Dr. Hayes Buried Gold Arkansas River

Gypsy Heart

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Dr. Hayes kept a store, ferry, boat landing and warehouse for goods on the bank of the Arkansas River. It was generally understood that Dr. Hayes buried about fifteen or twenty thousand dollars in gold when the war broke out and he had to leave for the Chickasaw Nation. After the war was over he came back in 1866 to find his money and dig it up. He brought a man with him and they stayed over on the other side of the river for several days watching some hostile Indians called "Pins" who were camped in the neighborhood of his home and where his money was buried. These campers had five wagons with sheets over them and Dr. Hayes was afraid to venture where they were and after his provisions were gone he gave up and went back to the Chickasaw Nation with the intention of returning in the fall. But in a short time after reaching home Dr. Hayes had a sudden illness in which he fell dead. The man who was with him later came back and told me about it but the money has never been found

...........Taken in part from the Oklahoma Chronicles................
 

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BigChief14

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Do you think this area is in East Oklahoma? Have you ever looked into what the big rivers (e.g. the Arkansas) looked like before the locke system was built? I think any treasure burried along the river might have been flooded and covered by LOTS of silt.
 

Timberwolf

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Silt? Maybe....but if I lived closer to this site...I would be checking it out.
Thanks Gypsy :)

TW
 

reptwar1

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Silt? Maybe....but if I lived closer to this site...I would be checking it out.
Thanks Gypsy :)

TW

When he says "silt".... He means 12 to 14 feet of it. I live on the bank of the Arkansas river, and standing on the beach, it is 38' to bedrock in one spot that I know of. Shovels ain't gonna cut it
 

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