Ia Orana Danyg and Loke You may be surprised how many PMs I have had regarding those spare bunks. For me personally I am always amazed at the obsessive interest by many people on treasurenet with the very famous treasure legends. While the less well known and obscure stories hardly get a second glance? Information of treasure legends can be gleaned from various sources. Once such source is Newspapers. However like all Newspaper sources they are as only good as the quality of the newspaper reporter writing them. Stories can be written about places and event in another countries as information can travel through various channels. The Following story was reported in the Adelaide Register Australia Friday 30 April 1926. It pertains to story of hidden gold coins buried near Marysville and Yuba City in California. There is more than 4,000 dollars in gold coin buried in the vicinity of Marysville and Yuba City, that gold. being in; United States coin and having been buried for nearly three-quarters of a century, according to J. A. Brickey, of Macona, Texas.
View attachment 927032 Sheriff Charles J. McCoy has received a letter from 'Brickney in connection with the gold and its possible recovery. Brickney declares that his stepfather went to California in the' early 1850s, sold a herd of cattle he had driven across the plains from his home in Fort Smith, Arkansas, buried the money because of fear- of Indians and early day bandits, and then returned to his home. He never went back to California. And he told Brickney of the buried treasure just before he died. . . ; The Sheriff's Responded The Texan appears to be certain that the 'money, all in 20 dollar gold, pieces, is still in the spot where his stepfather buried' it. His letter carried an assurance that it has not been moved. The- exact, sum, he says, is 4,300 dollars. He states that he is going to California to make his -home and 'asks ' Sheriff Mc Coy, what percentage he will ask to dig up the buried treasure.? McCoy- stated that if Brickney can tell him within a few feet of where the money is he will have it dug up and turned over to the Texan without cost. There have been numerous tales handed down by old-timers in this section of buried treasure, and at different times there have been rather aimless efforts to dig it up. Some of the very old residents believe that the Brickney gold is here, and is one of the buried treasures which caused the stories to be handed down. Was there any truth to such a story or is there more to the story? Perhaps, but like with all treasure legends there is an old Army saying time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted in treasure hunting time spent in research is seldom wasted. And this was a story that warranted a little further digging.'
View attachment 927031 To be continued. Crow
