bigscoop
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- Jun 4, 2010
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Here’s a few “facts” everyone needs to understand about the Beale Treasure Mystery before they dive too deeply into trying to find a solution. First, if there is any truth to the treasure then the source of the treasure “could not have been a mine” because there was no efficient refining process for the region in question until many years later. We now know this to be a fact after researching all of the existing records concerning the gold refining process from the region in question. Prior to these new and efficient refining processes the rate of loss from the “complex” gold ore in the region in question was anywhere between 50 and 70%. So, wasn’t even possible to refine this alleged gold ore by any efficient process until many years later, so no mine. This is an absolute fact. This alone renders the tale in the Beale papers to be nothing more then a complete fabrication.
Second, the complete absence of supporting documentation also raises the likelihood that the story is a complete fabrication. Add to this that there exist no evidences from any other credible sources as well. Per example, no record of concern from the families of the party members when their loved ones failed to return, etc., etc. Also, big parties leaving for the west were big news in 1817-1821, yet not a single word of the alleged party in the Beale papers from any other sources. Other then the Beale papers there exist no record of any of the other party members, no articles in the local papers making reference to Beale or the party in question or it’s alleged members. All that has ever surfaced is circumstantial, at best, with most of this being wishful thinking and forced feedings despite the hard evidences to the contrary.
So here’s the truth, as it stands today. “If” there is any measure of truth to this treasure tale then the source of the treasure had of come from somewhere else altogether, the story in the Beale papers “as it is presented” not possibly being true. Most likely it is just another treasure yarn as they were very popular during the period.
Second, the complete absence of supporting documentation also raises the likelihood that the story is a complete fabrication. Add to this that there exist no evidences from any other credible sources as well. Per example, no record of concern from the families of the party members when their loved ones failed to return, etc., etc. Also, big parties leaving for the west were big news in 1817-1821, yet not a single word of the alleged party in the Beale papers from any other sources. Other then the Beale papers there exist no record of any of the other party members, no articles in the local papers making reference to Beale or the party in question or it’s alleged members. All that has ever surfaced is circumstantial, at best, with most of this being wishful thinking and forced feedings despite the hard evidences to the contrary.
So here’s the truth, as it stands today. “If” there is any measure of truth to this treasure tale then the source of the treasure had of come from somewhere else altogether, the story in the Beale papers “as it is presented” not possibly being true. Most likely it is just another treasure yarn as they were very popular during the period.
