Oregon in 1854.
They are going under instructions from
one of the original finders and conf
IDENTIFY expect that on their return the
civilized world will make a rush to get
onto a silver basis.
THE Robson MINE.
But the tale that is of most interest In
this section Is that of the Robson
mine." which is supposed to be some
where on the headquarters of the Clear
water. AS the story lacks age it is
not so widely known as the others.
According to the accepted version,
seven or eight years ago a man named
Robson, or Robinson, was prospecting
on the upper Clearwater. and almost
famished for want of food, being unable
to kill any game. Finally he killed his
horse. dried part of the meat and start
ed westward for civilization. A couple
of days after leaving the remains of his
horse. he saw nuggets OF gold In the
, bottom of a small stream from which
, he was drinking. The lack of pro-
visions and the latenese of the season
4 BIGNGHltQ ullll Out lie
picked up some of the nuggets and care
fully noticed the surrounding land
marks, intending to return the mex,
year When he arrived at Walla Walla
he had about $4,000 In gold.
The next year. in company with two
other men, he started to return. and
/ when almost to the place where he
. found the gold. became insane. Shortly
T. after he died. His companions contin
e ued the search, but only succeeded II
d finding the remains Of his horse. TIL,
n next year these two tried again to fine
l. the treasure, but one of them died anC
= the other narrowly escaped death from
II starvation. Last year another party o.
J. three men tried to find the place, tn,
G death OF two of them, Gid Holbrool
v and one other whose name can not nov
J. be recalled, being still fresh in tn
Il minds of the reading public.
r In spite OF the tragic ending OF eacl
e OF the previous expeditions, that coun
st try will this year be assaulted by hun
q dreds of prospectors, each intent OF
A. finding the locality where Robson
y, picked up his thousands.
IF That region has the added attraction
of being supposed to hide immens
treasures throughout its entire lengt
- and breadth, even should the story toll
- by Robson be but the fancy of dis
lie eased mind.