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Show Smaaau:n:mmm:uaj::::::::::n:nmnn::::j::j:::un:u::u:::::::::::a:rj I LOST TREASURES I OF AMERICA I Gold and Jewels Still Waiting to be Found by Some Modern Adventurer. Buf kington Phillips j iL:a:tutt:3rnnnnn::n:;::r;rn:t:::tt: lose a treasure Is to bury H. It irrmi. The earth In some mysterious, way spreads a mantle of oblivion which can licit ho pierced by the memory of limn and takes back to her bosom the m anure that wus wrested from her. The other area Is In the east, be- plrinltf at about Camden, N. J., and extending ex-tending north to Albany and thence to Portland. Main. In that field lived the rich Royalist and Tory families. The sudden turning of the tide found the Tories In possession of a great qunntlty of gold coin, gold and silver plate and Jewels, and fearing they would lose these, they burled them and then fled. Comparatively llltlo of It was ever exhumed and the area Is dotted thickly with localities where a search would be highly profitable. Of them I can mention a few only. At Sound Peach, Conn., lives Mrs. Jane louden, 101 years of age. Her husband, knowing that on the home farm a wealthy Tory family had burled Kohl, hunted until he found several pots containing several thousand dob lars each. A neighbor also acquired sudden wealth which he did not ex. plain. Every one knew there was a great Joint family cache somewhere near. It was known for many years that on I.ord Edmetiton's estate near West Edmcston, N. Y., his personal representative, repre-sentative, Perdlfer Carr, had burled a treasure The property known as the Hnrdlck Farm, having been bought by Henry P. Purdlck In ISr.O. was the site. In 1904 a tenant named Cheese-borough Cheese-borough plowed Into a case of china and glass, breaking half of It before he realized what the obstruction was. lly reason of design and quality the remainder, re-mainder, however, was worth a small fortune to dealers In antiques. It was the Edmeston ware. The law suit that followed for possession made the case famous. Where Is the remainder of t lie treasure? Joel Coryell, sexton at Romulus, N. Y., digging a grave on what was a Tory estate In 1776, found a large inantlty of money In an old pot. The ?rave belonged to Thomas Mann, but t'oryell kept tho gold. Wnlter llutler, the notorious Mo- lawk Valley Tory, returned to the val- ey at the end of the war with a force if Tories and Indians to dig up the reasures he had burled and those that . lad been burled by other wealthy , rorles who had told him where to re- j over It In their behalf. When he had Inlshed his work and was returning, ( be pursuing Colonials under Colonel darlnus Wlllet, overtook the treasure iquad beyond Johnson's Hall on the ank of the West Canada In northern ' lerklmer county. ' The treasure was too heavy for tho 1 i York City Certain Hrltlsh laws must t be repealed before It can bo recovered. . however. It Is In one of the out of-l of-l way places of the world and very llt-i llt-i tie Is known by the general public about It. The suerstltlous French - fishermen, unchanged In a hundred nr"l hfty years, still await the return i of the llerce pilot to claim bis own. The Uock of Perce, named for the adjacent fishing village. Is one of the i true naturul wonders of our continent When some convulsion of nature rent the coast this rock was split from the i nearby mountain and left standing, a 1 grim monument to the caprice of the gods of sea and land. Several hundred hun-dred feet high, with a comparatively fat top, Its sides are beetling and one aldo la about two hundred feet higher than the other. Once It was pierced by three arches through any one of which a small ship might sail, but now ouo of these has collapsed, leaving only the two huge galleries. Captain Duval was a French privateer priva-teer who returned only a small por tlon of his loot from Kngllsh and other oth-er ships to the French authorities, and after tho declaration of peace he becume an out-and-out pirate. He protected the French fishermen and was generous with them. They. In their tmn. protected him as the Kngllsh Kng-llsh peasant protected Ulck Turpln. At last ho was hard pressed by the English, mid having In his service a Mlcmac Indian who knew a secret trail to the supposedly Inaccessible Hock of Perce, he collected all his caches of treasure In the maritime provinces and brought them to Perce The Indian carried a line to the top of the rock and hauled up a block and fall. Then two prisoners were hauled up. and next Duval himself. Itoats , containing the great treasure chets stood by below. The tradition Is that they were a day arm a moonlight night getting It i all up. Then the Indian was sent down and Duval himself was lowered away. His rapier was dripping with of It could be reached with cororva tlve euso now. Just above Pine I Huff, Arkansas, a steamboat said to have been the Car-lyle Car-lyle J. Harrison, with several hundred thousand dollars In gold to pay for cotton, was sunk In 1 SCa. None of It has ever been recovered. There Is a fascinating story about an old barge that Is burled In the Missouri Mis-souri sand flats near Fort lllce. North Dakota. With It Is burled silver worth more than half a million dollars At the time when tho unsuccessful prospectors pros-pectors were tolling, empty handed. , back from tho gold fields of California, a little band of men struck a rich find near what Is now Virginia City. Mon tana. The t. it I It a rude camp and, with the poor Implements that they had, worked work-ed feverishly fur many months until they had taken out all that their packs could carry across the miles of uncivilized country they must cross to the navigable rivers of the upper Missouri. Mis-souri. Tolling across the mountains, always In danger of massacre, facing starvation and privations, breaking roads In the frozen flats and blazing trails through the forests, they finally reached the river near Painted Woods, and there built a rude barge and loaded load-ed It to the water's edge with the rich silver ore. Traveling by night. In constant fear of Indian outbreaks, they wended slowly slow-ly down the partly frozen river, knowing know-ing that soon they would reach the frontier town and safety. It was In 'C4 and the few scattered settlements had been deserted. No Indians had been seen for days and, taking courage, cour-age, they traveled faster and with less caution. When ihey were near Fort I'.lce they were attacked by the Indians In-dians and all of th little band were killed with the exception of one man, Plen-e I.aselle. Ignorant of the wealth aboard, the Redskins sunk the float, and Pierre Laselle escaped to Fort Hice leaving behind him no trace of the exiedltlon; the secret of tho hardships and toll snd wealth were with the river and with htm. He told no one anything about It for some time not until he had enlisted in the army and maneuvered maneu-vered so as to get back to be near his treasure. Then he took an old Quak-rr. Quak-rr. named Richard Pope, Into his con-ndence con-ndence and at the urgent request of ihe Quaker his son was also told the ecret. Three months later the lltle party. R-ell armed and well provisioned, went Hiletly to the spot that Laselle remera- 1 liered so well, only to find that, the iver course had changed and a bar 1 if sand had formed over the barge ot dismayed, however, they dug un-II un-II they found the prow of the old icow and on the very eve of success hey too were attacked by the Indiana .d I.apelle was killed! Pope and his on, too badly frightened to work gain within the year, went back with he secret to the town aud while there oung Pope died. After many years the old Quaker ook another man, named Emerson, nd with the drawings that Laselle nd he had made they went back to he place of trove and found that the and bar bad grown and that the river an many hundreds of feet away from lie spot where the fortune lay buried i glistening sands. Where Pope said he old diggings would be found a oung cottonwood tree was flourish-ig. flourish-ig. They spent weeks digging for lany feet around the place, but found othlnf. Some mistake had evidently een made In following otit the former instructions, but the barge was there, ecause Pope and Laselle found it on heir first visit. Pope Is dead, but :merson is still alive and has the old rawings. letters and records. Maybe e can be Induced to part with It, and inybe not. but somewhere In the flats ear Fort Rice Is a snug little fortune waiting some finder. Tlehlnd the city of St. Augustine. In ome likely spot, another rich treasure i located. When It was a rich Span-ih Span-ih town, a favorite pnttlngln port for le heavily laden Spanish galleons lat were coming through the Straits f Florida to avoid sailing the waters lade dangerous by Peter the Terrible nd Sir Henry Morgan, its wealth at-acted at-acted the attention of the free boot-rs boot-rs snd word of their preparations to ttack and loot the city wss carried the captain-general. For weeks the city was In a state of reat perturbation and when some ngllsh ships, probably privateers, ap-r-ared off the coast, the public tress-re. tress-re. the church treasure and the valu-hies valu-hies of the wealthy citizens were as-mbled. as-mbled. removed Inland and hidden, or months the state of suspense con-nued con-nued until the Spsnlfh Admiral Quln-ina Quln-ina appeared with his, fleet. Then ie St. Augustlnlans thought they uld safely bring back their wealth, 0 their horror the three prominent en entrusted with the secreting of , either could net find It or pretend- 1 they could not. One fled to Spain rfor the angr of his ftilow-cltlzens id bis flight cost the lives of the nth- two. Tbey were assassinated as on as the flight became known. The archives of the Ppsnlsh sdmlr-ty sdmlr-ty hsve full record of the affair and le true kev to the treasure trove can r-st be found by searching the family tpers of the man who fled He never turned, but without doubt be left e valnsble Information ts ht heirs Where millions await the finder in Slder and more uncertain siits Is r wore Intereitlng ground than the jilltle where thouards li umjer i very no-es of the townscrple. cr -h-r the p!ow psufcs every year over if buried trrve. All thrnug'i the et are rich mines whirh have been I und sni !oL irHwvVe -jr"-?"" w . - iminwr.'r(iafrsnniM ' ft: .c'vip.vi---sA.; ' ' ... . ; ' - - . - .. - ".,-. v ' . ) n ymjJaAintm tmw ni i rfimi i mmi. 4itn nim iii,ii A f,ij&m-miJmy--" "J b TW. greatest treasirt In tin Cnlted States, a vast Mini tha awaits some one's flud'ng. is otn concerning which I have nought Ihe ract truth for the several yean that I have followed this fad of col leeting treasure trove data. The pub Ih ntlon of the story or stories about It may bring to light the men who car say definitely what Is what. However snv man who cares to set out after II In a business like manner may turn hlmrlf into a niultl-trUlIlonaire be tween Christmas and Fourth of July. This much Is certain: somewhere on the upper reaches of the Missouri rier lie four large barges, lost In Mm;, laoded to their utmost capacity rtlth gold estimated In amount from 17.000,000 to $25,000,000. Just at the close of the civil war some rumors of the finding of gold In the Itlack Hills of Dakota and Montana Mon-tana drifted Into the towns on tho border of civilization In the northwest. It seems odd to think that fifty years fliro that region was a frontier, but there are hundreds of old Indians now living on the reservations who then were fighting braves and fifty years nuo they had never seen a white man's face. In the spring of some old prospectors pros-pectors In the back drift from California Califor-nia found gold In one of the tributaries of the Missouri, said now to be the north fork of the Cheyenne. Why It Is no more certain will appear. Others of thier ilk "smelled" the discovery mid a band of no more than forty drew into the region, making a won-ilerful won-ilerful strike, the richest that has ever been made on America soil according to nil accounts. The strike was made In hut Is now called Deadmen's Ctilch. named to suit the story, but called In the old records Federation, 1 es emtlon and Starvation (lulches. The told was alluvial, washed down from the northern ledges, now being worked by tho rich Caledonia Qaurtas Mine Company near Dead wood. The gravel banks and flats were Inexpressibly Inexpres-sibly rich with It and all summer the forty men tolled feverishly, extracting as much as they could before the winter win-ter should descend upon them, shut off their fish, game and vegetable food t supply snd drive them to civilization. where the knowledge of the vast wealth of the Illack Hills and the remainder re-mainder of the auriferous region would (become public property. When tho ground froze and they lo'ild work no longer they cut timber snd made four large barges of shallow draft and on them laoded tho gold In provision boxes, and mule and deer skins made Into rawhide sacks. Even then they were compelled to leave some of It behind because the barges .veijid rot carry It. The hostile Indiana who had not " ! ired nttack so large a party In the mining camp with Its excellent defenses de-fenses snd those who were apparently en friendly terms with the miners now cok a hand In the game. After the hardy forty had reached the Missouri .Hid had negotiated a portion of Its distance they tied up one night, not long before Christmas. They were at-Inked at-Inked by a large band of Indians, who massacred every living soul, sank the barges and took all their belongings belong-ings except the gold, of which they did not know the value Some accounts hold the Plackfeet responsible, others the Ogalsla. How the news ever got to the world 1 antiot say. save as the Indians told of It and friends of the dead men traced them Into the country from which they never came out. Gradually Gradual-ly the story took form and It set the prospectors wild. They ranged the -region from the Rad Lands to the Rig Horn river for twenty seven years and then came the great discovery In the P.'ark Hills. , The gold left behind at the point of embarkation was finally found. Old workings which showed the vast quantities taken out by the forty prospectors pros-pectors were discovered and for a few years a torrent of alluvial gold poured out of the Rlark Hills. Then the whole thing settled down to the staid and regular quartz proposition. The Kansas City Star some years ago printed a circumstantial story stating that a young Indian student at Haskell had told a professor that his father was one of the braves In the massacre, knew where the barges were sunk aud was still living on the reservation. reser-vation. It may be that the river has changed its course and left the barges mnder a thin layer of gravel, easily accessible ac-cessible on dry land. The way to And fhe treasure is to trace down the stories, sto-ries, locate some of the old Indians snd Induce them to locate the spot and point It out from memory. It should not be difficult. In KM there was lost In the Ray of islands, at the mouth of the St. I -aw-re nee river, the good ship Primrose, with a store of gold and silver and Jewels aboard her. The exact amount of her treasure is unknown, but It must be vast. Full of wild romance Is the story of the "Devil Duval's Horde" on the lop of the Rocks of Perce on the Gasps peninsula, only about twenty-.four twenty-.four boars ride -by train from New blood and when he reached the boat he stood up, and with a harquebus shot at the tackle till it was cut clean, too high up the rocks for any one to reach. "Devil Duval" sailed away and never returned. For years the winds bnttered and Ihe sun and rains rotted the ropes on the walls of the rock till at last they disappeared. So many lives were lost in sttempts to scale the rocks and recover re-cover the treasure that a law was passed forbidding any one to make the attempt without the necessary legalized le-galized concession from the governor o' the province of Quebec. Only the wild sea bird, making their nests In the top of the rock, know the story of the two prisoners and the chests of treasure treas-ure on th" bleak heights. Rut an airship air-ship could learn It. Carleton Island. In the St. Ijiwrence river, was an outfitting place for Tory raiding parties and an arsenal was established es-tablished there. A pay chest was sent to the Hst with a large sum of money. The chest disappeared and Its loss was reported to Oeneral Haldimand at Montreal In 1879. Colonel Horr of Cape St. Vincent, received a visit from a strsrger, who requested the use of a boat and. being granted it. he rowed to Carleton Island and returned in a short time with a heavy Iron chest covered with clinging wet clay. Colonel Col-onel Horr, thinking nothing wrong, helped the man row to the steamboat landing and be was never heard from again. In a few days William Majo. one of the owners of the Island, sent a boy into the pine thicket for straying stray-ing horses and there the tad found the fiat-stone-lined hole where the chest had rested. Thera are two extensive areas of burled treasure In the thickly populated popu-lated parta of the Vnlted States. One. the lesser. Is on the gcnersl lines of Sherman'a inarch to the sea. North and south of It. plantation after plantation, plan-tation, town after town, have their stories of treasures ranging from a few hundreds of dollars to hundreds of thousands which were burled for fear the I'nion army would get them Many were never recovered because of the failure of the owners to loats the burial places. The surest way to fleeing party to It was dumped In the b shallows and horses were ridden t through the water to make It muddy. F Rutler was killed, the raidera driven d away and the spoils await present-day h seekers n While there Is some doubt as to au- n thentlclty. there Is said to be a $16.- R O00.00O cache of Spanish doublons. burled by Captain Kldd, on Esopus s Island In the Hudson river, not far 1" from New York City, while at the very If gate of New York Is a forgotten treas- tl tire of many hundreds of thousands, tl This famous treasure was lost when o the Rrltlsh frigate Hesarar, a pay ship n sent In for tho Rrltlsh soldiers during a the revolutionary war, went down In M the East river. It will be easy to look up the old Admiralty records and get a the full Information that may lead to t( the finding of the treasure. The facta pertaining to Klopper g Smith's horde are as follows: "Der E Klopper" was a very brutal and much p feared knight of the road on the west shores of the Hudson from Nyack to a the Catskllls and he robbed the ' wealthy Dutch In an unmerciful man- F ner. He had no opportunities for tl spending his 111 gotten wealth and ti hoarded It somewhere. At last he was " raptured snd before bis execution at r New-burg confided to a keeper w ho had T been klr.d to him that he had sacks of m gold and silver snd Jewels burled In a It spot on Storm King Mountain. Just ( north of Cornwall the Hudson, some b thirty Ave miles north of New York i City. No search has ever been made, ei In the hey day of Mississippi river ' steamboat traffic, a great deal of sun ken treasure s.-cumulated In the Ohio ! Cumberland. Tennessee. .Missouri. Red and Arkanss rivers A pay boat oa 1,1 Its wav to Grant's army at Vickhpurg 11 with more thun two million dollars r aboard was fired by some of her crew who meant to rob her Th- nayma- ter's men defended the moner till the boat sark. James R Had., who built f, the Fad bridge at St. I.oula ,nd , , Eads Jetties at the month of the Mis- ilslppi. invented sn apparatus by ue I of whl. h be could resrh tome of the t j treasure wree in shallow water and recovered several million dollar All f i |
