The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-12-07
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which name 1t was until recently op-
Grated On the night of the opening
it is related Tabor was entering the
theater to the private box that had
been prepared for him He had with
him a gay company of men and
women.
Suddenly his arm was seized by a
wtch-lilxe old woman. who chung to
him while she cursed him shrilly for
leaving his wife-the woman who had
helped him bear the burdens of pow
erty-when he became wealthy Look
there" shrieked the bag, pointing to
the splendid curtain before the stage.
on which was painted the ruin of an
ancient temple, with the motto be-
meath:
so pass the works of men:
Back to the earth again
Ancient and holy things
Fade like a dream
Back to the earth again" she
shrilled. "a year from today you will
be dead-in a pauper's grave"
Her prophecy was a true one Tabor
lost his wealth nearly as fast as be
made it. and within year died in
poverty and misery.
More Recent Case.
The other day the American Zinc
company took over the great Silver
Dyke property at Nehart Mont, a
deposit of silver ore 200 feet in width
From it they expect to make great
profits But the two men who pros
pected the mine and bonded it are
both inmates of the state asylum at
Warm Springs. They are Dick Held
enreich and Peter Erickson. old tim
ers in the Neihart district
There is a well grounded supersti-
ton among miners that in luck or
violent death is the legacy of all dis
coverers of hidden treasures. The
original locators Of some IS or 40 of
the richest mines in the west are
known to have come to tragic ends
One of the most tragic ends that
came to any prospector was that of
William Farrell. the discoverer Of the
Meadow Lake. who died victim of
remorse in San Francisco hospital,
haunted by the spirits of other de-
luded prospectors passing and re-
passing his deathbed"
Prospectors from all parts of the
west have sought the famous Lost
Cabin" mine, situated in the Big Horn
mountains of Wyoming and Montana
The story of this bonanza deposit
states that the lode was found by
three men who were prospecting for
gold in the early days when the coun-
try was the habitat of hostile Indians
Near the headwaters of an unknown
stream the pioneers ran across a body
of ore so rich that they could hardly
believe their senses. On the way out
of the country, two of the miners
were killed by savages and the third
reached civilization more dead than
alive. He related his experiences but |
could not give the exact location of Z
the ledge. AS a result of the priva-
tons endured and the constant pom
dering over his supposedly immense /
wealth the survivor lost his reason. /
according to the story. and was never I
able TO return to the lodge The sam
pies which he had brought back with 7
him. however proved that the mine .
was not altogether a myth
Later a nrospeeter stumbled upon Il (
vein in the Big Horn canyon. which
he believed to be the outcrop Of the
famous lode. The news was telegraph
ed to all parts of America. stating;
Lost Cabin mine found" However.
this proved to be premature asser- /
ton for the ore was copper. with no
gold content
Found $2O.O00,0Oo euloh.
July 21. 1864 Uncle Johnny" Cow
an Reginald Stanley. d. J. Miller and
d. J. Crab were returning to Virginia
City, Mont after a discouraging pros
pecting trip in the Big Belt mountains \,
when they came upon gulch that
gave promise of containing placer J
gold. They decided 20 make their last d
cast of fortunes dice there and sank I
a shaft in the bed of the creek. which {
they named Last Chance. They struck s
colors and in four years time gold to {
the value of S2OO0O0O0 was mined I
there. Three of the four members of q
the party died paupers. Stanley lived J
to an old age and ended his days in
comfort in England
Bill Fairweather. discoverer of Al L
der Gulch, Mont, in May 1868 whose +
pick tapped a stream that yielded d
s1o0,0O0,O00 in gold, lies in an unmari- a
ed grave at Virginia City Mont. f
within a few miles of where he and n
FIVE companions drove their discovery b
stakes. Only one of the six had v
money at the end. This was Tom Co @
yer. one Of the original owners Of the In