The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-09-06


concerning which have sought ]
the exact truth for the several years /
that have followed this fad Of col .
lcrtlug trcasure.trovc data. The pub. /
llcation Of the story or stories about II |
may bring to light the men who can
say definitely what Is what However
any man who cares 10 set out after II
In a busincssllke manner may turn
himself into multlmillionaire be.
tween Christmas and Fourth Of July.
This much IL certain; somewhere
on the upper reaches Of the Missouri
river lic four large barFes. lost In
1866, laodod to their utmost capacity
with gold estimated In amount from
100000 TO 125,OOO0OO
Just At the close Of the civil war
come rumors OF tho finding Of gold In
the Black Hills Of Dakota and Mon.
tana drlfted into the towns on the
border Of civilization In the northwest.
II seems odd to think that fifty years
ngo that region was frontier. but
there are hundreds Of old Indiana now
living on the reservations who then
were fighting braves and nifty years
ago they had never seen white
mans face.
In the spring Of 1866 some old pros
pectors IN the back drift from Califor
mia found gold In one Of the tributaries
OF the Missouri. said now to be tho
north fork Of the Cheyenne Why II Is
no more certain will appear Others
Of thicr INK "smolled" the discovery
and band Of no more than forty
drew into the region. making a won
dcrful strike. the richest that has ever
been made on America soil according
TO all accounts The strike was made
IN what Is now called Dcadmcns
Gulch. named 10 suit the story, but
called I'm the old records Federation,
Desperation and Starvation Clutches.
Tho gold was nlluvial, washed down
from tho northern ledgos. now being
worked by the rich Caledonia Qauriz
Mine Company near Deadwood The
gravel hanks and fats we're incxpres'
slbly rich with II and all summer the
forty men tollod feyerlshly. extracting
rs much as they could before the win.
tor should descend upon them. shut
on their nSn. game ana vegetable FOOD
supply and drive them TO civilization.
whore the knowledge Of the vast
wealth OF the Black Hills and the re-
mulndor Of the nurlforous region would
h. ONE public property.
when the ground froze and they
could work no longer they cut timber
and made four large bargos Of shallow
draft and on them laodcd the gold In
provision boxes, and mule and deer
skins made into rawhlde sacks. Even
then tboy were compelled TO leave
some " II behind because tho bnrgos
would not carry H.
The hostile Indians who had not
dared attack so large party In tho
mining camp with It's excellent do
lenses and those who were apparently
on friendly terms with the miners now
took q hand I'm the game After tho
hardy forty had reached the Missouri
and had negotiated u portion Of its
distance they tied up one night, not
long before Christmas. They were at
taclod by a large band Of Indians
who massacrcd every living soul, sank
tho bnirCs and took all their belong
ings except the gold. OF which thoy did
not know the value. Some accounts
hold the Blackfcot responsible. others
the Ogalala.
How the news ever got 10 the world
cannot say, save as the Indians told
~ II and friends OF the dead men
traced them into the country from
which they never came out. Gradual
" the story took form and II set the
prospcctors Wild. They ranged IN,
region from the Bad Lands TO the Blf
Horn river for twenty,seyen years and
then came the great discovery In the
Black Hills.
The gold left behind nj the point ol
embnrkatlon was finally found Old
workings which showed the vast
quantities taken out by the forty pros
pectors were discovered and for few
years a torrent Of alluylRl gold poured
out OF the Black Hills Then the Who'll,
thing settled down TO the stald and
regular quartz proposition.
The Kansas City Star some years
ago printed clrcumstantlal story
stating that a young Indian student al
Haskell had told a professor that his
father was one Of the braves In N,
massacre, knew where the barges wer,
sunk and was stlll living on the roser
walton II may be that the river Ia,
changed IT'S course and left the barge
under thin layer Of gravel. easily nc
Iessible on dry land The way TO I'm,
The treasure is 10 trace down the sto
ries, locate some Of the Oil Indianl
md induce them to locate the spo
and point II out from memory /
should not be difficult
I'm 1859 there was lost In the Bay o
Islands at the mouth Of the st. Law
renee river. the good ship Prlmros q
with a store Of gold and silver an,
Jewels aboard her The exact amour
Of her Treasure Is unknown, but (
must be vast
Full Of wild romance Is the stor,
OF the Devil Duyals Horde" on th
top Of the Rocks Of Perez on IN
Gaspe peninsula. only about twenty
four hours ride by train from Ne,