The cache is not at the posted coordinates. Instead, you will need to solve a mystery to get the real coordinates of the cache. This mystery cache is intended to be fun, so if you get frustrated, you are welcome to email Toby's biographer and ask for further hints on this or any other Toby Mystery.
#31 The Dogliest Detective and the Leap Day Mine
Toby enjoyed exploring the Alaska Miners Expo all weekend, partly out of personal interest, but mostly to do research for a case he was working on. He spent much of his time asking questions around the "Klondike" section. Four miner-looking people there were particularly talkative with him.
"Tony" was very gruff, but he was a good storyteller. He said his ancestors had traveled up the grueling Chilkoot Trail and were almost killed on Palm Sunday in 1898 when a large avalanche killed 68 people.
"Parker" told Toby how the Klondike stampeders had to make many trips up and down the mountains, ferrying supplies, as the Canadian Mounties would not let them enter Canada unless they each had enough food and equipment to sustain them for a full year. He explained how his family’s fortune was made not from finding gold, but from bringing a small herd of mules up the Chilkoot trail, breeding them, and selling their offspring to the miners in the Klondike. He said mules were in short supply and high demand, and the gold dust was plentiful, so the burden-saving animals went for a huge amount.
"Dorsey" told of how his ancestor was part of the Soapy Smith gang, and how they conned and even outright stole many ounces of gold from the successful miners. Dorsey even demonstrated the infamous soap scam that gave the gang its reputation in history. The gang members became more violent after Soapy Smith was killed in the Juneau Hotel, and they turned on each other and fought over the accumulated loot.
"Todd" pulled Toby aside and talked with him in a whisper. He explained how the group was forming a clandestine expedition to find what they were calling the “Leap Day Mine". It was not a real mine, but rather it was a hiding spot for the Soapy Smith gang loot. He showed Toby an old envelope, postmarked on February 29, 1900, which he said had contained a letter and map to the “mine” where the last of the surviving gang members had stashed the gold they had accumulated.
Finally, Todd then offered Toby the opportunity to join the group by financing their expedition to recover the gold. Toby would get a 1/10th share of whatever they recovered.
Toby thanked Todd for the offer and all the good stories, but he said “I know one or more of the stories were false, so maybe I am better off trying to find my gold the old-fashioned way.
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