RGINN
Gold Member
- Oct 16, 2007
- 8,618
- 10,773
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- White's DFX, White's Classic 1 Coinmaster, Nokta Pointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Baby Doe, the other woman that H.A.W. Tabor, Colorado Silver King, left his first wife for. He was the sole owner of the Matchless Mine on Fryer Hill east of Leadville, CO. The mine produced millions in silver in its heyday. When silver went bust in 1893 so did Tabor. Legend has it on his deathbed he told Baby Doe to hang on to the Matchless as someday it would produce again. She stayed on the property in a former superintendant's cabin, nearly destitute. Another company finally bought the property, but allowed her to stay on the property. In 1935 she died of heart failure and they found her frozen stiff as a board in this cabin. Recent core drilling showed silver still at depth on the property, but not in profitable quantities.