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Show $400,000 IN CACHED GOLD IS DISCOVERED PJch Find Made by Cowboy in Search of Stray Cattle in Hills in Arizona. PHOEN'IX, Ariz., Sept. 34. The discovery dis-covery of $400,000, cached in an out of the wav spot in the hills of Graham county, this state, is reported by H. B. Whitman of Solomonville, who is now in Chaudlcr, near here. The discovery was mado by Joe Walsey, a cowboy, who is makinc efforts to discover the former owners, according to Whitman. While hunting stray cattle northwest of Solomonville, Walsey found a tree trunk from which the handle of a shovel protruded. Digging disclosed an iron box containing old Spanish gold coins ami gold vessels, the intricate working of which is said to bring the value of the find above the $400,000 estimated as its worth as bullion. The gold has been taken to Safford, seat of Graham county, and placed in security. Old residents of that section declare Walsey has discovered a hiding place of priests who left that section about seventy-five years ago, when it j was a part of Mexico. It has always I been thought that the priests buried the church wealth before fleeing. |