Hi Dan, actually John wrote to me E-mail and he explained what he was planning to do with investors. I suggested to him to keep his Treasure find dream a real reality in this world. To do so he needs to hire a good Geophysical outfit to come in there and scan the spot to see if the Treasure is there or not. This would keep investment interest to a minimum to see if, in fact, there was a treasure there or not. I could interject my opinion here but he didn't ask for it.

I have learned to be kind to people, because over the years I have learned that you can pound people to death with the printed word, person affidavits and even photographs, and believers will whistle along anyway with an unchanged attitude. Why waste the breath?

This is why you see over 500 posts on About.com on the Thomas Jefferson Beale case, after all of the evidence has even been put on a free web page for them to be informed, plus a testimony from the family that found the Treasure.

In the spirit of this last statement, I let people be where they are, this is the American way. Their actions will be their proof. Could 99 Frenchmen be wrong? Yes or no? John will answer that question for us.

Dan, I did say that the smaller alleged $80,000 Billy Grounds portion was found. This is really a hoot I find, in reality, as far as history is concerned. History says Billy Grounds hid this money and later wrote to his mother and told her all about it. He told her that he got it honestly. Be that as it may---

Yet, the gold was found in a shallow cave about four miles south of Shakespear New Mexico. a couple of years ago. Why was this the area of the God cache? Perhaps this is the reason?

Jim Hughs and Bill Curlie were running from a posse after one of the two of themm shot a saloon girl in Silver City New Mexico, so they say.

This part is accurate. They stopped off at the Shakespear saloon heading south for a fast drink of Whiskey and the posse grabed them. They were hung right there from a beam in the saloon only a short distance away from the $80,000 get away money that was hidden and recently.

If Bill Grounds really took and cached $80,000 from the Monterrey total swag, then how did Jim Hughes know about this if Billy Grounds and Zwing Hunt planned the great double double cross? The plot thickens!

An interesting question, isn't it? The question to me was who really hid this gold that was located by NERS? This land is still the the Hughes family today and Jim Hughes is buried in the Shakespear cemetery. The Saloon is still open every Tuesday for folks to see this event today from the historical society there. Therefore, we can all say this part of the riddle is true.

What happened to the Alleged Monterrey portion of this alleged double double cross? I don't have that answer yet. But I will say that if my figures are correct Zwing Hunt deserves a metal for accomplishing the double double cross, so courageously under the very nose of the law. So many men died over this prize for the worms to win in the end. This enigma is unsolved, to me, simply because the key player Zwing Hunt was killed with Billy Grounds on a ranch by a private tip to the law. This part is true because the newspaper carried the story. They were shot on a ranch near tombstone far from the cache site, farther confounding the issue.

No players and no gold spent---the worms get it, and so the legend goes on. Will the end ever be known?

Can I absolutely say that John is mistaken? No, because there is a conflicting study between the New Mexico boarder with Arizona, the Huachuca Cache near the Sierra Vista area of Arizona and the Nogales boarder area with Mexico. There is the possibility three Treasures here. I can prove only one so far---the Fort Huachuca gold bars. Yet, in time as I am able to get into this area I will have more information.

Dan, this is why I treat this Treasure area with respect, because I don't have all of the answers. Just a few answers and why. I find it poor taste to ever slam anyone one by what I think is true or not true. What is really true people will learn for themselves. But I hope they do it with Geophysical instrument scans.

I wish John or any one great success and I hope that they share their results to those they trust.

I really find it all so very exciting! A page of yesterday brought forth today.

Richard