Treasure Hunters Newsletter V2#1

TREASURE HUNTERS
NEuISLETTER
s5.00
Yearly Subscription
Vol.2. No. I
Summer. 1972
tt STATES ASSOCIATES. INC.
P.O. Box 1438

Boulder. Colorado 80302
THing Civil War Virginia
ln the Defense of Jaye Smith

Wilson's Rock
Elusive Gold 'IHing Song
Well, Well" It's in the Well
Coinshooting The Eastern Churchyards (See page 42)
Publication for THers
o
Tips for Searchers Authentic Stories Problems and Possibilities
o
[Jpcoming Events
Some THing leads
THing Civil War Virginia
(See page 21)
rgency
Sometlmes I guess l'm too critica! of the younger generation, but Treasure Hunting, Colnshootlng, Leads, and Research, a love ol history, and the awareness of one's heritage hae not been for many of today's youth. I can't remember when Glenn or I have sold a metal detector to anyone under 25 years of age, much less captured their imagination for more than a lew minules. It ls not our wlsh that today's youth should turn on to everything that has made our treasure huntlng hobby and profession so vlable to us. What is important to us, however, is that we hope our younger generation will get turned on to an awareness of life that is devoid of drugs, welfare, and complacency. Perhaps llvlng ln Boulder, Colorado, a college town, a NOW community, a dynamic city, preludlces our vlew, but I think not. The drug tralfic, the burgeoning welfare rolls, the "good llfe", and the soarlng taxes to finance "the good life" had to start at a wider base than onty Boulder. Somehow we've got to convince today's youth that no one owes them a living. At the same tlme we must give them an alternative to drugs, welfare, and complacency. We suggest treasure hunting, historical preservation, and individual enterprise as one good alternatlve. After all, it's doing nobody any good if all the many possibilities remain buried ln the ground or lle fallow in the minds of young people.
unter V. Pritchard
We come this way hut once.
It
As THers know, our coins, our artlfacts, our materlal btessings we leave behind, along with our tracks on the uneasy sands. Few tracks remain for long, fossllized dinosaur tracki laid down long ages past to the contrary, and it would indeed be a poor record if we depended only upon our belongings to be our only spokesman after ws pass this way lhe flnal tlme. A corroded cent, a tarnlshed quarter, a beteweled golden cross, a brazen ornament: These tokens of !ife, tongueless witnesses of many tales, speak at best in confused whispers of conjecture. No, our besl spokesman must be the words and deeds we Implant wlthin our friends and family. The written word remains as long as the tanguage, and even after, and even the spoken word dwells generatlons after the doer and speakei is physically dead. I cannot help but take the words I wrlte serlously, for atthough I fully appreclate thelr current impact in a hobby fleld that is growing by leaps and bounds, t also am well aware that these words may linger long after I am gone. This in spite of the fact I have long-lifed ancestry, am healthy, and don't think I have any death-wishes. I just know that I must do the very best I can in putting together such a publicaiion as THE TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER, for lt Influences present thinking and dolng and atso rather quickly becomes of historica! concern. lt is a somewhat solemn responsibitity. When each issue comes off the press, it is done, unchangeable, flnished. lf it has been poorly done, and no matter how carefully it is done there is always plenty that we wish we,d done better, we cannot improve it. Each effort must stand alone on its own merits, and if it is to be of interest an importance, we'd darned wetl better do our very besl. tf it were not for my genulne concern for THing, and my consumlng interest in the field, and my tiking and respect for the vast malority of the people I know in this fleld, I would hesitate to assume s-uch a responslblllty. For one thing, it is a responsibility that many times keeps me out of the field. lt is hard to operate a metal detector and a typewriter at the same time.
H. Glenn Carson
2/Treasure Hunters Newsletter
Spring sprang, and here is the spring issue in the good old summer-time. That's what you get for having THers trying to edit and publish a newsletter. We don't want to put out just anything, and that's why there really wasn't a spring issue. Subscriptions to THE TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER are up with this issue for the vast majority of our subscribers, so if you have not already done so, it is time to renew your subscription. $5.00 per year. We think we are of some interest and help to THers, and if you aren't out in the pursuit of lost or buried goodies, we hope you'll crawl into a shaded hammock and enjoy this issue.
Summer, 197213
Society to
Carved by Wilson in 1852 coated by Historical preserve against erosion.
Wilson's Rock
by
Wilson's Rock. Although this wellis remarkably well known, I should hope that nobody would take as a rule of thumb that the place has been stripped of all its valuables. On the contrary, for researched the facts, and then spent
documented treasure site
enterprises, and things
private cache from his various differen:
wen:
Apache Jim
several days at this interesting location,

I found the site devoid of signs of past
digging or searching.
area is a THing paradise and as poten-
The entire Fort Smith,
Arkansas,
The site, now simply called
WILSON'S ROCK, was established as a
tially interesting as this particular story is, we leel that those of you who can get into this region will find search possibilities unlimited.
crossing of the Arkansas River soon after the f irst survey party passed through the region to the south. W. M. WILSON carved his name and the date on this rock in 1852. He established a
f
marvelously well until word of an uprising of a tribe of Penn lndians caused him to quickly bury his most valuable possessions. The bulk of this cache was a vast amount of hard money. Mr. Wilson fled with others into the safety of Louisiana, for the panic caused by an lndian uprising was a highly contagious fever. Three years, ir fact, passed before Wilson made ar attempt to return for his money. He bargained in Louisiana with a frieno and neighbor to join him in the still risky
ventu re.
profitable small still not far above the rock bearing his name, on a hill sloping down to the river's edge. He ran a prof itable business there for several years. Money flowed into his
erry, hotel, trading post, and
The men started out with
two
wagons, for Wilson stated these would be required to haul out his valuables and money. They followed the old surveyors' trail north, but left the wagons out of sight near the approach to the ferry landing. They slipped along the
nnr'3:e-s
: - c ngs were in cold ashes. -:':-s cating their efforts, a band of
edge. afoot, through the brush. Agross the river the ferry and all the ndians was camped along the far
=:-.
3,
well rom the river, then, and prepared --: &a t until the lndians moved on. lt is :.asy io imagine the suspense, for the -c ans showed no signs of moving, "-c there was always the chance of a
:,:c
:e oi the river. T'e ,.nen hid the two wagons

f
--n:er stumbling across the
:rservers. After three days of tense
two
Aat ng. the food running low, and the 3-oarnpment showing never a sign of :eparture, the men decided to return to ouisiana. They would have to try at s:-e later date to retrieve the money. 3 sappointment and frustration must -ave trudged each step with them. On the route southwards Wilson sufiered a heart attack. He died on the scot. taking to the grave the location of - s buried two wagon-loads of money, 'or he had not told his partner the
ooation.
Ruins of the second settlement at Wilson Rock, old hand-dug well still
contains good water, square barn nails driven in tree.
At the onset of the Civil War another p oneer family built a new ferry upon rne site of the one long since reduced :o ashes. They re-established the old crossing, and soon were doing a good
Old ferry cable. Note how tree has grown over - This tree has been dead for some and around cable.
twenty years.
Summer, 1g72ls
Wilson's Rock, looking east below

graveyard. Wilson hotel and buildings were on hill out of picture behind pickup. Name and date were carved on rock between pickup and point of rock, about half way, at the edge.
people, but sickness and plague sweeping the land soon filled a small graveyard across a wash from Wilson's Rock. ln late 1863, or early in 1864, word reached the crossing that enemy troops were approaching the settlement, killing, looting, and burning everything in their path. Once more those at Wilson's Rock were forced to flee, taking only what they could carry on their backs. All valuables were hurriedly hidden or buried, presumably in a secret cellar or dugout which was hastily concealed. lt is generally believed that these people
this, but many such things did happen
seemed to be a natural money-maker. The new family put up buildings farther back from the river. Land was cleared, crops were planted, and prospects seemed bright. Several other families settled nearby. The early war did not touch these
business with travelers. The site
were overtaken by the troops and killed. I could not find any record of
Wilson Rock Graveyard, carved out of the wooded hill top. Tombstones are all dated around 1850's to 1860's, and contain many names of famous lndian chiefs and tribesmen.
in that bloody, horrible Civil War. Whatever the reason, it appears that this crossing was not again claimed or a ferry crossing re-established until sometime in the 1920 1930 era. uncovered debris that indicated the site was inhabited during this period, probably up into the 1940's. So here at old Wilson's Rock are two real treasure caches, that to my knowledge have never been found, and up-river some miles is another famous crossing called MARY'S ROCK, where rumors of many caches are whispered to lie hidden. I can't verify these stories at this time, but you can bet l'll do some more scratching through the old historical society records of that area. Documentation of the above information is on file at the Fort Smith Historical Society. lt is not open to the general public because of thefts of documents in recent years, but permission may be obtained under special considerations.
I
In
Defense
of
Jaye Smith
by
Rocky LeGaye
Jim Alexander, etc.
The battle lines are being drawn, THers, for prolonged conflict that will affect our hobbies and, indeed, our very lives. Upon yon banks of Petty Decree mailed bureaucrats from rank on rank with sharp-edged edicts, sheaves of bitter summons, and cruel bludgeons of official statements. Their harshly armored overlords, sitting in high, tax-gilt towers, immune to attack in their appointment-cloaked security, direct their pawn-like minnions forward into the affray against us. Yes, as in some ancient battle, the opposing forces gather blackly against the largely unaware field of THers. We are a large group, a vast number of folk entranced with our hobby to the point of slumbering blissfully unaware of the gathering storm.
Summer, 197217
We are enclosing a letter from Jim Alexander, in full. This Jaye Smith affair is hideous in its implications. lt could happen to any of us, in increasing numbers of places. you see, she was where she could have picked up a coin from a beach. We must fight with all our strength against such bureaucratic control. Write. Call. Discuss. Line up together in this Jaye Smith duel with governmental regulation and official gobbledygook. For, THers, if we don't do these things, we eventually will have no hobby left to fight for. lf we meet such situations with the apathy and confusion of sheep, then expect to get promptly sheared! We are also printing a list of state off icials' phone numbers. We encourage your calls and letters to your elected officials. They wiil listen, if you speak well and in unison. They need to know that a large number of THers dwell in this tand, VOCAL, responsibte, honest, TAX PAylNG, VOT|NG, and fed-to-the-gills-with-bureaucracy men
reasonable treatment in the pursuit of their hobby. They need to know that the majority of THers are anything but a vile pack of ghoulish, thoughiless rapists of archaelogical sites bent upon wrack and ruin of items of historical interest and importance, that they are instead among the very forefront of conservationists, preservationists of Americana, workaday historians, and solid citizens. The Jaye Smith case has a good chance in court, with your help, and its success can only aid our hobby. We therefore ask for your financial support in this case. A little from each THer would total up to a considerable fund. We at 8 States are proud to aid with dollars and action, and we implore those of you truly interested in our hobby to do the same, no matter in how small or large a way. Above and beyond this pending case, though, it is outside the court, in direct communication with your elected officials and appointed public servants (they are not yet our masters)that each THer can do the most good, So do it. lf you don't like to write, call. It is past time to take a stand against regimentation and bureaucratic control. Our f reedoms are washing away as sand castles against the tide, as dry leaves before the forest fire. Let us gather together and proceed to put water on these bureaucratic flames!
Ranger then impounded her metal detector, even though he had neither seen her destroying the beach with it or "appropriating obj6cts of antiquity." As a matter of fact, the only thing Jaye had in her possession, other than her metal detector, was an ordinary kitchen spoon...which the Ranger somehow failed also to impound! with their planned weekend of fun at the beach spoiled, the smiths and deeply-felt objections to the ever-increasing encroachment upon private lives by governmental bureaucrats and their hiretings they told me of the incident at Padre lsiand. since this same thing had but reienily happened to a 16-year-old boy I know, we talked it over and decided that the time had come to fight. some reasonable line against the constant proliferation of unreasonable bureaucratic regulations had to be drawn, else there will be more ,,rules,' such Louisiana now has a law making it a crime to dig in old bottle dumps anywhere in the state; residents and visitors alike are being arrested for simple beachcombing in California; Oklahoma is trying to pass a regulation requiring a $50 permit just to coinshoot in a school yard, and ohio is not far behind. You already know about the chaotic conditions
similar vehicles. About 10 A.M., Federal Park Ranger Joseph F. Wegener drove up and observing Jaye using her metal detector along the watei's edge, gave her a citation to appear before the U.s. Magistrate, in corpus christi, iexas. The
. . On Saturday, February 26th, 1972, Joyce (Jaye) Smith, her husband, Johnnie, and friends Leonard and LaVerne Mitnottano, were on a weekend coin and bottle hunting trip in the National Seashore area of padre lsland, Texas. This lonely, 8O-mile stretch of desolate, windswept beach - is-vou'perhaps already know - is for most of its length passable only with 4-wheel-drive and
Dear Hurrter & Glenn
Milhollands returned to their homes in the Houston area. Knowing of my
as these:
and women, people who
want
now prevailing in Florida...with costly licenses being required to

recover.
Yesl some llne must be drawn...and it must be drawn now before it Is too late to do any goodl we believe that, as law-abiding taxpayers and citizens of these united states, the correct ways the proper ways our rights in these - our - to protect matters are: a.) To inform elected representatives in government and the members of bureaucracy of our wishes (after all, they are but our servants, not our masters!), and, b.) To carry Jaye's case all the way to the supreme court of the United States, if necessary. only in the courts will we stand a prayer of a chance to make government and the agencies of government understand the simple truth thit we metal detector hobbyists are in no way advocating vandalism, looting and senseless destruction of bona fide archeological sites and historically significant objects of antiquity; that, instead, we are but insisting upon the non-discriminatory rights to continue a responsible, lawful way - in - our chosen, family-style hobby-activity...upon lands owned by we the people. It is also only in the courts that we will stand a chance to force bureaucratic regulation-passers to keep their codes and rules within the bounds of constitutional law...and to define those regulations they do pass in such clarity that the various individuals cannot make over-zealous, capricious or personal interpretations of the intents of those regulations. We need your helpl Here are three things you can do right now: 1) Wrlte your Congressmen and Senators- both State and Federal and tell them about the Jaye Smith incident at padre lsland, and don,t forget to tell them just what you think about it. How else can they
2) 3)
possibly know?
copies of the letters sent to your elected representatives. We will need more voices than our own when we are in court. Send ln your contrlbutlon...and be as generous as you can. The coming fight in the courts will cost money, as you know. But remember, the
wrlte us a letter about your Ieellngs ln thls matter. lf possible, include
enjoy using, if you wish to continue the healthful, non-destructive hobby of coinshooting on public lands, Jaye's coming fight in the courts is also your fight! Yes...think about it, then send your contribution to:
Jaye Smith Defense Fund P.O. Box 585 South Houston, Texas 77587
overzealous or self_serving bureaucrats! And, too, keep this thought well in mind: lt you own a metal detector that you
against
courts
represent
the only defense we ordinary citizens
have
Sincerely yours, Jim Alexander, Committee Chairman
H.c.c.
Another letter dealing with the problem . . .

Dear Hunter, It was a real pleasure to see you and Glenn again and to meet Mary and your Mother. I guess this is the real reason I attend the treasure shows. ln connection with the Jaye Smith Defense Fund, here is how it all started. ln October 1971, David Fusilier came over and got a detector. David and his father left and went to Padre lsland on a Saturday afternoon in a small airplane.
ranger approached his father and told him he would have to get the airplane off the island. As David was some distance away, the ranger went to get him in the vehicle. when they returned to the plane they gave David, who is 16 years old, a ticket for the possession of a metal detector and impounded it. They left immediately and returned to Houston, where they called me. The next day Mr. Fusilier called the magistrate. He was told that they would receive some forms and if David signed them pleading guilty he would not fine him and would give him a suspended sentence. Upon hearing this, I asked that Pioneer Heritage Preservation Society be permitted to fight this case in court at no cost to them. Permission was denied'
I had told David to stay out of the National Park area. They arrived that afternoon and enjoyed some beachcombing. The next morning' the park
After David sent in the forms pleading guilty the magistrate demanded
$25 fine. David is a fine boy. He is not a trouble-maker like many kids today. Here was a boy and his father enjoying a weekend together beachcombing. lf you have ever been on Padre lsland you know it is a desolate place. They were approximately 40 miles down from the pier and did not see anyone. The park control came wilh a ticket. I am not blaming the ranger - he has a duty to perform. But this regulation is wrong. Here is a lad who has a juvenile record because of it. I guess if he would have burned a school or a draft board that weekend he would not have a record' At this point I talked to E.S. "Rocky" LeGaye and Leonard Milholland. We decided to stand up and fight. We asked for a volunteer and Jaye Smith was the only one out of 150 who was brave enough to do it. You know the rest.
A friend thru treasure hunting,
Jim Alexander
1. Sand, sun, and surf. A wonderful day at the beach, leisurely looking for coins. What could be greater. ?
Summer, 197219
2.
Hey, a ranger. Wonder what he wantsT
3. By golly, he's getting out of the car, and

pretty serious.
looking
7. Egads, a metal detector. Scandalous. AN OBVIOUS THREAT TO THE ECOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL,

tsk, tsk!
ENVIRONMENTAL balance of the National Seashore. Tsk,
8.
Well, Miss, we know what to do with people like you
4, l'm doing
something wrongT
5. Young lady, this is National Seashore. 6. You may have imagined you were It is my duty to protect this public asset enjoying the beach, but you have seriously
from wrongdoers and looters of historical importance. This beach is to be enjoyed,
been breaking the law!
not damaged, desecrated, and destroyed.
9.
Let's see, now, ticket number.
10.
Confiscating this thing will keep you off these beaches
until the court can take care of you. Just remember, young lady, this seashore is to be enjoyed by the public.
Summer, 1972111
Gongressional District Office Telephone Numbers

ALABAMA
Hillis, l.
Bray, Myers,
W. J.
L. .....
317-633-7277
.......812-232-1652
812-423-687
1
Zion, R. Hamilton,
Edwards.J......
Dickinson, W. Andrews, G. ....
Giaimo, R.
205-471-1851
Dennis,D....... ...203-624-1308 Jacobs,A.,Jr..........

...203-259-7802
.......812-372-2571 ..,...317-966-6125 ......317-633-7331 .....319-324-3527 .......319-366-2411
McKinney', S.
1
..205-26561
205-774-6417
Nichols.W......
Monagan, J. Grasso. E. .
DELAWARE
...203-754-2424
.
|OWA
...
Flowers.W..... Buchanan, J., Jr. Bevill, T.

Jones,
R.
..205-236-9720
.205-752-3578 .205-325-3861
205-546-0201 FLORIDA Sikes. R. Fuqua, D. Bennett, C.
.203-223-3646
302-652-3933
du Pont, P.
.....
Culver, J. Gross, H.
Kyl,
Schwengel,F.
.....
J.
Smith,
ALASKA Begich, N.
ARIZONA
Udall, M. Steiger, S......

ARKANSAS
:
Rhodes,J......
602-261-3181
.......602-792-6404
.602-261-4041
Alexander, W., Jr
....501-972-2135
...
Mills. W
.501-372-4361
501-782-7787
........... . Frey, L. Gibbons, S. ..... Haley, J. Young, C. Rogers, P ..... Burke, J. Pepper, C...... Fascell,D......
Chappell,W.,Jr.
GEORGIA Hagan,
.......904-682-3132 .....904-224-7510 .......904-629-0039

.305-843-2210 913-228-7711
813-334-7416
Mayne,W..... Scherlc,W....
KANSAS
N.
.......515-284-4634
7
7
12-252-4161 12-323-3577
..
..904-791-2587
Sebelius,K......
Winn, 1., Jr.
.......813-893-3191
.305-832-6424
..... Shriver,G...... Skubitz. J. .....

KENTUCKY
.
Roy,
W.
3-628-1 31 3 913-233-8951 913-621-0832

91
.316-265-7111 .316-221-2020
......305-522-3739
.305-350-5565
.305-350-530'1
Stubblefield, F. . Mazzoli, R...... Snyder, M. Carter, T.
Hammerschmidt, J Pryor, D Clausen, D...... Johnson, H......

Moss, CALIFORNIA
Natcher,W.......
G.
......912-564-7446
.912-432-7260 .912-924-5668
.502-753-7102 .502-842-7376 .502-582-2129 502-582-5985
707-464-3241
916-783-8845 916-449-3543
Brinkley,J......
Blackburn,B.
Mathis, D.
.......606-679-2544
606-885-5958
Watts,J.....
Perkins, C.
LOUISIANA
J. Leggett, R. ..... Burton,P...... Mailliard. W. .... Dellums,R...... Miller, G. Edwards, D. .... Gubser, C. ..... McCloskey,P.,Jr. . Talcott, B. ..... Teague, C...... Waldie, J....... McFall, J. Sisk, B. Anderson,G. ..., Mathias, R. ..... Holifield.C...... Smith, H. Hawkins, A. ..... Corman, J. ..... Clawson, D...... Rousselot, J. ..... Wiggins,C...... Rees, T. Goldwater,B..Jr... Hosmer, C. ..... Pettis, J.
Schmitz,J. ..... Bell, A. .
Danielson,G.
Roybal, E. Wilson, C.
.707-691-0720 .415-556-4862
415-556-1333 415-763-0370
..... Thompson, F. ..... Flynt, J., Jr. .......... Davis, J. Stuckey, W .....
Landrum. P. . Stephens, R. Jr
.
......404-377-7461 ......404-524-1275
.....
404-227 -1621 404-235-0127
912-374-4366 . .404-692-2022
.......415-523-0200
.408-2967456 .408-246-1122
Hebert, F. Boggs, H. Caffery, P Waggoner. J.. Jr. . Rarick, J. Edwards, E. Long, S.

MAINE
... -...504-527-2274
31
.
8-364-1
81 6
......415-341-3418
.408-424-6447 .805-643-5401 .415-687-1200
HAWAII
Passman,O...... .....
Kyros. P.
.......318-387-1800
.......504-344-7679
318-783-3897
3.18-442-5856
Matsunaga.S...,..
Mink, P.
IDAHO
...808-531-6407
..
.808-531-4602
.......209-823-1112
.209-485-5000
McClure,J....
Hansen, ILLINOIS
O. ...
.
.
208-343-1421
208-523-1 000
Hathaway,
w.
.......
207 -775-3131
.
.......213-833-3547
805-323-8323
213 -23-6561 213-750-0260 213-787-1776 213-923-9206
Metcalfe, R. Mikua. A.
.312_353_6148
3
1 2-3s3-5390 312-389-2440
Murphy,M.......
.......213-447-8125
213-442-5726
Collins,G.........
Annunzio,F......
Rostenkowskl, D.
Yates, S.
Derwinski,E....... Kluczynski,J....-.
213-652-4000
......213-769-0727
.....
312-353-7251 219-826-5133 31 2-353-461 8 31 2-276-6000

3 1
Long, C. Garmatz, E. Sarbane, P. Hogan, L. Byron, G Mitchell, P.

Gude,
MARYLAND Mills, W.
..... .....
301-828-6616 301-539-2995
301-962-4436
.......301-440-7833 .......301-933-3340
G.
Hanna,H. Hanna, R.
.
......./14-t/6-tr65u 714-776-6850
213-478-0111
213-436-4865 Colier, H. .... 714-884-8818 pucinski. R. ... 714-557-8335 cranc p P Crane,

Reid,
2-3s3-4596
312-447 -27 46
Mcclory,R.
2-763-7300 31 2-336-4554
3 1
312-394-0790
.... ..... .... Wilson,B......

Van Deerlin, L.
.......213-688-3454
.213-688-4870 ..213-753-2521 .714-239-1307
.
Erlenborn,J......
C.
Anderson,J.
Arends, L. Michel. R.
..... .....
.
312-668-1417 312-896-31 14
.......815-962-8807
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Roland, E. ..... Drinan, R. .... Donohue, H. ..... Morse, F. Harrington, M. .... O'Neill, T. Hicks, L.
MASSACHUSETTS Conte,
S.
.......413-442-0946
.413-733-4127
..617-342-8722
.......617-754-7264
.......617-458-1221 ......617-745-5800 .....617-223-2781 .. .....617-223-2784
617-223-4401
Macdonald,T.
.....
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.714-233-6267
309-673-6358
Veysey,V....
COLORADO
Raitsback, T.
McKevitt, J. . Brotzman, D. .
Evans,
F
. .
303-233-36.1
Findley,P...... Gray, K. Springer,W..... Shiplev, G...... Price,M.....

Madden, R. .... Landgrebe, E......
INDIANA
.......309-794-9701
.217-525-4062
618-932-2560 217-356-8633
Heckler,M..... Burke, J. Keith, H.
.617-672-1855
.. . .. ..617-472-1314
617-993-7393
.618-395-2
17'1
...618-397-0500
Aspinall, V/.
.....
303-632-7661
303-243-1736
219-931-8280
CONNECTICUT
Cotter, Steele,
W. R.
.....203-244-2383
.203-872-9183
Brademas,J.
Roush,
J.
.....
......219-462-8750 ......219-234-8111 . . .. .. .219-742-6250
Jr. . M. Brown, G. Hutchinson, E. ..... Ford, G.

Chamberlain, C
Riegle, D., Jr.
MICHIGAN Conyers, J., Esch,
313-226-7022 313-665-0618
......616-962-1551 .....616-925-7962
616-456-9747
.517-489-6517
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Shoup, R. Melcher, J.
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McCollister, J
Martin,D....
NEVADA
Baring, W.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
702-786-3498
603-669-701
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Wyman, L. Cleveland, J
NEW JERSEY
.603-224-4187
NORTH CAROLTNA Jones,W. Fountain, L. ..... Henderson, D. . . . . Gatifianakis, N. ..... Mizell,W. Preyer,L. Lennon, A...... Ruth, E. Jonas, C. Broyhitl,J ..... Taytor,R. NORTH DAKOTA Andrews, M...... Link, A.
314'887-2225
814-453-6071
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608-864-8492
NEW MEXICO
Lujan,
M.
Runnels, H.
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Keating,W...... Clancy,D...... Whalen, C...... McCulloch,W. .... Latta, D. Harsha,W..... Brown, C. Betts, J. Ashley, T...... Miller, C. Stanton,J...... Devine, S. ..... Mosher, C. .... Seiberling,J. ..... Wylie, C. Bow, F. Ashbrook,J...... Hays, W. Carney, C. ..... Stanton, J. .....
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Wright, J., Jr Purcell, G. . Young, J.
The Age of Recovery

We are living in a time of remarkable recoveries of artifacts, caches, and other valuable items of the past. Electronics, communication, research materials: all these are vastly superior to what was available only a few short years ago. lt is a truly remarkable, fascinating period in which to be a THer, for it is not just the archaeologists who are making stupendous finds. Persistence does pay of f , wheth er professtonal archaeologist or amateur treasure hunter, and if you remember that, your THing will improve multifold. Dr. Kenan T. Erim, an associate professor of classics at New york University, definitely not an amateur, but certainly possessed with persistence, has with the help of a team made a real treasure trove discovery. They have worked since 1961 at the ruins of Aphrodisias, which dates from
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value of such a find, but it is do_::-_ that New York University or Dr. E" were dejected over the recovery --:, at least have announced plans ,:further work at the site for some.i
come.
to
of a dead civilization, : 3 determine the mone:;*,
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...703-723-1885
One interesting side-light, illusl,a::: by a find of 300 pieces of inscr':e: stone, is comparable of the ei,e-:-. these days. lt seems that in A. D 3:' Emperor Diocletian froze wages a-: prices to avoid runaway inflation. ' ,:_ are familiar with Roman history, y:-
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Rome. The Barbarian hordes sr!e:: across the crumbling empire e-c a thousand years or so of depress:resulted.
dred years after that there was no
know that not much more than e
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Greek-Roman times. Recently they dug up 15,000 ancient coins, the metal
There are lessons in history. lt's lc: bad people don't learn from them
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One ltem ol interest that needs
to know what their folks back
that THers are not all a bunch ol

rascals needs spread far and wide.
ofllce to know that THers are real people, honest, hard-working lolks who actually do as much for history, archaeology, and all-around nailonal prlde and servlce as any group EARNING SALARIES. We think that THE TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER ls a means ol getting that Informallon lo them, and that it is of enough Interest that lt won,t just go lnto the nearesl waste basket without belng read to some degree.
Is a real, crylng need lor our men ln
to oller subscriptlons to a couple of Colorado Representatlves. I had thought of the ldea, but the other day he brought lt up during a phone con. versation, and said lt would be worth
his five bucks. I told hlm lt waE certalnone good way of helplng bulld a befler
Jack Mann of Denver has been the first
ly worth ours! ll others of you would llke to partlclpate, we feel that thls ls
about this ldea.
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TREASURE Magazine
by
H. Glenn Carson
across the country, enlivening the
There are several THing magazines
with the Western mags, the hobby publications, or nearby the "men's" magazines, crowded somewhere in
between the lurid true confession pulp and the women's slicks on one side and the girlie sex, sex, sex stuff on the
newstand racks. Usually one finds them
other side. Some
of these THing publications are not all we in the field
Summer, 1972115
Ken Doe, publisher, and Bob Grant, editor
of the TREASUBE Magazine, meet and

greet folks at the Houston Show. They are
two remarkable men, and you will get the chance. They put out a
publication.
enjoy good
meeting and talking with them if you ever
Ken wonders
bit.
if
he's found Paul Bunyan's small drill
would like them to be, but most of them are surely a big relief from the drivel that crowds them in from both sides, Most of them are pretty good for armchair prospecting, at least, and some really good material gets into even some of the western mags, that is from the THers' viewpoint. Among the very best TREASURE stands out like a beacon. We at 8 States Associates find ourselves very favorably impressed with what those Canoga Park, California boys are doing. We feel that if you only have a dollar bill to spend at the newstand for a THing publication, THEASURE is what we'd advise you to spend it on. You could even buy a pop to drink while you read it. (We can say this, because our TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER is obtainable only subscription). IREASURE may be subscribed to for $8.00. lt has come out bi-monthly, or six times a year, but now it has gone
Speaking of subscription,
s*rt:wBob, I don't know what it is, eitherl
Ken and Bob didn't find a fortune, that

day, but ain't it a grand way for a couple of
guys to spend a daY awaY from the
ordinary, workaday business of putting out TREASURE Magazine!
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are 750, so the subscription rate is a bargain. Too, you'd never miss an issue for some reason or other. lf you're interested, send your money to TREASURE MAGAZINE , Modern Cycle Publishing Company, lnc., 7950 Deering Ave., Canoga Park, Calif.
monthly. Single copies over the counter
The magazine has several worthwhile features. They review
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We feel that these people are doing a fine job, and hope to see them keep it up. THing needs responsible efforts such as TREASURE is making, playing down nonsense and attempting to state things as they are. Congratulations for a good job!
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ticles, editoria! comment, and items will be continuously geared to the needs of treasure hunters across the
country.
"Uncle Bud is The Cause Of lt All" can still be seen on this bootlegger's house in Wilson, Oklahoma. Bud and Fanny Golden ran the establishment in the late 1920's and it is our understanding that Uncle Bud was resPonsible for killing a man here during a heated argument. Now here's the lead, and we think it's a good one: Bud supposedly buried money without FannY's knowledge. Fanny, meanwhile, reportedly buried 1000 silver dollars and an unknown quantity of 500 pieces in two one quart mason jars. The lead came from Tom Phillips of Houston. (Fanny was his grandmother). The front and side yards were searched in late June bY the author himself. One 1912 D dime was found. The house is presently being used for storage. lt is owned bY a resident of Wilson. Research at the assessor's office in Ardmore showed Fanny Golden as owning several other pieces of proPertY in Wilson. Reportedly, one keg of coins was recovered in the front Yard of this
worthwhile effort we encourage your prompt renewal and ask for your wordsupport. Thls publication is lor THers, and that's the folks we want
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to reach.
We should also mentlon that should you move, please notifY us of Your change of address. We really aP' preclate it, those of You who've this. lt's the only way we can get issues to you. We need all the helP can get, that waY, what with the service the waY it Is.
Also, when you have an item of interest; drop us a note or a letter. Tell us il we may use it, by the way. Letters are
place, but this rumor has not been
verified.
REMEMBER: The tracts of land once owned by Fanny Golden are still owned by residents in the Wilson area. Get permission before conducting search oPerations. Last, but not least, keeP 8 States Associates in mind if You hit the
goodies.
interesting, and we trY to get all or parts of as many lnto each newsletter as tlme and space wlll allow. THers llke to know what others ln thelr hobby are dolng across the country, and we llke to help satlsfy that lnterest.
H.G.C.
Summer, 1g72l1g
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Hunter stopped by to visit with Jack Bradley and Herbert Major on his trip back east last fall. The tape was more lhan interesting enough to work up and include as a newsletter article. It points out quite well some of the possibilities and pitfalls of THing in this and other eastern areas. Bear with us, and we'l! wade in without quotation marks or whether Jack or Herbert were doing the talking. They both know what they are talking about:
Treasure
Hunting Civil War Virginia

by Jack Bradley & Herbert Major
Pointed reminders of the Civil War.
(Taped by Hunter Pritchard

deciphered by Glenn Carson)
and
Most of the hunting is not on the battlefields themselves, because the battlefialds are park property. We hunt areas that are on private property, and
stuff we find is Union
sion from the property owners. As there is usually a chance of finding

many places as there are around here something very good. Lot of times we
most of the time we have to get permis-
happen to be in the area, and we find o/d coins. Most of the time the lead or copper items are so coroded that you can't tell what they are. Silver and brass it doesn't seem to bother them too much. Most of the areas we hunt have been hunted before, but there is always a chance of finding something else. We have found some pretty good stuff. Every now and then we hope to hook onto something that is really good like a nice Confederate buckle or button. That really means a lot to people here in the southern states as they had folks fighting in the Civil War, but those are very few and far between. Most of the
hunt along the river banks,
if
we
which the - stuff. rebels would say is Yankee They left quite a bit of it down here, I might add. We get an awful lot of it, mostly bullets. Anybody can go out and find bullets around here almost anywhere. We've occasionally found old bottles, and keep them because they do bring in money even though there's lots of them around. We find old coins, rings, and odds and ends. We like Civil War stuff best, but we take anything we can find. One bullet was really rare. lt still has the sheepskin and powder in it. The sheepskin part of the bullet held the powder to the lead. Herb has an Enfield 58 rifle bullet. One prize is a Georgia buckle, issued to Georgia's state militia
Metrotech, however, and that is a good find. I wish I could find a few more like it, for Confederate items are scarce. They're always nice to find. Then we have a Yankee infantry bugle that came from Glendale, lost there by some Yankee soldier during the Glendale, Virginia battle of seven days. That was just before the battle of Melvin Hill, which is very near. There was quite a bit of fighting down there. There have been bones dug up a New York soldier, identified - one his buttons. Last year in Glendale, from on a part of the battlefield not on park property, one interestlng thing happened. The underbrush in the neighborhood was so thick you couldn't get a metal detector down to troops during the Civil War. lt was the ground to get a reading. Of course found near Slatersville, Virginia, which nobody had hunted for a while. Then at the present time is no longer a city. suddenly there seemed to come up a The area we found this in was sup- forest fire that swept through for about posed to be hunted out many times 35 square miles of the area. I don't before. We walked right in there and know who it was that threw the match picked u p that buckle with my out, but all of a sudden it looked like a
Summer, 1972121
Cars were parked in cornfields, in people's yards, anywhere. you walk into the woods, you couldn't hunt oecause there was so many metal detectors beating with other trequen_ few things before we were run out. There were a few singed pants, for some of the woods were still burning. Other than getting soot all orer arid digging through often hot earth it was a lot of rewarding fun. Big pennies, old coins, lots of bullets, some buckles and breast plates, some spurs, and a lot of
We found some bullets carved by both Union and Confederate soldieri waiting for batile. Some were carved into boot shapes, and other figures.
Yankee stuff. Yankees seemed to lose a lot of stuff in that war, for some reason. cies that all you could hear was jing_a_ ling-ing. We managed to dig out quite a
midwest treasure hunters convention.
Herb has one bullet that was obviously chewed up pretty well. lt was probably done by a soldier waiting to have i bullet taken out of him. We have a sword scabbard tip that is fairly rare, but we didn,t find the sword. We have two bullets that hit together in midair, found at Fericberry. At one place down off Chippenham parkway, in Richmond, we ran across an am_ munition dump and found about two hundred Hotchkiss shells. We found one great coffin flask, shaped just like an old-timey coffin, used to hold liquor. The difference between Union and Confederate bullets, according to Herb, is that confederate bullets were two ringers, and the yankee bullets were three ringers. The rings were around the bases of the lead bullets. A zinc washer at the base helped clean excess carbon built up in the barrel as it was fired.
These relics of the War Between the States are only a few of many being found in the Southeast. No wonder the lead resources of the nation have
been so badly depleted.
All around Richmond, in and near the battlefields at teast anything on
confiscation of your metal detector. crops on. To us it doesn,t make any Sensible? sense that a man can plow a field three feet deep, breaking up who knows what Up in Fredricksburg, where there is all, and yet THers cannot walk out there no hunting on park property, there is a in that same field and dig a hold two new housing development. Lots are inches deep to take anything out of it being bulldozed, foundations are being (and save it from being broken up). dug seven and etght feet deep, anO ait Silly, it is perfecfly legal to walk behind right in a spot where relics are thick. the tractor white he is plowing and pick Back hoes rip up bullets or whatever else you might that is good. out eight feet holes, and Metal detectors may lead find. You walk behind him with a metal two inch holes, which are usually !o detector, though, you are subject to filled in, and arrest and conviction, confiscation of preservation that is bad. This is not of historic values, it is your auto, if it is on park property, and crazy.
22lT rcasure
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national park property, no metaldetec_ tors are allowed. What makes us mad is that these same lands are being leased to farmers to plow the fields and plant
Signs of the times?
Then there's this national seashore Assateague, say, where you can drive up with your family and watch your kids dig trenches three feet deep in the sand, pile up great castles in the sand, yet metal detectors are forbidden. Sometimes the states will claim that buried treasures are their property. How can they say it's their properiy when buried coins and so forth often were lost even before the place became a state? Something is not right, nor just. lf you want to go hunting on the
stuff. Chincoteague or
nters Newsletter
James River there is a good chance you may find something worthwhile. Jack Bradley has found many old
coins, some Spanish dating back to the
1700's, half pennies, and manY Civil
War relics. People have been along the
Virginia river banks since the 1600's. There is the opportunity to find almost anything. Pewter spoons, brass spoons, ship fittings, and so forth can be found. lt takes time and one must fight mosquitoes in the summertime. ln the late fall, however, the rivers come over their banks. ln October the James is in flood stage and a person cannot get close to the bank. Not even close enough to see it. We don't even bother with the obvious places that we think people have already looked over. We look over other places, grown over with bushes,
etc., and often wait until the dry season. There is more stuff away from places that you know are not too obvious. Everybody knows where the trenches
are, and
it has been gone over and
sifted. We usually luck out there in the woods. After the Civil War people were
The log has a minnie ball within it. Bugles, buckles, and all sorts of things turn up when one keeps on looking.
collecting items even then. After all, things were on toP of the ground. When the skeletons were picked up, for burial, they didn't bother to pick up little buttons. That's why many buttons can be found in fields and woods. Gaines Hill was terrible. Skeletons are still found there, not atop the ground. We
and it is a hunters paradise if you want Civil War things. Snow has never bothered us much. ln fact, it is better because there are no snakes. Rain isn't bad, either, if you have a waterproof loop or put a plastic bag over one that isn't waterProof. lf you hunt for these relics in Virginia, don't do it on park Property. A good many park rangers, for some strange reason, have a nice collection of Civil
have gotten a reading and have dug up bones. The Civil War was a grisly mess,
War stuff, but you'd best get it

is.
somewhere less troublesome than on parkland. lt isn't right, but that's the way
Yours
made me quit that day, too. I was walking around a tree one day, and didn't hear a thing. Nothing. Everything was quiet. I walked about five feet away and I saw my partner bend over. Right
These fellows have really come up with their own private museum collection. It shows what persistence and patience will do.
l'll quit, with this one more story. lt
Even so, there is plenty to be found.
where l'd just searched. He was digging something out, so I cut my machine off and went over to see what he'd found.
It was a two piece Confederate buckle. I quit, and might as well here,
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too.
Parking Meters Anyone?

definitely merits being told. lt well illustrates the fact that one never knows what will turn up next while THing. Arvid Bergstrom and Chet Blanchard went early morning coinshooting the last day of the show. Arvid had spotted some parking meters in dirt instead of concrete. He has long found this sort of spot interesting so invited Chet along. ln a short time both fellows had come up with about a dollar in coins apiece.
opened to the general public, and were about to leave, when Chet got a faint
at the Houston Treasure show that
One great little adventure took place
They wanted to get to the show before it
a keyring for parking meter money. lt was half eaten away by rust. Chet was about to throw it away, but Arvid told him he thought there was something in it. There was. Amongst the dirt and rust out rolled a 1925 2, z dollar gold piece, in extra fine condition. lt only goes to prove: Gold is where one finds it. lt also proves that THing is a wonderful hobby, with a constant suspense or anticipation. often rewarded, making search and recovery possible virtually anywhere. any time. Congratulations, Chet.
For THers anywhere close to Mlnerva, Ohlo, you ought to stop In and see Chet. Hls shop ls at 218 N. Market SL ln Mlnerva, and he ls a darn flne person
signal. Whatever it was seemed to be deep. lt was, down about five inches. At last, out came a badly battered little container, the sort that people attach to
to meet and do buslneee wlth.
Why shouldn't Chet Blanchard have
satisfied smile? lt's not every day one pops out a $2.50 gold piece.
The Merits
J.G. Plcone of Galveston, Texas sent In
the lllumlnatlng cllpplngs
what is believed to be gold bars valued contract because it did not in any way that at between a half million and $27,000,- wish to relinquish supervisory rights graphlcally lllustrate why THers should 000. That is quite a discrepancy, but over the digging. purchase a mouth-clamp should they still either one just might be worth That was on June the 9th. On June tend towards belng blabby about thelr digging up. 11th a headline noted: BURIED GOLD
best leads. The cllpplngs, date June 8, June 9, and June 11 of thls year show how rapldly a cache can vanlsh once word leaks out concernlng a factual treasure. We certalnly appreclate Mr. Plcone's sendlng ln these cllpplnge.
A contract requesting the right to dig for treasure trove on Pelican lsland was presented to the City of Galveston. A
short article appeared in
the
reported the contract workshop session that day. newspaper returned, for the city "lacks control".
Complicating matters, and this will cause the corners of mouths to crinkle amongst those acquainted with the bureaucracy of the State of Texas, the contract had signature lines for the
newspaper concerning the possibility, stating the city would discuss it in a
Not only did the THers face a wee bit of frustration from officialdom, the city is also about to construct a new park in the area where the treasure is supposedly hidden. The THers also had to cope with widespread knowledge of their search, and this they discovered to their regret, led to confrontation with those who were not as patient with laws and such, nor above a quick on-the-sly search. You see, the following day, the
chairman of the Texas Antiquities Committee, the City of Galveston, the state attorney general, an archeologist, con. tractors and the city attorney. All this, and the item was splashed into the pages of the newspaper.
Right here, THers, begin to read, and re-read between the lines. Officialdom and greed works in a heavy-handed, frustrating, callous manner. They wanted the right to file suit in court to claim any part of any treasure found. The city seemed chagrined that the applicants would not disclose the exact location of the treasure. The antiquities agreements by the city to dig for the treasure. Now the city was rejecting the
committee had stopped earlier
The group approaching the city was apparently a combination of two separate groups seeking to secure permission a couple of years ago to dig for
REPORTED STOLEN. W. C. Smith. Galveston contractor and one of the men seeking the permit, said, "there's no need for a permit now. The gold is gone." There was only. one large deep hole in the ground, with several small test holes surrounding it. "Something is wrong," Smith said. "when you work for almost three years to get legal permission to dig for treasure, then have the treasure stolen right when the permit is about to be issued." Smith feels that he got a runaround from city officials, and he is convinced that it took knowledge obtainable from the contract to have located and on the sly dug up the treasure. He and his group are understandably taking steps to find out some answers. Our advice is, don't even try to work with the bureaucracy if there is any other conceivable method. Too many people are coming up holding the short, dirty end of the stick. Thanks for the story, Mr. Picone.
by
of Keeping a Zipped lip
J. G. Picone
instructed his squaw to take the box and hide it as soon as it got dark. Running to his horse, Red Shirt galloped on north as fast as the tired horse could go. He had no sooner ridden from sight, when a grouP of mounted riders came pounding up the
hogan.
The
Legend
ol
Red Shirt
ln the early 1900's, when the stages ran between Shiprock and Gallup, New Mexico, there lived near Cave Springs, (now called Toadlena) a White man who had taken a Navajo squaw for his wife. The two lived verY PoorlY. The man
Most were white men, but there were Navajo men also, and these began to question Red Shirt's squaw as to where her man was. Fearing harm both from her violent tempered man and these strangers, the woman only covered her head in silence. Taking a quick, casual look inside the hogan, the men quickly found the horse's tracks leading on north. By this time, the sun had gone down below the mountain. The old squaw began to drag the heavy box through the door, and into the sage and cedar, away from the hogan. When she could
pull the box no farther, she dug
hunted for most of their food, and stealing whatever he could laY his
hands on. One day, as the story goes, he rode up the trail to the top of the Lukachukai Mountains and was gone several weeks. One nig ht he suddenlY appeared at his hogan with a strange
,mule.
One of the Watchman boYs, coming in late from a Squaw dance, haPPened by to notice full panniers on the mule' At this time the man stepped from the hogan, mounted his horse, and led the mule up towards the sPrings. Curious, the boY followed along behind, wondering at this strange night-time activity. Knowing that Red Shirt possessed a violent temper, the boy followed along far to the side, to insure he was not discovered. Red Shirt rode to the entrance of the canyon leading to the springs, where he slid from his horse. He took a shovel and began to dig a hole. The boy stayed back in the brush
shallow hole in the sand and buried it. Taking a limb from a cedar, she returned to the hogan, brushing out the trail left in the sand by the heavy box. Red Shirt was never seen again bY by the Navajos of Cave SPrings. Years Apache Jim later, far to the north, on the banks of the San Juan River, several prospectors heading for the Colorado River area, found a skeleton of a white man, pieces of a red shirt still clinging to with the unloading began Shirt until Red panniers into the hole. Fearing it. ln later years it was learned that Red something bad was happening, the boy had a mine somewhere over near Shirt hurried to his hogan, and to sleeP. De Chelly. Very rich ore was dug Canon Several times Red Shirt left his from one of the holes in which he up night' hogan, to return days later in the digging. with a loaded mule. Each time he rode had been seen a stage near Gallup at of robbery The up towards the springs, and returned home with the heavy he arrived the time with the Panniers emPtY. Several box, seems to indicate he also conNavajos living near the sPrings There is affairs. business other ducted goings' and witnessed his coming little doubt that the skeleton found on No one dared inquire into his the San Juan was that of Red Shirt. The business. The man alwaYs wore a posse must have killed him where they bright red shirt some trader had sold caught up with him, after finding the him. Since this seemed to be his only box missing. garment, the people all began to refer While running this storY down, to him as Red Shirt. talked to a daughter of Red Shirt's After he and his squaw had lived squaw by another man, and she told there near the springs for over ayeat, me her mother told her of the box, but the people saw strange, mean looking could never remember where she had men visit his hogan in the night. buried it. lt had been many years since One day, Red Shirt left with his she had hidden the box, and at the time saddle horse and mule as usual, into she told her daughter the story, the girl the mountains. A few days later he rode was already in her late twenties. Somewhere around the sPrings, in to his hogan with only his horse. The animal was almost done in. Across the above Toadlena, lies buried several saddle in front, Red Shirt balanced a mule loads of high grade ore. And to stage coach strong box. Almost falling the northeast from the mouth of Cave from the saddle, he dragged the heavy Springs Canyon lies a box heavy with box inside his hogan. Covering the box gold f rom a stage robberY, barely with old sheep skins and blankets, he covered with sand.
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Anchors aweigh I This anchor from b confederate blockade runner was way (weigh?) under the bed of the wrecker brought to haul it from the show. Leonard Milholland, second from left, and Johnny Smith (teft of the anchor) study the situation. As Long John Latham's treasure show was drawing to a close the show was just beginning for Johnny Smith's better-looking half. Jaye Smith. Read about her case in
this
issue.
The
Houstot,
Shou)
A little treasure displayed by the Houston Treasure and Relic hunters. The Liberty Bell is made from some 500 pennies and 150 dimes. Displays from both the Houston club and the Treasure Hunters Association of Pasadena did a great deal to make the show a success.
MISS PARKER AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
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Eyes aglow. little Miss Parker, daughter of Mike Parker of Houston, seemed to be enjoying herself immensely. Mike works at the NASA space center Earth Observation Department. He shared a few of his thoughts with us on aerial photography and its application in treasure hunting. "We can locate foundations that are buried below the ground. old roads, trails. etc., from anywhere between 8,000 to 18,000 feet in altitude. lnfrared: Yes, and other methods. Basically we are using optical scanners, but most of this information is still classified. Actually we take a regular photo and run it though a computer. We then interpret the data. "To a treasure hunter, say trying to locate a lost ghost town, with access to one of our flights, we could fly over the site, take aerial surveys and pictures of the area. Then, by feeding these through one of our computers,
pull back the data we could show foundations, they - the area where they were,if from are still there, or even just the decayed and broken matter that was left. "Right now the process is expensive, but I think this cost will eventually be down where the average citizen could afford it, lt would probably be some sort of a lease deal. You may in the future contact the Earth Observation Department, and on one of their flights have them photograph certain areas. Eventually this service could be obtained at a reasonably low cost, if not free. "Right now there are no charts, maps, or surveys available to the public from our department. This will be, in a year or so they'll be made public. At that time a person could acquire them." Hunter: "Could you actually photograph the Oregon trail. or see where the early pioneers campedT" "Yes, if there is anything at all left of it. We would be able to pick it up. We can pick it up right now with our
improved methods new scanners. lf there was a wagon out there we could probably pick it up, because of the metal wheels and the decomposition of the wood. Wood holds in the heat. lt would be a different heat than sand." Hmmm !
Jim Alexander, Alexander Enterprises, spent many hours in his "makeshift" stream bed demonstrating the
use of a gold sluice and pan. Was all the gold recovered? Ask Jim next time he comes up for air.
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BAM Newr Beleace

Ram Publishing Co.
sThe Srlent Past'

Garrett Elec(Garland, Texas) - of the worldtronics, manufacturer famous Hunter line of metal-mineral
detectors, recently disclosed that their newest film, "The Silent Past," is now available for Public and Private showings. The film, photographed in the Big Bend area of West Texas bY GalaxY Productions of Des Moines, lowa, is a full-length, 30-minute, 16-mm color feature. The plot revolves around a young family and their travels to Big Bend to unravel the mystery of their prospector-ancestor and the lost gold he left behind. "The Silent Past" shows the modern family zooming around outdoors on such new gadgets as trail bikes, sleeping and eating in a large but very mobile motorhome and treasure hunting with professional metal detectors. One of the film's highlights is the acting debut of Russell "Hardrock" Hendricks, professional treasure hunter and prospector. Hardrock traveled with the film crew as Garrett's tebnnical advisor on treasure hunting. Glenn Lau, the director, was so impressed with Hardrock's experience and prospector-like appearance he found a spot for him in the film. Hardrock plays "Hard rock PePPer," a prospecting friend of the family's great grandfather. "lt was easy," Hardrock says, "l didn't even have to change mY clothes." The beautiful Big Bend scenery was well captured in the film along with several outdoor traveling tips. Anyone who yearns to travel and visit the past will enjoy this film. "The Silent Past" is available for immediate showing at no charge trough Ram Publishing Company, P. O. Box 38464, Dallas, Texas 75238.
Russ "Hardrock' Hendricks (left), prolessional treasure hunter and prospector, PlaYs in the new film
about traveling and treasure hunting,
"The Silent Past", Produced
bY
Garrett Electronics of Garland, Texas.
Upcoming
September 3 Southwest Cham- The Hunt pionship Treasure will be held Sunday, September 3, beginning at 9:00 A.M. There will be coins and prizes valued at over $3,000.00. The advance entry fee is $10.00, late entry, after midnight, Aug. 25, is $15.00. Mail checks or inquiries to THE TREASURE
SHACK, lNC., 8500 East 11th St.,
free campsite, and all accommodations are 18 miles east of Tulsa traffic circle or 3 miles west of lnola, Oklahoma on hywy 33.
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74112. The hunt site,
Treasure
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Remember D. B. Cooper? A scaleddown search for "Cooper" continues in Southwest Washington, But none of the marked currency given the hijacker,
E*pensive Birdshot
nor the hijacker for that matter, has turned up. lf you remember, we mentioned the possibility of a reward. A Bremerton
dance-hall operator, Jack Lewis, began investigating last November's $200,000 airplane hijacking on his own, hoping to collect a $10,000 reward. He is wishing that he had never had such an idea. As
Club October 7-8 - The Prospectors willsponsor the of Southern California West Coast Championship Treasure Hunt and 5th Annual Convention on October 7 and 8. The Convention and the treasure hunt will be held at Galileo Park, which is 12 miles north of California City. This should be an outstanding event, with treasure hunters the nation over attending. For more information write SPIKE CAVALIO, CONVENTION CHAIRMAN, P. O. BOX 907, Bellflower, Calif. 90706.
Hunting
companying treasure hunt. This is one ol the very best THing shows in the country, and plans indicate an even better one this November. For more
Creed Blevins of Kerrville, Texas thought of a rather strange place in which to hide his money. He rolled up a more questioning. $100 bill and stuck it into the barrel of Moral to the story is, and we menhis shotgun. tioned it last time, these "biggies" can Much later he suddenly decided to go cause a lot of grief, and it's more f un to hunting. Yep, he forgot about the watch slam bang on TV than to parmoney and blasted one hundred ticipate in real life. Research pays in dollars of the realm into confetti. He more ways than one. lt has a way of was able, though, to find eleven larger forewarning you of potential dangers as pieces, paste them together, and the well as potential profits. lf you find that bank agreed that he had more than fifty some desperate deed was done, per cent of the bill remember that desperate people do - so he got a brand desperate things. new Century note.
November 17-19 - The National many as four Federal Bureau of Treasure Hunters Show will be held at lnvestigation agents interviewed him the Shepherd Mall in Oklahoma City, eight times in less than a week. His Oklahoma, on November 17, 18, and lawyer is now sitting in with him on any 19. This year's show will have an ac-
information write Bob Barnes,

Shepherd Mall Merchants Association, 2720 Yllla Prom, Suite 200, Oklahoma
Gity, Oklahoma 731O7.
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Gold
,1 Song For THers ,4t Losl
THE BUCCANEER (The other side of the record)
I sailed on the Spanish main and ran before the trade winds, Dropped anchor where Conquistadores had trod, And I dove for gold in the surf of Padre lsland And learned a little more of man and God.
by
Lake Lucern, Jacob's Well and Blanchard Springs, l've been along on every dive, And l've swum the decks of a hundred sunken gallions, l'm the spirit of the rarest breed alive.
packed into the canyons behind Superstition Mountain, Just to chase the Dutchman through the sands of time, Prospected through the mother lode but found no color, When I paned the tailing of old Pegleg's mine.
Key West to Yucatan, Cape Horn to Cocos lsle, I'll chase the ghosts of pirate ships of old,
Tom Townsend
And comb the burning beaches there for reales and doubloons,
To find life's greatest treasures not of gold.
song, and it's a darned good one. We're throwing the lyrics into this newsletter, and announcing it. The record will soon be available, at $1.50. We will let Tom and his lyrics speak lor themselves Jack and I started playing guitar together about a year ago. We have been treasure hunting together a lot longer than that. Neither of us had taken music very seriously for a long time. Jack had played in a rock group
during high school but had blown it off after graduation. I had sung in coffee houses from Chicago to Houston back in the days of the Kingston Trio and Pete Seeger but as folk music gave way to rock I lost interest in popular music. The public did not want to hear anything that didn't require eight
Here's another 8 States first, we feel sure. Tom Townsend and Jack Keene have come up with a treasure hunting
Hitler left his curse upon an iron wolf that lies, Buried 'neath the Gulf of Mexico. And though Satan holds the salvage rights and waits to take his fee, I know l'll have to be the next to go.
musicians, four electronic engineers, a fortune in equipment and ten thousand volts to produce. But, treasure hunting always came first anyway, and the old guitar has been standard equipment on every hunt l've ever made. I don't know just how these songs came about. They evolved somewhere out of the legends told across the dying embers of campfires, from the days of carrying a metal detector across white hot sands and from that certain magical something that happens when the first rays of sunlight fall on newly found gold. And they came also from this strange and often misunderstood race of people we call treasure hunters, who, despite all the obstacles thrown at them by today's stereotype society, have somehow made reality out of the childhood dreams of adventure that so few of us have the courage to follow.
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\- t* 'r t\The length of the Rockies,f[ l've panned for placer gold,\,. And combed the reefs of Florida, For the secrets they might hold. ' This time I know l'll make it, l'll die a wealthy man, I'll go content because I know, I've done what one man can.
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The sky is my roof above, The mountains are my walls, l'm totally a free man, I go where treasure calls. From Yucatan to Canada, From Baja's sands to Maine, l've searched and dug until l've cried, But fi'iend l'll beat this game. CHORUS
Search for elusive treasure, lf your luck runs good and you find just
one,
You'll live your life in leisure. Some people think l'm crazy, Others think l'm brave, But l'll tell you folks one thing for sure, My soul you'll never save.
For the devil is my partner new, He's grubstaked me again, And when he's ready to take his due, l'll go with all my f riends. CHORUS
Gold, gold, gold, gold, I search for the yellow gold, l'll risk my life'till the day I die, In search of the yellow gold.
Burn, burn, burn, burn, lf I can get the Permits, I'll search the brimstone hills of hell' And dive the river Styx.
copyright 1972
Richard Ray, Tom Townsend, Jack Keene.
Summer, 1g7Ll3l
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where $85,000 could be soaked up without notice in a big Co. like this copper co. This would be peanuts in their kitty.
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for the benefit of old car buffs. This friend of mine, who worked on the
building of this new copper plant, says there were complete new Model T cars and trucks that were never uncrated. How about that! They were moved when the old buildings were torn down. Where is not known. lf my memory serves me right, the mines were closed down around 1916. So these would be some of the first Fords. I have been putting a T model roadster together for four years, and that is why my buddy told me about the old cars. Still working
Here is a little more you might put in
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it.
lottets
finding of some square coins. Old.
Thanks, Jim. He also mentions the
jrom
out
tcadots
Pennylike. Anyone know about square coins? The find was made three miles north of Almogordo lt's no wonder Jim's worked on that old car so long he's too lnterested in THlng.
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of this wall. Paper money and coins flew in all directions. A four man guard was thrown up around the site at once,
WE'RE GETTING TOO MUCH MAIL TO PUT IT ALL IN, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF LETTERS AND PARTS OF LETTERS THAT WE SIMPLY HAVE TO PASS ON:
Jlm Shockey of Alamogordo, N.M'

passes on these notes of Interest:
but not before some of the moneY found its way into some pockets. This is strictly speculation as to what happened. (You corne to your own
conclusions). The mine had a company doctor. The mine opened in the early nineteen hundreds. lnstead of taking care of his patients at company expense only, he was charging them extra for the service and staching his loot away in the wall. The company found
C, A. of Kenmore, Wash. sent several interesting news items. We really appreciate it when people take time and effort to share ideas and informatlon wlth other THers. lt just confirms our bellef that THers as a group are the best people to be found in the country:
From a clipping from the New York Times, written by Emanuel Perlmutter, we see that federal agents dug out $1,078,000 in cash from the back Yard and basement of a convicted narcotics distributor. The man had claimed to be a bagel baker earning $200 per week, and this did not quite add uP to the federal boys. This just goes to show that even more moneY is being squirrelled away nowadays than back in the eras of stage holdups and train robberies. ln February, for instance, agents seized from narcotics peddlers a green suitcase containing $967,550.
To all at 8 States - have reallY enjoyed getting and reading the last mewsletter. I would like to tell some details on one here, though rather vague. lt is strictly rumor, told to me by a friend who was working on the job at the time. I would like to know if anyone else has heard of this. It all took place at the old town of Tyrone, N. M. The new houses had been built. The new copper plant had been or was being built. (Tyrone was a copper mining town). ln the meantime a demolition crew was sent in to clean off the old townsite. Things were going along fine until they got to the hospital. They were using a crane with a demolition ball. The building walls were no doubt made of adobe, and that is why
they were using that kind of equipment.
out about the charging extra and fired him. He died or he planned on returning later and something happened to him. Something happened, because $85,000 is the figure mentioned. Of course he could have found some loot elsewhere and hid it in the wall.
A second letter from Jim, saying C. A. also sent a cliPPing on a new sure, use his letter (You might jot in the Yukon TerritorY. THers, boom you permission down il have some
good stuff, and don't mind us putting it take note: anything THers still want to keep quiet, so let us know if you don't mind it being
into print. We don't want to print

used.) also deals with Tyrone, N.M:
Anyway, when they got to the doctor's office section all hell broke loose. The demo ball swung into a certain section
Sure would be Pleased for You to use my name and the storY. I can see
A new boom has hit the Yukon. Shades of the Klondike, the mining industry of the entire Yukon Territory last year was matched dollar for dollar by a burgeoning tourist trade. The travelers are not taking gold from the
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area, they are leaving it, to the tune of $10,000,000. I helped (HGC), and THers, I'll guarantee you, it's no waste of money. There's all sorts of hunting opportunities up there. (See Vol. 1, 3).
and your wife. And we again thank From Wayne Naylor: Lynn Blumenstein for lurnishing the Sears catalog. Adam, it doesn't sound A few weeks ago I received a phone to us as though you're so small time. call f rom a fellow treasure hunter, Harry After all, it's whether or not you get out Vinton, in regards to a buried treasure and enjoy the hobby, and that is just in New Jersey. When I got to his home I you seem to be doing. what saw the article in the December issue of {<*{< True Treasure. The article was written {< {< {< about Joe Mulliner, an 18th Century Robert E. Barr, M.D. boosted our outlaw of New Jersey. lt told of ego a bit: Dick Wirth, of Coral Gables, Fla. let Mulliner's hanging and the missing Congratulations on completing your us know about this one: loot. lt told also of a few "ghost towns" 1st year of publication of THE in a few days, we took James Summers of Tampa was in the area. So, "towns." What we had in TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER. the off after recently digging a hole in which to plant ghost It is one of the finest of the many a. town shake down was a mind new orange tree when his shovel receive and unique in that it does not clanked against an old metal box. The rather than the Revolutionary cache. lt contain a lot of repeat articles and tree planting waited awhile when he was only a 90 mile drive, so what the hashed over "news" from other THing dragged out the heavy steel container. heck. publications. Enclosed is a check for lnside the badly rusted box were four As we passed into the area, we also $5.00 to renew my subscription. Keep bills, dating back to 1839. The oldest passed into a Federal Park. I must say I that park up the good work. was from the Clinton Bank of was a little edgy after seeing part of it, the mistake, I take on A sign. Philadelphia, issued to a Samuel We intend to do our best, sir, and Benedict for $100 on Dec. 2, 1839. The the author to make mention of the park. such pleasant words encourage us to other three were Confederate currency Which we found out later to be some 3 to 4 hundred square miles, enclosed in do just that. ranging up to $1000. "ghost Summers was quoted as saying, "l'm which were all four of the {< {< {< is in Washington This area towns." getting a metal detector soon, and I'm going over that entire 21/z a.cres. . .and County and near the museum ghost Adam Bickel, winner of the Sears anybody town of Basto. After talking to a ranger else's 21/z acres as well." Catalog in the Privy Pirate contest, he told us of the metal detectors he had sent us a letter we want to include: in the last few days. He said confiscated Thanks, Dick, for the story. As we've much trouble before had he never My Sears Catalog arrived and it has said before, WHAT'S lN YOUR BACK people looking around for few a except been a real source of entertainment for YARD? He had never artifacts. bottles and the entire family. in such seen them come bef ore ,F prize you for and for the Thank {< {< for those He also said that bunches. sponsoring the contest for your readers get people W.R.W. their they of Chula Vista back detectors notes to of THE NEWSLETTER. We, my wife and pleasantly: ha! The Ha, win in court. must l, are small time treasUre:hunters and stands not even hit the had magazine right now we are near the southwestern Received Vol. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and yet and people were already coming in border of Wyoming and'trying to locate No;r4 of Treasure Hunters newsletters. from out of state. nearby ghost towns to search on
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weekends.
both money and jewelry at ski lifts. Back to ghost towns - we found several coins at the old ghost town of Frisco, Utah. We wrote and told some treasure hunter friends in Arizona about our finds. Here they came one weekend, camper and all. We took
We have made some fair finds
in
PleaSantly surprised as they contain a lot more reading than I had anticipated.
available, or if you know where I might obtain a copy I certainly would like to
Makes me feel glad to be aboard. lf
have a copy of Vol. 1, No. 1. Let me know, and l'll shoot you a check by return mail. Well, we took care of that, lor Vol. 1, No. 1 ls not for sale. We willstillsend a
them but were worried sick
theY
wouldn't find anything. We didn't, but they did. Within minutes he found an 1895 nickel, then an 1853 quarter, then a half-melted coin, date gone, but the coin that pleased him the most, nevertheless. They also found a good sized piece of silver bearing ore. We all picked up melted lead, so there is always something left to find, it seems. Of course I could fill pages on little finds, but really! I want to thank you once again for another treasure: MY
FIRST PRIZE
free copy upon request, although we don't know how long we witl continue with that policy. We feel that THE streams of brackish water (black water) TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER weaving in and out of the walls and
is worth $5.00 a year, we mean to keep it that way, and to put it bluntly, we only want interested subscrlbers able to get
Well, we spent the day looking up the "ghost towns," which are spread out and connected only by sandy trails, but passible by any car. The towns were clear of trash and debris and the foundations covered only with pine needles and timber. ln the town of Martha the remains are hard to find except near the glass factory remains. The Harrisonville ruins, however, are still much intact, with high walls, some standing twenty feet high. All the town sites are very eerie, with swamps and
We're glad You enioYed it, Adam,

The point is, I am so very tired of driving hundreds of miles only to end their copies. Note, we've had a lot of up in Federal Parks, Bombing ranges, copies sent out never get to those we missile sites, lakes, dumps, downtown sent them to! Someone is copynapping parking lots, etc., etc. When all the them, which is the sincerest form of author has to do is to put in a few words flattery, but very darned aggravatlng. of kindness and save the public some So if you don't get yours, let us know, time and.money. That's all I have to and we'!l remedy the situatlon. say!!l
stoops.
You said lt well, too, Wayne! Apache 'scavenger wagonmen. ' from the crow's nest, that is an awful Jim said it well, in our third lssue. Too Most new privies were built within long ways. A proposal is being drawn many authors and publicatlons throw distance of the old, and the dirt dug for up and will be presented. Until then out things too casually. There is too the new one was emptied into the old welcome any suggestions you may much stuff and nonsense, and 8 States privy location and created a mound. have. doesitsverybesttotellthingslikethey There's a math question forsomeone: I fell right out of my chair with that really are. There are too many things Filled hole dirt - Years of Outhouse joke about Farmer Brown! - New for a THer to do for him to be off sinkage How much mound is left??? Boy! lt feels good to laugh and maybe - has come back to life and that is what w'e all should capture once chasing flapdoodle and verbal dribble The Privy droppings. Our advlce has been, is, there may be more being built every again. Hard work and a little humor to
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andshallbe:Checkoutsomethingwell year. ln the'Modern Age'look at the lessen the load. Without hesitation! before running after lt, and that is privies that lie where any kind of love those boy's-Hunter and Glenn. many more times true if it is published building is in process, see them at golf My very best regards, information. That holds true lor us, too. courses, fairs, and circuses. So, like Lynn Blumenstein
LOOK BEFORE YOU
LEAP.
they use to tell the smart alecs: 'Go way
{< {<
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Dear Hunter: (no pun intended)
Enjoyed the third edition and your privy story on page 26. Let me add to il're privy information if I may. Before the privy peeker starts to pat :imself on the back for finding the glory "ole, let him keep in mind that on big iarms and ranches there was often one crivy for the owner, one for the hired ânds, and some farms (and farm schools) had male and female privies. These 'boxes'were moved around a bit each time the contents became too rnr.rch. Most went down six to ten feet. So don't stop digging at four feet. The better made privy had two vaults s de by side. Some were divided by !oncrete, logs, stones, or whatever was .andy to make two tight compartments. So. if you found one hole, you had D,etter check all around that hole just in case to see if another 'treasure depot' sn't sitting there. Also, some privies of the permanent < nd (cement) were cleaned and the contents tossed into unused fields to dry and be plowed under. This is how lhe farmers and others sometimes find an old coin among the corn shucks that ane pulled out, dirt and all in the fall. Other privies used large iron pails whose contents were dumped down old mine shafts or off any high point nto a stream or dry river bed. A semihot tip to western treasure hunters is to search out septic tanks in gold-silver "nining locations. Most septic tanks rad as their filters sand and pebbles. Maybe in those contents are bits of gold, silver and now worthy 'stones'. For an early, early look at the first nstructions on privy use read the Bi b le-Deuteronomy 23:1 2-13. Don't expect all privies to turn up ooked for loot. Even before the thing was thought of there were ancient 'brothers' of the 1800 and early 1900's who cleaned privies and were called
back and sit down!' My caption for the privy pix is: WHAT A WAY TO GO! Warm regards, 'Doc'
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(Winter '72 issue) this morning
Was looking over Vol. 1, No.
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waswondering..,.? While no one in your
and
I read your "Finders Weepers" with great interest, which brings up a project we are working on. We will soon attempt to bring about a total News Lobby in which an accepted policy may serve above and beyond our own personal goals and products. For much too long now, many of us have worked
separately in his own way to encourage and serve the hobby. We are millions being separated by our own lack of confidence and support of a conviction we believe in. lf a News Lobby were at
this time in force, the article "Finders Weepers" in one form or another would be read by the total interested population, plus all state and federal governing bodies. Does this impress
you? We are also suggesting that all of the
day Historical Societies, etc. so that
new breed be asked to join the present
new blood may be injected into those organizations which already have the laws in their favor. We are betting that the new people will bring about a more liberal thought line in regards to bias laws and self-serving organizations. Time is short and if anyone for any reason believes that we all who are involved have reached the top of the ladder, with nowhere else to go but down, then they are badly misinformed.
We are now at the threshold of
that we now take on our respon-
successful venture. Provided of course,
organization has said anything about renewing my subscription l'm not exactly sure where I stand....it should be coming up for renewal shortly(?). I CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS ANY way the articles in ISSUES - not the your magazine run. I used to believe that the - uh - already l've forgotten the name of the club I used to belong to out in Oscoda, Mich. - that - the oneanyway I used to believe their folded - was pretty good until it went publication out of business, but in a comparison test your publication has them beat by there is more of a many, many miles - your stories, and ring of sincerity to much more possibly a chance to locate digs from information furnished than previous publishers offer. I kind of get the feeling that if it can't be located from information you supply it just isn't there in the ,first place or someone else has got there first - but then that's not your fault. Anyway - most important of all the reason for this letter is to make sure my subscription just doesn't run out without my knowing it. Hence the enclosed personal check for another five dollars ($5.001 to apply towards extending my subscription another year...When's the Summer lssue coming out? Thank you, Very truly yours, P.H. Metzger
sibilities, gather our true force, arrange a policy that we may all follow, and bring about the greatest movement on this earth, I most certainly am an optimist and if the total news media may band together in support, then we may travel just as far as we can see. From my view
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From Dave Thomas:
Was happY to see Your article "Are we to lose the Lost Dutchman"? The Lost Dutchman is not the only reason people hunt in the Superstitions. There
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are many people who hunt the Lost Jesuit Treasure and still there are others who believe that the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola was located there. Regardless of whether or not
there is anything there, the main thing is to bring out that the Superstitions are not the only place that will soon be "Off Limits" to the THer, Prospector and outdoorsman. Keep pitching on this
one.
Well, Well!
by
H. Glenn Carson
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Enclosed find our check for another year's subscription to your newsletter.
Was glad to see our small "contribution" to your magazine in the

Winter lssue. Jewell said that one lssue was worth the year's subscription price, especially the article about Gold by
Paul Franklin, along with all the others. Sincerely, Jewell and Elsie Gibson
The objective of a person desiring to cache money or other valuables is to get it safely out of sight into a location that still is not too difficult of access. Down through the years the place that best seemed to fit these requirements for many a frugal depositor was the
well.
HUNTERS NEWSLETTER has five times gone through the traumatic experience of
coming off the press. More than a year of what we feel has been a successful effort is now recorded history. 8 States feels confident our little THing publica-
THE TREASURE
There often is more in a well than water wells, in fact, are bare- some bone dry. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this topic is that, although the fact of the commonplace usage of wells as money depositories was rather well-known, most wells are never checked by other than knowledgeable THers. Often the most casual searches have passed unseeingly over caches of various sizes only to be found years later, and easily, by more thoughtful searchers. All of which is just a way
farm. They became irritable at his increasing inability to help as he became worse, dying of what sounds like some form of skin cancer. They begrudged the food he ate, simple and cheap as it was, most of which came right off the farm. The shocker was that only days before he died, the old man begged them for medicine, or at least lard, to ease the pain he was enduring due to cracking, bleeding skin. They refused to give him either, so the story goes. The next story relating to this grasping pair of money hoarders well points out the advisability of keeping one's ears open, and thinking about what one is hearing. I recently have been chastising myself for being a long-time thick-head and intend to remedy the oversight as soon as possible.
of
saying: Wells should never
be
tion effort can stand on its
achievements with pride, but we guarantee that we will not rest on
whatever laurels to have come our way. We have tried to make each successive issue somewhat better, and think that we have done so. We intend to maintain
that objective, which of

becomes i ncreasingly diff icu lt.
course
We need subscribers, to continue our publication. We have now reached the point where renewals of subscriptions become vital. Each renewal is a strong vote of approval. lf the NEWSLETTER is not worthwhile, no vote, no renewal. lf it is worthwhile we will not only get the renewal, we also will get additional subscriptions. Therefore, THing friends, if you think THE TREASURE HUNTERS NEWSLETTER has been a helpful, interesting, and worthwhile publication, renew your subscription. Also tell your THing friends about us. Only an interested readership makes this entire venture something of value.
overlooked during your THing pursuits. The family well, cistern, spring, or tank was often also the family bank. One story, funny and pathetic at the same time, I heard some fifteen years ago in an eastern New Mexico town. lts message eluded me for a while, until I became more active in THing, for at that time the major hunting I did was for arrowheads and other lndian artifacts. New Mexico is a marvelous place for that pleasant pastime. Now the real meaning of the story comes flooding back and I intend to as soon as possible personally check the reality of the
tale.
farmer took one look, gnashed his teeth, and scolded her, "Maw, you pulled up the wrong bucket." The woman meekly turned, lugging a
milkpail full of small coins back the way she had come. A somewhat longer time passed, and the woman returned, this time with a pail full of silver dollars and
The couple had a loan on their farm, and it seems that a bank agent came to collect the past-due payment. The man made the banker wait while the wife was sent to "get the bucket." Moments passed and the wife returned. The
It seems that these two old people were misers. Man and wife, they were of one mind: Save every penny, every coin that came into their grasp. Hard,
half dollars. From this pail the farmer begrudgingly counted out the required payment and sent the banker on his
way.
cold cash only, for they converted

could get into town.
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I am now amazed that I did not see the really good lead that story held. I am flabbergasted, in fact, at my ignorance at that time. I was aware of the death of the miserly couple. The subject property was up for sale, and I could have freely inspected it. Who said what you don't know can't hurt you? What I didn't know surely hurts now, every time I think of it. lt gives me the itch that any THer acquires at times, an itch that can only be soothed by going and checking out the
lead.
paper money into coins as soon as they
One tale I often heard, and one which did not believe at first, not until I heard the same details from several reliable f riends, graphically spotlights the couple's miserliness. The wife's father lived with them for a few years before his death, working when he was able at the endless tasks around their orchard
The first spot I intend to look for is :te well, you may be sure. Just this winter Hunter Pritchard had a rather unique experience with a well. He was coming back from Florida and ivantd to check out a few of the leads
nentioned in JerrY McCartY's

TOUISIANA - MISSISSIPPI TREASURE
old love letters and other junk, and a met some raggedy clothing, so I threw it he LEADS. ln one instance down the well," formidable rather a with Eentleman
"eputation, who indeed greeted Hunter
Later on that trip, right after the Novem ber 1971 Oklahoma City Treasure show, Hunter and I stopped off in Chanute, Kansas to see Jerry McCarty. "Did I find a suitcase there?" said Jerry. "Yes, but there were only some
the well of the farmhouse.
Several
ruith no little animosity. Hunter had 5een advised by several locals not to Eo near the man, but the lead involved property the man owned. Skepticism is too polite for the disbelief the man showed Hunter when he told about treasure hunting, and wanring to look around the place. Due to Hunter's persuasion the man reluctanty' agreed, but watched everY slight -nove. Ridicule changed abruptly to something akin to awe when [a few feet :.rtside the house's kitchen window not :ng after some PreliminarY sweePS *, th the metal detectorl Hunter came ,o with a gold wedding band. lt was -'doubtedly the man's mother's wed: rg ring, shaken out bY the man's :eceased mother while she shook a ::blecloth, years long gone bY. The -an broke down, and Hunter suddenlY ::uld do no wrong. The well had not been mentioned in r,!cCarty's book, but the proPertY : r!'ner told Hunter that the last thing his "a:her had told him before dying was to :.eck inside his old suitcase. A letter
One of those letters, now soggy to a point beyond mush, held the key to a cache site. We have wondered no little bit if poetic justice decreed that the waybill to the cache was thrown into the very cache site itself. Wonder must give way to careful search as soon as we get back into Louisiana. Two other wells also have raised hopes, bewilderment, and imagination for many years. One is in Oklahoma. The other is not far from Austin, Texas. Both involve loot thrown down a well by
THers have spent years on this one, and one man and wife right now are doing their best to figure out a method of pulling out that long-wet loot. Putting a container, usually with some sort of tight-fitting lid upon it to keep out moisture and keep coins in, was lowered into the well at the end of rope, wire, or chain. Often it remained above the water's surface. At times the container would be waterproofed and be underwater. The roPe, chain, or whatever was usually secured to something within the well, below the lip of the well, and most often in a Place difficult to see while just looking into the well. However, it was concealed usually within arm's reach of the top. Such a place made a rather good bank, especially if the well was in an out-of-sight spot, as they often were.
The depositor could discreetly
desperate men.
deliberately, and recovery attempts have been thwarted by deep well and
ln Texas it was thrown
down
high water tables for over eighty years.
withdraw or deposit money with little fear of being observed. He did not need to fear casual discovery of the cache, so he did not need to always remain at home. Altogether, it was a satisfactory
arrangement.
States has considered different methods of recovery, and there it still
sits.
:-erein told where his money was :,ached, in a most hard to discover
chased by a posse. They not only kept after him, they were gaining. Not far from the Cimarron he went around a little hill. Some of the posse went right after him, the rest thundered around the other side, to head off Possible doubling back. The man was shot off
farmstead, and died before speaking to any of the posse members.
ln Oklahoma, in a documented robbery, the outlaw was promPtlY
The suitcase was missing. Hunter :ientually got his 225|b. pull magnet The gold coins he gave his life for a-d lowered it into the well. lt hooked :'rilo something, and the very first try' were not on him or his horse. His trail time after -D came some suitcase hardware: was carefully backtracked, ,:cks, hooks, all equiPment obviouslY time, by many People. No gold coins. It has seemed most interesting to :''f a suitcase. Continued efforts proved ',tile. The metal parts came up, but the many people that his trail went right by s.ritcase itself was evidently heavily *,*aterlogged, and fell apart.
ace.
his horse a short distance Past
Nothing on earth is perfect, though. People get sick, or senile, or suddenly die. Sickness, disaster, war, and other such things strike at unexpected times. lf this happens to the only person to know the whereabouts or contents of what's in the well, there is a good chance the cache may stay there for years, if not forever. Well, what are you waiting for? Haven't you got any wells to check? Some folks didn't leave a will - they left a well.
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Tlre Well!
Summer, 1972137
Vanished Towns
of Talbot Counfi, MarYland
by
CIaude Peterson
Part One
towns of the Western states. Today, no trace of them remains except possibley
Talbot CountY's "ghost towns" there were four of them:
a few foundations, dePressions,
and
2 3 4 all.
York, the first countY seat, Doncaster (or WYetown,),

Dover, and
Kingston, the longest lived of them
bear no resemblance whatever to ghost
The ghost towns of Talbot CountY
perhaps a few grave markers. (Note: I'll bet someone researching the towns and using a good detector could come up with some fine artifacts). Following are some references that could be researched should you desire more information. They will be used to
provide basic information for future
publications of Parts Two, Three, Four, Five, etc, 1 - Records of the Historical Society of Talbot CountY, 2 - The Easton Star-Democrat' FebruarY 1917, 3 - The Easton Star-Democrat' December 8, 1917 4 - The Easton Star-Democrat' December 8, 1922, 5 - The Easton Star-Democrat, January 3, 1936, Sun, 6 - The Baltimore SundaY JanuarY 8, 1911, 7 - "The Elusive Courthouse of Talbot" bY Mark S. Watson, I - Archives of MarYland 9 - Court records of Talbot County in "History of Talbot County" An old maP of Talbot Coun10 ty. -(will be included in a future
issue)
The first ghost town of Talbot was a small communitY near the banks of
Skipton Creek which was known by the name of Yorke, or York.

Thls was supplled by Claude Peterson, 6617 Loch Hlll Road, Baltlmore, Md. Stop ln and see Claudet
THE TREASURE
We get all sorts of suggestions that
HUNTERS
NEWSLETTER ought to go monthlY' or bi-monthly. Egads, we've been having
trouble meeting a quarterly deadline. We refuse to iust toss something together, for we feel that a good product, even though somewhat late, is far better than a shoddY Product, even though on time. We do hope to get the next lssue out ln December. We've already started worklng toward that oblectlve.
"Yech! lt's soap!"
An anonymous West Coast collector's record bid of $43,500, the highest ever paid for a U. S. GOLD coin although ihere has been more Paid for other coins, secured a 1907 Saint Gaudens double-eagle. The coin is the onlY known example of the high-relief, plain edge, Roman Numeral dated A7 SaintGaudens $20 gold Piece. The bid at a New York CitY auction was a record price for a single gold coin'
s:opped by rain, sleet or snow, when a -ew story of buried treasure comes r ong, or, was that a mail-man??? The cabin northwest of Wilkerson rass had been plundered by vandals, :rt the small cache of gold and silver :oins hidden near the southwest corner 'ad been overlooked. The new Blazer -ad the help of shovels and a winch to rake its way the several miles from the - ghway to the snowbound cabin. Right at that time this was one story ,,,ish I hadn't heard. There I was, though, with a foot of snow outside and inside this woman ,vho just couldn't stop talking about a :ache she had seen back when she was tlle girl. Seems like this old man who -,ad a hardluck mine close to where her :arents lived, beyond Wilkerson Pass, -ad dug up money several times while - s little girl was playing around his
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Apache Jim
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Of course she saw where he got it -':m, but the old man's getting himself . ed caused her to forget all about it --:ll she was grown up. She chose to
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me about it when there was a foot of :-cw on the ground around my own -: !lse, and drifts up to five feet around ,*r (efSOn PaSS.
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of year. After she informed me of :: ng two others the story, and since '= Slazer was already half loaded, - :-red I had just as well finish loading, :-., iva!, since I had a few hunts coming
I
:a:ked before she finished telling the bearing on the fool story at all. Only a nut would * l<e a trip into those mountains at that
-llst because I had the Blazer half
*e
Dead
M an's Gabin
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(Wilkerson Pass, Golorado)

snow getting back in to the cabin like was doing. I knew I just couldn't drive away not knowing whether I was leaving them to a snowbound fate or not. Besides, it was only a five mile drive from the highway through sinkholes, washed out roads, and towering snowdrifts that a car might fall through twenty feet into some hidden gully. With her talking about how big that can was, and how them coins would shine in the sunlight, I missed reverse, and before I knew it, we were plowing right down that sloppy road. Now as everyone knows, you should never try to turn around on a sloppy road. I can't remember how many times that high Blazer hit high center, and bet I shoveled away half that mountain gettin in there on that mission of mercy. lmagine my relief *ohoh_ I mean surprise, to discover that them fellers hadn't been that foolish after all.
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soon.
gotten -emselves stuck. With this new worry :':,,vding my mind, I knew I would just -:,'e to go up there to lend them fellers = -and, in case they needed help. i/ell, I piled this woman and the old *:.r into the Blazer, and after hours of ' jrting slick roads and snow drifts, we =" ved at the pass. Fighting our way on :.er. we arrived at the turnoff to dis-:','er no one had traveled the road -oe before the storm. = The lady had said she only told them -: da;r before, and the snow had been :-:'e a week, however, I got this -a3ging feeling that maybe they had g:re in there before the storm, just in ::se they should hear the story later, -en they wouldn't have to fight all that
-'. csing off up there and
3y this time I began to worry as to ,-ether those other two she had told - ;ht have been foolish enough to go
With my feet wet, my hands near froze ott, would you believe that woman had the nerve to suggest we start a search for the cache. After checking the whole inside, just to warm up the detector, I started shoveling snow again so we could check the outside.
I had shoveled the snow down to a

thick. By this time I couldn't feel my feet or my hands, and since the detector wasn't making any noise, I hopefully thought it was about time to head for home and that nice warm fire.
layer of ice, which was about five inches
Wouldn't you know??? just then passed the corner of the cabin and WHAMBOI!! that darn machine cut loose like a dying calf in a hail storm. Well, I tried to act like I never heard a thing, but when that man and woman knocked me down swinging them shovels, I figured they must of heard.
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After beating on that ice for half an hour, they hadn't even gotten to the ground. What we needed was an ice pick, what we had was 2 dull, broken
shovels. Taking turns, we got down two feet in two and one-half hours.
The lady was taking a turn, while
was counting my toes to see if they was still all there, when she let out a shrill howl worse than the machine. Frozen dirt was arching over her shoulders and spilling down her back, when she came up with a handfull of coins. Shore enough, there it was just like she said it was. We whooped and hollered a while, then some darn fool got the idea, since we dug that far, we might as well dig on down, in case there
my frozen ear with tales of all them maps show hundreds of old cabins, other old timers up thataway that had and settlements in the high country. buried their money before getting Even so, you can bet your worn out killed. For miles on up the canyon past batteries, next time some gal comes Dead Man's Cabin are the scattered log knocking on my door when ther's a foot cabins of miners, homesteaders, and a of snow on the ground, l'll lock the door, turn out the lights, and go back to few old ranches. When the snow is gone, and l'm all bed till spring. thawed out from this winter trip, l'm ,. going back up into that country. Topo , f\f1
_
!â>\'\ ) ^ 1oo'Zt)\) tffi
{cg'J
was something buried below.
Well,
there was, and we managed somehow to dig our way back out to the highway, and home. But it still frazzels me to think how some people take advantage
cram some wild storY down us when we don't even want to hear it.
of us gullible treasure hunters,
and
To make matters worse, all the way back home, that woman kePt bending
C dt^t I u s i o
A
To coin a
seems to be the normal state of
Hc
",rnc",".n
hobby. City and state, bureaucrat and lor a handy scapegoat with which to create a new drumhead to pound upon, the seekers
affairs on, five days off * - you go on five eight these days. The field of THing is not hour days after five eight hour days. exempt. Ecology, devaluation, recrea- Maybe even six months on, three tion, inflation, and legalities all rear months fine vacation, but you still gladtheir knobby, ugly heads, gnash their ly accept your two weeks, and that
evil teeth at the unwary THer; and if
the four-day work week becomes old hat, and the talk rages on to studying the clumping together of work time, such as five days phrase, "coinfusion" then leisure time
legislator, searching
for treasure are singled out as an emerging group of scoundrels. City

codes are passed restricting the use of metal detectors in parks. State edicts
Fidel himself: Coinfusion, si! those very real teeth. Confusion, coin- Coinshooting, no! More leisure time is becoming fusion, or whatever, there's plenty in
isnotcareful, rearupand bitehimwith
he
when it can be had. To paraphrase ol'
are rammed into effect prohibiting
today's hectic THing world to puzzle available, though, for many, and that cease to exist). Park rangers chase off does include a few THers. Most of us THers from such places as the most of us. First of all, let's consider all this talk have no trouble using up any extra time Superstitions or Padre lsland to
about the time any given individual has we can get on some worthy search and to spend on his chosen hobby, namely salvage project. We have enough THing. Most of us fret and fume about money, in spite of inflation, to afford a never having half enoug h, and good detector, and most of us can use welcome talk about possible four-day all the time for our great hobby we can work weeks. Wow, three day weekends get. to get out into the ghost towns; expan- The next bugaboo to poke up its sion of leisure time, tremendous. beady-eyed head is some of the clapThe trouble is, it always seems to be trap that passes in the name of happening to somebody else. Your job ECOLOGY, and goes around trying to seems to plod on and on, forever. As gnaw off the various portions of the TH
metal detectors from various areas. Law enforcement officers now have confiscated metal detectors. (Which instruments then strangely seem to
"protect the public interest." Lord help us if orrr national public interest is sq greatly impaired by the searching for stray coins along a sandy beach or going out to seek out a legendary mine. As long as there are people willing to use their time to search after the unknown, to tread upon the upward paths to adventure, our public interests are aided, not imperiled. lt is time that our legislators, our lawmakers, and our
public "servants" learned just how rrany THers there are in this country. They need to know that it is a rapidly growing hobby field, with vitally alive ceople. The way for them to find this cut is for you lo tell them. Write them, tell them of your concern for unjust,
Jnnecessary laws.
Tlte
They need to know how much real archaeology, how much history, how rnuch preservation of Americana is being accomplished by today's THers across the land, work that would otherwise never be done at all. Up is not down, wrong is not right. Justice is not the abolition of treasure hunting and the confiscation of metal detectors. It is not ECOLOGY, either.
Drainage Ditch
by Ray Sarno
Treasure
ditch itself. After a couple hours of
routine tin foil, bottle caps, and flip tops I had a very solid reading in the center of the ditch. I anxiously dug down, deeper and deeper, until I hit metal. A
The main reason for the title, "coinfusion," has to do with those twin in the school year I had nonsters, inflation and devaluation. tion. Early point made a of telling all my students Confusion, indeed, compounded. lnflathat I owned a metal detector and that I : on we have, though, and it will be would reward who supplied me anyone :mongst us forever. Learning to live with a good treasure lead. -,, th it is a real trick, yet must to some I wasn't too surprised when in extent be mastered. lt must be if one is February of my 9th graders ap:: survive with much comfort and proached one me with an interesting story. s-ccess, that is. Devaluation is the new years before, he He few told me that, a -cnster. Most of us remember when and his friends were wandering along a :-e government announced devaluadrainage near his home ditch and : c:r. but 99 and 99,/100 of the populaspotted on some coins the surface of : :n without a shudder went blithely the They were Mercury ditch. dimes. : ong their way, virtually unaware of the The boys began to scratch around and :rnsequences. found an assortment of nickels, penTHers have a better than average nies, and dimes. They continued to f ind :-ance for survival. ln case of that coins, he said, off and on for a couple of :efore-unmentioned monster, depres- years, all near the original discovery. : on. I am firmly convinced any good Lately, however, their magical supply :,r nshooter could at least search out had run out. Wild thoughts of jars or cans of =ôugh money for plenty of groceries. -rat, in itself, is a valuable bit of buried coins danced through my head. . -owledge. lf these coins could be found on the surface, I could well imagine what was lnflation. Just remember: Silver is a concealed below. My student did menmited commodity, and in the longrun tion that every year the road grader s going to go up in price. Rare or scraped the ditch and could have scarce coins, especially, should be set buried the source of the coins under aside as an inflation hedge. many feet of rubble. He reassured me, at least, he could pinpoint the spot Devaluation. This means your dollar where most of the coins had been s not worth as much on the world *arket as it used to be. I predict you found. It was a fine Saturday morning when, ,,*rll see more of this harsh beast, and armed with my metal detector, I began :'at he will nibble away more of your my search for the "Drainage Ditch ;ollar. lf you are bound within the Treasure." The search was somewhat :cnfines of a paycheck, payable in more extensive than l'd anticipated. :eteriorating dollars, that can only hurt. The way my student informant pini few added coins is a fine salve to pointed the location was to point to a ease the sting of such bites. hundred foot length of the ditch and THers are a thinking, active bunch, say, "lT was somewhere in there." I began to work method ically, 'or the most part. Use your heads, your searching both banks as well as the "retal detectors, enjoy this great hobby :f ours, and you will save a lot of I I coinf usion."
As both a junior high social studies teacher and a police officer I knew that children were good sources of informa-
beer can. WOW! I pulled it out and routinely, half-heartedly, researched the hole. To my surprise I had another reading. I gently scraped some dirt away and uncovered a Mercury dime. It's times like this when a treasure
hunter's heart beats faster while waves enthusiasm and optimism surge through his being. I eagerly re-checked the surrounding area, but unfortunately didn't find another coin. With renewed spirit, however, I continued to search
of
downstream from my find the detector registered another solid reading in the center of the ditch. Again I anxiously dug down. About eight inches beneath the surface I uncovered a small metal container. lt was a small treasure chest! Well, it wasn't exactly a treasure chest, but it was a small toy bank shaped like a treasure chest. lt was also quite mangled and quite empty. lt was inscribed with the words "Captain Kidd" on top, and "A penny saved is a penny earned" on the
sicie.
the ditch. Three or four feet
drainage ditch and had been emptied of its contents either by the action of the road grader or bylhe flowing water. Whichever, it was empty.
Evidently this small toy bank had somehow been deposited in the
My search had ended and
I was
disappointed that I had not found more than one Mercury dime and an empty toy treasure chest. But there would be other days and other finds, and my spirits were buoyed because I did have the satisfaction of solving the mystel of "The Drainage Ditch Treasure."
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STEPS THAT LEAD TO NOWHERE. This stone platform provided added convenience for the ladies when alighting from or climbing aboard a buckboard or surrey. An individual on horseback could manuever his mount as close as possible to the platform' trusting the animal would be held securely by an attendant. Wayne Naylor, (left) and Harry Vinton found the area around this platform to be an excellent coinshooting spot. The church is the Dover United Methodist Church, founded in 1842.
Built in 1858, the church at Sugarloaf Mountain, MarYland, provided a nice coinshooting spot.
The lawn in front and to the east of the building Yielded some twentyfive coins ranging from a Pre- 1850 penny to a 1920 dime' The best one of the coins was an 1870 lndian head cent in verY good condition' WaYne Naylor is checking out a reading. We
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found all the coins on the east side of the church. This is indicative of two things. After church on Sunday the
people to avoid intense heat congregated on the east side where there was shade. The number of dicate that people came to church,
horseshoes dug
up there also
in-
unloaded buggies, and hitched

horses to a nearby tree, loosing coins and horseshoes.
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My father as a boy attended this church in Republican, North Carolina, riding to Sunday School on Mule back. I spent most of my time here talking to afine gentleman who lives just to the south of the church. This church is almost too rural to coinshoot as it is located in an economically depressed area. Then, like now, the peanut crop of Bertie County had been destroyed by rain. Most people living in this area, if they had any money, tried hard not to lose it, especially in front of the church. ln half an hour of coinshooting I failed to find a coin.
Goinshooting
the Eastern
Ghurchyards
by
Ravaged by hurricane, this church on the waterfront at Biloxi, Mississippi, was all but destroyed. A newer church to the rear withstood the hurricane with only minor damage. Both lawns yielded coins, mostly dating in the late 40's. Dusk and the long trip back to Boulder curtailed all but highlight coinshooting the lawn of a destroyed southern mansion to the right and across the street from the church. lt well may be a coinshooter's paradise.
Hunter V. Pritchard
- J^ on the surrounding hillsides. Find- j the grounds of the Protestant
- i,laryland,
iNlicotte City is one of the older cities
lts churches are perched
:- -;:ches to be relatively unproductive, 'r:, 11 Naylor and I moved across town another hill, hoping we would "-i up *-: that past generations of Catholic ::' shoners had lost a few more
:-:ckels than had their

--.rch ground be like
protestant
:: 'ide a few coins, or would
: "::rrren. Would there be enough grass
this many others ,sshalt, concrete, and retaining walls?
: =:x frock of a priest appearing

-:"zon.
:-eck a reading when I noticed the

on the
had just kneeled to the ground to
L,1ay I ask you fellows what you're ng?" were his f irst pious words. -:a','ing my reading unrecovered, and .::srng that he was more concerned
::
- - how fast we could vacate the church :'c;nds, I took up his challenge.
"This is a metal detector and we are with his parishoners? Was I in fact coinshooting for coi-" my talking to the "head man," or should - looking go to Baltimore or wherever the explanation was cut short. "Don't you fellows ever ask per- archdiocese was in order to seek permission to coinshoot these particular mission?" grounds. I feel the crowing blow in our By this time I was reaching in my rhetoric was delivered when lreback pocket for all the tinfoil, bottle quested to see the church tax records. caps, and trash recovered over at the Afterall, if there was no tax being paid, protestant church. "No, not usually," showing ownership, who in fact did the replied, suspecting the priest was not church grounds belong to? Could it be interested in hearing about the that we might be coinshooting a bit of fascinating hobby of treasure hunting public domain? or how we previously cleaned up other Exit the priest, back to coinshooting. church grounds. Wayne and I prepared grounds of the Catholic Church The for the ensuing verbal assault. sitting high on a hill in Ellicotte City, We were very verbally told in un- Maryland, were temporarily open to theological terms to leave. When I told coinshooters. him that I thought Wayne and I would Without exception, coinshooting be staying the priest became downright churchyards, regardless of the church indignant. affiliation (its or yours) has been for me Now, after all, this was an old church, and often will be for you, a REAL the grounds had not been recently HASSLE. lf you're willing to put up with resodded, and the priest was not in the the occasional inconvenience, least bit interested in my profession. however, church yard - especially of the This combination of factors had given some of the rural, older churches can be small gold me a chance to go on the offensive. midwest and east Was the good priest always this tart mines.
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tglllqs
The
Search
for Hidden Treasures
The Institute of Entelekey* will sponsor a three week course on "The Search for Hidden Treasures" in Estes Park, Colorado, September 18 to
October 8,1,972. Called a geo-psychic course in earth resources and desired objects, hidden or lost, the study-prospecting course is open to international prospectors and laymen. Petroleum and gold prospectors and professional treasure
seekers are also welcome.
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# s
The course will include lectures in geology, geo-morphology, cartography and field trips prospecting for petroleum and minerals, on and off location in the Rocky Mountain area. The group will learn to use external aids such as dowsing rods and pendulums. Alpha training will be given, and awareness techniques, building up to psychic-detection techniques in the second week. Guest lecturers include Dr. foseph Hartshorn, Chairman of the Department of Geology at the University of Massachusetts who will present a background of Geology. Also, Raymond C. Willey, Editor of the American Dowser Quarterly Digest, in Danville Vermont, for the American Society of Dowsers, Inc. Since 1932, Willey has located water; discovered an extensive supply of tungsten ore in the Northeast where geologists insisted it was impossible to occur; and marked off areas containing natural gas, areas that were later confirmed by the exploratory work of professional geo-physicists. Dr. Charles L. Sanders, Director of the Institute of Entelekey in Denver, will give instruction in the development of Higher Sensory Powers (HSP). Recognized for his work with the sixth and seventh senses, Sartders has a long history of locating missing and "hidden" objects from people to buried treasure and lost gold deposits. Before the age of ten he predicted dry or producing wildcat oil wells. Sanders will work with and without the use of external devices, Those interested in participating in the course may telephone: 303-6236261; write: Institute of Entelekey, 980 Grant St., Denver, Colorado, 80203; or wire. Reservations are limited to 50. Satisfaction is guaranteed. The brochure has photographic coverage of the Estes Park resort site.
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*Entelekey is adapted from the Aristotelian term Entelechy which means 'reality versus image'.
INSTITUTE OF ENTELEKEY
98O Grant, 106 South,
Denver, Colorado 80203, Telephone (303) 623-626

44lTreasure Hunters Newsletter
1
I THOROUGHLY ENDORSE
BOOKS FROM 8 STATES!
Lyme,
They're always in good taste
l{ew Hampshire
A quick bit of research will tell the
=-C potential THing sites are not out ,, est. Lyme is one good example out of -:'ry. Historical, geographical, and : -nty records are f ull of available :acs if one will but look.
ost casual reader that all ghost towns
:-Cy.The survey pointed

--ierous abandoned roads,
,'/. Goldthwait made a
Lyme Township in 1927 Professor
population
out
,+
abandoned fields. THers, Lyme is :: even listed on today's atlases. lt is - ,,,estern central Grafton County, east :' :re Connecticut River for those of -- - lvho'd like to check into it, and it is :':r looking into!
vacant areas ar holes, large overgrown and =
'
.--_--
-:ok -a: Has Gone Downhill," 3::graphical Review, Vol. 17 (1927) :: a27-57 if you can find a copy. You
crobably have to seek out a univer: -, or large city library, but if you are : :se to this area, you very likely would - -: t well worth your time and effort.
at J. W. Goldthwait's "A Town
--e region began to be settled soon ::e: :he Revolution, rapidly developing
rural economy. The PoPulation advanced and farms were '::adily developed over lowland and ::-ally - :- and until 1830, the Peak PoPula: - Since then the PoPulation has :=: .red. Now there are hundreds of
roads and homesites. Peo':ardoned : i ett for easier lives in the growing
' '-e
::
es.
Send us the name, address, and zip code of friends who'd like to receive a free copy of our new catalog. We are now able to supply a good share of the book needs and wants of folks interested in the various aspects of the treasure hunting field. We are constantly upgrading our book list, trying to keep back-
ordering to a minimum. and all in all, attempting to provide a real service to

THers.
:-e enge to THers , :'(.
,',''at they left or lost is mostly still -:"e. and it offers many a fascinating
willing to think and
Summer, lg72l45
LOST TREASURE-The Search for we will not have any copies left in alltoo short a time. Hidden Gold There are 49 stories in the book, a by Robert G. Ferguson compilation of as varied a group of paperback and stapled, $4.00 The world does not alwaYs beat a treasure tales as you'll ever see, A few path to the door of one who builds a have appeared as watered-down verbetter mousetrap. Without publicity, sions in a few magazines, with facts without advertising, without a proper enlarged in a most elastic fashion, even buildup and display even the best of when the facts need no enlargement at
discoveries rest unseen, unknown, and gathering the dust of years. This is as true of treasure hunting books as it is of mousetraps. LOST TREASURE-The Search for Hldden Gold is one such book. lt was compiled by Robert G. Ferguson, a lifetime hunter of treasure, secreted away for his own use. Old age did away with the ability to make personal use of the stories, and a friend of Mr. Ferguson, Kenneth T. Mayhall, Published the book in 1957. The book is a real bonanza of interesting treasure stories, well told tales are here told with an excellent twist, as seen through the eYes of a lifetime THer. Several little known stories appear within the book, and they have remained unknown because Ferguson's book has been like the "undiscovered better mousetrap". For one thing, the book was Put out by a publishing firm that seemed to be more concerned with publishing the book, using money furnished by others than the printing company, than it was in promoting and selling the book. A very limited edition was printed, and sales did not do well. Much of the printing remained boxed, in storage lo these past fifteen years. 8 States chanced to find the onlY source of these books and we've contracted the remaining copies of that
all.
both useful and Interesting. A great deal of helpful advice is given in a manner calculated to keep a reader's
lull attention. lt is a publication that will get a great deal of use. lf you don't have a copy you should get one.
AN EASTERN *THng Ralph Edmonds This new book is the answer to a real
book in their personal library. A few real diggers might find material in certain of these stories supplemental to "big ones" they would like to think about from every possible direction.
We at 8 States offer what we feel to be a
Most THers would enjoy having this
very limited opportunity.
lf you are interested, please don't wait too long.

TODAY'S TREASURE HUNTER O. Lobo and J. Cubit $5.00 paperback
living thing react. A strong stimulus makes a strong reaction. Cubit and
Lobo have produced a strong stimulus
A stimulus is something that makes a
to THers in their fine book, TODAY'S TREASURE HUNTER. lt makes a fellow decide to be more than a living
organism. The book takes the armchair prospecter, gets his desire heated to a feverish pitch, and creates a really living organism, somewhere af ield searching for some goodies.
The book is divided into two main parts. The first 96 pages deal with THing facts, tips, suggestions, advice, and all sorts of other interesting and useful information valuable to the seeker of lost and buried valuables. The remainder of the book has some highly interesting stories and leads.
first and only edition. We have a various people, and perhaps profitable. definitely limited number of these The book came out in 1970 and many books for sale, When they are gone, of these stories had never before seen who knows? Some of you have had the print. Alabama, Arizona, California, ill-fortune of desiring a particular book Colorado, ldaho, lllinois, Missouri,
anywhere at any price, or even finding a America, Nevada, New Mexico, Old copy of it to read in any library. THing Mexico, Oregon, Ohio, Texas and Utah books, especially f irst editions of worth, all have been dealt with herein, with as this one is, have a remarkably short highly stimulating stories. Another life expectancy. We are putting a few chapter deals with gold. Most THers would find this book into our private libraries, for we know
Some should prove intriguing to
but being unable to Purchase
it
Michigan, Montana, the Spanish
in
need expressed loudly and long by eastern THers. There are just too few eastern THing books. This book shows the scope of eastern treasure hunting possibilities. lt is far from complete, but there is still an impressive amount of factual material presented within this almost '100 page book. The east is too vast to cover so casually, of course, but every state east of the Mississippi is discussed at some length. There are a good many leads and possibilities listed, and many helpful, thoughtprovoking hints are given. No serious eastern THer should ignore or fail to obtaln this publication. Any westerner intending to visit the east should buy the book and have his eyes opened. The $3.95 price is small when placed against the tremendous factual impact of the book. Too few THers, east or west, realize the amazing THing posslbilities all throughout the eastern states. AN EASTERN *THlng points out a good many of these possibilities, which is something that has long needed done. Ralph Edmonds is to be commended for his fine effort in gathering together the information the book presents. Chet Blanchard, the publisher, also deserved no little praise for putting the book into print. 8 States is proud to recommend this fine little book as a worthy addition to any THer's research library. Baxter's BLUE BOOK, VOL. l, is the only other recent available book with similar contents we can endorse with much enthusiasm. We hope this book will encourage other authors to assemble works on eastern states comparable to many fine books covering more westerly areas. GO EAST, THer, GO EAST.
HGC
You will notice a good number of off the press by the end of August, but books we just never got into the we have just given up promising what catalog. We have them in stock now, the press can or cannot do. lt's bad
Books.
oo
often-
' -:es rather difficult to understand. We .: 8 States found out theY mean a :'eadf u I lot of work. lt is largelY ::cause of the work involved with get-c out our catalog, which most of You . -ow is loaded with treasure hunting --":e books, that this newsletter is later â^ li should be. The writing we have
::autiul or ugly, revealing yet
Books. Like women, theY can be
enough keeping up with what we are supposed to do. One thing is for sure. room. You ought to see the place we The Gold Hex is a tremendous book, thought would allow us quite a bit of and no THer will want to miss getting a copy for his library. Ken Marquiss has a expansion room. Ha, and haw-haw! Some titles, we're discovering, have fantastic writing style and plenty of already gone out of print and have information to write about. That makes become unavailable, leaving our poor for one of the best THing books in catalog with little whlte lies. We can't years, and I have seen some pretty
and are continuing to obtain others. We moved, not too long ago, to get more
up missing as far as availability is concerned. Wyoming Ghost Town

Guide still is not printed, much to ours and many other's disgust. Our new book, or rather the book we are publishing for Ken Marquiss, The Gold Hex, is running late. lt should be
get you a copy of The Golden Crescent now. Stuart's lnsulator Guide has come
good ones.
,'.
:r
co. r.rhich certainly is deeply involved books, also keeps us out of the
= u.
So look over this list of new books, and our own titles, and see what there is. Whatever books may be, and they certainly are not all there is to hunting treasure for most of us, they still represent about the most interesting way of learning about our hobby there is.
,(l'ilERICAN WEST by Flsher, Holmes
:,29 GOLD RUSHES AND MINING CAMPS OF THE EARLY ::ok which brings you the remarkable people, the intriguing
;':3ients, the violent contrasts of an exciting epoch in American Explores the Gold Rush, Life in the Camps, Crime and Justice, '-:-;'. :=: al Characters and Situations. This large book has over 300 :-:scme illustrations, many published for the first time. Bd. $17.95.
conventional suits and large-scale salvage methods. Many illustrations showing equipment in actual use. Authoritative information covering all phases-of underwater treasure hunting. Bd. $5.95.
D-16 ADVENTURES lN UNDERWATER TREASURE HUNTING bv
The personal story of
Rieseberg
:- -early three years the author compiled information, collected -::: raphs and did research on a group of 60 pioneer ghost towns - : : nrng communities. With each chapter there is an informal :::-, of the town, an early and a contemporary photograph to aid in ': :entifications and explicit travel directions. Bd. $6.95.
:: --:-, of the Pacific Northwest, including trips to many areas never :,*-:-: written about in ghost-town literature - towns such as
El^^+,i^ Electric, Mine Camp, -::ack rr:-^ ^^*^ ::':. Bd. $6.95. D,,hr, Disaster and and ald old Ruby, n'^^hha^L Greenback, nia.6+6.
-30 GHOST TOWNS OF THE COLORADO ROCKIES by Brown
profe6sional undersea explorer, who has made finds in sunken wrecks and submerged cities. tncludes sketches, treasure maps and photos of relics and salvaged treasures. Bd. $4.95'
successful modern treasure hunter, a
True accounts of undersea adventures in quest of millionl of dollars' worth of sunken treasures. Lists names and locations of buried
D-17 I DIVE FOR TREASURE by Rleseberg
- '- s book the author
-:'
shipwrecks. A classic of underwater treasure hunting books. Bd. $6'95.

D-18 THE SEA OF TREASURE by Rleseberg More than an exciting adventure story. With the author you will explore
GHOST TOWNS OF THE NORTHWEST by Wels
takes you traveling through the ghost-town
the vast sea while surrounded by danger and death. Experience the mystic splendor of the underwater world. Bd. $4.95.
G-31 BLAZE OF GOLD by Woods Mostly of gold that is buried and ghosts which are not - this book is hundred mile guarahteed to give any one gold or silver fever. Within a of Corpus Christi, Texas are a half-a-hundred buried treasures. Read of the wreck of Cortes' treasure-laden galleons, of Lafitte's legendary treasure hoard and learn of more. Bd. $3.95.
-: :' America's least accessible scenic wonders is described in this : :. Solorado's Mount of the Holy Cross can be viewed clearly from j" InaI .a^tage points, yet the oT the Ine. snowy cross that i,, magnltlcanc ol tne magnificance yedr around once sparked religious pilgrimages to : *: -s enordved engrdved vear '-* l: oradb ghost Roc(ies. Holy Cross City is now a seldom visited : ,- a challenge to the hearty sight-seer. P. $2.95.
: --'r3 SOUTH PASS '1868 by Homsher 1, =-::s from the pen of James Chisholm vividly illustrate the Wyoming Pass Area, with its riches, troubles, "hard cases", and ri':r.ar -"-;-.gSouth history. This is a marvelous book for anyone interested in :- -g s fascinating history, its gold rush days, or transportation
-32 HOLY CBOSS. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE CITY by Brown
i.': 3:. 55.95. :.15 FELL'S GUIDE TO SUNKEN
TREASURE SHIPS OF THE
lllfl0RLD by Rleseberg, Mlkalow - ' =' O0 locations continent by continent. Full details on scuba gear,
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G-32 WHERE & HOW TO SEARCH FOR GOLD & SILVER MINES by Pomeroy (Pomeroy's Mining Manual), originally published in 1881, this book has a great deal of factual hints and helps on searching for gold and silver. P. $3.s0.
A worthy collection of little-known facts for all who are interested
M-28 EARLY AMERICAN CLOCKS by Warman
in
early American clocks and their makers. The book contains histories and illustrations of many of the clockmakers of the early American period. P. $5.95.
J.24 CUSTERS GOLD-THE UNITED STATES
CAVALRY
EXPEOITION OF 1874 by Jackson This book deals with the Black Hills, the routines of army camp life, and the story of Custer. lt is of considerable historical interest, and deals with the discovery ol gold in that region. P. $1.75. J-25 THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL by Stewart An epic with many heroes. This book is bound to be helpful to THers interested in developing leads concerning the great migration westward. A well-documented book, interesting, and potentially helpful to THers. P. $3.50. J-26 DOOMED ROAD OF EMPIRE by Carter The Spanish trail of conquest. This is a valuable book to THers, for it goes into details concerning the great Spanish treasure seekers. lf you are interested in the Spanish era of expansion and conquest, and most THers are, this book you should have. P. $3.50. J-27 THE EL DORADO TRA!Lby Egan The story of the gold rush routes across Mexico. Treasure tales and potential searches lurk in these pages, if one looks. P. $3.50. H-39 GEM TRAILS lN CALIFORNTA by Abbotl 84 pages giving gem and mineral locations in California. lncludes 79 detailed maps, exact mileage, actual photos, pinpointed locations on photos and maps, 158 places to collect. ln demand by the experienced as well as the amateur rockhound. P. $2.95. J-21 THE NEVADA DESERT by Wheeler Professional biologist and conservationist Sessions Wheeler writes of
A check-list and price guide to N. Currier, Currier and lves, Kellogg

and other printmakers. P. $4.75.
M-31 LOOKING lN JUNK SHOPS by Bedlord
M-29 3rd PRINT PRICE GUIDE by Warman
A guide for all the addicts who like to browse in second hand shops ferreting out inexpensive old items that may turn into treasures. Arranged in alphabetical order, it is a great guide to reasonably priced collectibles. Bd. $3.95. Another collection ot things come across in browsing through iunk
shops and sheds, looking at collections, and gossiping with collectors. Deals more with furniture, ]ewelry, and metalwork. A different direction in THing. Bd. $3.95. M-32 MOBE LOOKING lN JUNK SHOPS by Bedford
M-33 STILL LOOKING FOR JUNK by Bedford This volume concerns itself largely with the relatively "new junk", the Art Nouveau. Done in Bedford's interesting, helpful style. Bd. $3.95.
A valuable guide for anyone desiring to the techniques and materials needed to restore "junk". lt is a fine companion book to Bedford's series. Bd. $5.95. M.35 HOW TO INVEST IN BEAUT]FUL THINGS WITHOUT BEING A MILLIONAIRE by Cannel A wise and witty expose' that guides the way to shrewd acquisitions that will increase in value and enhance the buyer's life. This book will without paying ridiculous prices. Bd. $6.95.
be a real help to those interested in purchasing some of the finer things
M-34 RESTORING JUNK by Beedell
the prehistory and the geological nature of the desert regions
in
Nevada, including accounts of the archaeological explorations at Tule Springs and the Lost City. Also includes the dramatic story of the lndian War of 1855-1866, Contains old and contemporary photos. P.
$2.9s.
M-36 HOW TO COLLECT THE "NEW" ANTIOUES by Cole The prices of early, handcrafted furniture, glass, silver, and china are rising and the supplies diminishing. What can the collector start to search for next? This good book gives you answers in a most helpful way the next targets for the knowing collector. Bd. $5.95.
J-22THE DESERT LAKE by Wheeler The story of Nevada's Pyramid Lake. Relates the prehistory and history of the basin, including its famous lndian battles. Early white exploration and settlement, the decline and restoration of the lake's giant cutthroat
M-30 THE ANTIOUES TREASURY SERIES by Warman A set of 8 paperback volumes for antique collectors and dealers. Each
trout, and other topics make this book of interest to the student, the lake's visitor, and to the reader of Western Americana. P. $2.50.
J-23 A BRIEF HISTORY OF BUTTE, MONTANA by Freeman
volume of ANTIQUE TREASURY contains a group of articles about
This volume depicts the lawless days of Butte in 1865 and 1866.
interesting sidelights on numerous Butte enterprises. Originally published in 1900, this re-issue will be welcomed by Montanans in
particular and by all interested in the early days of Western townships in general. More than 200 illustrations. Bd. $7.50. K-10 CURTIS'WESTERN INDIANS by Andrews
Extensively deals with mining magnets and mining activities and offers
antiques and collectors' items. Each article is written by a professional writer who is an expert in his tield. The contents of each volume covers many diverse subjects: china, glassware, pottery, metal items, dolls, toys, lamps, coins, steins, pattern glass, music boxes, guns, art glass, paperweights, shaving mugs, samplers, etc. For more detailed information of any single volume please contact 8 States. Volume 1 sells for $3.00, volumes 2-8 sell for $4.00 each. COLLECTING by Boyntan Recounts the author's search through the gullies of California's Mother Lode and along the old wagon trails of the West for bottles. lllustrated with line drawings. P. $1.00.
N-70 TOP BOTTLES, U.S.A. by Umberger Features the top 250 bottles in the U.S.A. lllustrated. P. $4.50. N-71 AMERICAN CUT GLASS byWarman A pattern book of the Brilliant Period 1895-1915. Collector( and dealers
N.69 A VERY AMATEUR GUIDE TO ANTIOUE BOTTLE
The life and works of Edward S. Curtis. A fascinating story.of Curtis' thirty-year effort to continually photograph the vanishing race of the American lndian. Bd. $12.50. L-l 1 THE GUNFIGHTERS by Schoenberger The author strips the Terrible Seven of their glories and legends. Earp, Holliday, Masterson, Alison, Short and Hickcock are shown to be far less than the immortal tin-star heroes of innumerable novels, extravaganza motion pictures and flimsy television shows seen and believed by millions. Bd. $12.95.
L-12 MICKEY FREE, MANHUNTER by Grllrlth
have been handicapped in the Cut Glass field because of the lack of classifications of patterns in the late period. The purpose of this book is to fill that need. P. $4.75.
P-9 THE BARBED WIRE BOOK, SECOND EDITION by Rock An updated version of Rock's first Barbed Wire Book, still pocket-sized and full of information. P. $2.95.
A detailed biography of Mickey Free, legendary lndian scout, by

Griffith, a man personally acquainted with the Manhunter. Bd. $6.50.
M-26 ANTIOUEST ODDITIES AND CURIOSITIES byWarman Curious facts about antiques, their legends and history. Highlights some of the least known but more desirable and valuable collectors items in America: Banio clocks, patch boxes, courting mirror, etc. P.
$4.7s.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR CORRECTIONS FOR BOOKS

PRESENTLY LISTED IN THE 8 STATES CATALOG:
C-4 GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS OF CALIFORNIA

Nadeau (p. 6 of catalog) is also available with board cover
for
by $7.50.
M-27 CASH FROM TRASH byWarman 125 ideas with illustrations for converting old, unused or out-of-date articles into items for decorative or practical use in homes, offices or stores. P. $2.50.
L-10 THE PINKERTONS: THE DETECTIVE DYNASTY THAT MADE HISTORY by Horan (p. 28 of catalog) is available now in its second printing with an increase in price, Bd. $7.95.
2-'11 1so2 EDITION OF THE SEARS, ROEBUCK CATALOG (p. 36 of ,.tatog) can be purchased as a paperback volume for $3.95. tsANNERMAN'S 1925 ANTIOUE GUN AND MILITARY COLLECTORS CATALOG REPRINT, Panther Printing Co., $6.50. This reprint catalog -,acpened to these items in just under fifty years of gnawing inflation.
WE AT LAST HAVE THESE TWO BOOKS ]N STOCK
THE TREASURE HUNTERS MANUAL, 7th EDITION, Karl yon
: simply amazing. lt was much in demand in 1925 and is simply :'celdss, today. The prices are amazing when one realizes what has
-'
s book is an important collector's identification source, a THer's :e ight, and makes for some mouthwatering looking and roading. lt is i: education in several aspects. Don't wait long if you wishe a copy, for :-r supply is limited: The reprint was only 500 copies and many of ':,:se have already sold. We have only a few, and will be able to back :'ler only once. This item will go out of print probably in less than two
i- : :ths.
Mueller. $6.50 This has been brought right smack-dab up-to-date. Ram Press has done a terrific iob on the cover, the printing, and putting it all together. This supplements, compliments, and is an entirely different book than the sixth edition. You won't be sorry, ever, for buying a copy, but you'd be sorry if you didn't, have this edition go out of print, and then see one.
SUDDEN WEALTH, Deek Gladeon. $2.50 This, too, is put out by Ram Press, and another f ine job. This little book, if you don't already have it, belongs in every THer's library. lt is an even better job than the original edition. lt has been a long wait, but Ram Press has done a f ine job with these reprints!
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ln The Next lssue, Fdll, 1 972

o Finally, Something on Researching Treasure Leads
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o Coins; Recovery, Collection, lnvestment o Creating and Displaying your Artifact Collection as Much -Almost Fun as Finding lt oAround the Campfire: Send us items o/ interest, for as you know, this is one of the besf and most interesting parts of the
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P.O. Box 1438

THing Civil War Virginia

ln the Defense of Jaye Smith

Elusive Gold 'IHing Song

Well, Well" It's in the Well

Coinshooting The Eastern Churchyards (See page 42)

Publication for THers

THing Civil War Virginia

(See page 21)

We come this way hut once.

Carved by Wilson in 1852 coated by Historical preserve against erosion.

documented treasure site

enterprises, and things

private cache from his various differen:

several days at this interesting location,

The entire Fort Smith,

The site, now simply called

WILSON'S ROCK, was established as a

erry, hotel, trading post, and

The men started out with

: - c ngs were in cold ashes. -:':-s cating their efforts, a band of

:e oi the river. T'e ,.nen hid the two wagons

--n:er stumbling across the

:rservers. After three days of tense

Wilson's Rock, looking east below

business with travelers. The site

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Jim Alexander, etc.

Dear Hurrter & Glenn

Milhollands returned to their homes in the Houston area. Knowing of my

and women, people who

now prevailing in Florida...with costly licenses being required to

wrlte us a letter about your Ieellngs ln thls matter. lf possible, include

the only defense we ordinary citizens

Sincerely yours, Jim Alexander, Committee Chairman

Another letter dealing with the problem . . .

Hey, a ranger. Wonder what he wantsT

3. By golly, he's getting out of the car, and

7. Egads, a metal detector. Scandalous. AN OBVIOUS THREAT TO THE ECOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL,

Well, Miss, we know what to do with people like you

0/Treasure Hunters Newsletter

not damaged, desecrated, and destroyed.

Let's see, now, ticket number.

Confiscating this thing will keep you off these beaches

Gongressional District Office Telephone Numbers

Dennis,D....... ...203-624-1308 Jacobs,A.,Jr..........

.......812-372-2571 ..,...317-966-6125 ......317-633-7331 .....319-324-3527 .......319-366-2411

Flowers.W..... Buchanan, J., Jr. Bevill, T.

Udall, M. Steiger, S......

.......904-682-3132 .....904-224-7510 .......904-629-0039

..... Shriver,G...... Skubitz. J. .....

3-628-1 31 3 913-233-8951 913-621-0832

Stubblefield, F. . Mazzoli, R...... Snyder, M. Carter, T.

Hammerschmidt, J Pryor, D Clausen, D...... Johnson, H......

.502-753-7102 .502-842-7376 .502-582-2129 502-582-5985

404-227 -1621 404-235-0127

Hebert, F. Boggs, H. Caffery, P Waggoner. J.. Jr. . Rarick, J. Edwards, E. Long, S.

213 -23-6561 213-750-0260 213-787-1776 213-923-9206

312-353-7251 219-826-5133 31 2-353-461 8 31 2-276-6000

Long, C. Garmatz, E. Sarbane, P. Hogan, L. Byron, G Mitchell, P.

213-436-4865 Colier, H. .... 714-884-8818 pucinski. R. ... 714-557-8335 cranc p P Crane,

.... ..... .... Wilson,B......

Findley,P...... Gray, K. Springer,W..... Shiplev, G...... Price,M.....