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Show UNEARTHS OLD ; BURIED TREASURE I San Jose. Cal., Sept. 3U Sevcuty-' Sevcuty-' flvo thousand dollars worth of burled treasure was unearthed by a Mexican ,bnnker of Ensenada, state of Sonora, ifroni a mountain ridge in Benito coun-I coun-I ty last week, according to a story told today by William Rogers, who says I he acted as the Mexican s guide. Rogers nays IiIb employer carried a map truo In'evcry detail to the topograph topog-raph v of the section explored for the treasure. Two Mexican laborers accompanied ac-companied tho banker and dug out tho troasure chest, au iron bound oak affair, partly rotted with age It was discovered eight feet under the ground at the foot of a huge oak tree. The treasure consisted of ?1 0.000 In silver bullion and $05,000 in gold Ingots. In-gots. It is believed the money was burled by a Mexican outlaw named Vasquez, whose band operated In that region half a century ago. |