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Gold bars buried a little over 1 foot deep
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Thanks aarthr, Dell and the others that replied to me with a PM. I will be going out to this site once I can assemble my team and schedule a trip.
I don't know what size the gold bars are but they are not finger bars. When I said this is well documented I meant that a researcher found the newspaper article describing the theft. A genealogist found the people involved. The black man that found the bars is called Wilson. He made it to Jacksonville and then died of leukemia before he could go back for them. The late Don Webb (peg-leg on this forum), his great aunt was a telephone operator at the time and she overheard a phone conversation about Wilson dumping the gold somewhere in this area. The Wells Fargo chest was on display in a museum in Miami for many years before it disappeared.
Seems like a silly question...
If its been well documented with little to no success... how and or why would somebody be able to give you the location? Just seems a little silly to me. Why not go check the whole area over again? being of such high weight, would it not just sink down to the clay or rock layer and settle? (I'd never give the location if I knew where 265 gold bars lay)