Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-19
RICHES often lead

that he has acquired g vast for
tune unsettles a mans mind.
Also, tragedy in some dreadful
form stalks often at the elbow
OF those searchers for wealth in
the hills whose picks have
tapped deposits of extraordi-
nary richness. One of the most
striking instances of this kind
but only one Of hundreds-Was
the story of Tabor of Denver,
who became immensely wealthy
over night from a gold strike in
the Cripple Creek district. He
bought a seat in the United
States senate and spent money
like water. He built a magnitl-
cent theater in Denver, which
he called the Tabor-Grand, I'M
der which name it was until re-
Gently operated. On the night
of the opening, it is related, Ia
Dor 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 witch-like 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:
$50 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 to-
day you will be dead-in a pau
per's grave"
Her prophecy was a true one.
Tabor lost his wealth nearly as
fast as he made it, and within
a year died in poverty and mis-
cry.
More Recent Case
The other day the American
Zinc company took over the
great Silver Dyke property at
Neihart, Montana, a deposit of
silver ore 200 feet in width.
From it they expect to make
great profits. But the two
men who prospected the mine
and bonded it are both inmates
of the state insane asylum at
Warm Springs. They are Dick
Heidenreich and Peter Erick-
son, old-timers in the Neihart
district.
There is a well-grounded su-
perstition among miners that
ill-luck or violent death is the
legacy of all discoveries Of hid
den treasures. The original 10
Gators of some 35 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 a victim of re-
morse in a San Francisco hos
pital, "haunted by the spirits
of other deluded prospectors
passing and repassing his
deathbed."
Prospectors from all parts Of
the west have sought the ia
nous Lost Cabin" mine, stu
ated in the Big Horn noun
tains Of Wyoming and Mon I
tana. The story of this bon
ANA deposit states that the
lode was found by three men
who were prospecting for gold
in the early days when the
country was the habitat of hos
tile Indians. Near the head
waters Of an unknown stream
the pioneers ran a cross 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 ex-
periences, but could not give
the exact location of the ledge.
AS a result of the privations
endured and the constant pom
dering Of his supposedly i'm
,,.ense wealth. the survivor st