Curley, I have not spent a great amount of time on the Beale story. I have conversed several times with a person who spent a lot of time and money researching the Beale and I'm convienced it is a real treasure. The time frame which the story claims the treasures were buried is suspect in my opinion. I don't recall the exact dates that Beale and his group were said to be out west, but if my data is correct they would have been among the earlist Americans to find gold in the Rockies. The number code used in a least one of the documents was very much like one of the KGC codes. That proves nothing but makes one suspect a connection. Other treasures that I have been deeply involved with also fit outside the time frame of the KGC's existance, but treasure symbols and maps from these 18th century treasures are exactly like some used by the KGC in the 19th and 20th century. One of those treasures is the Jonathan Swift Silver Caches. We worked closely with a group searching for those treasures and I am sure it was KGC. Paul Henson supplied me with the original maps and documents he had on the story and it only took a week or so to work the ciphered map and transfer the landmarks to a topo map of the area. The searchers found the Rockhouse right where the map said it would be and two of the smelters were also found within a couple of miles of the rockhouse. I received many photos of tree and stone carved symbols found near the above and all were similar to KGC. I must confess that in my experience there appears to be about three different periods where treasure symbols were changed somewhat. Meaning there is a difference in symbols from very old KGC sites vs some of the newer depositories. GCR research has evidence that this probably happened in the early part of this century when some of the site maps to the individual caches were stolen or copies fell into the wrong hands. Many of the caches were moved some distance from their original location, but still remained inside depositories and were remarked with a new method. So the problem we now face is seperating the old useless symbols from the newer ones. This also is the reason for the many empty holes that are found. I touched on the three types of markings in Forbidden Knowledge and also explained how the 16 Master Caches had maps to all the other depositories in them. I think I am posting to much on the forum lately and its probably making me appear a blowhard. So I'll refain for awhile.. Good Hunting Amigos,\ Hillbilly

• Re:Iit's a breath of fresh Richard Walburn 18:21:41 10/13/99 (0)