The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-05
THE LOST CABIN MINE.
Famous Gold Deposit Said to
Have Been RediScOvered.
A Woman Has the Credit of Having
Found the Famous Mine.

The romance Of the Lost Cabin mine Is
known to every prospector in the north
famous than all the others for tho simple
reason that the Lost Cabin mine has at
last been found 1t was rediscovered less
than six weeks ago, and is located within
a day drive Of Spokane. 1t is now In the
possession Of Spokane parties, who have
visited the famous mine, and who, after q
thorough inspection Of 1t, together with
assays received from the ore taken from
the abandoned tunnel are convinced that
they have found 81 900, 900 mine.
For the present, or until the water
rights have been secured, the new owners
refuse to divulge the exact location of the
Lost Cabin mine, nor will they allow
their names 10 be mentioned. Ono OF
them, who is n well known official, after
much persuasion, was induced 10 tell the
story Of the discovery upon the above con-
ditions.
To man named Abrams and his wife,
or rather the latter, is due the credit OF
making the rediscoyery of the mine. For
over three months they searched the wild
and almost inaccessible region where tho
Lost Cabin mine was reputed to be locat-
ed. One day, about six weeks ago, Mrs
A Abrams left her husband, who was explor-
ing the mountain upon one side of deep
canyon, and went across TO the opposite
side. After q task that would have do
tered many u hardy prospector, let alone
o woman, she succeeded in climbing about
two-thirds the distance TO the top of a high
mountain on that side, when through the
timbers and dense brush she saw 80 feet
ahead of her, up the mountain side, a log
cabin. 1t was deserted, but within were
the evidences of IL once having been occu-
pied by white men She made q hasty
survey of the surroundings, and not 30
feet from the front of the cabin she saw
the opening of tunnel into the mountain
side.
Without waiting to examine further, sle
hastened back to where Abrams was and
informed him of her discovery. Complete
ly exhausted with her exertions, it was de-
termined TO wait until tho next day before
she should lead her husband to the spot.
Early the next morning, after another
hard climb, tho two reached the cabin.
After an inspection Of the place Mr..
Abrams was convinced that the object Of
their search had at last been found.
A few days later Mr. Abrams camo to
Spokane and impaired his secret 10 u
friend, The Chronicle informant The lat
ter Is an old time miner and one of the ear
lest pioneers of this section and Is familiar
with the story OF the Lost Cabin mine.
He has since visited the scene, accompanied
by Mr.. Abrams and two other responsible
citizens OF Spokane In telling the story
of the mine and his visit 20 it he said:
1.-THE story Of the Lost Cabin mine had
its origin before tic great Ceur d'Alene
excitement and is familiar topic 10 al
most oil the miners of Idaho and Wash
ington. For years IL has been vaguely re-
ported that gold mine Of fabulous rich
ness had been discovered i'm an almost in
accessible part of the country back somo
distance from Cpur d'Alene lake, and In
the Murray gold belt; that 10 had been
worked for time. and then the discover
ers had mystcriously disappeared. That
mine has now been rcdscovorcd and q COM
pany incorporated In Spokane Will proceed
to develop 10.
1T Is within days drive of Spokane
and Is within ten miles Of we'll known
and navigable bay in Ceur d'Aiene lake.
This Is as near as / will describe its loca-
tion for the present, until we have secured
tho water right.
We visited the scene several weeks ago
and found the cabin intact In front Of IL
was found the discovery shaft The mine
Is situated In the midst Of dense forest,
whore the trees, from actual measurement,
reach to height of 100 feet The noun
tain Is deeply covered with soil formation,
it being impossible 20 see any indication Of
rock on the surface save where trees have
been uprooted. At the time Of the rcdis-
oovery a few weeks ago tho only signs,
aside from the cabin and shaft, that the
spot had been visited by white men were
whero tho trees had been blazcd by the
original discoverers, by which means they
found their way from and 70 the mine.
These evidences have now boon almost Oh
liberated through years Of growth Of the
trees.
"Not n tool of any description was found
In or about the cabin, only n few rusty cook
ing utensils Many tons of rock had been
excavated from n tunnei started q short dis
tanco below the groupings Of tho vein and
about 90 feet In front OF the cabin. Evi-
IDENTITY work Ind been Stopped before the
vein had quite been reached. Tho tunnel
had caved In, and from the growth above
IL ~ would indicate that the cave In had
occurred a good many years ago.
bErpni N carefttl iuveatiuzt tion Of all