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[TD="colspan: 2"]Hello All
Here is that other Biggie it will do fisherman proud.... Big ... Bigger...
But who knows some times truth is stranger than fiction.
Mexico as many writers have said, abounds in tales of buried Measure. Don Amigo is one such treasure!
One such treasure legend tales, is connected with Baja California and on the coast of Sonora on the sea of Cortez, now the gulf of California, The treasure legend has its origins from Mexican sources. In 1792. Captain Coiner, an English fur trader, cruising up, and down, the Pacific coast, was seized, with his ship, it the port of Nootka, in Vancouver by the Spanish authorities, thence to Mexico. He was treated with such courtesy by Revillagigedo. that in the year after his release, 1793, he named the group of islands off the coast of Baja California after the viceroy.
I should give the mans full name but it is a mouth full... Juan Vicente de Guemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo 2nd Count of revillagigedo.
On one of these islands there is a story of an alleged hidden treasure recalled by the members of an old Spanish American family. The great Spanish navigator. Fernando de Orijalva. discovered the group in 1523, but only bestowed the name of Saint Thomas upon the main island. Other explorers have named the same island Socorro, The Spanish government at the time tried to establish a colony on the Revillagigedo island group of islands, but failed on account of the lack of water.Hence they pretty much remain deserted desert islands.
When the viceroy heard that the group of islands had been named in his honor sent his secretary to examine them. This gentleman was a Castillan of pure-blood, a nephew of the duke of Albuquerque, and very loyal to the viceroy, whom indeed he had traded secret thoughts of being the king of New Spain, free of the tyranny of the king of old Spain.
The secretary of vice royalty of New Spain made a trip there and discovered old Lava tubes and saw the potential for them being depositories of treasure siphoned off from the Spanish Crown to be used in a future country of Mexico free of the Spanish yoke. Even in the late 18th century there was many in Mexico beginning to question their Loyalties to Spain. Even the high ranking secretary to the most powerful man in in New Spain the Spanish Vice Royalty himself had saw the need to liberalise the region away from its masters in Spain.
But this was hardly a plot at first: it was only a possibility, or which the secretaries support for the great viceroy prompted him to make ready if an opportunity and began to siphon of over several years large amounts of treasure from various locations from all over Mexico.
The viceroy was a man of such vast plans, and had such absolute confidence in his secretary. It was possible to gather up millions of dollars from the sea and the land, without being called to account for it until the time came for the revelation. The surplus of Mexican revenue was still Original in its magnificence. The secretary made a secret treaty with Yaqui Indians, who had been hard pressed by the Spanish troops and were ready to make a peace deal. He knew more about The Yaqui chief than even the viceroy had ever known.It was believed and respected that the Yaqui Indians were Braver than any other Indians and more intelligent, the Yaqui tribes would rather die than let a Spaniard hovel the secret of their mines. The great chief of all the Yaquri tribes had traveled over Mexico with the dreams of driving out the Spanish for good and never had dreamed in his wildest imagination that several members of the government, of the Spaniards themselves wished to help in this revolution.
Don Jose our lovable mule driver treasure hunter of Yaqri may know more of this history.
The secretary won his confidence of this Yaqui chief and made a treaty with the Yaqui nations. Than plan was to mass vast gold reserves and all the treasure they could think of without being detected in secrets.vast amounts of gold through trade. Mines churches and Yaqui themselves gave the Secretary the location of a secret place, a lagoon on the coast of Sonora where thousand of gold nuggets could be picked up in a shallow lagoon.Plus a brother of the secretary equal with such passion had interests in major Perl fisheries collected the gems by the thousands for the cause...
The conspirators with a select group of men began the process of stock piling the great lava tube caverns with an immense treasure. It was claimed on the Island of Saint Thomas by the unselfish conspirators, who dreamed of the freedom of Mexico so year before the revolution finally did take place. The revolution eventually began in about 1811.
But it was not the last, for his position enabled him to have the pearl revenues of the gulf and the silver revenues of the gulf, and the silver revenues of Chihuahua. So corrupt were so many branches of the government at that time, so open bribery so often used to falsify reports and the disappearance of large sums of money, that the secretary at the expense of a rather worse reputation than the average politician of his time, was enabled to add millions of dollars every year to the Viceroys unknown treasury. He sent pearls, sapphires and opals', bars of silver and gold, jewel encrusted swords and pistols and many a precious heirloom of ancient Spanish families. Four or live men kept the secret of the the great treasure. The secretary of the viceroy had changed in a few years from a Idealistic dreamer to a man of action and a master of events. At last he knew that a great destiny had come finally before the land of New Spain.
Once separated from the mother country it should extend from the Isthmus' of Darien to the Liussian fur settlement of Sitka. It the viceroy should lead in the revolution he should rule till the day of his death, but if the viceroy could not rise to the situation he must be set aside. There were other men in the world, even he himself, the secretary. But on the Eve of this great revolution the secretary was stricken with a stroke and he could neither speak nor move. The Viceroy, already on the eve of his fatal recall, hastened to his side. So strange and powerful was the look in the eyes of the man that his master Sat for hours trying to discover the secret that they tried to tell. "You have something to tell me.' "Yes! yes!" said the agonized look. ''Is it the revenues?" the viceroy asked at last? "Yes! yes!" said the look of the secretary. "My good friend, all that you have taken from Mexico gives to you and asks no further questions. All the viceroy could under stand was a great treasure had indeed been accumulated in indeed for the liberation of Mexico.
The executors of the secretaries will found nothing for many years. At last among the secretary's papers, a bit of parchment; turned up. headed in the late secretaries precise penmanship....
"The Revillagigedo fund"
Then followed, item for item, as follows: "The Revillagigedo Fund" Estimate.!
value of Yaqui gold.. 78000000
Value of pearls and precious stones 15000000
Value of silver Bars s 24000000
Value of other articles contributed to the fund 2000000
Total $119000000
That my friends is of at least 1899 values the mind boggles what the true value would be today?
The former Revillagigedo family were of old Spain, now living in poverty on the memory of former greatness!. The viceroy was a feeble old man, who had lost ail his ambitions. The secretary's descendants and his executors became almost frenzied with the lure of gold, and they it is who accumulated the gradual narrative which, in a dozen or so hand written letters has now become the "family romance" of one of the most noted of Spanish Californians. But by the time that the story was gathered from so many sources, and by so many Mosaic hints, all the men who helped to hide the "Revillagigedo Fund were dead ,this one by shipwreck, that one in a low brawl another in a Mexican "fonda," another the victim of an Apache raid.
All who where directly involved were gone long before the searchers for the Revillagigedo fund knew where it lay in the rocky islands off the coast of Baja California.
The revolution broke ,up the families that knew the story, rendered them penniless, and made the immediate bread-and-butter demands of life more pressing. They had no time to think of the forgotten politician's vast treasure cache in the lava caves of the isle of Saint Thomas. A few of them sneaked over to the islands once or twice, in a half-hearted way, as fishermen or traders, but they found no treasure. Not thus lightly dirt that thief-hero, the patient secretary, hide the viceregal funds for the equipment of fleets and the arming of soldiers. Only a man that is- as great as lie in the elements of foresight and durance shall cleave the way to the Revillagigedo storehouse.
The California representative of this old Spanish family once planned to fit out an expedition to the island. But the American conquest of the province brought him to poverty, and he was never able to carry out the scheme. He preferred to sit in a wine shop and talk with his old companions of the days before the "Gringo-" came. His old ambitions were dead, and he had no descendants. He kept the manuscript that relates to the Revillagigedo treasure fund. He kept every written scrap of paper that has ever come into his possession and none of them ever went out of his hands. But if a man had won his favor he would sometimes read to him some of his documents.
And it was in this way the story of the viceroy and his secretary and great hidden treasure came to the knowledge of reporter who wrote the original newspaper story in 1899.
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