The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-18
PARTY WILL SEEK
LOST CABIN Mine
SYSTEMATIC SEARCH BEGINS FOR
= = FABULOUS WEALTH.
Montana Man Finds Original Chart
Describing Exact Location, and an
- Expedition of Ten Men Prepares to
Make Another Quest-History Of thu
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Special to The Journal.


Special to The Journal, s:D1
= Livingston, Mont. April ,ls-An expedition 10
being organized to begin q systematic search
for the Lost Cabin mine, long famed in ira
ditien as being gold mine of fabulous rich
ness, but the exact location of which has been
lost thru the death disappearance of all of
those VINO were in the secret. Now however
1t is stated that the original chart showing its
location. which was drawn in 1855 by Crow
chieftain and presented to a citizen of Boze-
mal under promise that no effort would be
made to find the wealth contained in the mine
until after the Indians had left their homes
on the Upper Yellowstone, has been discovered.
Those who say they have seen the chart natu-
rally are reticent to the exact location of the
mine, but assert they positive that at last
the long hidden secret is to be revealed.
The Lost Cabin mine has caused dozen
different stamDedes in the past mining history
OF the state of Montana, and should the present
expedition be successful there undoubtedly would
be another and greater one. All evidence, wheth-
er based on tradition facts known to older
residents of the state. points to mine of ex-
ceeding richness. f.
Romance and Tragedy.
! The history of the search for the mine is fun
Of romance and tragedy. In the early days,
when knowledge of 1t first came to the white
men, the Mountain Crows occupied vast en-
pire extending from Mandan on the east TO Boze-
man on the west, and from the Platte river to
the far Canadian north. Few whites except
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the Black Hills in 1854 had ever penetrated this
region. That the Indians had, somewhere in this
| extensive region-an area 800 miles east and
west by l 800 north and solth-one or more gold
mines was we'll known to the pioneers of Mon
ttana. The chart given to the resident OF Boze.
man by the friendly Crow chief was verified q
year or SO later by the discovery of a party
of prospectors.
| lone prospectcr stopped at Bozenan en-
route to Alder Gulch Tor Virginia City, for .
stock of provisions. He told of finding gold on
la tributary Of the Yellowstone; that he and his
out about $1,000 day from their sluice boxes.
and that the gold-bearing sand apparently
inexhaustible He refused to give any more
definite idea of the location of the find. but
his companions to make known the loca ton O!
their Ell Dorado. He set out from Virginia City
with seven packhorses loaded with provisions
and was never seen here again.
| scalped by Indians.
A westbound emigrant afterwards told Of har
ing met with the prospector near Fort Phi
kearney. To the emigrant he said that on hi
return to the cabin he found his companions
dead and scalped, they apparently having beer
attacked by Indians during his absence.
All the gold taken from the placers by the
party had been confsca ted by the saEages, and
the prospector fearful Of his own scalp, had
set off for civilization. Since that time there
have been many reported. discoveries of tn,
.rIast Cabin mine. but all have proved deII
sive. Recently a descendant of the man t.
whom the Crow chieftain gave his crude chart
Of the location Of the mine is said to have dis
covered the map among papers supposed to b
of no value. He is said to have submitted II
to several old-time miners, and has doubt Of
the authenticity of the document. A party Of
!. ten is now Quitting and another quest for til,
long lost mine is to begin. e