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Show DICCINC FO TREASURES. Uuoting After a Xianl.h Don'. Snppo.ed Hurl.d Wealth. ALiirQCEKorE, N. M., Feb. 10. In 1801 there died in the little village of j Barelns a suburb of the city, a wealthy Spanish named Antonio Sandoval, reputed rep-uted to be of immense wealth, being the owner of large herds of shuep, cattle and horses. It was believed that hut few, if any, of the dons of New Mexico were his peers in wealth, and he was further noted for his eccentric and somewhat miserly character. On the death of Don Sandoval his heirs were disappointed in finding no money among his effects beyond a small deposit in a St. Louis bank, although he was known to have received re-ceived large sums for salt s of sheep and other stock. The old Sandoval casa still stands in Barelns, near (he ancient church, and has been an object of great interest to a few of those who knew the old Spanish don and believed that he bad buried his treasure somewheie in its vicinity. Recently Re-cently Charles W. Lewis and Al Oriego of this city, both of whom were, well acquainted ac-quainted with the facts stated above, succeeded in purchasing from the heirs of the dead don the old homestead and have also secured the right to dig up the earth on 140 acres of surrounding property to the depth of five feet in search of the buried money. Today a force of men wis put to work and will not stop nntil either tho treasure, treas-ure, believed to be several hundred thousand dollars, is unearthed, or the entire tract shall have been dug over. |