Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-07-31 | Page 3 | Found Stored Wealth Just as He Cashed It

SOUND FOUND STORED WEALTH JUST HIST AS HE CIE CASHED IT II JUST AS Put Away 2000 in Gold fold Nuggets Forty Years Ago and Returned for His Treasure i I J f MARY MARYSVILLE Ca Cal July 31 Forty t Forty years years- ago J. J H H. Merryman an f ff f Ohioan Ohioan hu hurled burled led beneath the thc floor of oC his mining cabin In P Plumas count county f 2000 In gold nuggets and this week he unearthed his cache to find his f d stored wealth just as he left it In 1661 f In that year year Merryman who had prospered as a miner r concluded to f x visit San Francisco and putting In his b belt t what gold he thought he f ff f would need burled buried the balance A gay a life at the bay 50 soon on broke him f fand and while befuddled with drink he was shanghaied He was finally landed at New York Misfortune followed misfortune and It was only recent recently that he ho had money enough to return to California f During the Intervening years the thought of his buried burled treasure ne never ner r f ff f left him and it was with trembling hands the old pioneer grasped a spade f ff f to dig for gold old on the spot where he figured his cabin once stood Provi- Provi f r tf dence favored him man many efforts and Merryman came down from the mountains to take a train for San Francisco He III return East f tt i